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I am tired of Riot ruining champions because of pro play!

Total Violation··8 votes·2,608 views

I am surprised that nobody here has mentioned the absolute handicapping of Lissandra on the PBE.

Ice Shard (Q) cooldown increased from 6/5.25/4.5/3.75/3 to 10/8.5/7/5.5/4

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And it's also confimed that this massacre rebalance decision is based on Lissandra's pro play performance and her synergy with Aftershock.

https://preview.redd.it/1d5ak5lexfn21.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=aca628e8f71d73f75fc40c8012e68c9ef772f6e0

I am honestly tied of Riot's incompetent decisions when it comes to balancing around pro play. Champions are being trashed left and right if they're popular (Azir Kalista), meanwhile problematic things are left untouched Vayne Riven item 3161.

And furthermore, Riot seems to forget that not eeryone uses the same keystone on a champion. Personally, my go to keystone for Lissandra is either Aery, Comet. Electrocute or Dark Harvest. I have the right to choose how to play the champion. And with Riot nerfing champions because of kaystones, they basically say "Play only with this, or be weak and suffer." This nerf to Lissandra is going to do more daamage than good. I would be fine if it was compensated with a damage and a range increase. but 10 seconds for a skillshot which was initially created to be spammable and clear waves? Total butchery.

7 Comments

AirKingNeo6 votes

"pro performance"

Oh I guess her being pick-ban in high elo isn't a thing either?

Anime Fizz5 votes

Lissandra is the highest pick rate mid laner in master +.

Shes broken everywhere.

Naalith4 votes

In my opinion, this is League's biggest issue. Damage creep and game design decisions recently also deserve to be pointed out, but artificially reducing the amount of content in the game due to players who are a hundred times better than the playerbase will ever be is asinine. Back in the day it was only Kalista, Azir, and Ryze too but I'd say a champion gets knocked off for pro like once a month now.

That being said, in the current framework of the game Lissandra is pretty nuts. If they made it so ranged characters couldn't take aftershock it would be fine but Liss is a nightmare right now and not only in pro.

Kakuri2 votes

Just because you want to play sub optimally doesn't mean they shouldn't balance around the strongest versions of the champions. Liss isn't only op because of aftershock but also because she others insane engage, can roam really easily because she has amazing wave clear, and because she's super safe with claw.

Altracommander1 votes

The balance change to her Q were unnecessary. The strengths you have described of hers has always been around for a long time, until aftershock became popular with her and only enhanced her durability to take engages and disengage from the enemy and from your own fights with a lot less damage dealt to her compared to if you had runes like Aery, Comet, Electrocute or Dark Harvest. Try her without Aftershock and she becomes a lot less of a safe pick and takes more skill to handle with her mana costs, cooldowns, lack of range, and damage. Without Aftershock she becomes an easier target, she lacks good 1 vs 1 skill because of those cooldowns and mana. Without some sort of kiting before hand or consistent burst she will most likely lose 1 vs 1.

I believe she was made for team fighting, as well as an aoe burst mage to engage in those fights and reduce the team health by a good portion, all the while preparing their death by locking them down with cc. That identity has clearly been changed. Now she is only in team compositions for the cc, that is only half of what she should be, maybe even less. Now that her q has its cooldown increased I think she is an unreliable source of ap damage for mid lane as it is a main damage source for her.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

shes shitting on top lane in solo que aswell, or did that change? i didnt feel like playing this patch with vayne still existing.

Micromanagment1 votes

Yea! BRING BACK OLD AATROX!!

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