All of these balancing complaint threads

Immane·8/10/2016, 2:30:51 PM·24 votes·1,348 views

Don't you guys get it that it's literally impossible to balance a game with 130+ champions, especially one built around TEAM play? It'd be hard enough if the game was 1v1, but you can't possibly predict for every 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, and 5v5 situation. It's millions (billions? math anyone) of combinations.

The reason Riot is constantly re-balancing and adding too much here or taking away too much there is because you'd be BORED AF if the SAME champions were OP for years and years and years and either everyone was playing or banning them. This gives you the chance to experience and grow to appreciate new champs, or having them taken out of the game completely via bans.

The tides of re-balancing are part of what keeps the game feeling fresh and exciting. Rejoice.

EDIT: I overestimated the general intelligence of this board, sorry. Pretty amazing how many people here don't understand that the "THIS CHAMPION IS WEAK SO MAKE IT STRONGER, THIS CHAMPION IS STRONG SO MAKE IT WEAKER" mentality only works in a vacuum where no other champions exist.

54 Comments

Valexfor8/10/2016, 2:36:29 PM20 votes

Your post has a major flaw in it: some champion are left in the dust for Years on purpose and riot literally does nothing for them, while others are left to dominate for Years and riot doesn't nerf them. Also it's possible to balance LoL, they just don't want to.

IS3E531E3F9643918/10/2016, 2:41:54 PM15 votes

people also get mad because of the blatant favoritism

Luxana Crowngard8/10/2016, 2:40:13 PM7 votes

Yorick YOU WILL REMEMBER YORICK MORI

Sona x Rubick8/10/2016, 5:12:30 PM7 votes

Dota2, only 6 heroes not picked yet in the ti. Only 2 heroes are picked/banned almost in every game (timbersaw, drow-ranger what a coincidance) with still an almost balanced win rate (something around 58%)

League: last lcs 44 champions picked

why? because Meddler wants to balance the game around plat and above. Saying that a game can't be balanced is just wrong, and os-frog is close to balance dota since he'll just buff the heroes not picked to improve the game, while nerfing drow.

Rozair8/10/2016, 4:40:39 PM6 votes

You didn't even read the notes then. Riot clearly plays favorites to the same champions over and over and over. This time it's riven and brand who were wicked op until the end of last season where they got nerfed. Now riot clearly wants them back. An extra 150 damage on rivens ult. Are you serious that's huge

General Esdeath 8/10/2016, 3:44:49 PM6 votes

I mean, DOTA pro scene seems balanced. I hear a majority of their pool is picked, while LCS is the same 40 champs...

Lugg8/10/2016, 3:55:13 PM3 votes

Balancing the game is actually pretty simple. If a champ is too strong, you nerf them immediately. If they are are too weak, you buff them. While there will always be some champs stronger than others due to the meta, the difference between the strongest and weakest should still be small enough that skill can even it out. Any champ should be able to beat any other if the player is skilled enough on that champ.

inplane8/10/2016, 3:08:59 PM2 votes

Balance relies on popularity to a certain extent. Champs who aren't popular or played much will be left in the dust no matter how flawed. Champs who are played by everybody and their mothers will be looked at as soon as people on the boards complain about it. Your ideas for tweaks to your main can be ingenious, but if not enough people care, then don't even think about it.

GULAG 4 U8/10/2016, 11:41:19 PM1 votes

Yeah, cause buffing a 52% winrate champ (brand) is a good idea, woohoo!

LadyRenly8/11/2016, 1:12:44 AM1 votes

Riot constantly reinvents the wheel for literally no reason other than they can. They COULD have a stable, balanced game but that'd be "boring". So we need to break shit to keep people interested.

Hell, we had a thread not too long ago asking to rework Ori because shes had the same balanced kit for too long.

BakedLotion8/11/2016, 1:17:10 AM1 votes

Yeah cause we all wanna see Yasuo/Zed/Lee Sin every other patch. If they're ever anything but overpowered or strong, they get buffed. They're not allowed to be mediocre, balanced, or weak. They must be strong. Favoritism is fun