Balancing champs for newer players
So the release of Rek'sai has stirred up some old thoughts. The main one being how certain champs fair against new players. One of my favorite things about LoL is that their idea is that it should be all about the person's skill level no matter what you play. And for the pros and those who work their butts off in ranked, this is true.
However for new players this is not the case. For example I remember when I first started a few years ago and Master Yi was just a god. Like if you ever went against one, you lost. At the point I am now, that isn't the case. But for new players having a champ who can go untargetable while doing AD scaling-dmg, super atk/movement speed, resets, and a heal that reduces his dmg by half is really overwhelming. I'm not saying Yi is broken at all (have a leona on your team and he doesn't exist) but champs like him make this game very hard to enjoy in the beginning.
Granted, you can say this about champ if the person is good enough right? No. It is a fact that there are certain champs who ANYONE can play efficiently given you know how to operate your hands. These are the champs that dominate the low ELOs and make the game absolutely miserable for those new players. Those champs also usually are the ones who get banned everytime Riot comes out with a new game mode why? Because you can play them and win. Simple as that.
Some of these include Yi, Katarina, Akali. Assassins who can literally smash their face on the keyboard and get kills. All primarily because of their resets and targeted jumps. I can also attest, as when I'm having a losing streak "guess it's time to play Akali and go 39/10 again. "
These champs don't necessarily need nerfs. Just slight reworks (how about more skillshot based? idk how to do that though with jumps) but something to keep just any joe shmo from picking them up, throwing their keyboard against the wall and getting a penta.
I say all this just because starting this game is bad enough because of the awful community and the last thing you need is some champ their friend told them to play cause they're "broken in that ELO" cleaning up your whole team every game.
Idk food for thought.
P.S. Riot you need to rework Zilean and Ryze. Having all their skills be targeted? Really? Comon now you know better than that. Excited for Taric and Poppy reworks though. Cause shields.