List of champs who need nerfs ASAP

FalconPawwwwnch··75 votes·4,800 views

Ivern Shaco Ahri Lucian Fizz Graves Lulu

196 Comments

EvanThomas62 votes

This is the most meta thing I've seen on boards.

No more beating around the bush, no detailed explanations of why x champ is broken.

Just a list.

Let the upvotes flood in I guess.

Jeanne fan club44 votes

It must be nice getting on the front page of the boards by listing a set of champions that you are bad against. No argument, reasoning or justification behind it, just a list.

Handin Out Naps1 votes

You dont really need an argument when they are all clearly over tuned.

Jeanne fan club1 votes

you are dead wrong, in my opinion they are all fine, and by your standard of evidence that's all I need to say to be correct

Handin Out Naps1 votes

Well statistics alone prove your opinion wrong. So good for you I guess lol. No one needs to waste their time explaining why any of those champs need nerfs.

Jeanne fan club1 votes

too many variables go into winrate to just attribute it to "this champs op". Ahri for example has the most mains out of any champion, so that is 1 out of many variables within her winrate. Only when it comes to circlejerks does the causation cease to mean anything. And even if causation is taken into account only evidence that is convenient is used.

Handin Out Naps1 votes

Have the proof for that statistic? Because that has never been true. She is just easy to play, and hard to die on.

Jeanne fan club2 votes

Her playrate is always the highest amongst midlaners, and before they changed the champion.gg site, more than 50% of all games played on her were people with 50+ games on her. for a champion with so high a playrate, its unnatural to have a playerbase avg games played of about 90, or at least it was 90 before they changed the site so that these numbers don't mean anything.

Leonerdo8 votes

Normally, I'd agree with you, but that's because it's usually a bad list. But he's right about every champion on the list. Here's my justification for each one:

(Disclaimer: I use lolalytics.com to judge overall strength.)

Ivern - Highest winrate in the game, both on average and on experienced champion mains. Not picked a lot though. So he's strong but not fun; probably needs more work than just nerfs. So I guess he doesn't need nerfs "ASAP", but they certainly wouldn't hurt. Shaco - Runner up to Ivern for best winrates. But picked and banned a lot more. Probably should have been at the top of this list. And he's already got nerfs on the PBE. Ahri - Again, one of the top 10 champions according to winrates. But she actually gets picked a ton. Generalists are one of the worst types of champion to be strong, because then they are the best choice 100% of the time. Why play anyone else mid, when Ahri is so good, has almost no weak matchups, and fits in any teamcomp? Lucian - Same as Ahri, but for the ADC role. Highest pickrate in the game. Lee Sin usually holds the title of most popular, but Lucian has eclipsed him in every category. Honestly, Lucian suffers most of the same problems as Azir and Kalista, who have been left in the gutter because of those problems. No champion deserves such harsh treatment, but it would be one of the biggest hypocrisies to let Lucian stay as he is, while those two sit in the gutter. Fizz - Tank Fizz is a thing again. It needs to not be a thing. AP mid Fizz is also doing quite well, not too strong, but could stand some nerfs (targeted at Tank Fizz) and still be decent. Graves - Top pro-play jungler. Banned half of the time (which is quite frustrating for Graves mains). Probably 3rd or 4th best jungler, after Ivern and Shaco. Not many weaknesses. Nerfs already confirmed, I think. Lulu - She's not incredibly strong (she has plenty of competition in solo queue, and some in pro-play), but she's another generalist who does everything. Well, that is, everything that an enchanter support can be expected to do. Brand/Zyra, Nautilus, and Blitz are still kings of their respective niche. So she's really the only one whose place on this list is questionable. Unless she is vastly outperforming Janna, Nami, and Karma (she's not), then nerfs can probably wait. Although she is now the most popular enchanter in pro-play and ranked, so she's worth keeping an eye on.

