Reasons why League of Legends suck
1- Unbalanced gameplay
The game is always in unbalanced state which damages the competitive gameplay, there's always some kind of OP champion that needs to be "toned down".
Riot will nerf the champion only to buff it again later, just because?? There's clearly favoritism towards certain flashy champions, like Lee Sin for example.
Lee player: Clicks F+jump+R (for the 999th time)
Crowd: Wooooooohooo so amazing
The unbalance also stems from champion kits, some champions are designed to turn your lane into unplayable state and without outside help you can't do much about it (assuming player skill is equal)
From true damage to infinite dashes, balance has become all over the place.
Riot are desperate to make changes that it will negatively affect gameplay.
2- Client is shit
The client is buggy and breaks down every once in a while, it has tons of weird issues, like for example when you get DCed and you get reconnected in a party of 4, you may find yourself disconnected from the party while it displays you part of it. Many other bugs too, still not fixed after all the years. (lets make anime skins instead)
3- Requires a lot of time investment
It's a game that you need to invest more than 1k hours at the very least to start grasping what's going on about it, there's too many people playing the game since the early days and its going hard to matchmake with them, you will need to understand every kit and how the map works and that takes a lot of time to sink in.
Another thing is if you play ranked, it will take alot of your time to just go back to where you were last season, they intentionally bring your rank down so you will have to grind again and again and lose time on the game.
4- Toxic environment
Everyone is rude to each other, everyone likes to blame each other and focus on condescending passive aggressive insults, it brings out the worst in you.
Even if you play with your friends which can be far less toxic, is still going to create a toxic atmosphere in the long run.
5- Game keeps changing
It's a game that keeps adding new champions with overloaded kits, the old champions like Annie has a passive (every 4th spell stuns) and nowadays new champions passive is a wall of text with formulas and many different effect depending on other spells, it gets complicated and overloaded which is fine if you are one of those people that want to spend all their life playing this one game, but if you leave the game for 2 months and come back you will find yourself lost in this sea on new kits and changes.
6- Fun modes are NOT fun
This is going to be subjective here but Riot decides to add new fun modes like Nexus Blitz and ARAM to help casual players find something less stressful to play, but they imo dropped the ball with it.
Those fun modes are even more UNBALANCED than the main game, essentially making the games snowbally and prone to trolling which ruins the fun, what's the fun in game mode where if you get 5 ranged champions the opponent team doesnt get to play the game? thats not fun mode.
7- Creativity is Gone
New champions are all rehashes of previous ideas, there's a clear lack of creative game design, every new champ is more or less the same, dashes left and right, every 3 auto does X, execute if less than 30% hp, do true damage if X, and etc etc.
Also design wise, visually it has gotten stale, its the same Anime protagonists design.
8- Stolen Ideas
Riot is no stranger to stealing ideas, Valorant is the most recent obvious example a blatant bad ripoff of games like Overwatch, CSGO and Team Fortress 2.
And League is just the same, from the early RTS days with Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne to Dota to this, not to mention the clear champion design influence, from DmC to Final Fantasy and the like.
9- It's just Not Fun
Calculating a ratio of time investment needed to master a champion to get few fun games out of it, its just not worth, you will go through toxicity, getting stomped, stressful games until you eventually find yourself having fun in few games scattered in between. The reward seems underwhelming, was it worth it? imo no.
It gets boring playing the same map and buying the items, farming until a team fight and win/lose game.
I spent good amount of hours on the game and i would say it keeps getting worse and worse with each year, it was a bit better back in the early days but i eventually grew tied of it.
If my rank matters for some its Platinum 2.
It's hard to progress with this game if you have stable job, in relationship and need to play other games and live a social life, it will just come in the way of you doing any of that, and if you leave it for a period of time you come back as a Noob until you re-learn all the unnecessary shitty changes Riot keeps doing.
Riot just doesnt know when to slow down, they want to make sure you keep playing their games every day every week for your whole life, they will suck your soul out of your body, so if you are not making money from this, i suggest dropping it, or dont bother to begin with.
While the game has some depth in its gameplay systems, it's just overshadowed by bad game design choices and awful support.
