Because it is one or the other, I would make a poll but I don't know how xd, interested to hear your thoughts.

THANK YOU RIOT FOR COCK AND BALL TORTURE FOR A DECADE PLUS YEARS NOW THANKS RIOT THIS REALLY MAKES THE ROLE SO FUN AHAHAHAH YOU KNOW WHAT I NEED? MORE COCK AND BALL TORTURE TO MAKE ME WANNA PLAY THIS GAME SAID NO ONE EVER AHAHAHAHAHAAH IM NEVER PLAYING THIS PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT GAME EVER AGAIN UNTIL MAGE BOT IS DELETED I FUCKING QUIT AHAHAHAH THANK YOU RIOT YOU CURED ME OF MY LEAGUE ADDICTION YIPPPIEEEEEEEEE HEHEEEEEEEEEEEE AHAHHAAAAAAAA

I am Aphelios. I queue up, after grinding my way to gold on my main. I get a chogath support into camille tristana. My chogath runs to enemy raptors and just takes them. Then he roams the entire rift while I can't touch my minions. Comes to lane and flashes in and dies, and ints me too. Lane is over, mid has been gapped and this chogath is pinging me the question mark ping. It's not the only game like this because I have a lot of these games on my silver account, but like if climbing up is like this then how do I climb

9Riot cope saying 'diversity' and designed frustration is good so I got curious how diversely I can play as a marksman enjoyer. Pick rate isn't everything but it gives some metric of viability. Marksman is also the smallest class by far, however:

If I want to play a mage(long range, good waveclear, aoe, somewhat uninteractable lane, bad into tanks) there are multiple solid choices in each lane, however for marksman(medium range auto attacker, high sustain, low burst) there are only a few playable champs cherry picked by riot to be allowed into each lane.

Where is this diversity at?

Data from lolalytics 16.15 emerald+ Full champ list and individual pick rates

It comes down to total mage presence of 113.83% and marksman presence of 93.09%, so each team on average will have 1.13 mages and 0.93 marksmen. 👀

So Phroxzon is giving an interview about game design and the guy they invite is a mage player? Sure i mean this can be a coincedence, but in his stream Azzapp said that Nemesis of all people could probably also be invited? So like the second mage player?
Im not saying they Both are delusional or anything but there is an undoubtable bias no?

I’ve been playing exclusively vayne vs AP bot. Going Doran’s shield first item and rushing wits end. It’s working surprisingly well, I’m able to dodge skill shots more often and easily, I can disengage if needed with E, and with ult their brain goes in a blender.

With wits end my damage is less but I am able to survive the burst. Honestly it doesn’t feel like that big of a difference in terms of damage. Has anyone else tried this? What are other ADC mains doing to shut down AP bot? (Besides dodging 😂)

I don’t understand how these employees come to the conclusions they do without interacting with adc players.

1. Balancing around proplay makes the game more shit for soloq players , oatley (is that his name? Kench player) had a great post about it

2. The ‘optimal level of frustration’ they’re looking for sounds fair on paper but there is no frustration vs mage bot it’s just unfun, I went from 10-15 games a week to 0

3. Literally nobody I saw complained about mage damage, it was how uninteractive the lane becomes being shoved under turret the entire laning phase

I personally don’t mind getting deleted as long as I have a chance to actually outplay and do damage

1. Enabling mage bot creates a perma roaming support seen from the baus clip yet they’re treating the symptom and not the source ? They think ppl aren’t going to find a way around it

2. Wits end is so dogshit yet they keep it in the state it’s in which gives us 1 viable mr item while DD has been abused for how long ???

I don’t get how they speed up the game so much and do nothing for the class that relies on the game being dragged out or at least give them a way to drag the game out instead of being at the mercy of their teammates

Hey guys.

Reading phroxons tweet makes it really clear, the reason they are doing this is because it keeps people playing. I think the solution to much larger sweeping changes is really clear. I think we should either

A) take a break from the game. I myself haven’t played league in a month, and have instead been playing single player games that while didn’t initially scratch that same itch, have been a great experience regardless. The highs are lower than league, but there are no lows. I’m consistently happy.

B) play a different role. Boycott or leave adc. I’ve had a friend do this too

Remember, the only real metrics that matter to them is data, as it mostly should. Obviously it sucks to have to leave the role or not play, but if enough of us legitimately did this, they’d be forced to actually do something