"Riot plays favorites" "LC$BIGPLAY$" "Buff X Already"
Like, I was most definitely in the middle of the "buff Sona" threads, but can people that say this line...sort of...fucking STOP? That's not a point to make when asking about buffing/nerfing a champion. Just makes you stupid.
Like, lane assassins have been weak for a long time. The only reason why Yi could say "I was strong" was because Devourer was blatantly overpowered at one point, and even then there were more fighters like Udyr and Shyvanna and Volibear and Xin Zhao using it than assassins like Yi (he may have been the only one, iirc...was he?). So yea, they're buffing assassins like Zed back into favor, and now all of a sudden it's "favoritism". The point of balance isn't "One dude's op for a few weeks/months, and now we're gonna nerf the fucking shit out of them and make someone else insanely op for a few weeks/months". The point is making sure everyone's decently viable. Buffing weak champs to the point of being satisfying, but not too strong, is ultimately harder than slightly nerfing strong champs until they aren't seen 24/7 and aren't straight meta defining (both can go wrong, don't get me wrong), so bringing shit up like "X makes Riot so much money, that's why they don't gut them" or "X makes Riot so little dough, that's why Riot doesn't give a shit" makes no sense. At all.
Poppy, for example, has win rates in higher elos nearing 40% for both top and jungle. I mean, a ton of people were using Poppy, right? They made her a comic, reworked everything about her kit, updated her looks and dialogue, gave her a new dance, and consistently put out information about her in the weeks leading up to her release, right? Why wouldn't Riot hot-fix some issues with the champ they spent so much effort on if they play favorites? You think a whole company is out to get you by not nerfing Lee Sin or Thresh? As much as it irritates me that Thresh's utility hasn't been nerfed yet, I'm not throwing on the tinfoil hat over it, and it was smart not to, because they gave mage supports huge overall buffs by changing the foundation of the game in their favor with stronger mp regen options specifically catered to them (FQC, masteries), something we were complaining about on the boards for a long time.
Worst part about all this? People are bitching about assassins 24/7, and before that it was adcs, but the meta dominant champs ever since Graves was hot-fixed were freaking tanks and immobile mages.
But yea..."favoritism". [zombie-brand-facepalm]
Short version: People that say "Riot plays favorites" or "Because 'LC$BIGPLAY$'" probably don't have the in-game understanding to realize why something isn't balanced one way or another in the first place, nor do they have the patience to ask or the maturity to accept it if told.
