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The current PBE is about the most horrible display of "balancing the game" we've yet seen

Barcid·4/12/2019, 1:25:33 AM·3 votes·1,194 views

It's not that Riot isn't doing any thing, it's that it's either next to nothing or completely roundabout with no inbetween.

Riven's busted? Well, let's buff her historical counter, Renekton, to hopefully straighten that up!

Vayne's broken and bursts squishy and tank alike? Increase the price on BoRK - that'll show her!

And just to make sure she doesn't show her face in top anymore - hit that grievous wound duration back up on Thornmail! Now she'll have reduced healing for three times as long after she kills you anyway because Thornmail does jack shit to save you early against her!

And let's not forget Ornn being absolute garbage and damn near a liability to his team - let's give him a buff! To his passive items on the ones most often built on him! No buff to his actual kit where he has literally no survivability whatsoever anymore, no, just some buffs to his level 14 items! (as if he'll be hitting 14 anytime soon in his new role as support)

Like... what the fuck even is this? Like, the last few patches have been Riot basically doing absolutely nothing to balance the game while this has probably the most listed changes to champs in a few patches yet all these changes accomplish next to nothing. How do you do so much yet so little at the same time? It is actually astounding.

Although I guess that's kind of wrong. I'll have to start banning Renekton now as well, so that is a change, just not a good change.

8 Comments

Hayaishi24/12/2019, 2:18:20 AM3 votes

The game state has gotten out of Riot's hands. They are not capable of balancing it.

boricCentaur14/12/2019, 11:50:40 AM2 votes

Yep it really shows how much ornn you play and tanks in general those ornn buffs are really big yes they don't help in the early game but the only champions who actually are a big problem to him are Jax and Fiora and range tops are coming back and ornn does pretty well vs them.

Anime Fizz4/12/2019, 2:35:16 AM1 votes

Ornn is so "absolute garbage" to the point where he actually sees competitive play.

This is why hoards cant be taken seriously, tanks are already better than bruisers in competitive (too many tank buffs and bruiser nerfs lately) and here ppl think that tanks are somehow the worst thing in the game and that conqueror is broken.

Iota Theta4/12/2019, 12:42:13 PM1 votes

And let's not forget Ornn being absolute garbage and d*** near a liability to his team - let's give him a buff! To his passive items on the ones most often built on him! No buff to his actual kit where he has literally no survivability whatsoever anymore, no, just some buffs to his level 14 items! (as if he'll be hitting 14 anytime soon in his new role as support)

I mean, in a sense, that is a buff to his survivability, since he does build 2/3 of those items and then his passive ups their armor/MR even more while also increasing the damage from his E’s ratios give. So technically, they did buff his survivability.

They did also increase E’s base damage a tad, as well as the knock-up duration, which will improve what he offers to the team.

A good Ornn isn’t as much of a liability or garbage as you say. He’s strong in the right hands, he’d just still be better off with the shield instead of Unstoppable.