The balancing choices for Tahm Kench and Galio are becoming a Nightmare

BLIGHTBRINGER·Jun 8, 2019·1 votes·1,249 views

Neither of these champions can be balanced into a decent state, they are are too strong or completely useless.

Tahm Kench's (who's meant to be a support) keeps having his damage buffed (thus making him too oppresive in Top Lane), and parts/mechanics of his supportive side nerfed and eventually removed just because it's a good tool to ensure someone's survival as well as because you know Pro Play.

Galio ovetime was transformed from a Tank into an AP Bruiser, who's almost an AP Assassin with some tanky stats because most people are just going full AP on him.

Riot just can't decide what to do with them, and anything they do just isn't working for the better. They are almost worst than Ryze/Kalista at this point, I guess Akali also fits this whole situation but not to such extreme intent as Tahm Kench and Galio.

1 Comments

haaaaaaalpJun 8, 20192 votes

Tahm hasn’t had much time to be balanced top. He was fine as a top laner on release and never felt hard to balance. It was just his support role that kept forcing changes which eventually made him a problem top lane. Once support Tahm is removed, top lane Tahm will be fine. If riot is really desperate, they can always just remove the defensive utility for devour and focus more on the offensive cc aspect of it (which is how top lane Tahm uses it mostly anyway).

He is at a 13% banrate 8% pick rate 53% winrate. Those stats are overpowered but Don’t really follow an unhealthy pattern. I would say he fits more in line with something like teemo (who follows a similar ban/pick/win rate pattern when overpowered l) who is annoying but tolerable once his numbers are in line.