Is it just me, or has Riot REALLY been abusing the game lately?

Desiderium··1 votes·673 views

Cinderhulk

Sated Devourer

Zeke's Harbinger

Luden's

And what's more, every time these things are deemed to be overpowered, they either take months to nerf them, or they don't nerf them at all.

So not only is there a huge amount of insanely crazy balance decisions, it's also combined with the fact that they aren't bothering to tone them down. There's a HUGE DIFFERENCE between "Okay, let's just take a step back and assess everything when the smoke settles" and "Gee, this is some great fan art. -checks watch- Only three more years before I have to nerf Cinderhulk."

Also, slightly unrelated, did anyone notice how each of the above items buff every single role in the game (Cinderhulk = Tank + Tank jungler, Sated Devourer = Carry Jungler + ADC Vayne, Zeke's Harbinger = Support and ADC, Luden's Echo = AP) except assassins?

I have been playing this game for over four years and never have I seen Riot stir the pot up to this extent.

Keep in mind that I'm not the type of person to think that any form of change is automatically a bad thing, but Riot has been going waaay overboard. Understandable, since this is the first time they've been going so insane over balance changes, but I don't think they should have started all this crazy shit outside of a Preseason (they only began creating these ridiculous items and refusing to nerf them during the second half of our current season).

10 Comments

TraakSC3 votes

So mages, tanks, junglers, and supports are OP? Cool story.

Sniper 02 votes

If you see a vayne with smite punish the hell out of her. Counter jg her. She can't do anything if your team is consistently in her jungle. Cinderhulk is balanced. Zeke's adds a nice new mechanic to the game and isn't grossly overpowered (except in combination with jinx MAYBE)

Luden's echo is pretty balanced.

Sated is broken as hell but that's riots love child so. (jk) I dunno what they're doing with it. They nerfed kayle over it who didn't need nerfing.

LaceUp231 votes

I don't know, I hate Zeke's lol. 100% crit OP.

Sniper 01 votes

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I don't know, I hate Zeke's lol. 100% crit OP.

Ehh it's not really overwhelming on someone other than jinx or ashe though and that speaks more about the characters than the item itself.

LaceUp232 votes

If you still think Cinderhulk is OP, you might be the problem.

Voidgolem2 votes

probably because devourer, zekes, luden, and cinderhulk aren't actually OP

Marthian1 votes

Devourer/Sated is op. Zeke's not so much, luden and cinderhulk were on release but were toned down after time.

Magneto811 votes

Agreed. I mean, can you imagine if they changed the standard size of a baseball in the middle of a season or decided basketball nets should be an extra foot off the ground? I really feel like changes during the season should be limited, not extraordinary. Huge changes like the complete rework of AP items, large-scale nerf of armor items, a huge Mordekaiser dragon, the OP's thoughts on jungle items... I could go on..

Desiderium1 votes

At the end of the day, League is still a game, and us common folk would rapidly lose interest in playing it if it didn't have regular content updates. What Riot is doing wrong is making that said content extremely OP and allowing it to remain that way for extended periods of time, beyond the point where you can use "we're waiting for the smoke to clear" as an excuse.

FHMarshy1 votes

Yes, it is just you :) Glad we solve a mystery

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