Why is Vi allowed to be ungodly strong?

The Whamboozler·Mar 12, 2015·1 votes·451 views

But any tank who is good for more than a week gets nerfed into the ground so hard that it's funny? Vi is a tanky, bursty inescapable monster, equally capable of setting up her team OR getting fed herself and carrying. Her burst is brutal. Her sustained damage is nuts. She has a powerful engage/escape tool, making her hard to catch, and she gets insanely tanky will maintaining her ability to punch her way through entire teams. Oh, and to top it all off, no force on EARTH can keep her off of whomever she chooses to ult.

What is the weak point of this monster, and why are champs like and brutally weak when she's allowed to do pretty much everything? Was she just created so people could look at Lee Sin and say "he may do everything, but at least he's not Vi"?

3 Comments

ForgiveColourMar 12, 20151 votes

because im a girl

kcStrangerMar 12, 20151 votes

Dude, she just got nerfed. For the record, I didn't downvote because I think it's a valid discussion, but I think you ought to wait and see what the effect of the 5.5 nerfs are before you complain about her balance. I'd also note that Skarner and Nautilus just got buffs in 5.5, and Olaf has seen some LCS play recently (I think by Fnatic's Reignover).

The WhamboozlerMar 12, 20151 votes

A slap on the wrist doesn't make her kit not obnoxious. She'll either have the stats to dive your back line all day and not give a crap, or she won't and she'll not be picked. Her kit is HORRIBLY designed. You can't keep her off of you. So she has to either be a big enough monster to not care if she dives you, or too weak to do the one thing she's good at. That's poor design, dude. She's basically the Kassadin of jungle. Nearly impossible to balance.