@Riot will failed reworks ever be adressed?
I've stopped playing league for a while and I am starting to play again. I have been pleasantly surprised with the reworks of very outdated champions like
and I feel like Riot is getting better and better at reworking those old champions. I have been playing since season 4 and left around
rework, and coming back I feel like most of the things that outraged the community are still not adressed to this day, besides towers that will be buffed in the pre-season patches (YAY).
But one of the thing I remember people being very dissapointed with are the class updates in general. Some of them were good and made kind of awkward champions a little fresher, like Miss Fortune for example. But in my opinion, most of the champions that were changed in those updates didn't really need change and were changed just for the sake of change.
, who was aclaimed as the most balanced champion to ever come out, had half of his power shifted to his passive and still to this day I don't like playing him as much. His spells feel very weak and most of them feel like they are used just to proc that 50% AP true damage passive. He isn't bad by any means, but now he feels worse to play. Would anyone else like to see him reversed?
has become very popular since his rework, so I guess the majority wouldn't like to see him changed but he isn't an ADC anymore. In fact, I think I haven't seen Graves anywhere but jungle since I came back.
was supposed to be reworked ''without a specific role in mind'' when the community had a global crisis when Riot said they'd rework her as a support. Zyra was intented to be a mage, a midlanner. But her rework made her even less played than what I remember and she can't even think of going mid now. Her flowers are weaker, her spells have less scaling and she has to wait in order to do damage. Plus her flowers spawn in random spots, which makes her kind of awkward to play. The same thing is about to happen to Karma, a champion that was supposed to be a mid lane mage is going to be reworked as a support because ''that's where people play her''.
. Do I even need to speak about why this was dissapointing? They took a champion and made it fit into a role they wanted regardless of what people thought or how they played him before. Instead of releasing a new champion that was aimed to be a meelee carry bot lane, they changed morde to fit this role. Even to this day he is balanced to be played bot, with the dragon passive, XP passive and spells that get stronger with an ally.
Those reworks feel more like they are trying to make the champions fit into a role Riot had in mind even if it didn't fit the original champion's playstyle. Just for the sake of uniqueness, even if the champion is already fine.
Some reworks like
and
were reversed/semi-reversed (rip AP kog), But I feel like unless the rework makes a champion unplayable or overpowered, it is not adressed even if it is dissapointing for the players. My question is: Does Riot ever considered or spoke about adressing those champions that failed the fans? And if not would they be willing to speak about this with the fanbase?
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