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I don't mean for this post to be negative, I don't think that gets anyone anywhere. I just want to be another data point for people to look at.
Bit of background on me so everyone can see where I'm coming from here. I'm a player who plays mostly with friends but I also enjoy climbing the ladder to test my decks, I've gotten to plat in the past I'm not sure if thats good or bad. The part I love about this game is deck building - I like to make strong decks to beat my friends with, I don't tend to copy decks since for me half the fun is building and refining my personal creations. I also don't really give a sh*t about the meta but I do loosely follow what's going on for deck inspiration.
My favorite champions to use are somewhat order: Azir, Viktor, Kayle, Kai'sa, Evelynn, Bard, Irellia. I have many decks using many of these champs in many coronations so take that for what you will.
In regards to rotation I think it's a good thing which seem to be a hot take right now, I also think however that it's been implemented in the worst way possible. To me it seems like cards were rotated without rhym or reason for the most part, I understand some things like Irellia to stop the Azir thing and such like that, but other cards seem so random.
A rotation is a very important thing to have in any card game like this. At some point there are too many cards to keep track of and balance around. If the game was to continue to get card updates it needed to eventually have a rotation. The implementation however is a little wacky. Currently my understanding is that once a card is rotated out it just isn't coming back ever? That seems bad, if Azir/Irellia is a problem deck then shouldn't those two champs be rotated off in an alternating fashion? It's also my opinion that full sets should be rotated off and on as a whole generally, I think that makes it easier to put decks together.
Touching on everything else briefly. I think ranked eternal lockout is fine, nobody would be willing to even try standard otherwise and hey maybe you'll like it! Current meta is whatever OMG new cards unbalanced this never happens, y'all a bunch of drama queens. Op things will get nerfed, yea some things like Samira themed spells (all out I think it's called?) are OP but it'll get tuned and quantitative testing is very hard while developing, this goes doublely so since it's a smaller team.
Also aside from everything I'd love to see a ban feature added so I can maybe ban a specific champ and then not have to play against it. IDK could be cool, I haven't thought this out much.
TL;DR: I'm a somewhat casual player that thinks totation is good in concept just implemented badly. Sorry if this is all a bit rambly.
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