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Unnecessary nerfs

ff4sk·4/17/2016, 2:37:02 PM·8 votes·727 views

Stop nerf'ing champions instead of nerf'ing the things breaking them in the first place. You're not fixing anything with these band aid fixes. If champions are still broken after you "toned them down" then maybe the champion isn't the issue riot, maybe it's the broken items you constantly seem to avoid talking about that are broken.

Guinsoo's rageblade and devourer seem to be the biggest offenders yet I haven't seen a word from you about this. You've nerf'd shyvana, udyr, and now you're gonna nerf yi yet both udyr and shyvana are doing just fine despite the nerfs.

Bruisers and tanks building full tank yet still shitting damage out of their ass, it certainly isn't the items that are breaking them though it's just their toxic kit right???

I'll agree that some champions are straight up broken due to their kit being so loaded but from what I've seen the majority of balance issues seem to be due to items being unbalanced and favoring certain champions more than others.

Tl;dr stop beating around the bush, stop turning a blind eye to this, fix your game riot.

6 Comments

Jungle Lux God4/17/2016, 4:43:30 PM5 votes

Riot is planning on changes to Devourer and Rageblade with the midseason update, which should be in 6.9.

Riot is also nerfing Iceborn Gauntlet and Grasp of the Undying next patch, which is the cause of tanks dealing so much damage and being so tanky. They are also nerfing Ekko's tank builds, who is currently the biggest offender of the "tanks dealing damage" problem.

They aren't turning a blind eye to these problems, they just are taking a careful look into these problems to see the full extend of what the problem is, what is causing the problem, and how to fix the problem, although sometimes they don't get it right.

Also Udyr was nerfed due to Runic Echoes, not Devourer or Rageblade.

RoodToob4/17/2016, 4:27:52 PM2 votes

I agree somewhat, I just wanna correct the part about Udyr and Shyv. They for sure both got nerved, but neither abused Devourer+Rageblade. Shy used devourer+Titanic and Udyr's nerfs are due to his synergy with runic echoes and MS

Irelia Bot4/17/2016, 4:29:12 PM2 votes

They said both are getting changed in mid season.

So you can stop with raging about rageblade.

Nobody11114/17/2016, 7:23:34 PM2 votes

Just rework Ezrael, the serial item murderer and abuser

SoMNia4/17/2016, 8:20:21 PM1 votes

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Guinsoo's rageblade and devourer seem to be the biggest offenders yet I haven't seen a word from you about this.

Then you haven't been looking. They have adjustments coming. We don't know what, yet, but they're definitely on Riot's radar. We'll probably know more in a couple of days, when the next PBE cycle starts.

Bruisers and tanks building full tank yet still shitting damage out of their ass, it certainly isn't the items that are breaking them though it's just their toxic kit right???

Now this is just silly. If they're building "full tank", their items aren't dealing damage. As for bruiser items, they've pretty much all been nerfed recently. Iceborn Gauntlet is next on the chopping block. The Grasp of the Undying mastery is also getting nerfed (again).

Spoofghoul4/17/2016, 8:46:35 PM1 votes

Hmm lets see who the main offenders of the tank itemization are

Assassins

Must be something with tank itemization then

Oh wait whats that, its not tank itemization?

Incredible base damage + high mobility thats the goddamn problem Damn class is way too safe of an option its low risk high reward ever since riot decided feast/famine wasnt a good place for assassins no lets make them a safe pick regardless of situation

And now people are building tank items on yi akali ekko etc etc

Why? because they still destroy everything with their high basedamage/cc/utility. Building tank just made them zero risk high reward and therefore utterly broken. All things this class never should have had in the first place