These Azir Nerfs...
...On the P.B.E. will force me to take to the bottle. Riot, my liver is literally in your hands. Azir is pretty much the only reason I play this mediocre game anymore, and if you make him unplayable by castrating his ult the way you have planned as of now, I will basically have to uninstall from rage/disappointment/boredom. I regret on a regular basis EVER spending any of my hard earned money on unlocking this champion the day he was released because: A.) You couldn't play him until three days later B.) He remained so buggy as to be frustratingly unusable for about a year C.) Has been nerfed in more impactful ways than almost any other champion I've ever read about in patch notes. Perhaps not the most regularly shrekt, but definitely a champion that has received more than his fair share of harsh, frankly misguided nerfs. D.) Has never received any meaningful buffs besides bug fixes, which, mind you, didn't actually fix the bugs they supposedly fixed until about a year after release. E.) Is a champion that Riot feels can dumpster for every player in the world because Faker, the best player in the world, can make some cool plays with him.
The problem with these nerfs too is that they don't address any of his actual problems. The nerfs to wall and to Stinger just dumpster him. It's like Riot just washing their hands of him and saying,"well, we can't balance him, better just make him unsuable so we don't have to deal with him anymore." I take great issue with this for fairly obvious reasons. After the debacle of 5.3, I would like to think that Riot learned that extreme changes to Azir's kit are not ideal. It also strikes me as odd that I, an average player, can look at those nerfs on paper and realize that (experimental or not) they are intended to gut the champion. There is literally no way this champion can be still effective after these nerfs. Yet, the good people at Riot, with their much deeper experience than my own, can't seem to make the same immediate conclusion. And the troubling thing is, even if it sucks on the PBE, they'll still upload it to the main server because, "the results on the PBE don't give us an adequate understanding of how a change will work on live - but we use it for S & G anyway to make players feel like they have an input on the changes to the game."
Please, spare me. Have mercy, ye balance team, I pray thee. Have I not suffered enough?
