I would like to comment on the disrespect riot gives players for approaching the game in team orientated fashion and would like you to comment on these factors.
It seems more and more that team champions, items, abilities and summoner skills are being nerfed, downgraded, and reduced while individual skills, items, abilities keep getting buffed. Defense gets more nerfs and offense keeps getting more buffs and the trend is for more kills more plays and less and less ability to help a team with team functionality.
Just for reference I will list 25 nerfs, reductions, and downgrades to champions, abilities, items, and summoners that reduce a players ability to help someone else on their team. Though if I tried it could easily be a 100 or more. Single player functionality has been greatly buffed and I defy anyone to name one major upgrade of a skill, ability, item, summoner, or mastery that has been added to the game where a champion is actually better able to help a teammate compared with the champions ability to make a play himself.
This is becoming a 5 v 5 game rather than a team game. And its sad to see. Everyone wants to "carry" and it seems fewer and fewer players actually care more about helping a team to win than in doing the best on the map and "carrying". And after the game the carries sneer at the others who had less impressive stats but actually did more to help them win. Its getting sad.
Ok heres 25 ways team functionality has been reduced. And I will give you all the global passives being eliminated for free.
Support Champions
- Sona - Heal nerfed hard
- Soraka - Mana replenish eiiminated - Healing other players kills her
- Gallio - Righteous Gust - Cooldown raised
- Janna - Tailwind nerfed Hard
- Thresh - Dark Passage only shields one ally
- Zilean - Time in the bottle is a nerf - Chronoshift is a hard nerf along with rewind due to longer cooldowns
- Nidalee - Primal Surge Healing nerfed hard
- Karma - Inspire Shield - Reduced
- Braum - Stand Behind Me - Bonus Armor reduced - Bonus Magic Res Reduced - Huge Massive Mana Increase
- Alistar - Triumphant Roar - Healing Reduced - Cooldown Increased - Mana Cost Increased - Now heals allies at 50% of heal
Other Champions
- Sivir - Team Move Ult - On the Hunt - Massive speed nerfs for the team
- Gangplank - Raise Morale which boosted team speed and AD replaced by powder keg which is an individual skill
- Nunu - Blood Boil - nerfed so hard and in so many ways that hes considered a jungle champ rather than a support. Hes rarely played in Jungle either.
- Jarvan IV - Passive team attack speed bonuses reduced - Passive Team Armor bonuses eliminated.
- Shen - Vorpal Blade Base heal reduced many times, cooldown raised health scaling nerf, Stand United increased channel time decreased shield time.
Items
- Ardent Censer - Team attack speed buff nerfed 40%
- Aegis - Team Health Regen removed - Team Aura Magic Res nerfed 40% - removal of armor for wearer - Locket Shield nerfed from 5 secs to 2. Price raised.
- Zekes Herald - Team Life steal and Attack Damage - Removed from Game
- Will of the Ancients - Team AP buff and spell Vamp - Removed from the Item
- Righteous Glory - Team Active speed boost cooldown increased 50%
Summoners
- Eleisas Miracle - Removed
- Heal - Cure for Grievous Wounds Removed - Speed boost nerfed hard - Actual health heal reduced
- Clarity - Soon to be removed
Wards
- Pink Ward isnt stealthed - when Killed its value skyrockets to 130 (100 against you to +30 enemy) or almost half a kill. No item to buy provides them.
Dragon
- No longer grants gold to the team.
And do not even get me started on Solo / Duo Queue without any respect for 3 or 4 player Q.
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Honestly, I could list dozens more nerfs to team play. Its endless. A jungler cant risk taking a dragon to push gold to a top laner losing lane. The dragon becomes less important until you start approaching dragon 5.
It becomes more and more and more pointless to play to help others on your team. If you want to enjoy this game now you better be able to show up and make plays and carry. Nobody can do things for OTHER people to help their team. Maybe there are a few hooks stuns and knockups to help people but there isnt a single item you can buy that honestly helps someone on your team. If you buy pink wards you are giving the other team half a death. Costs you 100 gold and when they kill it and they will they get back 30. 130 is pretty close to half a payout from a 274 gold kill. You buy 6 pinks in a game and youve basically thrown 3 feeds to the other team. Everyone wants the support to buy pinks with every recall but its ruinous.... Especially when you now need to make plays to win and you cant count on the others.
I know that I will never have the finger twisting skill shot landing abilities of teenagers that can play this 12 hours a day. But I enjoyed showing up, trying to out think my opponents with ward placements, item purchases, quality dragon calls, and champions that helped other people play better.
Now its land skill shots, get kills, carry the game or lose.
There is no respect for the player that can lead his team to victory by helping others become better.
Nowadays, when I play there is just so much filth, cursing, trash talking, and people pointing fingers at each other and blaming and reporting each other for crap that its really a sad game. And riot encourages it more and more and more and more by refusing to reward team players, team abilities, and team items and limiting the game to skill shots, people that can "carry" and everyone pretty much thinking they are better than others and better than they really are and only playing to benefit themselves rather than engaging in a team concept game.
This includes stealing jungle, kill stealing, split pushing for farm, and on and on and on.
Honestly, why should anyone care about lore or history or storyline when you are building a game that should only appeal to individual players. If you completely discourage real world players from getting along playing as a team or helping each other in team friendly fashion.
Honestly, why should we care if a fictional Taric is friends with a Fictional Sona.
Ive played LoL for 3 years and day after day after day this turns into a ruder game and ruder place to play. And Riot constantly feeds us and gears us towards a game where insta kill is the meta. Today, I got hit by a Sivir basic attack that did 1800 damage. Riot thinks the only way to play the game and enjoy it is to play kill or be killed. Helping others has no place, merit, or respect in this game.
And if you get rid of the people that actually do want to help others.
Do you honestly think the bloodthirsty crowd gives a care in the world to storylines and lore.
Seriously, you are on the wrong track.
Im going to buy fewer and fewer and fewer riot points in the future because I feel my team first play style just isnt welcomed or appreciated or desired in this game.
And if I could find a game like how LoL used to be then Id leave in a heartbeat.
Lore doesn't matter to me when this is just a gore and bloodbath game with no strategy to be found, team co-operation needed, or team first attitude respected.
I realize you cater to the teen market but my age group is the one buying riot points.
I realize most people reading this would have the opinion of bye good riddance and I realize The Evil Dead made enough money to inspire a remake.
But you guys jobs depend on attracting and keeping players. And the kind of game you are building doesnt seem that much different or really interesting to me to play over Call of Duty or Halo.
Its rare Rare RARE ... that I meet a new player anymore that I want on my friends list. And its obvious that you are catering to the immature and rude players.
Sure their might be Diamond and Challenger level players with a team first attitude. But I have other things in my life to do besides devote my life to a game.
I dont need lore. I dont need Storylines. I want a game where teamwork is valued as much as ability to land a skill shot. And Riot, thats not you anymore.
Chat all you want about how great this game is but if you keep up with this path ... you will turn yourself into the next version of Mortal Kombat where people are tripping all over themselves to show more and more blood and gore rather than improving the quality of their game. And the type of player base you are catering to is the least loyal you could ever hope to find.
Kind people stay more loyal than rude ones. And you seem to be kicking the kinder gentler crowd out the door by saying fun lives in killing others.
Its a mistake and you should really consider it. You have psychologists and others and all kinds of people working for you.
And you still work harder and harder and with great diligence to cater to the whims of the basest of personalities and crowds.
You can comment if you want but I know you wont. And Im sure you are talented enough to find another job.
Youve had need to do so before .... havent you ...... Did you learn from it ?
Good Day
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