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This game is a plethora of favoritism

DiamondStef·3/2/2016, 12:19:12 AM·5 votes·729 views

So reading Surrender at 20 and I can barely believe my eyes...

First off, new skins for Annie, a champion that already has loads of skins and is an easy pick up and play support. Then there is one for Leblanc, another Riot favorite that has been in the LCS for quiet some time.

But the worst thing, was looking at the balance changes...

Why is Talon being nerfed but not Zed. NOBODY on this boreds in the UNIVERSE thinks that Talon is overpowered and must be nerfed. This is the most rediculous thing I have ever seen Riot to do.

Its like they are trying to distract us with all the glaring problems with this game at the moment by releasing spangly new skins (for their favorites) and nerfing one, particularly lackluster assassin (he can do well but he's pretty balanced compared to Zed) and going "Hey, look! We are nerfing assassins". Its a complete middle finger to the community as a whole.

Quite frankly, Riot needs to stop this childish display of stubborness over Zed and a few other "favorites" that are ALWAYS kept viable regardless of the meta. ( cough LeeSin, Thresh, Nidalee) and actually FIX the game so its viable for ALL champions to play rather then just a few that they deem "godworthy".

The item changes nearly made me quit when Riot made AD itemisation about 50 times better then AP and gave AD lots of new, easy advantages like item 3147 and yet EVERYONE downvotes boards that clearly spell this out... WHY?

Why do you people get off on having an unbalanced and unfair game based on favoritism then actual skill. If you really cared about League rather then just abusing the freelo train, you would actually show a little restaint and NOT play these champs 50 million times. The only explanation is simply that you want your "favourite" champ to be viable and SCREW EVERYONE ELSE. Shows how dog-eat-dog this game is and Riot is doing EXACTLY the same thing with their balance changes.

You are nothing better then pack animals... looking to tear apart anyone who doesn't follow your ideals of what this game should be and its disgusting. Shows how sick the human race is.

I really do despair at this game and Riot as a company because I KNOW I am wasting my breath. At lease Square Enix has the pleasantness to respond to me about my concerns over Final Fantasy XIV. Just shows how Riot view us, as portable money fountains, easily replacable with opinions that mean nothing.

7 Comments

YCitizenSnipsY3/2/2016, 12:27:22 AM5 votes

You realize LB was released in 2010 didn't get her first 975 skin until 2014 right? She hasn't gotten a skin in over a year, and this is only her second decent one.

Shiroi Kitsune3/2/2016, 12:48:26 AM4 votes

Those last couple of paragraphs are rather... pessimistic, and sounds like the ranting of someone who disillusions themselves about the world around them.

blfUvZ8Ybu3/2/2016, 12:21:26 AM3 votes

Other example these Azir , Viktor and that Lux

Or

These Karthus , Swain , Brand and that Lux

Naristracrates3/2/2016, 12:31:37 AM3 votes

I agree with you to some degree. Riot claims that they make "balance" changes due to balance, and in some cases they are correct, but other cases it is just blatant - we want these champions viable in the LCS, we want these to go away, etc.. Remember Kha Zix? He was like in almost every LCS game. They murdered that champ because people kept playing him after the first nerfs. Now no one plays him. Think they nerfed him too much?

This possible Soraka change is literally a shot at Immortals. Adrian is like the only person who plays this champ at the LCS level. I don't know of any koreans, chinese, or europeans that play this champ. Yet they are changing her. Why? So immortals don't play her. Because no one in solo queue actually plays her. So why even change her? It makes no sense, they will rationalize with you on patch notes as to why they did it, but it's because of Immortals. Nothing more.

Or, it could be because they want the game to play out a certain way that they want. Regardless, a game of this complexity can't satisfy everyone. They will never perfectly balance this game because they aren't perfect. Again, they have made good balance changes, however they have made "balance" changes with alternate motives, and then show it off as some balance change. They are never going to admit it, but if you follow the LCS, they will do their changes in accordance to the LCS, to promote variety. Even though, even Riot has written, that part of it is player choice. It may have nothing to do with balance, and more of what players prefer.

An example of a good nerf, is Shiphtur literally deleted someone with 100 hp with just an Ahri Q. That has to be nerfed. That shouldn't happen. And it was. Nerfing Talon? Changing Soraka? Really?