After playing hundred of ranked games by now, I do believe that the recent hit detection changes do favor lopsided games where one team just steamrolls the other team.
It is overall harder to secure kills due to the unresponsiveness of the system, combined with pocket regen healers that can heal back to full a target that overextends. If a team doesn't have regen healers, especially AST, then it is already at a clear disadvantage as this can make or break games.
As a result, getting kills relies a lot more into coordinating bursts, which lower ranks (aka below crystal/diamond) are unable to properly do, and which isn't a given either in diamond. Coordinated bursts however will oneshot KO people (like before tbh). This means that it puts even more the onus on bursting than ever, and a team being able to do so or not is a way bigger deciding factor in winning games than it used to be. Even with a team that was unable to burst, while at a disadvantage, it was still possible to secure kills, but with all of this combined with healers? A lot less so, which makes the whole outcome much, much more binary.
I really don't like it.
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It is overall harder to secure kills due to the unresponsiveness of the system, combined with pocket regen healers that can heal back to full a target that overextends. If a team doesn't have regen healers, especially AST, then it is already at a clear disadvantage as this can make or break games.
As a result, getting kills relies a lot more into coordinating bursts, which lower ranks (aka below crystal/diamond) are unable to properly do, and which isn't a given either in diamond. Coordinated bursts however will oneshot KO people (like before tbh). This means that it puts even more the onus on bursting than ever, and a team being able to do so or not is a way bigger deciding factor in winning games than it used to be. Even with a team that was unable to burst, while at a disadvantage, it was still possible to secure kills, but with all of this combined with healers? A lot less so, which makes the whole outcome much, much more binary.
I really don't like it.
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