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Open Letter to Riot, Flame Retardant for when I'm told what kind of trash I am.

Doctor Fillgood·8/7/2016, 9:51:32 PM·2 votes·460 views

Dear Riot,

I've enjoyed League for years now. I'm not going to pretend I've playn since season 1, nothing like that, I made the account when Zac was the login screen. Decided I didn't want to do much beyond be casual, until last season...I was annoyed I missed out on the Morg skin two seasons ago, so I decided I would work my way to gold to unlock the skin last season. I wouldn't find out if I could clime higher, I wasn't interested in being that competitive. Two seasons ago I made it to silver lazily, last season gold.

Enter this season. Some people love it, especially boosters/people being boosted. People with teams, lots of friends to play with....but for most of us that generally soloQ? The game has fallen so far that it's like we're punished for playing. It's become difficult to enjoy, and the games are never GOOD games anymore. It's either the matching is so disgustingly off (One team has potatoes, one team has people from 2-3 skill sets higher, or just a bunch of boosters) or the game ends up lacking due to "lag" or connection issues or just plain outlying boosted people now trying their hand out their accounts. PLEASE do something about the ranked experience right now. I'm not claiming to be great, but my lord it's gotten abysmal and it's only been getting worse it seems lately.

The silly balance issues that exist are so extreme, as well, that there's little that can be done when the imbalances are stacked against you. Mistakes happen, but when I or my ADC is outside of the visible hit box for a blitz grab and then go flying to him like we where embracing hit hand just waiting for a long range nice crisp high 5 then being murdered before we regain control of our character, because lets be honest, even (attempting) to flash away will get us knocked up and usually killed if there is a modicum of communication. It's not just blitz, it's a lot of balance that seems to be not just a little overpowered, because lets be honest, that kind of stuff just happens, it's part of the game, no one is perfect. It's the stuff that's so over the top it's disabling the actual game from happening, and just making it about an entire set of people having to deal with a very clear issue of one champions imbalance.

Then, we have people that are so insulting that they make the game nauseating. Yeah, we bicker, yeah we might sometimes be jerks to each other...but when people start insulting each other on personal issues, it's going too far. The verbal abuse I had to endure in my last game actually turned my stomach, it was the worst experience I've had to date. I had to listen to people tell me about how terrible I am for having religion, how much God isn't real, where is my God now, and continuing comments for 25 minutes. I'm a Christian, I have no problem saying, and on my team was an atheist. We had no issues, everyone should be allowed to believe or not believe whatever they want, we shouldn't be so bad to each other to hit those nerves. When a guy with a summoner name "Destroy Islam" is going on for 25 minutes about it, it really gets to me. It wasn't just him, but I don't recall the other name, and I'm not going to bend over backwards to recall it, I'd like for something to actually be done. It's a bit much, the same I would expect a pretty hefty consiquence if I tried to shove my religion down my atheist teammates throat. Bickering and being shits to each other is one thing...but there's a line that needs to be enforced.

TL:DR I've enjoyed league for a long time. This season seems hateful to anyone short high ranked players. It abuses people that want to clime. Balance issues are here, please do something about them. Dafuq with Blitz's grab hit box? Dafuq with broken issues not being fixed already? (Not mildly OP, that kinda happens with games, we have to kind of deal with it, no one is perfect, and perfect balance cannot be achieved with 100+ champs) We might be shitty to each other sometimes, but there has to be a line enforced. Not something wimpy like "Ban account, let them make new one, merry birthmas." Something like IP banning for people who are making such problems that it's causing rifts in the community. Obviously, something like this requires more then one "He hurt my feelings" complaints.

Just my opinion.

BTW, Silver 4 currently for anyone who wanted to insult me, mostly play support since most people don't want to, mostly play Sona because I've playn Sona for so long and I like her. Music is life. Poro is life.

I'd appreciate it if we can refrain from TOO much flaming, and if I could get any feedback from any Rioters. Thank you.

                                                Signed, 
                                                         Dr.Fillgood

4 Comments

KillerPenguins8/7/2016, 9:55:05 PM1 votes

This season is pretty garbage for everyone involved, to be honest. Oh and blitz' grab animation has always been wonky because the animation fires from one side but the skillshot is shooting straight, so it tends to jump to the side a bit to nab people.

Morality Coach8/7/2016, 10:06:30 PM1 votes

Learn how to CS and stop trying to climb as support in Silver. If you really like supp switch back once you hit g4. It will make you a better supp climbing as adc because you will learn what the adc needs and add it to your supp play.

In Silver unless you play Annie Zyra or Brand you are at the mercy of your team being good or bad. Take that out of the equation and play adc.

Guyy Fieri8/7/2016, 10:29:58 PM1 votes

Wait...why on earth were you talking about religion and not playing the game???

If you really don't like the way people talk, mute them. Should they talk like that? No. But when people don't mute them and instead respond time after time it only fuels their fire to continue next time.

Not to mention, it really isn't that hard to win games as a solo player. If you are good enough to climb you can win your lane and if you know how to transition that lead to other lanes, you can get the rest of the map fed and then it's gg easy.