No hate please, but I feel like the game right now is fairly balanced right now.

Weathered··2 votes·437 views

##Once again, I anticipate very different opinions on this, so I'd rather people comment than down vote if they have something to say. Btw, kinda lengthy post.


The game is fairly balanced right now. As of this post, OP.GG has recorded that the top 5 winrates in all ranks over the past week are: Udyr (56%) KogMaw (55%) Malzahar (54%) Amumu (54%) XinZhao (53%)


Udyr is just having a win spike because of an indirect buff from item 1402 , but there is always one champion like that every patch. Udyr can be dealt with too (or just simply banned), because if you shut him down early and end the game fairly quick rather than drag it out, he doesn't have much impact. KogMaw , well, I have no clue why he is at such a high winrate. Possibly its that the other high winrate champions are all great for peal and protecting him, so he's shinning right now. Malzahar has always had a good winrate because he is safe and good in the right hands, so nothing new. He's not oppressive, but has good impact with people who are good with him. Amumu , like Malzahar , has always done well because of his safety. He's great at almost every ELO, especially low, so its no surprise. XinZhao is probably overly tuned right now, and Riot already made sure that it was known that he would be having an eye watching him (just ban him probs).


AP junglers have been on the rise (Elise Gragas Diana etc.), which is great because of ADC's being good this season and AD's like Zed get item 3147. I really haven't had the problem where it's like "omg not this champ again he is in every game and is winning them all (im looking at you LeeSin )". And hey, Khazix has a better win rate than Rengar now! Sion actually has a better winrate than Graves (with the above mentioned search parameters).


I don't know about you guys, but I am actually enjoying Season 6 now that Riot has their hands on the bull and are flattening out the balance problems.

######P.S. Keystones are still wack.

3 Comments

Mecha MaIphite1 votes

It's not balanced but it certainly isn't as bad as people claim it is.

ValyrianBlade1 votes

The top 9 junglers (of 44) take up over half of the play space.

The top 13 top laners (of 52) take up half of the play space.

The top 9 mid laners (of 46) take up over half of the play space.

The top 4 ADCs (of 18) take up over 60% of the play space (with Lucian and Ezreal taking up nearly half alone).

The top 5 supports (of 23) take up nearly half of the play space.

That's top by play percent, not win percent. But still. Those stats are scary. There are literally 40 champions of 130 (some of those 40 may even be double counted if popular in multiple roles) that account for over half of all champions that show up in league.

That's a balance issue in my opinion. And most of these champions have high win rates alongside low average games played (so people are taking up a random new champion and winning on it).

Weathered1 votes

I agree, but that is probably more of an undernerfed champions problem rather than over powered ones. Riot doesn't want to fix that though without full reworks (at least in some champions cases).

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