Proof that Riot's balance team is high

Scazie··5 votes·972 views

Is that they decided to buff Satan Lord Teemo. OUT OF ALL THE CHAMPIONS IN THE GAME THAT COULD DO WITH BUFFS OR QOL TWEAKS, THEY DECIDE TO BUFF TEEMO. I can guess how this went down.

  • Riot Balance Team smoking weed and doing magic Mushrooms* Random Balance Team Member 1: We should totes like, do balance or something. Random Balance Team Member 2: Boards are QQing for Riven Nerfs Annie and Ekko are definitely too strong. And it's pretty much the same 20 or so champions showing up in every game, as usual. Random Balance Team Member 3: So buff Teemo? Random Balance Team Member 1 & 2: Yep definitely. Random Balance Team Member 3: Shrooms are just, so magical. Random Balance Team Member 1: And soooooo awesome... Random Balance Team Member 2: All hail shroomlord? Random Balance Team Member 1&3: All hail shroomlord Teemo. Riot Stashu: Well guys, I did promise the LoL community some Cassio tweaks a while back..maybe we should work on that... Random Balance Team Member 1: Teemo uses poison. Random Balance Team Member 2: And so does Cassio Random Balance Team Member 3: So Teemo buffs = Cassio Tweaks? Riot Stashu: Teemo buffs it is.

24 Comments

OperationDEEZ14 votes

Teemo isn't even that good.

Scazie2 votes

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Teemo isn't even that good.

And he should stay that way. Riot is always BSing about how XX play style is toxic, and how they want to get rid of anti-fun, and how champions that aren't very fun to play against need to be changed even if they're fun to play, yet they decide to buff Teemo. Teemo is literally Satan. No one wants to play with or against Satan. Satan is not fun, and devil worship isn't funny.

redniwediS2 votes

All champions deserve to be viable. It's a matter of debate whether or not he needs a rework to pull that off, but even Teemo deserves to be viable.

Marshmallow Wolf2 votes

teemo isn't anti fun. he's challenging to lane against and definately not impossible to win against. playing against dinger? that is zero fun.

Marshmallow Wolf1 votes

i'm not about to play garen mid lol

redniwediS2 votes

The point is if Garen can beat him so can others.

Marshmallow Wolf1 votes

eh garen is freelo bronze cheese to me anyway

Conturbatio1 votes

People find him anti-fun to play against because they play a melee champion against him, and most ranged champions shit on melees (hello Vayne, Kalista, Quin)

OperationDEEZ11 votes

He's essentially an AP ADC with a shit auto range in direct combat. But Teemo is the name, and ambushing is his game and you need to be on your toes unless you want him to get the jump on ya.

EffectFX3 votes

I don't see these buffs. You should probably lay off the weed for a little bit, clear your head.

Scazie2 votes

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I don't see these buffs. You should probably lay off the weed for a little bit, clear your head.

PBE. Crawl out from under that rock and check Surr20

EffectFX1 votes
  1. It's the PBE so it's not guaranteed change.
  2. I did and didn't see anything relating to teemo.
  3. So either quit hallucinating or link it.
OperationDEEZ11 votes

Do you know how Riot is with the PBE? If it's on PBE it's almost GUARANTEED to make it to live, regardless of community feedback coughKalista cough There's another post on the matter, a couple posts below. With a Surrender@20 link.

Scazie2 votes

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  1. It's the PBE so it's not guaranteed change.
  2. I did and didn't see anything relating to teemo.
  3. So either quit hallucinating or link it.

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/07/723-pbe-update.html Use your hands to scroll down and your eyes to read.

And like the only thing that's shown up on PBE and not hit live within the past few months is the supposed Abyssal sceptre Rework.

EffectFX1 votes

See? Wasn't hard. For whatever reason I can't find this post on S20's main page, isn't showing up yet.

Abyssal scepter rework is not the only thing to be reverted, off the top of my head I can name several changes that were reverted before going live.

Conturbatio1 votes

It's guaranteed 98% of the time.

EffectFX1 votes

Source.

Cindikle2 votes

He's not even getting changed that much power wise.

  • He's getting more flexibility in his stealth when in a bush.
  • Early game AS passive boost is lower, but huge late game(100% at level 18 vs 40% at all levels).
  • R slow is weaker(decays over time).
  • R arms slower(easier to avoid him planting one in your face)
  • R gets more range late game and new mechanics
  • R's duration is halved(5min vs 10min).

He's trading some early game power for late game power. Also take note that he is currently quite weak. Most of his power early game power is being hard to gank and being ranged.

He's gaining some late game utility/mechanics. That's about it.

Conturbatio1 votes

These are just nerfs disguised as buffs, similar to Veigar/Mordekaiser's "compensation buffs" and you've been easily deceived by Riot. Leblanc

Jesus Canaj 4201 votes

xD

Catastrop1 votes

Hey, I and a lot of other people actually like playing Teemo. These changes aren't anything major in anyway, because he still dies with minimum focus. I'm glkad he's getting a slight buff, he can actually be viable.

The Whamboozler1 votes

It's a nerf, dude. They're cutting his R's slow down by making it decay, upping the arming time and cutting their duration on the map to last half as long which takes away his map control. That's the ONLY thing Teemo is any good at aside from abusing his blind in lane. They even nerfed his early game AS from ambush which won't make a huge deal, but it's still a nerf.

The ability to throw shrooms is nothing compared to that and I don't think the endgame buff to his AS will make that big a deal since it'll only really help if Teemo pops out to catch you 1v1. If he appears in a teamfight, he's DEAD. And if he's able to ambush a solitary squishy then they were probably dead already without the AS buff. It has no real practical use.

Those changes are a nerf.

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