Riot should "tweak" champions every patch along with larger nerfs/buffs

Pathfinder Yasuo·Feb 14, 2017·1 votes·438 views

If you tweaked a champion every single patch, you'd have it balanced after a couple patches.

Example scenario: clearing jungle too fast and rushes damage item for freelo ganks -5 armor level 1 and increase scaling armor

Not going to be horrendously shit after that, not going to be broken (if the example was a buff)

Do THIS several times instead of "hur durr increase lethality scaling by 20% and add a bunch of cheap items that give 65AD and flat armor pen" "oh shit it's busted"

10 Comments

MaeDoSanFeb 14, 20171 votes

Have you considered the fact that lethality builds will turn you into a snowballing glass cannon with no meaningful damage against tanks in lategame ?

Starcraft243verFeb 14, 20171 votes

Sadly this is not true. If someone's get a black cleaver in your team and then efficiently reduces the armor of a 210 armor tank by 30%, he has only 140 armor left, and if you have 60 lethality it's only 80 armor left, it means that with lethality you get a 33% increased damage on this target, compared to without.

Not this bad.

MaeDoSanFeb 14, 20171 votes

What exactly are you comparing it with other than itself ? where is the alternate build ? And how well does this build absorb damage ?

Starcraft243verFeb 14, 20171 votes

Mea culpa,

Pen build : 210 armor : 80 Base + 130 (basically 2 armor items + boots) Black cleaver applies : 56 Base + 91 (-30% on both) Last wisper applies : 56 Base + 50 (-45% on the 91) total 106 armor left.

Lethality build : 210 armor : 80 Base + 130 (basically 2 armor items + boots) Black cleaver applies : 56 Base + 91 (-30% on both) 50 Lethality apply ( item 3814 item 3147 item 3142 ): 56+91-50 Total 97 armor left.

5% better with lethality. (you could argue that with giant killer dominik would be better but only by a few percent, basically it's the same, so lethality is not this bad except vs a malphite or some huge 350+armor tank)

MaeDoSanFeb 14, 20171 votes

So your comparing all 3 letahlity items to a last whisper ? or is there something missing in the 1 build ?

MaeDoSanFeb 14, 20171 votes

More Importantly we are talking about hecarim and how he will tank damage from the opposing team where you have given him a full build on lethality with no major magic resist items Honestly this is time consuming and I appreciate the effort that you are putting in to fully understand the impact of lethality on the game

Starcraft243verFeb 14, 20171 votes

My point was just you still can do meaning full damages to tanks in late game with a lethality build ;)

MaeDoSanFeb 14, 20171 votes

No doubt this will be great for 1 v 1 s but you cant fully stack your black cleaver when you have almost no mr in team fights

Starcraft243verFeb 14, 20171 votes

The good part is you dont have to stack it yourself, you can let another one in your team buy it and stack it for you.

MaeDoSanFeb 14, 20171 votes

Means your senario works in team fights where hecarim isn't the front line but rather an assassin. Maybe 2 tanks and lethality bruisers can be the new meta where the game will end pre 30 mins