Edit: I'd probably add Talon and Katarina to the list too, for being too strong at the top of the ranked ladder (in the hands of experts), for being banned a ton, and for lacking tactical counterplay. There is no escape from a good Talon or Kat. (Obviously, they are less strong against highly-coordinated pros, who can protect their squishies and care more about objectives than kills.)

Sexy Jack Rabbit2 votes

The problem with the Enchanter Class is that there is never relevance amongst all of them. There is literally no point to ever bother. You just pick whatever one is strongest at the time (Which is normally Karma or Janna )

DKM Bismarck12 votes

Ahri brigade to the rescue, considered you likely said this purely in defense of Ahri herself and not every champ listed, I will give a reason I personally think she is strong

Yes, Ahri is not oppressive to play against in particular but a lot of her power is hidden behind her mistakes being nigh unpunishable due to the CC and mobility in her kit, an Ahri dying is not you being good, it's the Ahri being quite bad as there is such small room for error on her unless you go really aggro as Ahri. She outscales a decent number of mid laners with more safety than nearly any other mid laner in the game which is why she has maintained a high winrate and playrate for so, so long (oh, and waifu, but that doesn't explain the winrate). I agree on the front of "poor Ahri mains, nobody complained until she was played in LCS and everyone else got nerfed", but alas now she needs to be nerfed too (just like my main Talon needs the early game nerf he has on the PBE), yet there are currently none in sight, this is causing people to become more and more frustrated as time goes on. I think that Riot should revert her Q change from a couple of years ago, and take the movespeed out of it but give her a damage amp back on E so it once again becomes a critical part of her kit. As currently, she can miss E, Q, R to force the second half of Q through her opponent, W, R, R ignite to kill someone. Putting more focus on her E and spreading her power budget out more again would make her more healthy to play against and give you more options vs her.

Jeanne fan club3 votes

No I meant that for every champ listed. None of them are particularly overbearing to the point where counterplay doesn't exist. I was just calling out the op for getting on the front page for giving a list of champs he isn't good enough to fight.

I don't see the point of you making assumptions like that, I mean sure the champs are open to slight changes (like every other champ in the game) but I don't neccisaraly see a reason why they NEED TO BE NERFED IMMEDIATELY. I think its just the op's incompetence that leads him to think this. Idk why you decided to go on a tirade about ahri and disregard inconvenient causation while using the results, its a bit dishonest tbh.

Now listen to this, there is no statistical evidence to support that there is a behavioral reason for ahris winrate, but there is statistical evidence to support that she has the most mains

Ciaoe11 votes

Ahri is perfectly fine, too bad if your brain is slow

vOmvbrawfU18 votes

I'm sure that Ahri FEK you have has no baring on your opinion.

Skyphic 9 votes

could be the weeb ahri icon as well :)

Ciaoe7 votes

Chill bro, just telling the truth

Skyphic 20 votes

its not the truth if its false.

Ciaoe7 votes

dam when did riot change her skill shots to lock on

TheHappyReaperz12 votes

I mean, her W and Ult already do.

Ciaoe5 votes

not like her ult and w alone can kill you, maybe when dfg was still alive

TheHappyReaperz10 votes

They do a significant amount of damage, proc's TL, and allows her to point blank her E, which then guarantees one or both hits of your Q.

Ciaoe5 votes

not sure what teamates are for, and if a Ahri can freely jump on you then you might be in the wrong place.

TheHappyReaperz13 votes

Its called a "solo-lane" for a reason. And, you're telling me with three dashes Ahri can't get in point blank range of you?

Ciaoe3 votes

not sure what your point is, are you telling me you're just gonna let Ahri get in point range of you and do nothing?

TheHappyReaperz9 votes

My point is it is not balanced. You get free damage from stuff you don't have to aim, and your ultimate negates the need for you to land your skill-shots. For quite a few champions, there is nothing you can do against Ahri dashing in.

