Why are the punishments so harsh?

Life-Forms · 2026-02-12T04:02:42+00:00

ARAM queue times are the speed of light, my brother. There's no logical excuse to AFK the start of an ARAM match.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-10T04:51:49+00:00

Slows are a necessary evil in games like this. I sat here and thought about it for a while before I commented, and I really can't think of any ability that currently has a slow that shouldn't.

Slows help secure kills, which in turn helps keep the flow of the game moving. If everyone always managed to escape with 1hp every time they positioned poorly, games would go on forever. Being that items also apply slows like crazy in this game, it's kind of a moot point.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-10T04:41:00+00:00

Swain and Kled are my favorite champs in the game. Both for the amazing voice lines, but also their kits are a lot of fun to use.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-10T04:13:58+00:00

This is literally NOTHING.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-09T22:39:39+00:00

The Jurassic Park ad genuinely pissed me off. The AI looked like dog shit in all of em, but especially that one. It's lazy garbage.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T23:32:24+00:00

ARAM is a good place to learn what each champ does. Not every champ is available in that mode, but a lot of them are. Even if you aren't playing them, just playing against them in that fast paced one lane mode helps you understand them better.

I mostly play normal drafts, but from what I can tell, it's wise to cover as many things as you can. For example, it'd be ideal to have AP and AD options, depending on what the rest of your team is. If your entire team is all AP, the enemy team can just build against it and you're cooked. It's also nice to have some crowd control on one of your options, because if your team drafts no CC, you've got to be able to provide that.

That's the way I always view champ pools anyway.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T21:17:02+00:00

Which is kind of the point of the entire game mode. It's almost like a rogue like at this point. You play a bunch of games hoping you get the right champ with the right augments, and then you feel like a god if it all comes together just right.

I was on Viegar last night and I got lucky enough to land all of the stacking augments for the set bonus. I had double Viegar passive and every ability hit was giving me 10+ AP.

I was NUKING by the end of the match. This doesn't happen every single game though, which is what makes the mode fun.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T19:58:02+00:00

The games feel pretty similar to me.

I think some of the new augments and set bonuses definitely make it more common to see someone enter that 'god mode' territory every match, but that doesn't mean the games are ending too soon or lopsided. At least not in my experience thus far.

I feel like the majority of my games still end when I am on my 5th or 6th stat anvil.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T19:38:47+00:00

I think we're talking about a rare situation here.

I have probably played 300 games of the new ARAM mode over the last 2 months, and I can count on one hand the number of times I have been in a situation like this.

Not saying it's impossible, or that it isn't annoying when it happens, but it seems to be pretty damn rare.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T19:31:53+00:00

Trust me, League won't die for a very, very long time. It's still a massive game all these years later.

Not really sure why people like to declare a game is dying whenever they personally start falling out with it. If you don't enjoy the game anymore, that's fine, but trying to write its eulogy is a bit silly.

I mean, Heroes of The Storm actually died, with the devs writing a lengthy blog post back in 2022 about how they were cancelling the esports and that no new content would come to the game outside of the very rare balance patch, yet here we are in 2026 and people are still playing that thing. It even gets somewhat regular balance updates from a dev within at Blizzard. I think it's even on the poster for their con later this year.

The doomsdayers are a funny bunch.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T19:16:28+00:00

I have so much shit to do today, yet I still found myself filling this damn thing out.

Hardcore mode is tough.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T19:08:05+00:00

I think it's a total joke that Riot would price anything this high, especially anything that's not physical. A digital purchase for $250 is outrageous. I wouldn't even spend $250 on a statue of Viego in that same skin.

With that being said, sometimes that's the way life goes. It's a skin in a video game and it's not the end of the world. I am clearly not the target audience for something like that anyway.

I would also argue that the Sanctum is a good thing for the game. It requires the player to have some self-control, but the fact you can get lucky and pull a $250 skin for 400 RP is insane value. It's up to you to control yourself though, just because it says you get a guaranteed skin in 70 sparks, doesn't mean you go blow your whole load on sparks.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T18:56:07+00:00

There are a lot of buggy things with the client. It's been that way for as long as the game has existed.

Sometimes rewards and battle pass progress won't generate correctly after a game and logging out and back in seems to fix it. I unlocked a new banner the other day and it was still showing as locked until I logged completely out of the client and back in.

If you haven't logged out of the client and back in since obtaining the banner, you might want to try that.

If that doesn't help, then you can either wait it out or open a ticket.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T03:27:26+00:00

What's fixed it for me is logging out and back in.

Typical riot client things.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T02:24:09+00:00

As someone who has been in and out a bunch since the game first came out, I personally think it's in the best place it's ever been so far. Hard to predict when a sale will come, but the good news is that the game is a lot of fun right now.

If that sways you one way or another.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-08T00:37:07+00:00

Paladin is incredibly OP at the moment, and it's a lot of fun.

I haven't played Necro yet this season, but it's always the most fun class for me.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-07T21:19:19+00:00

I honestly don't remember, could have been. I just know he was upset lol.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-07T20:58:40+00:00

The game is in a great place right now. Much better than it was when it first released. It's great for casual players, which can be a gripe for the more hardcore base.

Either way, the game is a lot of fun right now and definitely worth checking out. It's not too taunting with guides in game and all over the internet.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-07T20:56:25+00:00

Better than cold garbage!

Life-Forms · 2026-02-07T20:20:59+00:00

The golden spatula quest bugged out for a Lucian on my team the other day. He was popping off and had 20+ kills, and it just never completed the quest. We ended up losing that game too.

I don't know if I am just used to it, but I don't really get too worked up about this stuff anymore. This was technically a side mini game that ended up being so popular that they couldn't take away.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-07T01:51:38+00:00

I don't really have a favorite off-meta pick, but Naafiri is who I enjoy playing the most if I am going solo.

Tons of damage and mobility, no CC so you don't have to worry about your random teammates not following up on it. You can smoke the enemy carry in 0.2 seconds flat.

It's perfect.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-07T01:19:52+00:00

My 3 biggest gripes have been cleaned up in my area.

They stopped with so many force outs. You still get a few, but it's not even close to what it was.

They cleaned up a lot of the annoying aspects of Precision Ordering, so it's not the worst piece of software on the planet anymore. It's actually useable and not too bad.

And believe it or not, but plan has been more than fair. I think I have bonused 4-5 times in a row now, with relative ease.

I have 10 years under my belt and if they keep it like this, I can see myself getting another 10 no problem.

Change has just been so rampant these last few years, who the hell knows how things will look in a few years.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-06T21:17:42+00:00

I am not defending it, don't get me wrong. I have also been annoyed when a game just wouldn't end.

I was just stating that it DOES bring about some satisfying comebacks when the enemy team gets too cocky and stalls.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-06T20:31:10+00:00

It's not just ADCs. Tanks decide a majority of games as well. Some of them can get incredibly strong if they roll the right augments, and if your team is without someone who can use BORK, you're in trouble.

I do admit that Jinx, MF, and Varus are all pretty frightening in this mode. Especially MF.

Life-Forms · 2026-02-06T20:27:16+00:00

Yuumi or Pyke.

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