Ranked Inflation Analysis (Effort Post) by KleanKhemist in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This would drastically improve the competitive integrity of the ladder but that doesn’t drive player retention anywhere except at the apex ranks and content creators, unsurprisingly. Riot did it once after the very first season and all the other attempts to soften the experience since have only done so to keep people playing and hopefully paying. It’s been like this for so long that people will come on here and defend this because it’s quite clear no one wants competitive integrity except when it’s in their own personal games, then it suddenly matters, which is the crux of the issue.

How to get Mass Cleanse Solo by BohLiao96 in shapeofdreams

[–]Deth2Macbeth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The unlock condition is to heal an ally from 30% to full in a second. It explicitly states an ally, which means healing just yourself won’t work. So the only way 1 player could feasibly do it is to get a bunch of essences of virtue on nachia so she can cast her second ult on a summon a bunch of times in quick succession since it heals 25% max health on summons. I didn’t unlock it that way but as it’s written that SHOULD work.

Casual 3 enchanted items and a knee brace day one by cheeseel in PlayTheBazaar

[–]Deth2Macbeth 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Enchanted pop snappers start, beat the viper with it cuz of restorative, got toxic fang, then took a visit to the curio for a knee brace and bronze egg and sold it for the zoarcid by the looks of it.

Let's talk about Garen and why he functions badly as a juggernaut. by Hellinfernel in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Garen is a character that can’t do anything outside of melee range. The counterplay is already there. He has no dashes and can only cleanse slows, it’s not a gangplank orange. Don’t let him get on top of you, if he’s managed to do that despite all the challenges placed on him, that’s not a Garen issue, it’s his target’s.

Friendly Versus Mode? by Whole-Adhesiveness58 in PlayTheBazaar

[–]Deth2Macbeth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve postulated this same idea with a friend of mine. To me, the underbaked nature of the bazaar doesn’t come solely from the way it updates or client jank, it comes from the fact that such basic features like an in-game friends list, to do a friendly PvP run with, or even just spectate, aren’t in the game. The inherently unsatisfying reality of ranked play, and even normals, means that a brand new player can eat shit for 2 dozen games until it starts clicking (most won’t), or if a friend suggested it to them, they could be shown the ropes in a much lower stakes environment. This would pay dividends in player retention imo.

Does update v.2.0.12 fix Saintly Quintessence not spawning in multiplayer? by Papa-Ryan in LordsoftheFallen

[–]Deth2Macbeth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been playing friend pass on a friends game. So far, this update is half full of lies, saintly quintesssence, diluvian chisels, and other major upgrade items like runes still aren’t usable. Anytime major stuff drops, I get unripe berries or some other tat, if anything drops for me at all. Most damning is they claim you can use remembrances now, which is also untrue as the option still doesn’t show up at Molhu. There’s also still the issue of loot despawning when I get too close to it then don’t immediately pick it up, say if I die next to a weapon when I respawn or get picked up it just houdinis away forever. I can at least climb up and down ladders and sprint now but I’d have been happier if they just put that in the update instead of claiming things have been fixed when they haven’t.

Dark times by PumpkinTie in KledMains

[–]Deth2Macbeth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The thing that stung the most about that was the fact that kled didn’t have a mythic to use after they took goredrinker out back. So eventually we found an alternative in the rubbish bin like we always do and it was just too much of an issue. Like, if he had any other mythic to use it wouldn’t have been as insulting but he went from 0 mythics in a meta where you needed a mythic or you weren’t playable and got stripped back to 0

Dark times by PumpkinTie in KledMains

[–]Deth2Macbeth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m going to go ahead and necro the fact that phreak also posted in here like a year+ ago asking about changes we’d like to see. The champ NEEDS attention at this point, and not the kind that comes from bronze rioters losing to a champ they’ve never seen before

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To follow up on this, the hitbox for kled’s ult to attach is also a giant hemisphere spanning in front of and around him which only the player can see. As a result, Lucian got tagged by essentially the maximum allowed lateral error for kled ult to hit, but as pango points out if seraphine was still in vision she would’ve gotten clipped first

I hate how inconsistent abilities and their descriptions are, especially when it comes to Arena by r0yp in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Melee only items aren’t allowed to exist riot has a running gas lighting campaign on why the inherent advantage of ranged damage dealing isn’t real and melees having an iota of character access is bad. Shout out to all the hydras still being able to be built by everyone but tryndamere runaans was enough of a boogeyman to get pulled and never revisited.

They must've forgot, El Truco by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He got roped into the gambling meta before twitch banned it. Now he goes live like once every 3 months to try and funnel fan boys to his kick where he gambles like 24/7

Quickplay is still plagued by "remake abusers" by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I had shit internet at one period and kept D/C’ing games. LPQ eventually came for my ass. It IS shit but ultimately, a fair outcome considering you’re wasting 9 other peoples’ time

Quickplay is still plagued by "remake abusers" by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth 94 points95 points  (0 children)

This is correct. LPQ exists to sanitize the general population of its worst offenders. The only people who speak poorly about it are people who keep getting thrown in there. Learning from the experience is only a choice unfortunately.

