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@Riot Do you balance champions around items or items around champions?

Lauchmelder··1 votes·196 views

I mean, both options work when applied on it's own, but balancing champions around items one patch and then doing the opposite (balancing items around champions) the next patch just makes it a mess.

Wouldn't it be the easiest to balanced champions based on their base stats, take that as "The Balance" and then buff or nerf items to have the same outcome with them compared to without them (if that makes sense)?

2 Comments

Zerenza1 votes

Usually they balance items around champions, there are exception but it's usually a mistake they made. For example, instead of nerfing Cinderhulk back in the day, they nerfed every champion that abused the item instead. This made most, if not all the champions that used the item pretty shit for quite awhile. They then nerfed the item too and placed certain champions in the gutter cough Sejuanni until he recent update cough.

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