Best Of

Kabam

Having finished this past weekend, it’s just a weird (and bad) meta.

The goal should be to get a broad swath of Summoners to participate. I’d like to think the team figured this would level the playing field a bit—by making veteran players with mid-sized accounts competitive with larger accounts and limiting the dimensions on which players competed. I’m guessing the rationale here was that making speed the only variable would equalize things in a fun way.

It didn’t.

Some of the issues: (1) suicides are an advantage, and not everyone has them or wants to spend for them; (2) matching huge accounts really depresses BGs participation by smaller accounts in a meta like this one; (3) smaller accounts opting out means larger vet accounts facing each other earlier and more often; (4) kamikaze playstyle that frequently produces results by razor-thin margins can be both demoralizing and frustrating.

I have my fair share of terrible matches. I’ve lost this season to someone with 10K less prestige than I have (mix of terrible drafting/playing by me and good old rotten RNG)—not a proud moment. This season I had few long streaks and more incremental grind, fewer forfeits and significantly more “throw the phone against the wall” moments.

I’d like to hope someone in the room when this meta was concocted played devil’s advocate and expressed the possibility that at least some of the issues outlined above might materialize this season.

If no one did, it might be time to shake up the team that decides these things.

Dr. Zola

Your screenshot shows why that isnt happening

Do you need glasses?

No, they will make it available for 2500 units and milk everyone there, too.

They should have just done that from the beginning and cut through the d****** tbh.

I would have respected that more.