Totally agree. Also this is not the only RNG part of the mode.
I tried out the game mode. I played around 10 games. Every damn time the game was decided by RNG.
Here are the RNG parts of it:
- You get random items
- You might get items. Meaning any between 0 and 3. You get no items and your opponents got 2-3 of them.
- You get champs at random. So you might never collect 3 to upgrade to level 2 if your luck is shit. Have fun loosing to people who have multiple level 3 champs, while you have none.
- The items itself are random. You might get AP items for full AD team. You might get 6 mana items meanwhile your opponents are running the strongest items for the right champs.
- The game punishes you for playing well. The worst players get to pick rewards first. (1 champ with an added item to it)
- You can literally waste infinite number of gold and never get the champion you want.
- Your champs are either Challenger level or Iron Tier. They change targets at random. They don't finish off weakened enemies, They attack the full HP tank instead of the ADC who is 1 shotting you. They waste Abilities. Example
spins with Q even if noone is near him. Wasting his mana/special ability.
It is a fun game mode. But sure as hell it should never become a Ranked perma mode if it's like 90% luck and 10% skill.
Some fixes that might work. Give us gold instead of items. Let us buy items as well as champions. If we want a certain champion let us buy it at a double gold price. That way even if we reroll champions, we do by knowing that we may not get what we want. Accepting the risk/reward.
Don't say it's a comeback mechanic when you give unfair advantage to lower score players. You can actually cheat by intentionally loosing early game, since you only loose a few HP points. Which results in you picking a champion you want or an item which will give you an advantage for the rest of the game.
There was a similarly unfair mechanic in TeamFortress2 where players would sometimes kills you because the game gave them free crits randomly. Making bad players feel better about themselves is a shitty way of handling Ranked.
This mode can still be fixed and it does seem fun to play. Remove the RNG parts.
