{"id":45467,"date":"2017-11-15T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45467"},"modified":"2020-08-04T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:58:14","slug":"turds-in-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45467","title":{"rendered":"Turds in the pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ever since Rito rolled out the League of Legends <\/em>update signifying the end of season 7 and into the preseason of season 8, things have been a little bit interesting in my gaming observations.\u00a0 Among the very numerous things that have been changed up, I would have to say that one of the more notable actions was the removal of the level cap, which for the previous eight years had been level 30.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, I\u2019m not entirely sure why Riot decided to do such, but I suspect that it has something to do with the fact that once 30, many players go off and create alternate (smurf) accounts, so they can either have multiple accounts to play from with ulterior motives, or if they\u2019re actually really good players, climb the ranking ladder with multiple accounts and\/or then try to sell them for actual currency.\u00a0 Either way, they end up diluting the player pool with multiple accounts, and I feel like by removing the level cap, it incentivizes continuous play on one main account, since there\u2019s no more limit to how much the account can level up to.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, one of the (I feel is like an) unintended result of removing of the level cap is that there\u2019s a mad rush of players suddenly looking for the quickest way to level their accounts beyond 30, so they can have some bragging rights or try and look better than they actually are, by getting their accounts higher than everyone else.\u00a0 Effectively, when Riot removed the level cap, level 30 became the new level 1 all over again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back to the point though, you know what the quickest means of farming XP seems to be now?\u00a0 ARAM.\u00a0 The wacky all-random-all-mid variant of the game that was birthed in the bowels of custom games, but developed such a cult following that Riot had no choice but to make it a permanent game mode, privy to such benefits like XP, IP and champion mastery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first days of preseason it wasn\u2019t a big deal, since everyone\u2019s still in a state of testing out the new runes system to customize their gameplay but once that dust settled, people just now want to farm XP to level their accounts.\u00a0 People have complained that the imbalance brought forward by a massive amount of radical changes in the game have turned Summoner\u2019s Rift games into these unenjoyable games where one team snowballs like crazy, and games end before Baron can even spawn.<\/span><\/p>\n

So if games are ending faster than the average ARAM games of old, where are the tryhard XP farmers going now?\u00a0 To the ARAM of new, where the same problems on SR are exacerbated on the Howling Abyss, and matches are often over by 15 minutes if one gets the right mixture of savvy players on comfort champions with a good recipe of runes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is, ARAM is widely perceived as a joke mode of the game, since it\u2019s not the standard, strategic, team-driven 5v5 mode on Summoner\u2019s Rift in which all forms of professional League of Legends is played otherwise.\u00a0 Those who don\u2019t like ARAM look at ARAM with noses held high up in the air, touting that it\u2019s \u201cnot really League of Legends\u201d and other derogatory rhetoric and blanket statements about the mode as a whole.\u00a0 Dedicated ARAMmers like myself are used to it and mostly tune it out, but it\u2019s not lost on us the amount of disrespect the mode as a whole gets, as well as all who play it.<\/span><\/p>\n

But now, ARAM is the tits of the town, because of its inadvertent means of generating XP at a rate faster than all other modes.\u00a0 And as a result, I\u2019ve been getting queued up with fucktons of ARAM tourists who are probably Summoner\u2019s Rift tryhards who are probably used to playing just a handful of champions in a very meta-defined role, that have absolutely no wherewithal to playing in the chaos and fast-paced environment of ARAM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve been losing a whole lot of games lately, because like 70% of the time, I\u2019m on the team that gets the composition from the bottom of the toilet, with the players that can\u2019t handle ARAM, while the other team ends up being a composition from hell with two ranged ADCs, Xerath and some CC tanks like Maokai and\/or Amumu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m also losing a whole lot of games quickly, because when the circumstances are right (poor), games will be over in about 15 minutes, when it becomes very apparent that there are some severe imbalances in both the new rune system with particular champions, as well as from the hordes of ARAM tourists who absolutely suck monkey balls as ARAM, regardless of what their rank or champion mastery is outside of it.\u00a0 Oddly, I\u2019ve had a few games go way longer than a standard ARAM, because conservative players build tanky, and some of these particular games have turned into these 36-minute tank slugfests, where everyone has 4,000 hp, but can\u2019t really do any damage, but the vast majority of the games are usually over pretty quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, there\u2019s a tremendous amount of irony in League of Legends right now, with people all over crowding into ARAM queues these days, with hopes of grinding out levels so that they can be ahead of the curve amongst their peers and fellow players.\u00a0 But in doing so, they\u2019re diluting the pool of dedicated niche players with their inflexible and meta-driven playstyle, used to going for set plays every three minutes, when perfectly executed plays done previously have forced the opponent to burn flashes and heals, and they know they\u2019re vulnerable, but having zero clue on what to do when a snowball hits them from 7000 units away.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, I don\u2019t play a lot of Summoner\u2019s Rift anymore, and I understand that it\u2019ll take a lot of play and practice for me to get back into the swing of such a competitive mode.\u00a0 But ARAM is my arena, and has been for the better part of the last four years, and I\u2019ve taken flack and put up with the criticisms about how I\u2019m not really playing the game the way it\u2019s supposed to be played.\u00a0 But with the removal of the level cap and the tryhard-y nature of gamers, they\u2019re all diving into my pool because it suits their overachieving motives, but stinking it up for all others who enjoy the mode as the norm.<\/span><\/p>\n

As is often the case, gg Rito<\/strong>; way to have good intentions but fucking it all up in some way shape or form.<\/span><\/p>\n

Get the fuck out of my ring, tourists<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since Rito rolled out the League of Legends update signifying the end of season 7 and into the preseason of season 8, things have been a little bit interesting in my gaming observations.\u00a0 Among the very numerous things that have been changed up, I would have to say that one of the more notable … Continue reading Turds in the pool<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,154,52,146,124,49],"class_list":["post-45467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-league-of-legends","tag-owned","tag-triggered","tag-trolls","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45469,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45467\/revisions\/45469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}