People should stop asking for Perfect Balance for this game

Irasiel·7/13/2015, 2:42:52 AM·3 votes·863 views

Perfect balance is exactly what would kill the game.

When a perfect balance is achieved, then all changes stop happening, since the balance is here. Result? The game quickly becomes stales and and a point and click fight. Why? Because you lose all need to adapt.

This is precisely what Riot tries to do. Always a bit of imbalance towards a certain group or other, without being major. It is called Cyclical Imbalance and is a way for players to adapt to different metas and situations, and the ones better at it progress, while the stubborn ones are left behind. Evolution, in a certain sense.

8 Comments

ShuffledPancake7/13/2015, 2:49:14 AM2 votes

Balanced doesn't = Point and click and stale, you can introduce new things with it being perfect. (Though its near impossible and it would not kill the game)

Koldheartedjsp7/13/2015, 3:14:59 AM1 votes

agreed good sir.

Funny thing is, is awhile ago back when this was GD, someone posted this same exact idea (cept he linked to a high ranking streamer of a different game) and it got upvoted.

And perfect balance in a game like this is unattainable

rockdalian7/13/2015, 3:19:09 AM1 votes

Perfect balance will never be achieved because of the X factor we as humans are imperfect even with a perfect balanced game half the player base will cry unbalanced due to skill sets vary so vastly across a incredibly large champion and item pool so that every situation there will be unbalance otherwise both teams should win because in a perfect world nobody would be able to outplay everybody else

Lugg7/13/2015, 3:32:22 AM1 votes

I'm not asking for perfection, I just want champions that have actual significant counterplay.

A good example is Ahri. You can blind pick her into ANY matchup and she is fine if you are roughly the same skill level as your opponent.

Then there are several champions who only win against a handful of opponents.

You can't make anything perfect, but you can make all champions viable against 90% of their opposing champions. That would make the game 100 times more fun know that your main has a chance at pretty much any matchup.