1- Unbalanced gameplay
The game is always in unbalanced state which damages the competitive gameplay, there's always some kind of OP champion that needs to be "toned down".
Riot will nerf the champion only to buff it again later, just because?? There's clearly favoritism towards certain flashy champions, like Lee Sin for example.
Lee player: Clicks F+jump+R (for the 999th time)
Crowd: Wooooooohooo so amazing
The unbalance also stems from champion kits, some champions are designed to turn your lane into unplayable state and without outside help you can't do much about it (assuming player skill is equal)
From true damage to infinite dashes, balance has become all over the place.
Riot are desperate to make changes that it will negatively affect gameplay.
2- Client is shit
The client is buggy and breaks down every once in a while, it has tons of weird issues, like for example when you get DCed and you get reconnected in a party of 4, you may find yourself disconnected from the party while it displays you part of it. Many other bugs too, still not fixed after all the years. (lets make anime skins instead)
3- Requires a lot of time investment
It's a game that you need to invest more than 1k hours at the very least to start grasping what's going on about it, there's too many people playing the game since the early days and its going hard to matchmake with them, you will need to understand every kit and how the map works and that takes a lot of time to sink in.
Another thing is if you play ranked, it will take alot of your time to just go back to where you were last season, they intentionally bring your rank down so you will have to grind again and again and lose time on the game.
4- Toxic environment
Everyone is rude to each other, everyone likes to blame each other and focus on condescending passive aggressive insults, it brings out the worst in you.
Even if you play with your friends which can be far less toxic, is still going to create a toxic atmosphere in the long run.
5- Game keeps changing
It's a game that keeps adding new champions with overloaded kits, the old champions like Annie has a passive (every 4th spell stuns) and nowadays new champions passive is a wall of text with formulas and many different effect depending on other spells, it gets complicated and overloaded which is fine if you are one of those people that want to spend all their life playing this one game, but if you leave the game for 2 months and come back you will find yourself lost in this sea on new kits and changes.
6- Fun modes are NOT fun
This is going to be subjective here but Riot decides to add new fun modes like Nexus Blitz and ARAM to help casual players find something less stressful to play, but they imo dropped the ball with it.
Those fun modes are even more UNBALANCED than the main game, essentially making the games snowbally and prone to trolling which ruins the fun, what's the fun in game mode where if you get 5 ranged champions the opponent team doesnt get to play the game? thats not fun mode.
7- Creativity is Gone
New champions are all rehashes of previous ideas, there's a clear lack of creative game design, every new champ is more or less the same, dashes left and right, every 3 auto does X, execute if less than 30% hp, do true damage if X, and etc etc.
Also design wise, visually it has gotten stale, its the same Anime protagonists design.
8- Stolen Ideas
Riot is no stranger to stealing ideas, Valorant is the most recent obvious example a blatant bad ripoff of games like Overwatch, CSGO and Team Fortress 2.
And League is just the same, from the early RTS days with Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne to Dota to this, not to mention the clear champion design influence, from DmC to Final Fantasy and the like.
9- It's just Not Fun
Calculating a ratio of time investment needed to master a champion to get few fun games out of it, its just not worth, you will go through toxicity, getting stomped, stressful games until you eventually find yourself having fun in few games scattered in between. The reward seems underwhelming, was it worth it? imo no.
It gets boring playing the same map and buying the items, farming until a team fight and win/lose game.
I spent good amount of hours on the game and i would say it keeps getting worse and worse with each year, it was a bit better back in the early days but i eventually grew tied of it.
If my rank matters for some its Platinum 2.
It's hard to progress with this game if you have stable job, in relationship and need to play other games and live a social life, it will just come in the way of you doing any of that, and if you leave it for a period of time you come back as a Noob until you re-learn all the unnecessary shitty changes Riot keeps doing.
Riot just doesnt know when to slow down, they want to make sure you keep playing their games every day every week for your whole life, they will suck your soul out of your body, so if you are not making money from this, i suggest dropping it, or dont bother to begin with.
While the game has some depth in its gameplay systems, it's just overshadowed by bad game design choices and awful support.