So riot is already fucking up this gamemode

Riot doesn't seem to understand that getting items is not some pog moment you need to keep hidden from players or it loses how pog it is to get an item. Getting items makes the game fun, and, more importantly, playable. Not getting them makes the game so incredibly stressful and boring. It's not fun having to lose on purpose and hope the carousel rounds aren't trash because you got no items or a negatron cloak and someone else got an IE and a hydra. Put a max on the number of items that can drop so people aren't getting 4-5 and guarantee at least 1 ITEM every pve round, how is this difficult to grasp?

There are some games I'm getting no to very few items so my mindset becomes: "Well, ill just practice for ranked and try and get top 4 because at least then I can climb" Playing not to lose is a very different experience than playing to win. It dampens the enjoyment of the game quite a bit when I know there's no way in hell I'm getting anything higher than 4. I have a feeling the main reason this strat is working for me is because other people don't have that same mindset. Once we're in ranked and there's 4-5 players who are getting fucked by item RNG per game, it just becomes a snooze fest stop-the-bleeding-until-someone-else-dies.

Fix it.

fuck this game mode, seriously. them listening about item RNG was basically the last (only) bastion. the fact that they kept in this trash item rng seals the awful frustration points of the mode. it is one of those games thats fun when youre wide eyed and new to it, and dont understand the cornerstones of the strategy well enough. once you figure the game out well enough to start winning, but get hamstringed by the game facefucking you with zero item drops while some asshole is sitting on two full items worth sitting on his bench before first draft, it is enough to just alt f4.

can you still win when your opponent has double your items?

yeah. i guess. technically. does it feel like youre the fucking protagonist of final destination trying to defy a fate that is actively trying to doom him? yes. its fucking garbage.

dota underlords exists. it has the bonus of being available on my phone as well. i'll just play that.

also props for adding TF to TFT, so we can have more fucking rng nested into the russian stacking doll of RNG that is this absolute waste of potential.

1 extra gold.

I played a game last night where the guy in first place (who already had 8 completed items while I had 4) got 3 item drops off dragon. I didn't know it was possible to get more than 1 item off a monster. But I got 0 and he got 3.

I can't wait for the patch so I can get 1 gold off dragon while the guy with double everyones items gets 3 more!

Prepare yourself for the Rankeds on this pure RNG game mode!

I'm so sorry for those aram players that will never get one...

giving you extra gold

giving you a negligible amount of gold

Simple solution

Play twisted treelines instead, make riot think players are having more fun with a gamemode they barely touched, troll them back as hard as they are trolling us.

Getting that one gold feels like absolute shit.

Yeah, I've basically been turned off the gamemode because out of the 20 or so games I've played, all but 2 of them I literally just get no items. When I do get items they are of lower quality, I can't make Guinsoo's or other powerhouses and instead have to rely on garbage can items that are in no way balanced to try and survive to top 4. It hasn't been that fun, it's entirely luck based and I get super unlucky in games with heavy rng elements.

Yeah, the game is already RNG enough with mystery items. Getting a fucking chain vest while someone gets a BF sword already puts a huge gap between the two players. The only thing worse is not getting anything. A chance to get RNG items is putting double the RNG the game should have.

i just played a game where i got 1 gold from first wave . 2 from the second and 5 from the third . i had to go up against people with a tier 2 rageblade rapidfire canon vayne meanwhile i just got gold . this is so mutch worse then before . it would have been good if i was able to use that 8 extra gold but i only got champs that were useless in my comp.

everyone who has bad luck with getting items.

Honestly the ONLY justification i can see for this is to obscure stuff, like everyone asked for it, it was a easy fix, the only reason i can see for not doing it is because if people get more items they might actually realize that there is like 5 good items to use and the rest are basically junk. The more Cracks Riot can hide in the gamemode, the more they can con people into playing it.

The amount of gold it gives is a downright insult as well, here's one gold to make up for not having 1-2 rageblades, oh boy 1 gold with that i'll be able to do.... NOTHING.

Getting an item is worth like 20g so why do I get just 1-4 gold to compromise for that... Ridiculous Riot

me: are you REALLY surprised. i mean for real are you REALLY SURPRISED AT THIS POINT???

This game modes idea is fun, infact its super fun. The problem is its buggy as all heck, champs just sit there in fights, you will keep fighting the same player over and over regardless of the others in game. Trist with a bf sword will die to a trist without one, and etc.... Riot clearly is not thinking about the player base if they release ranked without fixing the critical bug issues first. The AI is so stupid Riot should fire the ones responsible for its failure. Level 2 and people are running around with gold vaynes? The drops are horrible! The is no balance in this at all, its simply luck based with 10% skill. It's imperative they add more champs to the pool, simply because everyone has googled the best comps and that's all you see now. This is simply nowhere near ready for ranked. Personally after playing and winning many matches RIOT IS FULL OF CRAP WITH THE MMR RATINGS THEY HAVE PUBLISHED! But what's new the owners Porsche has a fresh coat of wax on it.

PAY TO WIN trash game from a MONEY MILKING company... Paying customers get boosted while the rest gets trolled by Riot for not paying up. Don't waste your time

I dont really like this... But its better than nothing. I hope they allow to eliminate the RNG in items.

So in the first round of minions a person gets 4 items the other person gets gold. And during Golems, the Person who got 4 items will less likely get items, and the person who got the gold will get an item or more.

Wish I could up vote this 1000x

Okay, gonna play devils' advocate here as someone that regularly top 4's even with the "here have 1 gold and nothing else" drops

Gold is by far the most important commodity in the mode.

No Gold = No Exp push = No Units = No Rerolls = No growth.

The first thing you need to note and make sure to repeat it to yourself "placing top 4 means winning", you are awarded LP for top 4, you lose it for bottom 4.

So one player is on a roll, good items, good win streak, etc. No Biggie, just accept you aren't getting first place and play for second, if you get frustrated/angry every time you don't place first, then this mode isn't for you.

Heck my last game I got dumpstered by someone running the recently uncovered Volibear cheese, he had tons of items, I didn't. Did I complain? No because as far as I was concerned, I had a rough early game, built carefully, invested carefully and finished second, because that's what I was playing for. I built to beat everyone else, I knew there was no way to beat him, only minimize loss damage against him.

It's called Team Fight Tactics I understand the frustration with the 1g drop, I really do, but that 1g can be the difference between a very early interest bonus, or early pirates that can snowball your economy or just getting beat into a heartbreaking 5th place finish because you had no way to recover.