Nexus Blitz: The most offensive balance issues (from my experience)

Śhunpo··9 votes·4,396 views

Blessing of Caitlyn : REMOVE THIS REMOVE THIS REMOVE THIS. This is not fun to play against and whoever has it pretty much wins the game. If Riot truly wants to keep this in Nexus Blitz it should expire after a certain amount of time. The fact that it's permanent is nothing short of obnoxious.

Poppy : This champion is simply too good for multiple reasons, she denies more aggressive options, she deals a ton of damage despite building primarily tank items, her E and ult are just ridiculous for events and she's just far too tanky for this gamemode.

Swain and Vladimir : Pretty much the same problems across both, they're far too effective at being braindead drain tanks, and the on-fire buff doesn't really hinder them at all. Also the fact that they're both ranged melee abusers.

Evelynn : Far too good in terms of raw damage and clear speed. She already deals an enormous amount of damage post Lich Bane with Dark Harvest, in this gamemode she overkills her designated target(s).

Chogath : Absolutely ridiculous, at least in terms of his damage and tankiness. His CC is manageable, but Nom/Feast is far too volatile and he turns into this immovable object come mid-late game.

Jhin : Needs a general tune-up, he dominates this gamemode as well post Stormrazor.

Brand Veigar : Both have similar balance issues in this gamemode, they provide far too much damage as well as CC while being ranged anti-melee champions. Veigar also gains AP far too quickly.

Zoe : It's Zoe, there's not much else to be said, apart from the fact that Snowball Fight procs her W, which is obviously an overlooked feature.

MasterYi : Post Guinsoo's he's just a monster, although this is Yi in general. Riot should have a look at him, specifically Double Strike's interaction with Guinsoo's.

item 3161 : Far too good as it is now, needs to be toned down in terms of its passive.

Other general balance issues:

  1. The brushes in mid lane seem to not hide you at all. After doing some testing it seems as if even if the brush isn't warded your opponents can still see you.
  2. Blessing of Kha'zix is borderline useless due to the sheer amount of vision provided by trinkets.
  3. Blessing of Janna should also be on timer (if it isn't already?)
  4. Tank items in general might need to be toned down since this gamemode highly incentivises champions into building tanky as opposed to damage due to the nature of the events.
  5. The on-fire buff shouldn't grant as volatile a bonuses to tankier champions, as to incentivise damage orientated builds and it should increase the amount of damage you take based off of your resistances (or something like that?)
  6. There should be a general incentive to pick melee champions that aren't tanks, however at this point the meta is pretty much just mages and tanks which isn't particularly fun to play into for anyone.

Otherwise, great job from Riot, this gamemode feels amazing when people aren't ruining the fun by picking tanks and mages.

9 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon7 votes

No mention of Nasus, the least balanced champion in the game mode?

Legit if you and your team don't int you win. Don't go AP, build correctly, and have your team let you stack without giving a death per minute from each of them. You win.

Nasus is too busted with the double damage to melee and cannon minions meaning greater lifesteal, with the triple stack rate, and the on-fire buff giving him insanely low cooldowns on Q, especially combined with ult (you legit might not even be able to attack in the time between Q's).

Śhunpo2 votes

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No mention of Nasus, the least balanced champion in the game mode?

Legit if you and your team don't int you win. Don't go AP, build correctly, and have your team let you stack without giving a death per minute from each of them. You win.

Nasus is too busted with the double damage to melee and cannon minions meaning greater lifesteal, with the triple stack rate, and the on-fire buff giving him insanely low cooldowns on Q, especially combined with ult (you legit might not even be able to attack in the time between Q's).

Yeah I don't get why they gave Nasus that huge buff in this mode.

xZabaksx1 votes

Use it while you can :D Will definitely get nerfed

Dethflash4 votes

Blessing of Caitlyn is crazy overpowered. First off it last forever, which is dumb, it should only last 60-90 seconds MAX. Second off its not even that cool, unless the Blitz hooks, Blessing of Caitlyn doesnt set up plays, or create funny moments, its just pure annoying to play against, and having it means the enemy team is going to play far back so usually less fighting champions. There really isnt a place for this event reward, its annoying to play against, over powered, and creates less team fights which is a downside in this game mode. Something like a slightly longer lasting Sivir ult would be a much better event reward than the Blessing of Caitlyn. Blessing of Sivir could allow your team to make fast plays, encourages team fighting or objective fighting, and would be much less annoying to play against than being caitlyn ult every time you get close to a cannon minion for the rest of the game.

Śhunpo3 votes

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Blessing of Caitlyn is crazy overpowered. First off it last forever, which is dumb, it should only last 60-90 seconds MAX. Second off its not even that cool, unless the Blitz hooks, Blessing of Caitlyn doesnt set up plays, or create funny moments, its just pure annoying to play against, and having it means the enemy team is going to play far back so usually less fighting champions. There really isnt a place for this event reward, its annoying to play against, over powered, and creates less team fights which is a downside in this game mode. Something like a slightly longer lasting Sivir ult would be a much better event reward than the Blessing of Caitlyn. Blessing of Sivir could allow your team to make fast plays, encourages team fighting or objective fighting, and would be much less annoying to play against than being caitlyn ult every time you get close to a cannon minion for the rest of the game.

Blessing of Sivir sounds interesting tbh, and it doesn't sound too annoying to play against either.

Daddy Ants1 votes

Most Tanks are busted as fuck in this game mode.

Śhunpo2 votes

Yeeeep, especially since the on-fire buff does very little in terms of "increasing" the damage they take.

Daddy Ants1 votes

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Yeeeep, especially since the on-fire buff does very little in terms of "increasing" the damage they take.

Maokai Nautilus Poppy DrMundo are the worst imo

Śhunpo1 votes

Agreed. Don't forget Leona as well.

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