Whoa there Rito, slow down with the champs before we get a backed up again

AmightyT·11/26/2014, 5:40:15 AM·8 votes·901 views

Okay, so Rek'sai does look cool and fresh and that is nice, I'm worried about you guys biting off more than you can chew here. Does anyone remember when we had champs coming in at one every other week? Riot, you honestly aren't doing a great balance job as is, and if the space between Kalista and Rek'sai is any indication of whats going to happen You plan on going back to churning champs out like a bunch of mating rabbits. Out of the 120 champs we had at the end of the fourth season only half were picked or banned in LCS and 71% those picks and bans went to 17 champions. 59 champions weren't even considered viable last year and you want to add more? No, that's not going to work. You even add insult to injury when you make a hyper mobile champion like Rek'sai at a time in league of legends where mobility creep is such a a rampant issue in the game immobile champions aren't even worth considering. Please finish your plate before you have seconds Riot, that's all I'm asking.

Source on the picks and bans

15 Comments

SmokingPuffin11/26/2014, 6:35:23 AM2 votes

if the space between Kalista and Rek'sai is any indication of whats going to happen You plan on going back to churning champs out like a bunch of mating rabbits.

I'm pretty sure the space between Kalista and Rek'sai is an indication that Riot was holding Kalista back while worlds was going on.

59 champions weren't even considered viable last year and you want to add more? No, that's not going to work.

This is a long term problem. Basically, we have too many kits that are too similar to each other, leading to small power differences between say Lucian and Corki resulting in only one of them being present in the meta at any given time.

Stopping the release of new champions won't fix this problem.

bobnmike11/26/2014, 6:26:44 AM1 votes

That's not how designing champs works. Champions can be worked on for over a year, it's simply coincidence that champs are being released so close to one another right now. What about Rek'Sai screams hyper mobile to you??

KzooCrasher11/26/2014, 6:47:15 AM1 votes

I'd love to see how your getting champions being unviable.... I think your not using the word right every champion is viable unless they are disabled I guess.

17inchcorkscrew11/26/2014, 6:59:24 AM1 votes

if the space between Kalista and Rek'sai is any indication of whats going to happen You plan on going back to churning champs out like a bunch of mating rabbits.

http://xkcd.com/605/