@Riot will failed reworks ever be adressed?

L0ve Is Blue·11/3/2018, 5:52:19 PM·8 votes·3,622 views

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 I have been pleasantly surprised with the reworks of very outdated champions like Swain Nunu and I feel like Riot is getting better and better at reworking those old champions.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 Evelynn 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.

Velkoz , 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?

Graves 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.

Zyra 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''.

Mordekaiser . 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 Leblanc and KogMaw 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?

8 Comments

TheSingularity11/4/2018, 11:48:14 AM4 votes

Hope they fix Sejuani Skarner Viktor Zac as well

Happy Love Pile11/4/2018, 11:26:24 AM3 votes

They clearly addressed Rengar, Kog, and LB as "Failed." All 3 got, for the most part, reverted to their prior selves.

The Morde rework wasn't great, but I believe they're going to give him a VGU in the future anyway.

The Zyra rework definitely could have been better. But that's the problem, the community wants champions to be able to do multiple roles, but it's SO hard to balance a champion around 2 roles instead of one. You have to think of how to nerf one role without destroying the other or buff one without making the other too insane.

ARE YOU PC BRO11/3/2018, 7:35:18 PM2 votes

ok so I main karma support, I like that role for her. MID is something that is still possible for her it just takes adaption, ya know like in Nature lol

Sukishoo11/4/2018, 11:37:34 PM1 votes

Mordekaiser will most likely see a VGU by mid 2019 so he won't have to suffer much longer.