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champs and the community

Nagahasmyname·3/18/2017, 6:56:23 PM·2 votes·681 views

First time posting something, so bear with me. I just wanted to get other people's opinions about champs and the league community in general. I think that the league community is one of, if not THE most toxic community in the gaming world. People are constantly putting each other down, and it just ruins the whole league experience for me. Games go from being fun to just droning on and aggravating. Mess up once, and the whole team bashes you, saying things like "kys" and other insults. How is that an enjoyable experience?

On top of that, it seems that there are so many champs that are so broken, as soon as you see someone pick them, it's pretty much gg. Fizz, yi, xin, and many others. And then champs that nobody plays get's nerfed and reworked, some more than once within a couple years (looking at you Ryze). One champ isn't played enough? reworked. Another is used for the first time by someone and he goes 57/1 and gets pentas with one ability? leave him be.

I've spent, well, more than i'd like to admit of my cash and time in this game, that I can't bring myself to quit, it would be like buying a car and not driving it. I stop on occasion to relax, and get away from the brokenness of a game that I used to enjoy a lot, and then come right back to it, and realize why I stopped in the first place.

Personally, if it were my decision, I would spend much more time on moderating the community, and fixing the champs that desperately need it. But hey, least we get a bunch of skins every patch.

3 Comments

Magical Player3/18/2017, 7:18:43 PM3 votes

No such thing as a broken champ

champs appear unbalanced because not everyone can be a master teir player knowledge base as such you may not know all the little tricks to all the champs league has to offer new champs are harder to know how to counter

Think ashe/sivir is a consistent adc but she is so old that almost everyone knows her kit and can easily counter play her

Additionally champs that are "mechanically challenging " are hit or miss in games either they do well or they don't a zed/fizz that isn't stomping is getting stomped

IN terms of toxicity to what are we comparing to? Dota is more toxic if anything Hots is hard to be toxic as its a smaller game no real chat need Etc League is massive with 100 million accounts or something a month no other moba compares to those numbers so % toxicity could be lower but it will have more "toxic users"

Great Muta3/18/2017, 7:26:08 PM1 votes

I think that the league community is one of, if not THE most toxic community in the gaming world.

Agreed and this is despite them focusing more on toxicity than any other game. Many people including myself think they don't see that the problem isn't the players, but the set-up of the game, the lack of voice and the inconsistencies within the behavior system. League has the same exact players as other games like Dota, HOTS, Smite, CSGO and OW but has more issues than anyone else.

On top of that, it seems that there are so many champs that are so broken, as soon as you see someone pick them, it's pretty much gg

One problem with League is that it is clear some champs are favored more than others. Riot even said once that it "wasn't Sejuani's turn" to be featured. People like Lee, Elise, Gragas and others are always going to be meta unless they are nerfed to really bad levels. They are always going to be picked and we know that these champs "work". Meanwhile, you have people like Aatrox and Urgot who've had to wait years to get some help. It's also very clear that some champs have a lot more advantages than others. Yasuo has a group knockup, long range capabilities, crits, a defensive wall, no mana and dashes while most ADC's have no escapes, bad armor/hp, have to share exp putting them multiple levels down, die if they make one mistake and have to rely on the game going to 40 mins, if it gets to that point. It's clearly not very fair. It's frustrating, it's sad and it's confusing.

I stop on occasion to relax, and get away from the brokenness of a game that I used to enjoy a lot, and then come right back to it, and realize why I stopped in the first place.

Same and it's not due to a lack of interest, just being tired of getting flamed, worrying if I'm going to get banned and just knowing that I don't fit in certain meta's.

Personally, if it were my decision, I would spend much more time on moderating the community, and fixing the champs that desperately need it.

Same here. Look at Dota. So many champs get picked in major tournaments and due to having better items and turn speed, everyone is a lot more even. League could get everyone to be at playable states in pro-games if they wanted, they just don't want to. They also continuously make the same mistake so often that I think it's intentional where they buff an item, then nerf the champ and nerf the item, but then never revert the champ back to before.

Astrovert3/18/2017, 10:03:42 PM1 votes

If people are insulting in a game then report them period.

You cant expect peoples behavior to improve without there being some kind of consequence for it.

Riot has banned sometimes permanently for poor sportsmanship, even in high elos. But you cant expect it to happen right after your game.

Every troll, jerk, or feeder gets a report listing following them around, if they are as you say, it will catch up with them eventually and they will be actioned.

Don't feel you need to respond to peoples negative comments, just report them, in fact that player trying to make an excuse for being so negative against a person who doesn't respond is like them digging a hole, there is no excuse for it.