Why does riot nerf every champion I play?

rtbf48419282··1 votes·1,035 views

Everyone thought Mundo Jungle sucked in mid s4. It was clearly not a meta, and everyone railed at me for picking mundo jungle. However, I figured out a strategy and implemented that strategy. And people started to think that Mundo jungle is ridiculously op(this was before the change to the Spirit of the Ancient golem(tenecity)), and a week later, riot nerfed Mundo's cleaver volume, and two weeks later they reworked the Sotag and buffed turret dmg.

Here was my strategy. Back then Mundo was the fastest clearer in jungle(even in mid s4) faster than shyvana(idk about godyr). So, I cleared camps super fast, ganked once in a while landing my cleavers like a pro. Mainly those faster clears let me lvl up faster with more gold, getting early Sotage with ninja tabi, and dived turret with my ult every gank when enemy champion were still squishy as fck and with my w and tenecity from sotag any cc lasted less than 0.5 sec, and no enemy jungler could 1v1(or even 2v1) me even when I ran ms quints.

People started to think that Mundo was op as hell when it was clearly not even the meta, and riot nerfed him and all items associated with him in jungle. This is what happens when a mediocre champ shines in bright light. People will think it's unfair and nerf him.

I got pissed and uninstalled the game.

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Maximum Morde4 votes

If that is the case, please take up playing Vayne and Riven next.

SpartenA79912 votes

If thats the case, please play the following champions. Akali Fiora Fizz Garen Katarina Leona Malzahar MasterYi TahmKench Tryndamere Volibear XinZhao Yasuo

TurtleStacks1 votes

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If thats the case, please play the following champions. Akali Fiora Fizz Garen Katarina Leona Malzahar MasterYi TahmKench Tryndamere Volibear XinZhao Yasuo

Remove akali, kat, Leona, mal, yi, trynd, volibear, xin and yas then you are correct.

Im gonna say fizz too because if you know how to play fizz you can beat him.

Archon X1 votes

Leona isn't broken

Janna was broken until they nerfed minimum range on her Q, she's still good though

Braum is still broken even after they raised mana cost on his Q

ninjaIRL 1 votes

lol Braum is pretty broken with team work, applying his passive stacks

SpartenA79911 votes

CC you until the nexus explodes. Yup, not broken at all.....

Archon X1 votes

Leona has a great stun with Q but her E is only a momentary root, and her ult is nice but it's an ult and hard to land on more than 2 people.

Braum is better in pretty much every way.

EndlessSorcerer1 votes

Wasn't the Cleaver width nerf due to the prevalence of Mundo top (with 0/30/0 masteries) at the time? Mundo and Shyvana top were pretty much the most-picked top laners back before those nerfs.

IIRC, it wasn't caused by Mundo jungle.

NoMonku1 votes

This. Often times a nerf towards a champion or item is because of it being abused in ways RIOT didn't intend or if it worked TOO well. While the nerf hurt your Mundo jungle, the main abuse of him was coming from his strength in the top lane and him being used to easily win lane.

rtbf484192821 votes

So why did they nerf mundo's cleaver? Mundo's cleaver must be so OP when the enemy champion stays behind minions right???
Because the volume of his cleaver was SO important in last hitting creeps without getting harassed.

So why did they buff turret dmg? Such weird timing that gets people like me mad. So why did they rework Sotag? ^

ninjaIRL 1 votes

Most Mundo's I see just walk past enemy minions to keep spamming his cleaver if he's versing someone like Riven i.e. squishy top laner.

EndlessSorcerer1 votes

I believe that their reasoning for nerfing the width of Mundo's cleaver was to make it more difficult to hit (or easier to sidestep for) enemy champions when chasing them. Since the width was narrower, they had to aim the cleavers better rather than just throwing it in the target's general direction.

It didn't matter much during laning phase, but it hurt Mundo's ability to chase down and kite champions later in the game (if they couldn't hit the cleavers without the extra width). However, the main point is that Mundo was considered a dominant top laner at the time and that is why he was targeted; he was nerfed because of his strength and popularity in the top lane, not the jungle.

The nerf had the side-effect of better marching the hit-box to the projectile's model as a nice bonus. You no longer have cleavers whose model missed the champion hitting them because the hitbox exceeded the model's dimensions.

Reynard the ƒox1 votes

You're clearly psychic. Stop using your paranormal power to predict OP League champions and go save the world, seriously.

Poop Jelly1 votes

:< Just remember, those champs aren't the only ones who got nerfed, they nerf a portion of champions; you're not alone :>

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