Why nerf things when you can just buff their counter? I don't understand. Rylais got nerfed, why not just buff mercury treads. Instead of nerfing everything, why not just buff their counters. Instead of nerfing lee, (when shyvana is top tier) why not just buff champions like zac or vi with displacements and interrupts.
"why not just buff champions like zac or vi" Well that wouldnt be a very good idea lol
Not 100% sure you are not trolling, asking for buffs for Zac and Vi...but they nerf things because just buffing alternatives turns into an arms race of buffing. You'd keep having to buff and buff, each time something showed itself as OP. Eventually the game wouldn't even resemble the one we have today.
Also you are forgetting that a lot of time it's not necessarily champions themselves that suddenly become OP. A lot of the time it's item changes, meta shifts, mastery changes (Looking at you CoC), and even jungle changes (KRUUUUGS) that cause champions to spring forth. So just buffing champs will never bring you to a balanced state unless you never change non champion factors ever again. Because eventually CoC would be made and even though Lee was balanced against Vi, suddenly Vi has an edge due to completely non-champion related reasons.
"buff already top tier junglers that'll make this game better"
merc doesn't counter rylai, swiftie's does
why not just nerf the one problem instead of buffing up a ton of others
