Anyone Else Find the Game to Be in a Decently Balanced State Right Now

Meep Man·Sep 19, 2016·8 votes·680 views

At least in comparison to other times this Season. I mean, look at who is commonly banned? Are those more "OMG OP" bans or just bans to get rid of what most people consider annoying to play against. There are only 3 champions who are both commonly played and have a high win rate, being Jinx, Soraka, and Janna. Soraka has nerfs coming out for her, Riot has said they are looking at Jinx, and Janna has been kind of secretly powerful for a while now despite being picked so often. This Season might have been a bumpy road, but we have ended up in a decent spot right now, yes?

EDIT: This thread's upvotes and downvotes, I can already see, is going to change a ton.

18 Comments

Fear the HarvestSep 19, 20165 votes

Not really, this season has pretty much been an incredibly unfun and disappointing experience.

Burst damage is through the roof and so many people are forced to go with cancerously unfun bruiser builds just to survive and win.

Objectives crumble like wet tissue paper and make a single mistake at 20 minutes an almost guaranteed victory for the other side.

Item diversity and builds have become stagnant copies because anything that hasn't been deemed sure-proof is just too risky or simply too inefficient to bother trying.

Yeah this season is pretty bad.

Meep ManSep 19, 20161 votes

Something can be unfun and disappointing, but still be balanced. See old Yorick. Unfun and disappointing, but balanced.

LateCustomerSep 19, 20163 votes

I mean, I haven't really seen any champions recently where I'm immediately afraid to face on the enemy team. There's some champs that I'd RATHER not face (enemy Jihns and malzahars), but none where I'm like, "OMG GG". I suppose we're in the minority, but I would agree with you.

Meep ManSep 19, 20161 votes

Yeah, there will always be annoying champions, but that doesn't mean they are also OP

CrimsonReapsSep 19, 20161 votes

I go OMG GG when its morg mid, for some reason everyone i see loses to it.....

LateCustomerSep 19, 20161 votes

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I go OMG GG when its morg mid, for some reason everyone i see loses to it.....

I'm willing to bet it's because your Midlaner is trying to fight her.

CrimsonReapsSep 19, 20161 votes

Yep every time, and their favorite line is, I didnt think that her the jg would gank me or i almost had her so i dived......

EndlessSorcererSep 19, 20162 votes

I think that is a lane best won by farming and outscaling her.

People are probably trying too hard to get kills on her and dying for it.

VanjieSep 19, 20162 votes

Nope. Yasuo.

Meep ManSep 19, 20161 votes

Ok, but is that ANNOYANCE or OP? OR is he annoying and hard to learn to play against, but bad once that happens?

VanjieSep 19, 20161 votes

He has too much in his kit. The windwall, passive, damage mitigation, and his dashes. He is annoying to play against and his kit is overloaded with utility and movement. He is like Ekko.

Gary B EnkelisSep 19, 20161 votes

1 out of 130 is pretty good. I dunno.

ProfDrDeathSep 19, 20162 votes

Indeed.

As it is, this is pretty much the case in every season, towards the end of it (save for maybe S5, due to there being a major class update close to the end of the season).

Balance settles as Riot tries to get the ship into a good shape for World's. After the World's patch, there are only minor to average changes up to the preseason.

In preseason, everything is turned on its head, as Riot takes on longstanding problems, and the balancing and QQ begins anew. For this preseason, we can look forward to the assassin update (as an ADC player, a very unenthusiastic "Yay"), the removal of Aegis of the Legion and its stifling effect on support itemization, probably some mastery tree stuff, probably a look at ArPen itemization, probably some changes in the vision game (once again)...It is going to be a lot of fun once more.

Gary B EnkelisSep 19, 20162 votes

This is one of my favorite times of the year in League of Legends because we're seeing the height of meta.

I also like preseason because it's so yolo / crazy / like a new game.

Meep ManSep 19, 20161 votes

If the Assassin Update goes as intended, Assassins will actually be less frustrating to fight, with Riot looking to make the fastest Assassins take at least 1.5 seconds to kill a target, meaning 1.5 seconds to react and/or retaliate.

ProfDrDeathSep 19, 20161 votes

Maybe. Maybe.

Even so, there will be more assassins in my games. Since I don't particularily like assassins in my games, the unenthusiastic "Yay".

And I am not entirely sure Katarina will become less frustrating to fight with the direction they take her in, for instance.