Ciaoe2 votes

isnt that why you counter pick? malzahar,lissandra,morgana,annie,zilean,Cassiopeia,kayle, so many counters (in a solo lane perspective like you said)

TheHappyReaperz9 votes

Having counter-picks doesn't mean a champion is balanced.

Big Lincoln17 votes

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Chromatic Eagle2 votes

Alternative facts.

Ahristocats11 votes

lulu and ivern should be on top 1 priority tired of having 2 of my bans taken in every games

FalconPawwwwnch4 votes

Agreed

Helmight6 votes

Lulu isn't overpowered though, she's just good in a meta filled with divers and assassins. If you're not picking said champions into her, you shouldn't have a problem.

Skorch11 votes

Oh HEEEEEEEEY Yet another incredoubly insightful and definetly not upvote farm thread by the BRILLIANT Falconpawwwwnch. Where does he get the ideas for these long insightful discussions?

KVbqbFsC8e10 votes

Caitlyn

Honestly I'm not sure why this isn't brought up more often given the insane playrate, free laning phase, ridiculous lategame, and those absolute bullshit traps.

FiddlesOnTheRoof7 votes

I must be enjoying the luxury of shitter elo, because I never see Ivern picked or banned.

ProfDrDeath2 votes

In a word: Yes.

2Charmnot2Charm4 votes

Only ivern players i seen while ranking up a new smurf account (from placements to gold 2 right now with plat 4 mmr) were other smurfs i ran into.

FiddlesOnTheRoof1 votes

I hang around low-high gold typically. Should probably make plat this season, but we'll see. What are low elo players missing when it comes to playing him? I really enjoy him thematically, and would like to learn him. Is it just the macro game of when to invade and counter jungle?

2Charmnot2Charm2 votes

Sorry i have zero jungle experience (last time i touched that role was season 3) so i'm not the best player to be giving anyone tips on how anyone should jungle besides the obvious what lanes shouldn't be ganked and such.

But if i remember from the few times i watched this master ivern main stream correctly (been a while since i last watched his stream) i think he'll answer any questions you have (while also watching his gameplay since he is a ivern main lol) about ivern and the jungle if you ask in chat.

https://www.twitch.tv/importedfromjapan

Here is his op.gg https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=japanese+import

Skyphic 7 votes

i see him most of the time in diamond if hes not banned

Kilanost2 votes

Ivern has almost a 55% win rate that goes up to almost 57% in diamond. He's busted but he requires people who have enough skill to make playing a support jungler worthwhile. I'd love to play him but I'm not touching him until i make my way to high gold/low plat at least.

Maximum Morde6 votes

Where's Janna?

FalconPawwwwnch9 votes

Lulu needs it more

Maximum Morde6 votes

Until you nerf Lulu and then suddenly Janna gonna be 60% ban 30% pick :). Might as well get her now.

WoonStruck8 votes

Except Janna has a hard time being aggressive, unlike Lulu.

Vesemir2 votes

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Except Janna has a hard time being aggressive, unlike Lulu.

And?

Nymzo5 votes

She loses lane pressure for better peeling. That means that she's only good at being a shield bot and being a huge ''fuck you'' to melee champions after laning phase.

Nerfing her too much will result in her being outclassed by other enchanters that can peel and shield like her like Lulu, Nami or Karma.

Papa Andrei3 votes

"Shield Bot" Lol you have never played Janna to any decent length then have you?

StoryDuck6 votes

Lulu does not need a nerf. That is an absurd thought. She was consistently a bottom tier pick after she got nerfed out of mid lane. She has only crept back into the meta because people have started using hyper-carry ADCs again and she excels at protecting her ADC from assassins.

Skyphic 5 votes

and every melee in the game.

janna does the same thing except she cant also jump on you with her adc.

she has 1 choice and thats to defend.,

you cant have a kit that allows to defend and attack on really good levels.

its bullshit and unfair.

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