"Better nerf Shen" (and other champions who suffer due to LCS)

kurnubego·7/21/2018, 2:25:51 PM·16 votes·6,794 views

Can we just please say f*** the lcs (to an extent) and start paying prioritizing the audience who actually are paying for the game? People do not see LoL in lcs and when play the game. They start playing the game and when sometimes go watch lcs. Riot ofc has it backwards.

On top of that, LCS is not even directly comparable. You know, some folk says "champions should be balanced according to highest level of play" - yeah that is correct. However, LCS is a different game. There is not technical capability for SoloQ players to achieve that level of team cohesion. The game does not happen on the same plane. It's futile. Either have different versions of champions in competitive, or perhaps damn start paying attention to the actual customers.

How should people feel about gutted champions like: Ornn Galio Shen (to an extent) Irelia Azir Syndra Gnar Zac Sajuani

When I've started to watch lcs few years ago, I was delighted to see my played champions. If I knew what I know now at that time, hell, that would induce anxiety, because god forbid, your champions does well in lcs environment, you can be sure that in 2 months it gonna be gutted.

Just please, can we have different balancing for high team cohesion environments, much like like twisted tree line and be done with this stupid problem."oh but that will decrease viewership" how about you stop trying to operate tonsilitis from the rear bottom entry point and focus on making players enjoy the game, the viewership will increase. No all of this stuff is just so up side down /rant

32 Comments

saltran7/21/2018, 2:32:55 PM9 votes

Gnar and Irelia dont belong on that list because they were problematic aswell on soloQ and both were nerfed for being strong on pro play AND on soloQ.

Jerry SeinfeId7/21/2018, 4:42:51 PM7 votes

Simple. disable shen in lcs.

AS I LAY FEEDING7/21/2018, 10:23:25 PM5 votes

Revert Shen

Krully7/21/2018, 3:13:00 PM4 votes

malzahar too, they made him an ult bot. His rework was to make him more ''interactive'' so they gave him minions and a spell shield

Bob the Toastr7/21/2018, 8:25:51 PM3 votes

You forgot the OG "strong in high elo/lcs, weak in low elo": Ryze

S0kaX7/21/2018, 3:44:13 PM2 votes

Or better, just ban champions from LCS so they don't have to gut them.

Seldrix7/22/2018, 5:52:42 AM2 votes

Yeah I wish my favorite champions were never meta. Syndra used to be my favorite now she doesn't feel fun to play. She's easy to out-trade and she can't wave clear as well as current meta picks. I've been afraid to say something because of the "press r" status she got from poor balancing. Games end so fast I feel like it's hard to be influential compared to other champions that have higher lane priority.

nGio7/22/2018, 2:15:42 AM2 votes

Add Zac to your list. After sitting at 50% win rate with 2% playrate for 2 fucking years, he gets reworked into some flashy biG PlaYz support who jungles. They straight up can't balance the mother fucker, because he's not allowed to do damage due to the cc they gave him. Now he's an ex AP bruiser, who can't top lane, and is stuck at 46% in the jungle. Even at Master and Challenger he's at 46%.

I'm so fucking tired of reworks/buffs/nerfs that weren't needed or asked for. I prefer to play the game over watch it, so the .00000001% mean jack and shit to me. My friends who used to watch LCS are turned off by it now, because it ruined the fucking game. Riot tried too hard to make this game a sport, so now it has too many rules and the fun has been manipulated out of it. I'm half expecting Riot to add concussion protocols to LCS, and start running commercial breaks while you're playing it, to give us the full 'sports, not fun' feel that I'm looking forward to after a long day at work.

GodlyBane7/22/2018, 4:50:48 PM1 votes

Kindred please dont nerf her rito :(

BlueBilberry7/21/2018, 3:30:04 PM1 votes

Ironically, Gnar has just appeared in LCS and was a significant factor in games in both LPL and LCK. Go figure.

Pendergast8917/21/2018, 11:15:40 PM1 votes

Other than syndra, isn't everyone listed there getting constantly nerfed because of how powerful their ults are in coordinated high tier play?

KVbqbFsC8e7/22/2018, 2:19:20 AM1 votes

What makes you think that people who watch the LCS don't play the game?

TheRuller27/22/2018, 8:37:34 AM1 votes

You forgot sejuani. She was ok before but they gave her a stupid rework no1 asked for. After she finally got in meta she was nerfed to hell because of lcs dropping to an all time low of 46% winrate. What does riot do in this situation? Nerfed her yet again(as you seen in 8.14) bcs she still gets picked in lcs like crazy despite being so pathetic in solo q compared towhat she was before rip to my fav tanky jungler that had cool synergies and game changing ults now she cant even clear jungle before cinderhulk (a problem she mever had before all this shit)

Craktite7/22/2018, 8:41:47 AM1 votes

Add Karma, Lissandra and Viktor !

Colton1477/21/2018, 2:32:12 PM1 votes

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