Riot please don't forget about waveclear mages.

Ethereal Mist·1/26/2016, 12:17:52 AM·3 votes·612 views

I don't even know what riot's balance team is doing right now... It seems like riot doesn't like waveclear mages like gragas, xerath, and ziggs and they think that not liking them is a reason for them to be completely unplayable. I don't really like any of those champions in particular, but really? They are just SOO weak now it's insane. Meanwhile they buff leblanc who was already perfectly viable, but just because she's more popular she gets more special treatment. Idk if riot realizes it but there are plenty of people that would love to play waveclear mages but they are just much too weak to be able to do anything. They pretty much had nothing going for them after riot threw some nerfs their way in season 5 and then season 6 just completely left them in the dust by making basically their only strength, stalling out games, ever harder then before. I'm not saying they need anything insane, just throw some mana decreases or more damage so they could at least be playable...

5 Comments

Hayaishi21/26/2016, 1:18:06 AM2 votes

How is Xerath weak? or unplayable? There's just no point in using him when Lux has twice the utility Xerath has and way more burst damage.

Ziggs kinda sucks because Riot nerfed his Q hitbox and made it ridiculously hard to hit, making him too unreliable, but other than that he's fine.

TheThundersRoar1/26/2016, 1:21:50 AM2 votes

Waveclear mages are by no means weak. BUT they aren't as strong as they used to be. And that's a good thing.

There's nothing fun about trying to siege and just watching one champ melt your entire wave from 1000 range for a 100 mana.

Combine a Ziggs/Velkoz/Ahri with a splitpushing duelist like Jax, Tryndamere, or Nasus? Trust me, you don't want to try playing against that.

Calabok1/26/2016, 12:32:29 AM1 votes

Lol no, they're fine

Ethereal Mist2/8/2016, 2:58:35 AM1 votes

Good to see they got some buffs last patch, nice riot!