I'm sick and tired of the CertainlyT (and Riot in general) circlejerk hate.

Read the title. I'm so sick and tired of the nonstop flak Riot receives as though the boards are on some crusade to make the developers feel as bad as possible. So many threads devolve into some anti-Riot circlejerk that culminates in anything even remotely going against the grain being downvoted into oblivion, and the only people that remain readable are those that are apologetic about their pro-stance. In a thread that even mentions Yasuo? Well, you better make two disclaimers about how you don't think Yasuo is fun or healthy in order to try to get any discussion about the numbers and mechanics.

I actually had the opportunity to play with CertainlyT before way back in the past, and he was a good guy. It was a draft normal, said he preferred Zyra mid but would take her elsewhere if the team needed it, then he was shoved down there by an Evelynn mid who proceeded to whine and moan about his playing all game. If he stepped even a toe out of line, she was there to ride his ass all the way until he respawned, and then she would take a break in what I presume would be an effort to let it all build up again.

This isn't a new phenomenon to League of Legends. You get your ragers, your griefers, your players who blame you for every thing that have gone wrong even if it happened on the goddamn other side of the map. But what was different is that CertainlyT just sort of took it. There was no backlash, there was no retaliation, and yet it wasn't as though he muted the Evelynn because he was still talking for play-making.

It made me sick then, and the boards' propensity to circlejerk hate on the guy makes me sick now. I've put up with it for years now, seeing it, and now I'm sick with myself for letting it go so long without some kind of post.

Ease the fuck up.

CertainlyT adds mechanics to the game that are meant to challenge the players and give them puzzles to solve, but so many people are just trying to brute force their way through the Chinese finger trap and get pissed off when it doesn't come off of their fingers.

Mordekaiser presents the puzzle of a champion being able to do a lot of damage while being gated heavily by positioning. It is a mini-game, a challenge for the Morde team to set up his damage and a challenge for the team against to minimize and prevent it. How is this worse than the current state of ADCs, where it boils down to "I have to survive long enough to do something before I get gunned down at 600 range" vs "I have to build as much damage as possible and try not to die"? It's not better, it's not worse, it's just different, and so many people are too busy complaining about how they can't brute force the solution that they often don't even try to sit down and figure out how to actually deal with it.

Thresh would not be a good champion without any forms of damage, and in fact this was seen when his box change (you can't be damaged by multiple walls) hurt him severely. With Bard's magical journey and lockdown potential, and Tahm's ult, lockdown/peel potential, and damage, it baffles me how people are still complaining about Thresh as though he's not capable of being outclassed when those same people got most of his interesting gameplay elements (using Flay and Q to drag people through multiple walls to deal solid damage) outright removed.

"Fun to play as, not against" my ass. If the playerbase as a whole started thinking more critically about the game, maybe the meta would be more dynamic than the cookie cutter "insert random champion to fit this role" that it so often is today.