There are too many strong champions right now. Please balance the game.

Abandon·10/27/2019, 1:40:04 PM·99 votes·22,998 views

I get burned out just writing these types of threads but I feel like still need to do them. If nothing happens, S10 will just be a continuation of S9.

Riot please listen. There are way too many strong champions right now and by strong champions I don't mean champions that are 'viable' or 'good', I mean champions that should not exist in such elevated power positions due to their insanely broken kits or absurd buffs that have pushed them into being overly dominant. These champions eventually choke out the rest of the roster and decrease champion variety.

I remember when a champion with high pick/ban rates and high winrates (52%+) were generally considered to be needing a hotfix. Nowadays, it's normal to see more than a handful.

Riot, I only have 1 ban and I can't control what my team bans. I can't ban everything that's broken. The 10 ban system was meant to be utilised so I didn't feel like I was forced to ban an 'op pick' and could use it to ban a counter champion but at this point in time, I'd rather suffer a hard counter than deal with generic, broken champions.

https://u.gg/lol/tier-list - Take a look at how many S/S+ tier champions there are currently in your elo. Quite frightening.

PLEASE, look into toning down the champions on the upper end. I'm tired of feeling like I'm racing against ticking time bombs.

Edit: I didn't expect this many replies as I made this right before falling speed asleep. The champions I listed are SOME champions I THINK are doing TOO GOOD. They don't have to be necessarily broken by design (otherwise I would have liked to mention Akali and Kai'sa in capable hands too) but are champions I feel just kind of blow out other champions. For the simpler champions like Garen and Malphite it's more on the fact that for how simple and effective they are, they may be in a need for some toning down. I know Garen dropped off a bit in W/R but Malphite is still easily a ticking a time bomb with his 1 shot engages.

Edit 2: As the list ends up being too subjective, I will replace it with a link to U.GG where readers can discern which champions are 'too strong' looking into the stats of their relevant elo. I think this makes it a lot more fair. Notice HOW MANY S tier and S+ tier champions there are in the list as well as their winrates versus their pick/ban rates.

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171 Comments

Titanium7010/27/2019, 2:00:51 PM52 votes

I'm still convinced Riot leaves champions in a stronger the avarage state on purpose to artificially lower the banrates of their antifun posterboys. Zed Yasuo

Elmo Thighwalker10/27/2019, 2:32:49 PM24 votes

Pyke should have never been released, his kit is absolutely toxic to the game itself. It just shows you how much China has influence over the game.

ZT Xperimentor10/27/2019, 2:33:06 PM12 votes

Two bans per person still sounds like a great idea, don't even need to significantly change the system already in place.

Sylaelque10/27/2019, 2:10:51 PM9 votes

Vlad, Kai'Sa, Neeko, Janna, Qiyana, Shaco, Kled, Vi, Rek'Sai, Lee, Fizz, Taliyah, Nidalee, Xayah

LightswornLance10/27/2019, 8:53:25 PM6 votes

LOL WTF MALPHITE, I'm sorry man but I cant listen to a word you say if you say malphite has "an insanely broken kit." The only champions you listed that are actually broken are kayle and pantheon. Fiora, maybe, a champion like Fiora should never have a 50%+ winrate imo. Jax believe it or not is actually pretty balanced, even with spear of shojin, the problem is that there are literally no other scaling top laners, who can contest him. Top lanes problem as a whole is that their champions don't scale, which is what they need to be doing if they arent going to be impacting the gamestate for 15+ minutes during the laning phase.

The Kombinator10/27/2019, 2:42:33 PM5 votes

If everyone is strong, then nobody is. Just make the current weak ones stronger.

Crescent Dusk10/27/2019, 11:00:30 PM4 votes

Too many damn immunities/stealth and low cd dashes.

Magnesium1410/27/2019, 8:37:02 PM3 votes

Here is my list of OP champs: It's accurate: Akali Ashe Blitzcrank Brand Caitlyn Darius Draven Ekko Fiora Fizz Garen Illaoi Jax Jinx Kaisa Karma Kayle Kayn LeeSin Lux Malphite Mordekaiser Nautilus Neeko Nocturne Pantheon Pyke Riven Swain Vayne Vladimir Xayah Yasuo Zed Zoe Thats kinda sad and I bet theirs some I missed.

Saezio10/27/2019, 4:57:33 PM3 votes

Instead of nerfing what's strong they could buff their counters or everything else. Wouldn't be my 1st choice, but it would AT LEAST be fair.