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As someone whose top played champs are Kayle, Soraka, Fiddle and Zilean....

Blunts4Brekfast·11/5/2014, 10:18:41 PM·1 votes·837 views

This season has sucked.

Three of my four champs nerfed hard. Kayle in a strange place where people cant decide if shes strong or not so eventually they probably will think shes strong and riot will remake her to be trash like new raka or something.

Incase anyone has forgot, Kayle has been messed with all season. Soraka rework removed her two best features (armor and mana give) so shes terrible to play now. Fiddle fear nerf made no sense and was also a massive nerf to his drain. And now Zilean loses the only part of his kit that helped the team.

I climbed from bronze V to gold V by helping my random teammates. I climbed by picking Soraka and refusing to let my adc go oom or run low on health. Raka ults ftw. I climbed by roaming from mid as Kayle to help the other lanes and ult allies. I climbed by helping all my allies at once with zilean passive, and the occasional zilean ult. **I climbed from bronze to gold to picking champs who instead of letting me carry would help my teammates carry. I climbed by picking champs that required good teamwork and by forcing that teamwork to happen. **

Now what do I have left? Kayle? A zilean ult? I started this season with a pool of 4 and its down to 1. Until they ruin Kayle somehow. Im sure theyll find a way. They can never just leave balanced champs alone.

Riot has effectively removed all the champs I used that facilitated teamwork. I could take trynd and just splitpush all day but I actually like the teamwork aspect of group activities. I have no idea why Riot keeps nerfing champs that facilitate teamwork but its killing my enjoyment of this game. Not everyone wants to just pick a solo laner, hit /muteall and carry. Someone of us actually want to play a team game.

5 Comments

Sightless6611/5/2014, 11:27:05 PM1 votes

First, Fiddle and Zilean are still good. Fiddle in fact has a very high win rate and draws quite a few bans at Diamond level play. He's strong. Yeah, he got nerfed, but everyone gets nerfed too and a lot of them got nerfed more than him. Zilean will still play the same. He loses a bit of power, but his gameplay is the same. If all you liked about him was his passive, then you really weren't the target player anyway.

So, you have Fiddle and Zilean still being very strong picks if you want to use them. Soraka is good too, although if you liked her for the armor and mana then I can see why you'd dislike her. Mind you, still not weak. Just different. Also, getting buffed.

Finally, just remember something. Everyone has had their favorite champions nerfed. On average, Riot nerfs a lot more than they buff. Don't write things off just because they get nerfed, because other champions will get nerfed a ton too, and your dude will be better by comparison.

Seriously though, Fiddle has actually seen play in the LCS and the Korean pro scene pretty recently. He's considered by quite a few diamond players as a god-tier jungler, particularly for solo queue. He's massively strong right now. Don't write him off.

BeatzBoyFTW11/5/2014, 11:41:21 PM1 votes

Kayle - she hasn't been touched for more than 5 patches, and you got 5/0 with her lol

Soraka - this is due to all the idiots who kept playing her as a mid chammpion.

Zilean - doesn't matter, all I care is that I can still place free-damage bombs from a distance without counterplay.

EffectFX11/6/2014, 2:22:48 AM1 votes

Kayle is still strong. Soraka being nerfed was the best thing ever for top laners Fiddle nerf made perfect sense, they even explained why in the patch notes. They're slowly removing random elements from the game. Global passives being removed is a good thing. Stop whining about it when it was obviously going to happen.

AloneInTheCrowd11/6/2014, 3:12:05 AM1 votes

All you have to do is adapt , might be a bit frustrating but you'll get the hang of it hopefully.

This season has sucked.

Three of my four champs nerfed hard. Kayle in a strange place where people cant decide if shes strong or not so eventually they probably will think shes strong and riot will remake her to be trash like new raka or something.

Incase anyone has forgot, Kayle has been messed with all season. Soraka rework removed her two best features (armor and mana give) so shes terrible to play now. Fiddle fear nerf made no sense and was also a massive nerf to his drain. And now Zilean loses the only part of his kit that helped the team.

I climbed from bronze V to gold V by helping my random teammates. I climbed by picking Soraka and refusing to let my adc go oom or run low on health. Raka ults ftw. I climbed by roaming from mid as Kayle to help the other lanes and ult allies. I climbed by helping all my allies at once with zilean passive, and the occasional zilean ult. **I climbed from bronze to gold to picking champs who instead of letting me carry would help my teammates carry. I climbed by picking champs that required good teamwork and by forcing that teamwork to happen. **

Now what do I have left? Kayle? A zilean ult? I started this season with a pool of 4 and its down to 1. Until they ruin Kayle somehow. Im sure theyll find a way. They can never just leave balanced champs alone.

Riot has effectively removed all the champs I used that facilitated teamwork. I could take trynd and just splitpush all day but I actually like the teamwork aspect of group activities. I have no idea why Riot keeps nerfing champs that facilitate teamwork but its killing my enjoyment of this game. Not everyone wants to just pick a solo laner, hit /muteall and carry. Someone of us actually want to play a team game.

All you have to do is adapt , might be a bit frustrating but you'll get the hang of it hopefully.