The preseason is our annual opportunity to push League of Legends in new and healthy directions, and we’re focused on strategic diversity this year. For an overview of how we’re shaking things up across the Rift, check out the Preseason Spotlight!
If you’re looking for a deeper dive into the hows and whys of what is changing, check out our series of dev blogs or the new preseason hub!
this is great and all, but all i can really think of is how many more bad players there will be. They could barely grasp the simple concept of the games before, now this? lol team work is a must it seems now, and there's plenty of players that can't pull their own weight. Riot should invest heavily in a better rank up system.
If riot is reading, and for fans of the game, here is something i just came up with and would love to read thoughts
they should create tier systems. "recreational", "competitive", "pro". you pick where you want to and you may change your tier, but you can always be removed.
recreational is for those players that always complain about aggressive, competitive players. they always talk about they don't care, or make fun of try hards, or they really just want to play for fun. this is the place for them, they can enjoy losing and winning and do not really care about their performance in game.
competitive is the intermediate level, it's for players who are actively trying to play, but may not be on the pro level or are aspiring to become apart of higher level players. this zone is for the more serious players only.
pro is the creme de la creme. these are your elite players, the place you definitely do not fuck around in, as everyone is high level player.
obviously, since people can freely choose where they want to go, but a checks and balances system should be in place. I think, this is where riot really lacks. tribunal is one sided as well. if people are going to competitive realms, and they are constantly being reported for not caring, not using team work, not communicating, etc, they will be automatically be moved to recreational.
Pro is a realm that you must qualify for, as many people are upset that low level skilled players are being carried to high rank and ruin the game. I really believe an arbitrary or inadequate system is used for ranking. it goes mainly off winning and losing it seems. consequently, I truly believe an in game system, by game basis should be implemented to award points and ranking. in other words, your value should be assessed and rewarding accordingly.
If you are a player, that usually carries a team, and gets kills, dies less, gets assists and wins, you will be awarded more points than opposed to your teammate that went 1-8-4 and wins. to add, based on your position on the team, your awards are given differently. supports are rewarded more for assists, penalized less for deaths, but awarded for saves, etc if it were to get that in depth which i would hope something like this could be made, and if so contact me (shameless plug). carries are penalized more heavily on streaky deaths, but awarded great for streaky kills. taking dragon, baron, towers, etc are all ways to help your awarded points. inversely, if you are assessed as the main contributor to a loss, you will lose more points than some one who has fought to help a win. I just thought of it now, but it's like NBA2k games my player rating, meets LOL. what you do that positively impacts the game will help you and vice versa. This will limit intentional feeders, as reporting this to tribunal never really matters. This will also create a greater distance between better players and worse players. If you are constantly doing bad, and never really contributing to your team, and always getting carried, you will be paired with players on that playing field. If you are a player that seems to do well against your competition, you will eventually be paired against other players that do the same. Having a bad game is a suggestive topic, but when a average bad game to you is 2-8, that is unacceptable to others, as that is a poor average skill level. consequently, a good game to others may be 8-5, which to some is merely average.
This will force players to either get better, or stay where you are, but I've always felt low level players had a bigger negative impact on players than higher level players positively impacting players. Of course, for people who do not like this, can switch their group to recreational.
I truly believe if something like this is implemented, it will allow game changes such as this to really be maximized in the user's experience. Now that Riot wants to take a direction into team work, for the common user, it is very hard to establish that at all, let alone, with such a skew in skill level that poorly reflect ranking, ambition, and over all mentality of the vast differences between each individual gamer. To clump everyone together, is an injustice to everyone, and something like this can really improve the overall experience of the game.
This game is getting better and better! This season will be AWESOME! Congratz Riot! :) Also, I just wanted to say that the 
amelioration is pretty sick.. :D And I can finally kill 
with a bit of help by .. Have a great dayyyy! BTW I would really appreciate to put NA up right NOW, because I've been waiting the whole day...
Anybody else getting tired of bring back URF comments?
Its been 3 hours. Ran out of food. Been sitting on the streets waiting for league to update. Dying. Rito Pls
Wow Riot, I am actually quite impressed. League has grown so much over the past 6 years or so, I think I'm shedding a tear ;)
'Kill five dragons for your team and you're going to hit like a monster truck wearing a suit of cooler monster trucks." -Phreak 2014
finally more strategic objectives, now i can explain to my mom i'm using my brain
0:52 "'s got some shiny upgrades" Jesus that 
really got ed
Fired up and ready to go. 
the only thing missing is using smite on your allies to heal and grant increase health regen or speed (which decay over time) them up awe the power of
Change... Is good
Just played the new jungle with my main Shaco. Its awful the minions take too long too kill and don't give more xp than they used too. Ive tried multiple starts with different runes and masteries...different items ect. Now I cant hit level 6 till 9:30 in game when I used to hit six 7:30...Shaco is now not playable, thanks again roit. You guys really only focus on new champions and don't care at all about buffing the old ones. I liked it when I would play against different champions every game. Now its the same easy to play garbage champions in every ranked que. You guys could keep it simple and do minor fixes to satisfy the community. But instead your running this game into the ground. Ive lost a fun game to play and you have lost my business
i cant wait for new jungle
Rito plz Extended downtime for 8 hours
I love the new jungle. The new buffs from each camp will encourage me to take more camps than i usually do. thank u riot
I can use on finally
so many changes @_@, i can't keep up. just kidding. i helped improve league by testing :^)
Holy ........ ENJOY
This looks great! I really like the new changes. I love you Riot!
so 
can't have a suit, but a monster truck can have a suit of monster trucks?
Wow, Malphite tried to hide as a Krug.
so this is coming in new patch?
how we suppose to play the preason if they havent even opened up the servers yet
Riot please hurry, i'm losing my mind waiting for the server to restart fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 
You need to nerf 
too strong DX
this new jungle update kinda sucks... there went from being several mainstream junglers and some good ones tha are rarely seen but still fine, to the new, Warwick, Lee sin, and Nunu meta... smite has too long of cd and jungle item is too bad now for tank junglers to even possibly kill them, assassin junglers can't even kill wraiths without smite, and hyper carry junglers are basically still the same, a bit more annoyances but now they can counter jungle easier, and they can get an item to wreck your turrets faster, before the hate i have played jungle after "4.20 we been blazin it" and have discussed the patch with several jungle main friends, and it's just baaaad
go******
kill
kill kill !!!
SO, I think that the new twitch skin that resembles sly cooper should have a text that says 'le police' on the side of the gun. thanks for listening.
Urf
