Riot needs to stop balancing champs like teemos shrooms to please casual players

slaverythegame·12/29/2014, 6:07:59 PM·5 votes·1,999 views

In ranked play past silver people know how to build two major ap resist items making his shrooms utterly useless. Riot took off half the ap scaling on his shrooms, literally neutering poor little teemo. The champ changes decisions in this League are ridiculous lets look at them

  1. Lee Sin: never touch due to popularity.
  2. Teemo: completely neuter because scrub game developer in silver elo thinks shrooms op
  3. Sion: Change his cult following kit around for marketing to casuals and selling skins.
  4. Cassandra: Okay this is riots real attempt to change a champ, Complete utter failure lol.

37 Comments

Jamaree12/29/2014, 6:12:14 PM4 votes

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In ranked play past silver people know how to build two major ap resist items making his shrooms utterly useless. Riot took off half the ap scaling on his shrooms, literally neutering poor little teemo. The champ changes decisions in this League are ridiculous lets look at them

  1. Lee Sin: never touch due to popularity.
  2. Teemo: completely neuter because scrub game developer in silver elo thinks shrooms op
  3. Sion: Change his cult following kit around for marketing to casuals and selling skins.
  4. Cassandra: Okay this is riots real attempt to change a champ, Complete utter failure lol.

Lee Sin likely isn't getting touched because of his bad win rate.

Teemo got touched because when he gets ahead, there is nothing fun about playing against him on top of him getting "buffed" because oracles got removed and pink wards are always seeable.

Sion got changed because he was just poorly designed. If AD, half your kit was subpar and you got kited to hell end game, if AP, half your kit is useless and you are useless end game.

Cassandra...what is this, Soul Caliber, you mean Cassopeia? Her win rate is currently at 52%, doesn't seem to be that much of a failure to me.

Hex the FenFen12/29/2014, 10:28:48 PM3 votes

Who the fuck is Cassandra? Is she a new champion? OMG NEW CHAMP REVEAL BY THIS BLOKE! No, honestly, who is Cassandra....

Kuroi8612/29/2014, 7:48:07 PM2 votes

You really don't pay much attention do you?

LeeSin Has had a number of nerfs last season, look it up. Teemo Not nerfed for OP, nerfed for Toxicity. Teemo gets ahead, suddenly you're denied all of the map. He needs a rework, especially on his ult so it's not so much of an all or nothing skill, it's either insanely strong or pathetic. Sion His kit was out dated and was either insanely strong and pathetic late (AP) or pathetic early and insanely strong late (AD) either way, there were again, toxic elements in his kit that needed to be done away with and reworked in order to make him viable and give Riot the ability to buff him without making him OP. Cassiopeia And again, an issue of toxicity in the kit. Riot is still working on trying to iron out her kit and get it to viable.

IronChefBoyardee12/29/2014, 6:22:34 PM2 votes

Just...wow dude.

Dryditch12/29/2014, 7:14:31 PM1 votes

If i had a million upvotes to give, I would. Fuck this new sion. The absurdly overstated counterplay, I can deal with... but they took my Ult. Not ok. NOT OK RIOT!

ifaux12/29/2014, 6:18:19 PM1 votes

In my humble opinion, Teemo is certainly a nuisance but not unbeatable. If anything were to be changed, I think it should be how long it takes before he is able to stealth. This change would make it more of a strategic decision and not so much the "I'm going to stand right here until I hit L6."

Yulen Xoshxius12/29/2014, 11:38:26 PM1 votes

I don't think Teemo is overpowered, he is just the most annoying thing to fight in the game I have seen so far. Most of it comes from his shrooms which grant large vision, slow, poision, explode, last a long time, and he can have a ton out at a time after getting more. Plus unlike Caitlyn's, Jynx's, and Nidalee's traps they are stealthed. Even with truesight you still have to destroy it before someone runs into it and gets you both. But like I said: he isn't overpowered, he is just annoying.

SpecterVonBaren12/30/2014, 12:42:56 AM1 votes

They really should have given him something in return for the damage nerf. I too had been the victim of teemo shrooms and groaned upon getting nuked by stepping on one, but his shrooms are his only way to reliably help his team out after laning phase since unlike ad marksmen, he doesn't get to have peel from his team to allow him to safely damage the enemy team.

I'd rather they buff him by giving him more utility that lets him add more to teamfights. I don't know where or what they could add his kit, enemies that hit one of his shrooms deal less damage for x seconds? W gives a passive movespeed buff to allies when it isn't on cd? Increased q range? Something.