LOL: Wild Rift Review After Playing 100 Matches

 LOL: Wild Rift, a mobile MOBA game, was officially released for the Android and IOS platforms in Indonesia at the end of last October. A game adapted from a PC game entitled League of Legend or often shortened to LOL predicted to be able to provide something new in mobile games. LOL: Wild Rift is also considered capable of competing with existing mobile MOBA games such as Arena of Valor and Mobile Legend. For readers who are interested in playing LOL: Wild Rift, this article will present a review of this game based on the author's experience.

LOL: Wild Rift uses the Fog of War system, a system not yet available in other mobile MOBA games. Fog of War itself is a system where there is a fog that makes the area dark and limits our character's view so that the information we get while playing is limited. It's not only the fog that affects the visibility of our character, but also the walls around us. Even though our perspective is from above of our character. Luckily, the Limited visibility can overcome with Ward, a feature that can light up dark areas. The Fog of War system itself is considered to be able to improve the experience in playing this game.

In this modern era, graphics in a game are important. LOL: Wild Rift provides pretty good graphics for a mobile game. The details that we can see like the moving bush if we enter it, splashing water while walking on the river, and the dazzling skill effects of our characters. This game can also be played at 60 FPS so that the movement of this game is smoother.

There is no Pay to Win system in the game LOL: Wild Rift making gameplay in the game feel fair to every player. Pay to Win is a system where players can improve their character's abilities by buying in-game items with real money, and this method is considered fraudulent for some people. All of the characters in this game are free. Character skins are sold purely as cosmetics. Every player of this game is required to rely on their respective skills. To improve playing skills in this game provides a training system where players can try all the characters in the game freely.

LOL: Wild rift provides character and item variants so that we as players have the freedom to choose. In this game, we can customize items and effects in play. Each character in this game has their respective roles. There are five roles in this game, namely ADC (Attack Damage Carry) which have tasked with dealing damage to the enemy, and then there is a Support role that in charge of protecting the ADC, then the Mid-Laner who is in charge of guarding the middle lane and roaming to other lanes, there is a Jungler on duty to ganking, and finally, Solo-Laner which is usually filled with strong one-on-one characters. As a player, we can choose the role we want according to our playing style.

LOL: Wild Rift can run on various smartphones because it doesn't require high specifications. If you are an Android user, the specifications you need are Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 Processor, 1.5 RAM, and Adreno 306 GPU. Meanwhile, iOS users are iPhone 6 and above. Based on the experience of the author who played this game with the following smartphone specifications, Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 and RAM 3 can play this game smoothly. For readers whose smartphone specifications are still below the requirements, Riot as the developer of this game continues to strive to maximize the files of this game, so can be played with lower specifications.

Based on the author's experience, the combat mechanic in this game feels more difficult than other mobile MOBA games. The author himself requires several matches only to understand the gameplay of one character. In my opinion, what makes this game hard is that most of the skills on each character are throwing skills and lock target skills are rarely. The last hit system and buy items must in the base make this game even more difficult. Until now, the author could only master a few characters. Each character in LOL: Wild Rift has four active skills, and this allows each character to create various combos.

 

It's common to experience network issues while playing LOL: Wild Rift. This problem was most likely caused by the central server not being able to accommodate many players. Based on the author's playing experience, network problems often occur when a team is with people outside Southeast Asia. The author has used a Telkomsel provider, but this network problem is still not resolved. Many players have complained about disconnection while playing, and this causes the game system to detect that the player is AFK or deliberately leaving the match. Riot as the developer provides a fairly severe penalty for players who are indicated to have AFK, namely by being banned from their account for 30 minutes for PvP and a day for Ranked mode. One way to solve network problems is to play together with your friends. That way, this game server will still use Southeast Asian servers, so that network problems don't need to be worried about anymore.

When playing this game, the writer feels that the strength between one character and another is still not balanced. There are characters known as Power Pick or characters that are felt strong by some players. The characters that are not included in the Power Pick are called Underrated characters. According to the author, this makes the game feel boring because the characters used do not vary. There needs to be a buff and nerf between one character and another so that the game feels more varied.

Overall, LOL: Wild Rift is a good game despite its flaws. Riot seems quite serious about making this game. The author hopes on the next update the problem on this game can be solved. The discussion in this article based on the author's experience, if readers have different opinions, feel free to write it in the comments.