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When a player resorts to ad hominem to win an argument.

Grab·10/29/2017, 11:54:27 PM·4 votes·648 views

This is pulled from ff@20

" Sotere Diamond 3 - Designer - http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=RiotSotere Repertoir - Diamond 4 - Designer - http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Repertoir Trading Stance - Diamond 4 - Designer - http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=TradingStance Wav3break - Diamond 5 - Designer - http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=wav3break _Wittrock - Diamond 4 - QA - http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=riotwittrock Azubk - Diamond 2 - Designer - http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=azubk

_ A few other notes: _ _While the Live Gameplay team is the team that does most of the patch to patch balance changes they also do a lot of other stuff too (e.g. item changes, smaller champion updates, runes work etc). They're also not the only team that does balance work (the new champion team for example is responsible for the release balance of a champion, with Live Gameplay taking over after that). _

    _This isn't the full Live Gameplay team. There are some lower ranked folks on the team too, and some other Diamond+ players as well. We've generally found being good at LoL makes it more likely someone will be good at designing on LoL, but also frequently had people who don't do so well in game perform really strongly as designers._ 

    _We've also got a separate team called Playtest with a higher average ranking again (generally high diamond to masters) who are focused o_n assessing upcoming changes and how they'll impact the game."

_ Guess who gave galio his initial 3% max hp per 100 ap buff? These high elos diamond players. Whenever someone uses the "I'm high elo, you're not" excuse, they're basically saying, "Riot has never made the game imbalanced at all. Look, they got all these diamonds and master players working on design and balancing."__

11 Comments

Mizaya10/30/2017, 12:53:38 AM5 votes

Weren't they accused of having silver players balancing though? And isn't this their response?

Meep Man10/30/2017, 2:00:28 AM2 votes

Yeah, well, you resorted to leaving out the reason this was brought up, which was because people were saying the balance team was in Bronze and Silver.

Also, AP Galio was mainly an issue in the lower ranks rather than higher ranks.

ChargeItDownMid10/30/2017, 12:51:18 AM1 votes

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The Deckowner10/30/2017, 2:02:09 AM1 votes

The truth is, balance team come up with ideas, playtest team play and give feedbacks, but at the end it's the higher up that decides what goes through. Rito doesn't want the game to becompletely balanced, they want rotating meta to keep the game fresh.

chipndip110/30/2017, 5:04:19 AM1 votes

AP Galio coming out the way he did WAS balanced...for Diamond...not for everyone else. He had a middling win rate regardless of the change.