Little Papa Riot
In your next patch notes
Riddled with buffs and nerves by the thousands
Don’t forget, from delete Yone
It’s almost Christmas in the real world, and sadly League of Legends – virtual world that it is – doesn’t really need to carry on that tradition. Although several lines of skins contradict this statement, it is clear that the Rift will not receive a tree or gifts – not even a themed skin like it was a few years ago.
That said, even if we don’t have a chimney that Father Riot could sneak through, here is the list that would have been sent to him if there was ever the slightest chance that we could be overheard …
A training tail
The thing will no doubt have struck you if you’ve been playing League for many years, or even if you’ve gotten to it recently, but there is no queue that allows you to truly experience the game against human opponents – all without suffering from the toxicity which may be associated with it. Provided that co-op vs AI is really useful (but we doubt it, since it is very often riddled with bots), the jump to the normal queue is often brutal – whether for new players, or for those new to a champion or role.
For this reason, we would frankly like Riot to set up a limited “training queue”. In order to prevent excess, one could imagine a line not providing no experience and not having no impact on MMR, so that neither bots nor tryharders are interested in the experience. Likewise, to limit the excesses, players could not choose the champions they have mastered – say, below level 3. And, if we want to push the thing even further, this queue could “slow down” the gain. Mastery Points, so players can have time to experiment – and most importantly, to learn.
Tokens to test skins (or their chromas)
If we had to choose only one present, it would certainly be this one: the possibility of being able to test a skin or a chroma in one or more parts before buying it. The technology already exists in many online games, yet it remains absent from League. For a game which is now more than ten years old, the thing is difficult, although it is easy to understand why this kind of functionality has not yet seen the light of day. However, since there is no refund policy, it is seriously difficult to understand why Riot does not put in place a system to test skins and / or their chromas before purchasing them. It’s not as if we risk damaging them …
Better yet, couldn’t we just test them through the Training Tool?
More fun game modes
It’s a catchphrase that is repeated every year, much like the chorus of a broken record, but League of Legends is sorely lacking in light game modes to take the pressure off after a spicy session in ranked queue. Sure, RAM fulfills this role to perfection – although there has recently been an increase in toxicity from the Howling Abyss tryharders. Likewise, the arrival of the Ultimate Grimoire serves this purpose as well – and some might almost argue that so does the mode. Hyper Roll TFT, or even Duo mode.
That said, we bitterly regret the (far too) temporary fashions that appeared around a patch in the past. Whether the mode Ascension, the regretted Dominion, the Doom Bots, or even the Nexus Raid, there were game environments where you could play LoL – but in a different way. And, if the Rift of the Summoner in 5v5 obviously remains the muse, we would like, sometimes, to find more brainless, more casual game modes. Places where you can play without necessarily feeling the pressure of “I have to win to have fun.”
Think you are a Rift God? We’ll have to prove it. To celebrate the arrival of Gwen and the new line of Astro Groove skins, Riot Games is reintroducing a temporary game mode that’s as famous as it is nightmarish: Doom Bots. Will you be up to it?
A turret buff
This is undoubtedly THE achievement of the previous season, and the one to come: apart from in the early game, and in certain increasingly rare situations, the turrets that parade the Summoner’s Rift seem to be less and less important, less and less useful. They do not inspire no security to those who hide within their reach, nor the slightest bit of fear to those about to dive – or at least that’s the impression of a lot.
Thus, and although it is perhaps a question of one more “whine”, one likes to imagine a world where the turrets would receive a general buff. From exponential damage ? At a minimum, one antiheal effect ? We don’t really know what would work best. On the other hand, what is certain is that in a meta where all the champions always inflict more damage, the fact that the turrets do less and less is the most total absurdity.
A true nerve of the Skirmishers
and / or Shieldbow
It is certainly an opinion to be taken with a grain of salt, but the Skirmishers – aka the Yasuo, Yone, Irelia and other Tryndamere clique – would certainly deserve a big fat nerf on the eve of this Season 12. Although we frankly doubt that the thing is achievable, we are dreaming of a world where this gang would stop terrorizing the game at low ELO. And, by the way, maybe it’s not the champions you need to target, but rather their Mythic of Heart, the aptly named Immortal Bow Shield.
More particularly, would it not be possible to ssave the statistics granted by the object, between melee and distance, so that the Shooters do not find themselves, once again, indirectly descended by a nerve which was not originally intended for them? Anyway, for Christmas, and even if it is only a temporary truce for a few patches, we would dream that these demons would stop plaguing the Rift …
For several seasons, Riot Games no longer deploys Rift skins. So one fan created his own rift appearance to enjoy a snowy League of Legends for the Christmas holidays. A project with which he claims to have achieved “what a multimillionaire company could not do”.