Snowballing in the context of the "pls keep Zed and Riven disabled threads"

megagnura·7/16/2015, 6:53:43 PM·2 votes·766 views

The whole issue brought up by Zed and Riven being disabled is a whole bunch of hate/pls nerf this champ is also imo because all of these champions are extremely snowbally.

Because these champions such asZed Akali Fizz Ekko Riven Leblanc Vayne Yasuo is all based off the fact that they all scale REALLY REALLY WELL into late game. This means that if one of them gets ahead early they will outscale an enemy who is already behind them, this usually means that they are ahead of EVERYONE else and due to the nature of assassins will resultingly snowball out of control and stomp the game.

Snowballing as a larger issue could be considered the most fun or soul-crushing part of league of legends. Its hilariously fun to be able to kill the enemy carry as fizz with 2 spells, however being on the other end is the most frustrating part of the game.

Being at the point where out playing or having better mechanics that the other player won't win you the duel because one spell puts you at half health and their auto attacks deal a quarter of your health is not fun. We all know this.

This point is why assassins often get the most hate/bans and nerf requests from the community. Something the community tends to forget(or at least it seems to me) is that an assassin is SUPPOSED to kill you quickly and efficiently, so it should not be surprising that when an assassin gets ahead they will kill you even faster, at this stage of the game bruisers and tanks will also be vulnerable since they haven't had time to build the defensive items they need to survive that kind of burst

In conclusion understand that fed assassins doing exactly what they are supposed to do especially and the way to deal with them is to group up and catch them out of position instead of making a "Rito pls nerf thread"

8 Comments

CrazedPorcupine7/16/2015, 6:55:40 PM1 votes

There's a difference between "Snowballing because you played well enough to get ahead" and "I'm behind, but I got my big ticket item that instantly allows me to kill you, so now you can't do anything about me anymore"

TheRakkun7/16/2015, 7:16:10 PM1 votes

Only healthy assassins TBH Rengar Evelynn Talon Diana Fiddlesticks (Don't tell me he's not) Why? Because it's easy to shut them down because if they fuck up they haven't got a million and one ways to get out of the shitter.