Board is making things up?
I agree that riot has not necessarily done a perfect job balancing this game but there are a number of falsehoods that I keep hearing this board say.
- “This is not a team game anymore because the ADC can hit power spikes with cheap items and then 1 vs 5”
There is just so much wrong with this. No, without peel and the teamwork with the jg and the support to get fed, the adc CANNOT do the above. In my last 20 games, I’ve yet to see this 1 vs 5 mythical adc. Where adcs did get fed it was more like 1 vs 2 or 3... also, a frontline was clearly needed to enable this.
- “AD champions out scale AP champions, there’s no point playing mages.”
Absolute nonsense. Because mages have powerful And highly reliable AOE, they are never truly rendered useless or outscaled. They maintain a solid monopoly over many game functions; teams that rely on assassins and adcs to the exclusion of mages tend to disadvantage themselves. Except for the adc, at 3 plus items it is AP that outscales AD and not the other way. The emphasis on hexdrinker or Duskblade ignores the sheer AOE firepower that mages bring, their utility, and their ranged reliability and consistency.
- “Duskblade is broken.”
It’s not broken. It gives AD assassins and divers a FLEETING brief narrow window to snowball and hopefully stay ahead before they are inevitably outscaled by adcs and mages. It’s a balance keeper, not broken. It’s the only item that’s keeping otherwise useless champs like Zed and Kha on the fringe of the meta somewhat viable. The item is not remaining rely broken given how all of these guys become useless late against mages and adcs.
- “You can no longer carry the game unless you are adc or jg.”
Please. There are mid mains and top mains who continue to gracefully climb at all else’s. So please. Don’t.
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That’s it for now. Feel free to discuss and disagree.