Can we start listing things Riot did that gave the opposite effect?

Legendary Ayachi·1/11/2020, 9:12:48 PM·17 votes·11,043 views

For example the Yi rework.

Intention: Make Yi better in High Elo and and worse in Low Elo. Result: Yi is better in Low Elo and worse in High Elo.

Or the Jungle changes:

Intention: Allow room for scaling farming Junglers to thrive. Result: Early gank Junglers are thriving even harder.

33 Comments

Sire Hippington1/11/2020, 11:46:43 PM20 votes

So you mean just listing patchnotes from the last 3-4 years?

TehNACHO1/12/2020, 2:28:31 AM5 votes

Intention: Small damage buff on Riven Result: Riven's win rate drops for a patch

Nøctμrne1/12/2020, 12:58:42 AM4 votes

Designing a "fun" and "intuitive" champion that has a high skill cap. Then watching Aphelios auto attack and one shot your entire team.

Śhunpo1/12/2020, 12:59:26 AM4 votes

Reworked Mordekaiser

Intention: Make him more skill expressive and polished champion who feels unique. Result: Turned him into one of the single most braindead champions in the game who has a kit that feels less unique than his original kit (his VGU is nice asf though).

5050BS1/11/2020, 9:24:36 PM4 votes

LeB Rework to maker her less Cheese and less oppressive to Melee

She was more predicable but same Cheese and same vs Melee

So they changed her back to make her less oppressive to melee.... WHAT?

Rewored Akali to make her less cheese and not as snowbally

She is even more snowbally and with ANY skill can "outplay" anyone

Reworked Wu to make less what ever to make him more what ever

Mavëríck1/11/2020, 10:58:08 PM4 votes

Completely removed Aatrox for a Riven clone because "You just can't balance Old Aatrox, he's a stat check!" which is exactly what Borris was on release for months and now he's gutter tier again.

FSRER1/12/2020, 7:26:08 PM4 votes

Runes Reforged: an attempt to create a new system that will give players more ways to express their playstyles Result: A system so linear that not only removed some skill expression but also created a whole bunch of balancing problems that had never before exsisted in the second rune/mastery system

TrikzterzArma1/12/2020, 9:32:47 PM4 votes

Intention: Increased Galios AP ratios so people would buy a bit ap and rest tank Result: People went full AP because he dealt such a braindead amount of damage

xelaker1/12/2020, 4:14:04 PM3 votes

It's almost like Riot is run by morons...

The thigh guy1/12/2020, 4:54:59 PM2 votes

Nerfing late game jungle Xp to dissuade early ganking junglers.

Then nerfing early jungle xp to dissuade early ganking junglers without budding late game xp.

Arammus1/12/2020, 3:25:36 AM2 votes

sure. but you need to do that on lolreddit, the only place where riot sometimes listens. OH WAIT SHIT! the lol reddit community is a bunch of riot suckers, so your thread will be downvoted into abyss.

too bad sorry. nice attempt tho

Ragnaveil1/12/2020, 6:40:13 PM1 votes

Intention: Buffing Vik because hes doing bad. Result: Tank Vik meta in top for all of Worlds, and soloqueue top would be plagued with this cancer for a month and a half till it got axed.

Modl Ryden l1/12/2020, 8:51:44 PM1 votes

"We?"

Nah. I don't want to.