Riot, I quit your game because of your incredibly poor balancing

Dralun·2/20/2015, 7:16:55 PM·104 votes·6,184 views

Believe me or not, but I'm honestly sick of how bad riot handles champions in terms of balance. Between putting champions on the back burner, over nerfing champions, preserving those they they in particular find "healthy", giving us the "Guys we know best trust us. Oh woops damn we messed up!" again and again, and finally never even paying attention to feedback on the PBE. Seriously do you just use that thing to showcase changes to champions and not for the intended use of listening to feedback? Because I honestly cannot remember a time where feedback was given EVEN FOR GLITCHES, that you actually listened to.

Your "balancing team" (which I question if it is even really there a lot of times), needs some serious attention. Whether you realize it or not your player base gets attached to certain champions and would like for them to receive adequate work into making that champion a good champion for league, and you don't deliver time and time again. The funny thing is their attachment is what makes you money, because those are the people buying your skins, just for you to more or less shit on their champion if you decide it isn't best for the game. How nice. How many champions got nerfed and then placed on hold? Elise, Syndra, Ryze, Gragas, Zac, Evelynn, Shyvanna, Zilean, and I'm sure there are more. And then we have problems that have been in existance forever than you also continue to fail to achieve. Akali is all point and click, so you reduce her range... how does that solve the problem again? Lee Sin's kit has too much in it, but you don't change it.

You overnerf and make drastic changes over and over again, instead of slowly chipping away at problem champions and bringing things into balance at a good pace. Game design should be treated as artwork, and in art you don't make giant pencil strokes and glob paint all over the easel. No, you take things slowly and pay attention to details, something your balance "team" hasn't quite gotten yet.

140 Comments

Alorasence2/20/2015, 11:18:55 PM32 votes

Balance is why I quit WOW, and will probably be why I quit this game too.

I miss Syndra.

I'm sick of rotating around my champions.

I used to just play champions through the thick and thin...when they were buffed and nerfed and when they were meta and nonmeta. I was loyal.

That was doable back when a nerf dropped a champion's win rate by a point or two.

Syndra wins 42% of her games.

My main. Fucked. For a month.

Balance is handled by a blind child and it pisses me off.

lojician2/20/2015, 10:20:42 PM14 votes

You said balance "team" when you should have said "balance" team. They are a team, they just suck at balancing.

redniwediS2/20/2015, 7:40:49 PM10 votes

Correction, you quit League because you think they have incredibly poor balancing. You're using your opinion as fact.

AquariusGine2/20/2015, 11:58:37 PM6 votes

Can somebody tell me about Ghostcrawler, is he a good addition to Riot?

(Sorry never played WoW before)