Why is no one complaining about champion balance this patch?

Broloft·1/28/2016, 10:33:32 AM·2 votes·1,525 views

You're all too busy bitching about some Xin buffs that will never go through, "Mordekaiser" or whatever that is, Yasuo's tornado, Jhin, hitboxes, and Amumu's ult's mana cost. That's great, I'm sure a TON of people care about Teemo's W and support items. That's some great gameplay discussion there.

Or, how about I tell you what I find problematic. I get into a ranked game and this is all I see:

Jungle: Elise, Nidalee, Graves, Mundo, Rengar Top: Tahm, Mundo, Malphite, Ryze, Fiora, Graves Mid: TF, Anivia, Zed, Ahri Support: Alistar, Soraka, Janna, Thresh, Braum, Morgana, Tahm ADC: Ezreal, Lucian, Graves

Damn that's a record high of like 24 champions, a third of them being must-bans. Great work Riot.

Oh, and about Marksmen.

Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Kalista. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Kalista and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian.

Are you tired of reading that yet? Maybe you skipped through reading it repeatedly, so let me try again for emphasis.

Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian. Ezreal and Lucian.

Did you read that word for word? Good. You're feeling my painnow.. The above wall of text summarizes my S6 league experience to a tee.

I've played in the top 500 for a while now and it's all I -fucking- see. I'm tired, Riot. Here, let these graphs explain:

http://champion.gg/champion/Lucian

40% Play rate in plat+.

http://champion.gg/champion/Ezreal

33% Play rate in plat+. He's in every third game overall. He's in 2/3rd of my games based on my experience.

http://champion.gg/champion/Graves

Look at that shit; highest win rate in TWO of his roles. Highest average win rates PERIOD. No nerfs in the next patch.

http://champion.gg/champion/DrMundo/Jungle

Hey, see that? Look at the "Win % by games played" graph. Experienced Mundo players win 70% OF THEIR GAMES in the jungle. Some ult cd increase is going to fix that?

I'm just really sick and tired of this patch. And you know what makes it even worse? Having to wait weeks upon weeks for the next patch to arrive just to have it solve NONE of the problems. Lucian is still going to be picked every game. Ezreal is still going to be picked every game. Rengar gets gutted in the worst way possible on the PBE instead of simply having his ult make a global sound. Still no Tahm Kench nerfs. Still no Graves nerfs.

Nidalee is top tier again. Runic Echoes combined with FoW spears combined with games ending earlier... It's Nidalee's wet dream.

Ghostblade is still absolutely hilarious. What was Riot thinking? Let's make an item that requires absolutely no investment! Just rush 4 long swords and have them all build into of your first item. You're going against a mage? Buy this 1300 gold item that makes you unburstable in lane. That mage has zero kill potential on you now, great job!

Frost Queen's claim is still in every other game. Ever played against a high elo Xerath with that shit? It's cancer. Can't get near him, can't run away from him, he rakes up 1k gold just harassing you from a screen away. Please just gut FQC again. And rework Xerath's disgustingly safe play style while you're at it. The most risk his kit takes is auto-attacking a minion to regain mana. Trust me, when Xerath becomes FotM, you'll understand what I'm saying. Until then, just forget I said anything.

Elise and Lee Sin are king and queen of the jungle. Again. Better take away 5 MS from Elise! Oh, let me guess, that's what they'll do to Lee Sin when the community starts crying about him next month. His ult is a point and click single target atomic warhead with good scaling (that "falls off", mind you), his Q does %Missing HP damage (that still "falls off"), and he still has ridiculous mobility (but it "falls off" I guess?). Let's nerf him: -5 MS. Happy? Now shut the fuck up, community. Go buy our new Heartseeker skins.

Fuck this patch. I said it for all of you and let me say it again.

Fuck.

This.

Patch.

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13 Comments

FioraWillCarry1/28/2016, 12:07:19 PM2 votes

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Weathered1/28/2016, 12:31:16 PM2 votes

People are allowed to complain. People are allowed to have opinions. People can argue.

But when you are trying to make a point don't act like a child who threw a temper tantrum and broke their keyboard ._.

Meep Man1/28/2016, 1:12:55 PM2 votes

No complaining?

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Rozair1/28/2016, 11:09:07 AM1 votes

You know why ezreal and Lucian are so good right now? Cuz people seem to have forgotten how to adc after playing mf with thunder lords and everyone wants to use skillshot and abilities rather than auto attack. A good vayne will beat any adc.

Broloft1/28/2016, 11:35:51 AM1 votes

bump

DeathBurst1/28/2016, 12:42:20 PM1 votes

See? That's why Platinum+ people shouldn't have more rights to talk about balance than Bronze and Silver. This guy in "the top 500" is certainly mechanically better than me, no denying that. But he obviously don't know sh*t about balance.

I hope Dominik see that thread and this comment...