Who here remembers how long it took to balance Kassadin? Why did Riot give up so easily with Varus?

Icely·5/20/2018, 8:38:35 AM·10 votes·3,934 views

Kassadin was a mage that offered a very unique (yet inherently broken) playstyle: a mobility monster. And it took a very (VERY) long time to balance him, but around the end of S5/start of S6 he was finally in a place that offered its players his strengths yet in a way that allowed for counterplay.

Why was Varus gutted so quickly despite having once offered a unique role as a poke-oriented AD carry, and instead turned into a boring on-hit demon and nerfed at that role until he became an inherently bad champion? Why wasn't he nurtured and properly balanced to maintain his original poke ADC identity, so that he could still be a balanced champion yet maintain his unique role in the game; just as Kassadin did?

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Khristophoros5/20/2018, 8:59:51 AM8 votes

Kassadin is a ruined champion.

DW Diana5/20/2018, 8:46:01 AM3 votes

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Kassadin was a mage that offered a very unique (yet inherently broken) playstyle: a mobility monster. And it took a very (VERY) long time to balance him, but around the end of S5/start of S6 he was finally in a place that offered its players his strengths yet in a way that allowed for counterplay.

Why was Varus gutted so quickly despite having once offered a unique role as a poke-oriented AD carry, and instead turned into a boring on-hit demon and nerfed at that role until he became an inherently bad champion? Why wasn't he nurtured and properly balanced to maintain his original poke ADC identity, so that he could still be a balanced champion yet maintain his unique role in the game; just as Kassadin did?

KassaWHO? Oh yeah, you mean that guy that has had a below 50% winrate for months and was built to counter mages, those guys you barely see outside of pro play? Like Malzahar? You remember; the guy riot sent back to the void so Kassadin could put his feet up for a bit and get to know Kai'sa?

Yeah I remember Kassadin, and I miss him.

saltran5/20/2018, 9:16:08 AM2 votes

Varus just spamming Q's from beyond a screen abusing lethality items was horrible imo, I rather the current Varus where he has to swap between aa's and Q and E to break the W charges and most important: actually be in the fight to do dmg and skill to kite properly and not just shoot practice from 1000 range as his main dmg.

LordGeovanni5/21/2018, 3:53:54 AM1 votes

Varus shit was toxic because his arrow was super long range and basicly true damage. because it penetrated so much