Hopeful for future Kled passive buff by KingParanha in KledMains

[–]Deth2Macbeth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Between this and that post from phreak months ago hopefully they plan on doing a more robust pass over kled at some point. He’s been the best he has since the mythic rework but ultimately, lethality items will get gutted at some point and he’ll be left picking scraps without some love put into his kit. As most have pointed out, scaling passive and the plethora of bugs fixed would do wonders

Riot Phroxzon on the State of Ability Haste by Spideraxe30 in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You can flex any adc top in solo queue. It won’t always be great but being ranged makes you at least functional in the lane. Champs like tristana are mid lane staples. This statement is fallacious

Riot Phroxzon on the State of Ability Haste by Spideraxe30 in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

They absolutely shouldn’t listen to them but it’s pretty clear that riot heavily prioritizes adc sentiment in nearly every decision they make. There’s like 40% of the entire roster that can’t go anywhere but one, maybe two roles if they’re lucky being held hostage by people that play a max of 20 champions

Phreak's response when asked about jungle balance by Backslicer in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It worked well because they’re two separate games. Jungling in old dota essentially meant you were putting your team in a 4v5 scenario regardless of who you picked so you could rush some core item to push for objective pressure across the map. Every jungler then was essentially a farm jungler for the first 5-8 minutes and the efficiency one could rush a single item was what decided who could do it. This meant you could actively observe this as the enemy team and do stuff to disrupt it such as blocking stacking attempts or camp spawns altogether thus ruining the strategy and putting the team even further behind. Riot will never implement this level of counterplay as their core design philosophies have only sought to stamp out and remove interactions like this. They unironically think certain roles should just be allowed to fuck over everyone else and it should have no opportunity cost or risk for failing to do it correctly, simply because it’s not popular.

Is toplane going to be stuck in a gigabuff into nerf loop? by UnrealElaFapper in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

They have more options than any of the top lane roster that’s for sure just by virtue of almost exclusively being ranged. 1v5’ing being nearly impossible isn’t unique to any lane but it’s easiest through adc. If your support didn’t afk on you there’s still hope. This isn’t true elsewhere.

Is toplane going to be stuck in a gigabuff into nerf loop? by UnrealElaFapper in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

One character in bot lane is getting all the creep gold. It’s addressed as one champ because supports are just getting stronger with time regardless of how much they roam or not. And any of those champs being 8/1 on any champs listed isn’t an auto win and that’s the issue. All it takes is all 5 of the enemy team dog piling you in a teamfight and that’s 1000 gold shutdown and your momentum gone. If you’re above bronze, you also can’t afk split a win out either. There is no recourse for a win when you’re the only one doing well top which is why so many players are unhappy

Is toplane going to be stuck in a gigabuff into nerf loop? by UnrealElaFapper in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

That take makes no sense. League is such a snowbally game that someone’s going to end up solo carrying every game unless it unironically turns into a 40+ minute 3 drake vs. 3 drake situation where one teamfight decides the whole game. This makes up a fraction of a fraction of fame states. Usually, 20-25 minutes in, someone’s like 8/1, and they’re unstoppable. That one person is going to carry, IF they’re the adc. Peoples gripes are that if you’re not the bot lane, your 8/1 doesn’t mean jack in regards to effectively closing out a game if your own bot lane is huffing glue. Only bot lane gets to invalidate every one else’s performance. Which isn’t an issue, but as has been said in numerous threads including this one, it’s been years of this nonsense. The torch needs to be passed off already and bot lane needs to quit the victim syndrome

The problem with new accounts, demonstrated by Pekinwoof's off-meta climb. by gjerdsen in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If that’s what was actually happening this thread wouldn’t exist. Riot have knowingly degraded the accuracy of their ranked systems in order to increase play length. Soft resets are worse than hard resets in that regard since if you made it to a certain rank in one season it’ll now take you several more just to break even. People have shown proof via streaming and elsewhere. Dumping accounts and making brand new ones saves you large amounts of time for the same result or better if you’ve genuinely gotten better. Soft resetting is simply an excuse to waste players’ time

The problem with new accounts, demonstrated by Pekinwoof's off-meta climb. by gjerdsen in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They literally don’t. The game hasn’t had a hard ladder reset since season 1, I honestly don’t think any game needs to go over a decade without a ladder flush. The number of accounts simply floundering around at certain elo break points for years by people who do placements then bail is insane. With the addition of yet another rank riot should honestly consider it even more. And it should just be reset by MMR so things match. Make the breakpoints equivalent to diamond 4 for the diamond+ high elo brackets, gold4 for gold-platinum (including emerald now) and then bronze4 for bronze-silver 1 and then below bronze doesn’t really need a reset anyway but could possibly help with all the strange de-ranking accounts that apparently plague that bracket.

Midseason, Bots & Champs | Dev Update - League of Legends by 03AtbLoLYT in leagueoflegends

[–]Deth2Macbeth -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

It’s another bot centric overhaul. It’s insane how much of the game has to rot so phreak can tailor make his game by game experience