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LCS questions

Luner Hunter·3/4/2014, 9:54:24 PM·1 votes·289 views

Since when did LCS become all that riot cared about? each time a buff or a nerf comes out its almost always inferred that LCS had something to do with the reasoning behind it... not to mention each time a discussion about why a buff or a nerf happened its almost always said "well in LCS XYZ champion is doing just fine". why does a moderate player like me even (let me be frank here)GIVE A FLYING FUCK how well an LCS player can make a champion do when they probably have hundreds more hours into this game than the average player does? THE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT cuz they've played so much and not have the rest of the community have to suffer with nerfs or "buffs" to champions due to 20 or so people being able to make a champion able to do something that they weren't meant for... though riot says they don't enforce any metas, nerfing a champion so that they can barely do what they are suppose to do and unable leave that roll seems to be enforcing a meta to me... which conflicts with the new "team builder" that is currently about to start its live beta testing that is meant to "break the meta" but how can one break the meta when champions cant leave their rolls????????

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Sir ArmaMalum3/4/2014, 10:08:15 PM2 votes

Team builder will be a separate que, blind pick will still be there and allow for meta breaking, and will probably attract a lot more people willing to do so (or less people refusing to budge from the meta).

As for balancing to pros, they kinda have to. Leaving a champion in a state where they are definitively overplayed in pros will have it trickle down to the community. Pro play is a very good indicator of possible abuse trends that the community can then pick up. Prime example: Annie Support. Pros, because for their time commitment and skill will almost always be the first to stumble upon something that is needing a nerf and abuse it where they can. So balancing to pro play is like having a forecast for majority community trends. Sure some nerfs and buffs may be too quick or too slow, but you can't expect perfect timing with patching the largest multiplayer game in the world.

The game will be constantly re-balanced, pro play or no pro play, and I have the feeling you would be complaining either way if your favorite champs got nerfed. Learn to deal with the constant changes, it's what keeps the game from going stale.

MackleDoge3/4/2014, 9:56:12 PM1 votes

Will you please just quit crying all over the place? Or at least find something new to complain about.

Tulare3/4/2014, 11:07:30 PM1 votes

I see that there's some bitterness brewing in this thread but I would nonetheless like to contribute my opinion.

I tend to agree with the original poster. From a gameplay perspective, there's a relatively small number of champions with which I am skilled. If one of my preferred champions gets nerfed out of viability (or falls out of favour, however you prefer to perceive the phenomenon), then I'm going to suffer disproportionately. This, despite the fact that I'm not an especially good player to begin with and nothing I'm doing resembles the kinds of abusive, nerf-worthy plays that the pros are making.

From a marketing standpoint, when a buff or nerf occurs solely because of what's going on at the pro level, it reinforces the notion that Riot is making this game for other people and not for me.