Teleport Nerf was uncalled for. And pointless

GelsominoKiller·8/24/2018, 11:40:52 PM·124 votes·17,256 views

Once upon a time Riot looked at LCS and saw that teleport was picked also by midlaners and botlaners.

Since we must have variety in summoner spells that aren't flash, riot nerfed tp.

Joke's on them: the problem never was that tp was op in the first place! Everyone ditched heal and barrier because in such a ridiculously high damage meta they were utterly useless! Currently, if anything is going to happen in competitive, it is by number advantage, and chances are you're going to die regardless of extra hp or shields! Apparently Riot, despite having almost a decade of experience in balancing the game, didn't see that and instead concluded that nerfing to would have brought more variety to competitive.

Results of that change: everybody in proplay still picks a nerfed tp, and nobody in soloq picks tp (they all run ignite).

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24 Comments

Alex h87218/25/2018, 12:01:31 AM36 votes

This is actually a spot on analysis of what happened +1'd

DartExplosion108/25/2018, 1:20:26 AM29 votes

well riot doesnt even play their own game so

Slythrin Umbreon8/25/2018, 1:31:47 AM19 votes

I swear, whenever desperate, disillusioned players take it into their own hands to try and fix the game because Riot wont, Riot always nerfs their desperate measures rather then actually fixing the damn game.

Nea1048/25/2018, 2:40:11 AM13 votes

We should be used to this kind of absurd changes, at this point. Buffing Ignite, nerfing Heal, nearfing shields, buffing true damage, nerfing turrets, nerfing support items, scuttle/jungle mess...

Fury Reaver8/25/2018, 1:01:11 AM12 votes

Revert the teleport nerf! :)

GodlyBane8/25/2018, 2:51:22 AM5 votes

would u look at that? 0 downvotes.. but nope, riot was totally right for nerfing tp am i right?

Ryusaether8/25/2018, 2:09:14 PM5 votes

Should I say it?

I'll say it.

Teleport is a cockblocker summoner spell and I'd rather have offensive Ignite countered by defensive Spells or even better Ghost than sitting botlane with the fear that if I do an aggressive action botlane the giga cockblocker toplaner will teleport down and screw my action.

Change my mind.

WrÆth8/25/2018, 7:44:00 PM4 votes

Barrier was never good in the first place, only ever picked vs ignite. Heal was only "ditched" because it was nerfed into oblivion when riot saw that everyone was taking it. Neither of these were ditched because "in such a ridiculously high damage meta they were utterly useless".

Tp was not also primarily picked everywhere because of number advantage. It was picked toplane because if you as a toplaner don't have tp vs a coherent splitpusher, they can force you to respond to their splitpush and then tp to the fight, which is kind of for numbers advantage but has been a strategy since like season 5. Every other lane picked it so they had the safety net of backing without losing cs. The reason riot nerfed it was because it was ridiculous playing against an adc caitlyn who perma pushes, gets chunked taking a bad trade, and then tps back to lane every 5 minutes with full health and item advantage.

Love it when people try and warp completely unrelated nerfs to "their is too much damage in the game".