The only reason last hitting is still around is because people are too petrified of losing it to think of something else. I'm confident that it's not going to be around forever. Maybe not in LoL, but some game is going to remove that mechanism for something else, and it's going to become the new "integral" part of the MOBA genre. Either that, or it's going to become it's own new subgenre.

I get that people enjoy it, but I personally feel it's retarded. This is why I like Dominion. The "laning phase" is less about making sure you last hit minions, and more about dueling the opposing champion. The only thing I don't like that bottom lane is the only real lane that does this, and every other lane is just teamfighting.

That and people are too aggressive on that map when it comes to capturing points. Everybody wants to 5-cap all the time, then the enemy gets a quadra kill. =\

Then don't deny, ZONE THEM OUT.
The first 20 minutes of the game are absolute boring farmfests. If people didn't have to actually last hit and something else was implemented to gain gold during laning phase, people would spend that time throwing stuff at each other, warding properly then zone the **** out of the weaker enemies.
It would make the game more active instead of the
"stay behind minion and farm"

HELL THE DUDE THAT MADE THE THREAD GOT A JOB OFFER.

Voted "Yes", but not because I actually do enjoy last hitting. It is too integral to the game and it is one of the barriers that (by design) divide the average players from the good players from the very good players.

It would be too much of a change to the game to remove it. Hell, I play Dominion most of the time and I still focus on last hits. Its too embedded into the dna of League.

Would I prefer a more casual version of the game that did not emphasize last hits? Yes, I would, because I am a casual player. THAT SAID, I don't expect the game bend around what I, a single user amongst millions, want to see. I applaud the guy who made the other thread, and I really do hope that whatever arrangements that are being made between him and Riot work out for the betterment of the game, but removing last hitting from classic is too much of a change towards casual to keep the interest of the dedicated moba players.

Balancing farming with harass, fighting, and wave pushing adds skill to the game. It's engaging and I enjoy it. That's why I pick late game champions like Vlad, so I can last hit, farm, and become stronger as the game progresses. If you remove last hitting you remove farming which breaks the game as is.

I don't care what League does. But if another game that has a better mechanic comes out, I'm gone. So either League should do it and maintain a paying customer or should not do it and potentially lose me when someone else does something interesting.

Thinking about it, I actually kind of do like the last-hitting mechanic. However, I think there could be room for improvement.

For example, still granting some gold for being near a minion that dies, even if you didn't last hit it. If this amount does not affect the amount of gold the last-hitter gets, it would allow supports to get more gold for being near the fight, for example. It could also perhaps help make melee champions viable in more lanes, since even if they get harassed away from the minion wave, they can still get some gold.

Also, perhaps a reduction of how much gold minion gives, in proportion to how much gold you get for killing champions/towers. Even small changes to the ratios between these gold sources could perhaps encourage more aggressive plays. But it couldn't be too much of a change, or else farming minions would no longer be worth it.

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Seeing all the people who missed the point behind the "last hitting is archaic" thread is really, really making me sad.