Hey Meddler, can you think logically? About Poppy...

Niyumi··1 votes·416 views

Like, I really want to know if you actually think about the changes you do to champions.

Poppy's issue right now, according to everyone (yourself included, by the way), is that she is too tanky and does too much damage -- right?

So, instead of fixing that right away by, you know, removing base damage from her Q (and changing it into scaling based on AD) and nerfing her W passive... you go and make the champion less and less fun to play every patch by nerfing random parts of her kit that really don't impact her issue in any way, and instead make her feel clunky:

  • Less range on E

  • Less range on passive

  • No more AA reset on passive (hurting nothing but her jungling)

  • You messed with her Q targeting, and actually reverted that one partially surprisingly

  • Halving her ult damage when tapped (like, really? A 100S+ CD is the issue? Okay)

  • Nerfing her shield duration (making her jungling even worse)

Now, tell me how ANY OF THAT makes her any less tanky and makes her do less absurd damage while building tank? You continually say how much you strive for balance, yet you refuse to actually fix issues -- but then, you're not actually trying to fix her, are you? You just want to milk her FOTM status for all the money you can possibly get, and then gut her when she stops making money, or just entirely ignore her.

So, I know you refuse to answer me whenever I ask, but what is balance to you? Is it making the game fair and fun for everyone? Or is it just making the game into the most lucrative state it can be at the time?

4 Comments

Shieldy1 votes

Yea I can't really see the logic behind these changes, they're not going to make her really do any less damage or be less tanky. They're only going to screw with her E-Q-R/Flash-R combos and make her shield unusable in wall-stun trades and the jungle, AKA just more clunky and less fun to play while keeping the same problems.

Niyumi1 votes

See, they don't want to actually nerf her though, that's the thing. She's making money right now, since she's suddenly FOTM, and they're goinna milk that for all that they possibly can. Nerfing things without fixing the issue is Riot's sneaky way of tricking gullible whales.

Shieldy1 votes

What she needs is to have her Passive Shield/W resists lowered a certain amount to compensate for Cotc, and MAYBE a light damage nerf on her ult or Q somewhere.

Niyumi1 votes

She needs to lose her passive resist bonus until she's low health, and she needs to lose some of the 14% max health on her Q (make it scaling like other % health damage is) -- bam, Poppy is fine.

But no, you don't make money by fixing issues.

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