As I read through the 5.18 patch notes I thought "yeah, looks like they nerfed that about right, should be balanced for worlds finally" and then I read about Darius. It seemed so obviously not enough to balance him. I mean he is massively OP still and it is such a shame you have lined up a red side perma ban for the worlds. Not least wrecking any blind pick and team builder games because you can't ban him out.
Critmaster Garen3 votesfuck esports. lcs or worlds havent been interesting for 3 years.
there. i said it.
realistically, hes probably not even going to get played nor banned though. i like how you lcs guys complain that a champion that hasnt seen pro play in a very long time might actually get played for once, when there are champs that get picked or banned nearly every match for years.
shouldnt you be more worried about those? seems like you just hate the champ and use pro play as an excuse to bitch.
Gohnaku1 votes[{quoted}](name=Critmaster Garen,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=fPuZBBxg,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2015-09-20T09:33:00.185+0000)
fuck esports. lcs or worlds havent been interesting for 3 years.
there. i said it.
realistically, hes probably not even going to get played nor banned though. i like how you lcs guys complain that a champion that hasnt seen pro play in a very long time might actually get played for once, when there are champs that get picked or banned nearly every match for years.
shouldnt you be more worried about those? seems like you just hate the champ and use pro play as an excuse to bitch.
Wow, it is a message board and you're being mega salty.
LoLKiru1 votesWow, it is a message board and you're being mega salty.
He's not being salty at all, he's being realistic
Really, (with the exception of Skarner) I don't see any of the juggernauts getting picked (Garen might get a ban or two though). I really doubt Darius in particular would be permabanned especially, since he's easily kited (especially in a coordinated match) and while you COULD ban out things like Ashe or Kalista, that would just open up other power picks to the enemy team, which you may not want.
On that note, Darius' winrate and pickrate both dropped from 5.17
Winrate: 54..91 --> 51.41 (might drop a bit more by the end of 5.17)
His playrate was halved lol: 10.01 --> 5.23.
mfknlwig1 voteshonestly a pro team knows who they like to play even if someones op you need to like playing them otherwise they dnt care they just gonna ban them or not choose them at all
BeatzBoyFTW1 votesDarius was never even used once in LCS(besides LPL) despite not being nerfed, so we're not really expecting him much in Worlds, nerfed or not.