Most of the Riot Games 2020 preseason changes are taking effect, the new Dragon makes the player’s gameplay more varied and diverse, changing items and Runes Reforged have created extremely new styles great. However, only the alcove does not affect the way the game works and the Meta of the game, it is simply that you have no benefit when you enter that area and of course nobody waste time on this area.
Even Riot Games’ senior strategy developer, Riot Aether, has to say this. He likened his stay to the Alcove to the peaceful life and the freedom to drink alcohol until he was drunk (after breaking up with his lover at Christmas Eve a few days ago, for example, in fact, I was at home that day all day because i don’t have lover), of course, a peaceful place in a place where constantly fighting like Summoner’s Rift is too useless.
Drunk uncle have a heated gamer moment at family dinner? Remember, thanks to Preseason 2020 you can chill out in the alcove until everyone passes out.
The biggest reason why the Alcove is so useless is because it does not bring any benefits to the player. And when there is no purpose to make the road go longer, people naturally don’t step into it anymore. This leads to no need to take control of the area, of course there will be funny clips that someone hides in this area to escape but that’s rare in the game.
Many ideas such as Alcove are also affected by elemental maps such as the acceleration area from the Wind map, the recovery results from the Water map … are also born in this area. The ultimate goal is still to make meaningful access and control of the Alcove, otherwise it becomes the most meaningless change Riot Games has ever made in League of Legends.