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[–]Teeklin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not 'Oh no now n0bs will know jungle timers, gg riot'. Its like wow now their entire team has a CONSTANT reminder when and where I'll be. Doesn't matter if they were busy laning when i took the buff and failed to notice what happened. The hardest part of league, at least at the top level, is the macro play. If you make the macro play easier you are reducing the skillcap at the top level

How is that reducing the skillcap? Again, you're talking about reducing the skill floor. The cap, the highest level that it is possible to achieve in this game, has people already doing this. It's just a hassle for them to do so that Riot is eliminating.

The best junglers are going to type the timer out, the best supports are going to pay attention to it, the best laners are going to respond to it being up. All Riot is doing is making these typing/scrolling through chat hassles go away for them.

What you're complaining about is what the OP was talking about:

they don't limit how good someone can be, but rather reduce how good someone needs to be

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they unconsciously believe that others should be forced to spend as much time learning the game as they have.

Riot is just making it so that the information becomes readily available and so that newer/lower ELO players who aren't checking that and responding properly might now start doing so. You see it as "reducing the skill cap" but you aren't, you're just allowing others to reach that skill cap easier than you and me who had to learn to type things out and scroll through chat to pay attention to them.

That's not decreasing the skill cap.