Potential Balance Idea

AbcyysVoid··1 votes·487 views

Hey evryone ! I play LoL since a bit more than one year and I'm currently silver II. I just wanted to ask any rioter here what he would think about an idea I got to help balancing the game. ( This is not going to be a "delete zed !!!!!!" topic I swear )

So, there are a lot of people complaining about the game and his balance, people crying and threatening to switch to overwatch. And after all, i must admit that getting 1v1 by a full tank trundle or poppy as any adc really hurts my feelings. But, that's the point of this topic.

What if you nerfed the tank item instead of the champions themselves ? By this I mean that, to me (and I don't pretend to fully understand the game because I'm only silver II), tank item should not provide any kind of damage, so small might them be. Item such as frozen mallet, Sunfire cape and Frozen Gauntlet, or even trinity, are, to me, just ridiculous. I think that's it's mostly because of those items that the game doesn't feel rewarding to play a weak champion, or just a champion who's not necessarly a tank.

Therefore, I thought about something . How about giving people the opportunity to ban Items during the champ select. I know this might seem a bit strange, but instead of giving 10 bans to the player, you could give them the usual 6 champions bans, AND an additionnal 4 Items ban. Thus evryone would get something to do in the champ select, and it would give tons of possibility for the Esport scene.

I hope that this topic will get spoted by a rioter or by anyone ^^. Thank you for your time and I hope you will have a nice day !

3 Comments

Frikgeek1 votes

Banning items would be pretty stupid as some champions/entire classes rely on specific item combos. If you plan on playing an AD mid like zed there's no reason not to ban Zhonya's and Rabbadon's which effectively "bans" every single AP midlaner in the game, reducing the enemy midlaner's champion pool by 3/4ths. If you wanna play a caster ADC you just ban IE and hurricane, essential items for the standard triple crit build on Autoattack-oriented ADCs. It gives a team the ability to effectively ban out like 20 champions with just 2 item bans.

As for tanky bruisers soloing adcs that's completely fine, it's what they're supposed to do. ADCs are supposed to be rather weak 1v1 and truly shine in 5v5 scenarios where their consistent damage will end up being more important than the burst AP midlaners have or the much lower damage tanks have if they can't get onto a squishy target. If a tank can get to your backline and start hitting squishies they're supposed to die, learn to teamfight and position better and let your frontline handle their tanks while you safely DPS them from range.

Frikgeek1 votes

Banning items would be pretty stupid as some champions/entire classes rely on specific item combos. If you plan on playing an AD mid like zed there's no reason not to ban Zhonya's and Rabbadon's which effectively "bans" every single AP midlaner in the game, reducing the enemy midlaner's champion pool by 3/4ths. If you wanna play a caster ADC you just ban IE and hurricane, essential items for the standard triple crit build on Autoattack-oriented ADCs. It gives a team the ability to effectively ban out like 20 champions with just 2 item bans.

It's even worse considering you can also ban jungle items. Why bother banning strong junglers like Gragas, Elise, and Nidalee when you can just ban Runic echoes, eliminating 3 champions with 1 ban.

As for tanky bruisers soloing adcs that's completely fine, it's what they're supposed to do. ADCs are supposed to be rather weak 1v1 and truly shine in 5v5 scenarios where their consistent damage will end up being more important than the burst AP midlaners have or the much lower damage tanks have if they can't get onto a squishy target. If a tank can get to your backline and start hitting squishies they're supposed to die, learn to teamfight and position better and let your frontline handle their tanks while you safely DPS them from range.

Weathered1 votes

They just nerfed frozen mallet, and if you could ban items you could ban out things like IE or Deathcap, which in turn would force players to pick certain champs who don't use that as their core item, allowing you to easily coubterpick and stomp the enemy.

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