If You Were In Charge Of Balance...

DrugsForRobots·Jan 19, 2015·2 votes·760 views

If I were in charge of balance, tweaks, and QoL buffs, I'd give all the champs with a significant knock-back the bonus of stunning the opponent briefly if they collided with terrain, a la Vayne's Condemn, Gnar's GNAR!, and Poppy's Heroic Charge. Maybe a little bonus damage upon collision as well.

Affected champions would include, but not be limited too: Alistar's Headbutt, Lee Sin's Dragon Rage, and Tristana's Buster Shot. Less knocking the enemy to safety, more potential for big plays?

Some champions that may not be affected: Maokia, Rammus, Sejuani, and others with a very short range knock-back.

Question: What changes, tweaks, and QoL buffs would you put in place, specifically regarding stealth and vision? What about in general?

15 Comments

krawkawJan 19, 20151 votes

Nerf energy users... to the point where they were balanced with the new mana nerfs so they can suffer like the rest of us

DrugsForRobotsJan 19, 20151 votes

I feel like Shen's energy use is pretty fair, and Lee's is almost fair. Zed and Akali tho...

UberAffeJan 20, 20151 votes

Item Balancing and vision changes

TheKingDodoJan 20, 20151 votes

I would corroborate with the non-existant lore department and either make Akali balanced or make her lore reflect her unbalanced nature... then leave Zed unbalanced because... lore.

DrugsForRobotsJan 20, 20151 votes

Is the lore department really gone? :(

One issue I have with Akali & Zed is that of their Champion Titles. Akali is 'The Fist of Shadow' but Zed is... the 'Master of Shadows'. From the title alone, I would assume that Akali works for Zed as an underling? Or maybe some kind of lieutenant?

My point is that each champion title should be something totally unique if possible. This 'problem' can be seen in most of the Demacian champions, as they have 'Demacia' in their title. Personally, I think that's boring. Imagine if Lux was 'Lady of Demacia' or 'Light of Demacia' instead of her current title. What if Draven had been, 'The Noxus Executioner' and Swain, 'The Tactician of Noxus'. It's just so bland, imo. Let them show affiliation and allegiances through their VO and dress. Give the champs inspired titles Riot, pls.

DrMarshSwampJan 20, 20151 votes

Any teleportation or similar abilities will have much higher cooldowns, as I feel that outside of ones like Zed's Ultimate there is little you can do avoid them.

Knock-Ups will interrupt Channeled Abilities.

DrugsForRobotsJan 20, 20151 votes

Do you also include 'blink' abilities as 'teleportation' abilities, aka Kat's Shunpo, and Shaco's Deceive? (As a Shaco main, I do feel like his Deceive should have a longer base cooldown, but some form of compensation would be be greatly appreciated.)

Don't knock-ups and knock-backs already interrupt channels??

DrMarshSwampJan 20, 20151 votes

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Do you also include 'blink' abilities as 'teleportation' abilities, aka Kat's Shunpo, and Shaco's Deceive? (As a Shaco main, I do feel like his Deceive should have a longer base cooldown, but some form of compensation would be be greatly appreciated.)

Don't knock-ups and knock-backs already interrupt channels??

By teleportation abilities I do mean stuff like Shunpo.

PrinceOfStormsJan 20, 20151 votes

if I were in charge of balance, I'd delete Teemo and Heimerdinger from the game.

Hard PenetratorJan 20, 20151 votes

Sona and Morgana Boobs and Veigar laugh.

And them maybe I would rework some champions without dashes that are almost unusable these days.

TehNACHOJan 20, 20151 votes

I would probably go far out of my way to build niches for different items.

Last Whisper and Void Staff are reworked to make them strong against armor stacking targets and weaker against targets who don't stack anything, Blade of the Ruined King is reworked to stop being so dang gold efficient against targets without any bonus health, build a strong dichotomy between Flat Penetration and % Penetration by promoting burst based-anti squishy strengths in Flat Penetration items, and rework Crit Chance.

Too many general items, or even worse, too many niche items that function perfectly well outside of their niches. It's dumb and needs to be fixed.

Random TaskJan 20, 20151 votes

Delete Flash and ghost.

k wìxJan 20, 20151 votes

I'd take the underused and 'low-tier' items and buff them in unique ways to increase champion build diversity. Things that never see play. Like the blue vision trinket or Hurricane.

I'd do the same thing with various summoner spells, I'd find a way to make Revive considerable, I'd buff the spells that no one takes? Clarity? sure.

No one would be upset if Clarity or Revive got a buff. ^_^ It'd keep the majority happy and facilitate some new strategery.

DrugsForRobotsJan 20, 20151 votes

Don't forget Clairvoyance. I too would like to see more variety in terms of Summoner Spells taken to the field. The only way I can see that happening though is if Flash somehow lost it necessity as a pick.

JustMyBassCannonJan 20, 20151 votes

Pro: Knockbacks now CC for more than half a second. Con: Tristana/Alistar/Lee can no longer shove an important opponent over a wall and force them to walk around the jungle if they want back into a team fight.

Were I in charge of balance, I would replace the Crit system with something that doesn't cause a huge mid-game spike in DPS, but still allows for Marksmen and the few melee champions who use it to still have the same late-game relevance. Probably something along the lines of, "Increase damage to non-structures by X percent, capped at Y percent."