Derptorials, @Riot Please
This is going to be a long one... so strap in. As a disclaimer, I would like to say that I am usually not one to make posts like this, because I generally hate the people that rage at Riot for stuff they know nothing about. I try my hardest to take into consideration how hard it is to put something like League together, as there is a lot that goes on that we don't ever know about. But this... this is a problem.
It's time to get real about what happens in the Tutorials.
I would also like to back up a bit and explain why I'm making this post right now. Last night, I lost the most frustrating game of League I've ever played. Why was it so frustrating? Because we didn't lose because the people were "bad". We had no ragers, no afks, no trolling, no negativity. We just had genuinely _unprepared _players. And I'm done blaming most people for playing poorly. Riot - you're failing a huge part of your player community by refusing to update your tutorials. The people on my team were genuinely trying hard and just didn't understand what they were or weren't doing that would honestly make a difference. Now I get that you can't cram everything that makes up the game and all the tips and tricks into tutorials. You have to learn some things by playing; however, the tutorials that we do have are more than a joke - and I even think they are optional. Why? I'm going to try and list out some of the things that personally irritate me about your "advanced" tutorial as best as I can.
- **Lane Roles **: I'm placing this at the top because it frustrates me the most. League has a very set way of organizing lanes. 1 top, 1 mid, 1 jungle, 2 bot. ( There is a jungle rant in a second. Hold on.) But the only way people learn roles in this game, are by being raged at by smurfs when you try to go duo mid with Ashe. What is the point of having the tutorial on the Rift if you aren't going to demonstrate what makes the Rift, the Rift.
- **Jungling **: I think there should be a separate tutorial once a player is able to unlock smite to actually explain the jungle role. Currently, the only way to learn it properly is to be raged at by smurfs, or pray to the Riot Gods that you have a friend that invited you in the first place that already knows. The current tutorial tries to show you what it is / does - by having you randomly run into the jungle during laning and kill the wolves, raptors, and blue. All this does is makes the people new to MOBA's think that they should be running randomly into the jungle and taking creeps - until you meet the raging smurf jungler that tells you otherwise. Also, why bother having them kill jungle camps if you aren't going to explain smite and the buffs that each camp gives when you use it. It's really pointless to me. It needs it's own tutorial with smite.
- **Warding **: As a pet peeve, this really freaking bothers me. You have an "advanced" tutorial that doesn't even demonstrate wards, and doesn't even have the trinket on the recommended items, nor does it say anything about it. There needs to be something about wards. "Place your trinket in a bush" as a secondary quest wouldn't be that difficult.
- Screen Clarity : I have no idea why Riot doesn't feel the need to explain what you have going on with the screen. Do you know how many level 30 players still don't understand that the green dot next to the champion pictures means their ultimate is available? The game shows you to "last hit" but doesn't even show you where your CS count is. It DOES show you your buffs/debuffs, yet fails to mention pressing Tab to see the scoreboard, your Tips window, or my personal favorite - nowhere does it explain what the font color in the ability description means.
- Shopping : Most of this needs to be learned during your time playing, so I'm not too upset about it - but you need to explain that items BUILD. That you don't have to save up 3200 gold in one sitting.
- Towers/ Player Interaction : This is a hard one for me to explain, and I understand that it's probably incredibly difficult to program an "easy" tutorial bot that won't act this way - but hear me out. The tutorials do a great job of telling you to not tower dive. To stay behind your minions and not attack the enemy under their turret. BUT. In the tutorial game I just played (yes. I just played it twice at lvl 30 before making this) 3 enemies were executed by diving, and 5 of my "team mates" tower dove for kills or tower hits.... Monkey-see-monkey-do here, Riot. You're going to tell me that I shouldn't run into tower range without minions or to attack enemies, but let the bots do it over and over and over. It was honestly annoying.
If you've made it this far, I'm proud of you.
I just do not understand what the use of putting new items in to the game (trinkets being the main example here) is if you aren't going to take a second to explain what the hell they are to your new players.
Riot. Please stop setting your players up to be raged at by smurfs. Make the tutorials mandatory. Yes, I understand that the smufs don't want to sit through 30 minutes of tutorial practice - but are we catering to the people that already know how to play? Or are we trying to build a community that can actually be good at the game?
Would really really love a Rioter to just give me a glimmer of hope and tell me that they are at least thinking about working on them. Because in all honesty I do not know how the boards being updated and changed again took preference over the foundation that makes up your player base.
Always welcome to feedback, and sincerely thank you for reading if anybody bothered.
