I feel like I don't even know how to play this game anymore.
Look, I've been playing this game for five or six years now, and I remember how much fun I was having at first. Two top, one mid, two bot. Beat the other guys. Buy items to get stronger. Push your lane. It was simple, straightforward, and fun. Season 2 was fantastic in much the same way, with a much more streamlined masteries chart and more champs being released all the time.
Then Season 3 rolls around, and there's a colossal purge/nerf of the items, and my Nasus build from heaven dies in its sleep. People tell me to "adjust."
And I try! I TRY to like being a support who sits behind his ADC and hopes he knows what he's doing. I try to get over that all my tank builds aren't feeling anywhere near as tanky as they used to be, that when Alistar could be building AP for damage he now needs to keep building MR... I TRY to adjust to the jungle meta being as erratic and unreliable as the winds during typhoon season in Bangladesh... I TRY to adjust to the items becoming more and more specific about when they take effect, their passives deteriorating even as ACTIVES get slapped on, as it becomes harder and harder to play champions in anything but specific roles, and specific styles, with specific ways, and even then you can't find a reason any longer to justify Teemo going Marksman or Veigar going Support in bottom lane as they always just get fucking stomped by Sona or Leona with Draven or Lucian, how people keep telling me to get good while assassin jungle champs dominate the meta, scoring kills with 2000 damage in less than a second or keeping you stunlocked for ten while you're left there frustrated but it's YOUR FAULT because you didn't buy the QSS with the 1500 gold you don't have or the Cleanse you didn't bring like they'd fucking matter because they'd just stun you after you use it and you don't have the gold or the time to get a QSS anyway and by the time you've realized you need one it's already too late and...
sigh
Look, I don't know where I'm going with this. Maybe I just got worse or something. But right now? There are over 120 champs in the roster, and I just feel so... constricted. I can't justify using more than a handful of them for roles I have no choice but to fill, with a handful of items I have no choice to buy. Who on Earth would choose Lulu, Anivia, or Ashe support over Leona, Nami, or Sona? Is there any support in the world who doesn't rush his GP item, because if you took the ADC's creeps then God have mercy on your soul?
Does anyone remember two top, or an assassin lane bot? Does anyone besides me miss being able to stack Sunfire Capes or GP items?
Because right now, I'm waiting ten minutes with three other blokes any time I open Team Builder looking for a support. Those people are so desperate they'll take anything, but if the other team took a Braum, Karma, Kayle, Leona, Nami, Sona, or Taric, and we didn't? Bot lane's fucked. Which means the game is fucked. And I'm tired of starting games and knowing before I've even played them that I lost.
This game isn't fun anymore.
Nostalgic whingebag out.
