You know powercreep is high when..

AdamrCc·12/2/2019, 6:57:17 AM·1 votes·959 views

straight up beats and has no problem beating in the late game. The game has reached a point where counterpicking against certain champion work no more.

I recall back at the start of S8, people considered to be overtuned and with hardly any changes to get damage numbers look at where she's at in the current meta.

Champions like , and who get continually buffed to the point where it's a troll pick to not play them because of how easy it is to face roll and get kills with them these days while nerfs for champions who really need it never come by (, , , ).

We've reached a point where the devs need to either start adjusting at least 50 champion per patch or replace their existing managers because they really are fucking this game up.

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DuskDaUmbreon12/2/2019, 8:32:56 AM6 votes

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straight up beats and has no problem beating in the late game.

The first one is literally false, as Garen has a 47.59% winrate against Darius in plat+, and only has a positive winrate in Bronze and Silver and nowhere else with at least 10 games against Darius. The second one isn't due to power creep, but due to a change to make Yi's Q more consistent (causing it to always last .8 seconds) causing it to be much easier to dodge Jax's E. That, and because of a nerf to Jax in the form of Spear being fucking deleted from the game.

The game has reached a point where counterpicking against certain champion work no more.

Things change. Old counterpicks stop being counterpicks because the meta changes. What makes them a counterpick can also stop existing.

I recall back at the start of S8, people considered to be overtuned and with hardly any changes to get damage numbers look at where she's at in the current meta.

Ah yes. The start of S8. When the new runes came out and nobody had any fucking idea what was strong anymore.

And the community has no fucking idea about anything. They STILL, inexplicably, think Yasuo is OP.

People (on the boards, at least) are generally incapable of figuring out what's actually strong. They'd much rather bitch about things that have basically never been strong.

Champions like , and who get continually buffed to the point where it's a troll pick to not play them because of how easy it is to face roll and get kills with them these days

Mundo isn't that strong, and has literally always been faceroll. If you think Lee is faceroll, I invite you to play 10 games of him.

while nerfs for champions who really need it never come by (, , , ).

Quinn isn't op lmfao. Neither is Xayah, nor Kai'sa (High pickrate, yes, but you can't have that winrate and actually be OP). Ekko is literally the only one who's strong out of your list, but Riot literally only changed one champion during this patch, and that was just to remove a pointless line from Senna's passive and to remove an ARAM-specific buff.

Thank you for proving one of my previous points, btw.

We've reached a point where the devs need to either start adjusting at least 50 champion per patch or replace their existing managers because they really are fucking this game up.

Massive, sweeping changes to that much of the roster is one of the fastest ways to fuck up balance massively. There's over 150 champions, 100+ items, and a shitton of other things. Everything in League interacts with other things. Nerf 3 of a champion's counters, and guess what happens to them? They get notably stronger. Couple that with a buff, and now the champion is broken.

You can't change a fuckton of things at once and expect it to work out well. That's why Riot only does huge changes twice a year.