Buff the weak more instead of nerfing the "strong"

Viktor Von Lazer··4 votes·717 views

Almost every patch seems to target pro-play. And I get it riot, pros have mastered the champions, they are a true representation of the champions strengths and weakness and that is the gold standard for checking for balance in the game, ..... except it's not unless the game is to be balanced for 0.0000001% of players who happen to be talking to each other in the same room.

Let's take a look at a few of the champions riot has gut. Azir, 42% winrate, mid 40's even for those who main him and we have leblanc and ryze, low winrates overall but fairly decent reasonable winrates at platinum + , the sort you would expect but now both are getting nerfed heavily because of the competitive scene.

Nerfing champions that are over performing at higher elo makes perfect sense. Those at high elo have mastered the champion and it's a good representation of what they can do. Nerfing them because of competitive and LCS doesn't. SoloQ Ryze=/= TSM realm warping from inhib turret to baron to elder to the enemy nexus to end the game. and as long as the champion is late game scaling hypercarry with high DPS and a team wide teleport it's always going to be banned- unless you make it virtually unplayable because this type of communication doesn't exist in SoloQ.

Give us reasons to play the champions we don't see often instead of just nerfing those we see too frequently. Give Lissandra a little buff, we've almost forgotten she exists. ( just an example I don't play her btw it's just obvious champs like her and others don't get picked up as much or often)

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GigaPube2 votes

i hate it too but its a lot easier to nerf 1-10 champions than to buff over a 100. id prefer to see more smaller buffs every patch though, but even in those cases, its not that those champs were weak, its that a lot of them were on a "tipping point" to be "meta" and the small buff champs are now more favored than nerfed champs. theres been too many cases where riot did a seemingly random small buff and then the champ became very meta so i think, rightfully so, they only buff the absolute worst of the worst these days. because even azir, despite supposedly not being meta for a while, and having the lowest winrate for even longer at this very moment, hes still able to be picked, and he has been picked in pro games

Handy Sandy 1 votes

Let's take a look at a few of the champions riot has gut. Azir, 42% winrate, mid 40's even for those who main him

ima just...ima just put this here

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Eedat1 votes

Buff the weak more instead of nerfing the "strong"

What is Damage Creep for 1000, Alex

DunkinNoobs1 votes

Buffing the "weak" is how you get next patches permabanned champion. It's happened time and time again since I started playing: some "weak" champ gets buffs slowly over time or a bunch all at once, and then suddenly that champ is mega OP. Tristana season 4, anyone? Mundo pre-season 6? Varus now (admittedly just nerfed)?

meowwow71 votes

or yet graggy during trailblazer meta

Viktor Von Lazer1 votes

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Buffing the "weak" is how you get next patches permabanned champion. It's happened time and time again since I started playing: some "weak" champ gets buffs slowly over time or a bunch all at once, and then suddenly that champ is mega OP. Tristana season 4, anyone? Mundo pre-season 6? Varus now (admittedly just nerfed)?

You don't give a champion massive buffs you give multiple small buffs to weaker champs in the areas they should be excelling in and see how the perform over time. One of the biggest problems with the game is it doesn't provide enough incentive to pick up champions for a particular reason. It's ok that we have certain champions that are just plan STRONG and consistent in what they do like Orianna and Cassiopiea, but there should be more situations where I say, "Yeah.... I think (insert non-meta champ) would be pretty good instead of the ever safe ever reliable champs like Orianna and Ahri in soloQ"

Ahristocats1 votes

the game has already enough power creep

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