The community complains that some of the challenges are bad for the gameplay.
The challenge system has been available for some time on live servers. Many players began to complete certain tasks. The noticeable progress motivates the gaming community a lot.
The challenges are designed to give all League of Legends players the opportunity to keep constant progress. This applies to both playing ARAMs, rotating modes, Clashes, or even collecting cosmetic content such as skins or icons.
In theory, something like this sounds really good. Achievements in all kinds of computer games are a really popular way of motivating fans to try hard in every game.
Unfortunately, there are some challenges that, according to the community, may negatively affect the gameplay, or even completely destroy it. Why?
Problematic challenges in LoL
Challenges, achievements, or trophies in computer games do not always make players try harder and want to improve their skills in a given title. It happens that someone who focuses only on getting rewards plays only for them, completely forgetting about the rest of the game.
One League of Legends fan shared his thoughts on the ARAM challenges. The player wrote:
The no death ARAM challenge is actively bad for the game. I just played an ARAM game where we had a sivir trying the no death ARAM challenge and it was like playing a 4v5, she was only throwing Q’s never AAing, and had no items at 9 min because she hadn’t died so was doing all of 2 damage to the enemy team. We ended up losing a game we were set to win because the strongest champ on our team wasn’t playing the game then ended up blaming us for not winning even though our comp was super good.
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In the comments, some discussed which characters are the easiest to get the above-mentioned challenge with.
One player wrote:
It’s still stupid no matter the champion. You’ll be hurting your team, doing no damage as Lux or not ulting as Morgana. Even on things that don’t scale well with stats and have a lot of base utility, like Janna, Bard, Ivern, etc.. it’s still stupid.
It doesn’t matter what champ. You’re obviously hurting your team by not using your gold, it doesn’t matter what mental gymnastics you use.