How the balance team decides of the balance changes is seriously beyond my understanding.

uDqNQ8EBVBjNC9Uk·7/27/2017, 4:39:14 AM·2 votes·212 views

Sivir, whose winrate was near the 50% for a long time, while still having an alright playrate. +30 base damage on her Q (good thing it's being hotfixed to +10 instead)

Fiora, whose winrate has been 48% for ONE PATCH after her nerf from something like 51-52% winrate and thus has been for dozens of patches. Nerf already partially reverted

Ekko, whose winrate and pickrate were respectable for an AP assassin mid laner and still saw some play in pro level of play. -2 seconds off his E, scaling down to normal at lvl 13

meanwhile

Ezreal, suffering from many indirect buffs, starting from Death's Dance nerfing his pokr style by tons, crit items being buffed, thus allowing late gane ADCs to reach their powerspike even more quickly than Ezreal, and BoTRK rush being a thing which hurts his laning phase again, and having an absolutely pitiful 44-45% winrate for like 6-7 patches in a row, with his playrate going down with each patch. Don't worry guys, let's just reduce the cd on his Q by 1/0.75/0.5/0.24/0 second! He's not bad, he just needs a little boost! :D


Please let me understand what is going on in Riot's head.

And hey look at that, Ezreal's winrate spiked a lot! It went from 45% to 45.8%!!!!

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Michael7027/27/2017, 4:43:40 AM1 votes

You belong in a museum.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo7/27/2017, 4:45:01 AM1 votes

ezreal is in a bad spot due to his build path and items he needs and the current meta of early game aggression game play. he flat out loses trades in bot lane due to needing to stack a tear or starting sheen... he dont have the raw power needed to trade and that build path dont hit a power curve til about 18 mins in game on average

now just out of curiosity why not think outside the box for him? i know he still needs mana... and cdr but what if just off the top of my head item 3508 item 3147 build?