Why is the balance team buffing ADCs?

Blåbæret·May 9, 2018·1 votes·831 views

Guys, what's going on right now - why are people saying ADCs are getting buffed?

5 Comments

SwiftKitten88May 10, 20184 votes

they arn't getting "buffed" per say, they are receiving early nerfs and getting more late game power.

but the issue is they dont need "compensation" for being an a broken state for 2 year. and the fact that any ANY point adc in next patch being STRONGER than they are this patch is absurd.

this is more of a "net neutral" change when we wer promised a large nerf to the most broken class in the game.

DrLuauMay 10, 20183 votes

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they arn't getting "buffed" per say, they are receiving early nerfs and getting more late game power.

but the issue is they dont need "compensation" for being an a broken state for 2 year. and the fact that any ANY point adc in next patch being STRONGER than they are this patch is absurd.

this is more of a "net neutral" change when we wer promised a large nerf to the most broken class in the game.

I'm getting more and more convinced Riot doesn't know how to nerf ADCs, or maybe is convinced ADCs aren't broken.

SwiftKitten88May 10, 20183 votes

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I'm getting more and more convinced Riot doesn't know how to nerf ADCs, or maybe is convinced ADCs aren't broken.

riot is flat out not willing to do what they need to do in order to make this game survive.. and that is to lower the damage and backtrack to the core gameplay of: sustained> tank > burst > sustained

the issue was as soon as adc did enough damage to thier sustained could burst down squishy targets, that whole system went out the window..

i mean riot had to add an item, called item 3193 the very EXISTENCE of this item should have rasied a bunch fo red flags saying "umm tanks cant survive long enough to do anything... maybe we need to lower damage a bit" so riot does the proper thing and at the start of season 6 they nerf ADCs and fix the issue of thier damage. we were SOO CLOSE!!! all riot had to do was then address the other classes down as well to fall into line.

but no.. riot gets cold feet and not only buffs adc back up.. but buffs them to absurd levels and makes them the issue they are today.

HammermancerMay 10, 20182 votes

Let them buff adcs

just let them buff everything else too

feels better that way if everyone and everything keeps getting buffed as opposed to just nerfs

AirKingNeoMay 10, 20181 votes

700 gold is huge

Still, I very much disagree with:

IE being 20% true. Should be 12% or so.

Last Whisper's upgrades. Should be 20% armor pen.

Zeal nerf. I can understand not wanting 100% crit after zeal, upgraded zeal, and IE, but then revert the gold or make upgraded zeals 25% crit.

Upgraded zeals should be 100 gold less.

IE should be 100 gold less.

Stormrazor should be ranged only otherwise it's a second duskblade (if you make it unique with duskblade, then they compete for ' who's more broken' and GP abuses). Current version on PBE sucks.