A open letters to my dear compatriots on the gameplay boards!
Okay so hear me out on this one....
are abominations on soloQ for at least the past 4 months or so. Nerfs are announced however the nerfs are arguably useless lovetaps (MINUS 5 MS ) often defended with "well it changed the champions winrate" (but then again what doesn't If I may ask?). Meanwhile as RiotGames Balancing department continues to """"gather data"""" to see how to best proceed with getting these champions in a more """reasonable spot"""" it just so happens that....
gets KDA AND a Prestige skin
gets a bloodmoon skin recently revealed on PBE
gets a prestige skin as part of the snowdown pass
gets a bloodmoon skin recently revealed on PBE
gets a Program skin
Besides that if you look even further back earlier this year
v8. 15 gets a massive change to his Q that basically makes Lee scale harder than ever off Snowball by making his Q scale harder off bAD instead of %HP. Lee basically gets buffed in the most anti-fun way possible because this pushes the stack AD then R>Q+Q2 for free kill's every 30s gameplay.
After this buff happens Lee Sin just HAPPENS to get a new slew of chroma's https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LsMyi48MBT8/maxresdefault.jpg
V8.18
saw buffs despite being one of the few functional marksman after the infamous Critocaust.
the champion was already fine however
in V8.17 however a Legendary High Noon skin released for him. very weird huh? a champion who's currently a top pick besides every other marksmen see's buffs a patch after a legendary skin released?
Almost as weird as that time they overbuffed Garen into a walking ball of stats on warmogs that was impossible to deal with every point of the game then a month later Released a legendary GodKing skin for him.... Or..or like that time Zoe got tickled with nerfs over and over again UNTIL her Pool Party skin released (8.15) a couple weeks down the line and THEN the banhammer came down at full force in 8.17... huh! thats odd... Rioters explicitly said that the balance team and skins team have ZERO influence on one another which I found very weird seeing as how Skins team usually selects candidates by playrates and the balance team has direct control over these numbers! Anyways Im sure this all just coincidence...
Anyways I have zero idea what all this means and i'm hoping someone might help me make sense of it. As I do more research I will try to keep you guys updated although I fear for the worse. As though each second I am being watched...as if someone is onto me and does not want me to uncover some nefarious scheme or a pernicious machine in motion...but I'm so close...so close, yes to figuring out the riddle and seeing why every meta these past few seasons has felt just so miserable to participate in and why the balance teams have always felt "sluggish" to fix them... Please however dear reader.. If you ever happen to see this man (as I do believe he can found here every so often interacting with the community):
could you please ask from him a thing or two on the aforementioned subject? And maybe perhaps inquire as to why NINE(9) YEARS LATER League of Legends(tm) is still lacking other more varied methods of monetization?like purchasable map assets,announcer packs, recall animations or crowd funding tournaments but rather still heavily relys on** SKINS** and CHAMPIONS as the primary sources of income. Thanks in advance for any information you may be able to provide me or my associates with.
-regards, Personal Investigator _Feextha Gayme_