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League of Legends gets major overhaul in Preseason

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Riot is looking for your feedback on some major changes coming to LoL. Ranging from role and map changes, to towers and gold overhauls, LoL is going to be a very different game.

This Preseason, Riot is “evolving, refining and polishing League of Legends.” So what does that mean? There have been some major changes to specific champions, as well as to roles in general:

Supports often fell behind other players in income, levels and lategame impact. We’re addressing these concerns by heavily adjusting support gold to put more money in the pockets of duo-lane supports. Along with this, we’re making changes to help core support champions scale their utility instead of their damage, and reinforce their unique identity while opening up new items that put all the new gold to good use and make their impact felt in late-game teamfights.

We feel that high-utility support-style junglers are in a solid place, but champions that rely on high damage – often known as carry-style junglers – suffered from relatively low income, fell behind on experience and had fewer itemization options before preseason. We’re adding new masteries to address this discrepancy, as well as adjusting overall experience flow and changing up previous incarnations of jungler-specific items.

I’m particularly interested in the change to Turrets and Inhibitors. Global gold for destroying an outer turret is going down, but the gold given to the individual champions destroying said tower is increased. However, inner turrets yield more global gold. This is aimed at encouraging the laning phase early on in the game. However, late game should see a massive improvement to the change with Inhibitors:

One of our goals this preseason is to reduce snowballing, so we’ve lowered inhibitor death timers and removed the global buff to all enemy minions when an inhibitor’s destroyed. We don’t want to minimize the accomplishment of destroying an inhib, however, so lanes with a destroyed enemy inhibitor will now spawn stronger and more durable minions.

Add to this Trinkets, vision ward changes and even build changes with new Masteries and Spells – it looks like League of Legends is taking things to a whole new level. Are you excited about these changes? Will this be changing the meta? Here is a video (for those who like them) all about the changes:

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Last Updated: November 19, 2013

10 Comments

  1. That Dark Twit

    November 19, 2013 at 12:03

    I need to get back into LoL.

    Reply

  2. Otto "Die Hond"

    November 19, 2013 at 12:03

    Playing support actually looks fun now, especially the free wards are awesome!

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    • That Dark Twit

      November 19, 2013 at 12:28

      I enjoy playing Alister.

      Reply

  3. Admiral Chief Duke

    November 19, 2013 at 12:07

    Is it becoming RoFL now?

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    • Unavengedavo(aka. MadeYouLook)

      November 19, 2013 at 12:32

      Yes, and they are introducing a new playable character… ROFLCOPTER (refresh for image if needed)

      Reply

      • Captain GUZ

        November 19, 2013 at 12:49

        What the heck is that and why would you do it to your hair?

        Reply

  4. Gerhard Davids

    November 19, 2013 at 12:43

    On the turret gold change. Strange how this is the exact opposite of the change DotA made. Both with the same goal…

    Reply

  5. Lucian

    November 19, 2013 at 12:45

    I thought the update was live. Damn you Lazygamer. Lol

    Reply

  6. SargonTheGreatPandaOfAkkad

    November 19, 2013 at 12:46

    What is this LoL of which you speak here? 😛

    Reply

    • Unavengedavo(aka. MadeYouLook)

      November 19, 2013 at 12:52

      Same as LQL, but with less class…

      (just assume that if I end a sentence with … that you need to refresh :P)

      Reply

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