Riot (apparently) believes Sona's only had "a small nerf."

GigglingAngel·Feb 4, 2015·11 votes·866 views

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/GD/9bf6y21b-soraka-deserved-this-skin-sona?comment=0001000200000002

Who are they fooling, exactly?

15 Comments

DrMarshSwampFeb 4, 201511 votes

It really shows how disconnected Riot is from their own game if they can't recognize how badly all the different "small nerfs" add up on Sona.

GigglingAngelFeb 4, 20151 votes

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It really shows how disconnected Riot is from their own game if they can't recognize how badly all the different "small nerfs" add up on Sona.

You're telling me. o.o

SEKAIFeb 4, 20154 votes

Great, next up Lee. (Zed afterwards, then fix J4 and rework Akali)

No no, I am not telling Riot to gut Lee, small nerf would do right?

EDIT: She actually didn't take a big nerf per se, just a bunch of small nerfs over the time that eventually takes the toll on her, and it's bad.

GigglingAngelFeb 4, 20152 votes

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Great, next up Lee. (Zed afterwards, then fix J4 and rework Akali)

No no, I am not telling Riot to gut Lee, small nerf would do right?

EDIT: She actually didn't take a big nerf per se, just** a bunch of small nerfs over the time that eventually takes the toll on her, and it's bad.**

Right. The main problem is that they keep looking at each nerf in a singular fashion, even when someone's been nerfed more than 5x. And they aren't all small nerfs, either. There's been a couple big ones.

JFRANKSTAFeb 4, 20152 votes

IKR SO UNPLAYABLE..... oh wait she has 51.6% win rate...... people really need to get over this, sona is still god tier supp and thats not changing anytime soon QQ harder

SEKAIFeb 4, 20151 votes

That's not how statistics work.

DirewolfiezFeb 4, 20157 votes

And a pick rate of 7.5%. If you don't understand why that's important, then don't talk about win rates.

AHeroNamedHawkeFeb 4, 20151 votes

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And a pick rate of 7.5%. If you don't understand why that's important, then don't talk about win rates.

8% pick and 50% win rates are average

Congrats Sona is balanced now

qetzelFeb 4, 20153 votes

With 123 Champions the expected pick rate is 8.1.

7.5 is not an incredily low pick rate.

BastionKrossFeb 4, 20152 votes

I think of it like this, imagine if you contracted Riot to trim back a bothersome tree near your house.

The Riot team would show up, cut off a single branch, and leave for a month. Then they come back, trim another branch, and the same thing happens. This goes on for about 8 or 9 months until eventually the tree is missing the majority of it's limbs and can barely keep itself alive. When you confront the crew, they give a little chuckle and say they just did "a slight trimming".

Disclaimer: No Maokai were harmed in the making of this metaphor.

101100111000Feb 4, 20151 votes

Fiddlesticks deserved the ultimate skin. I wanted to be able to spook like no other Fiddle skin has spooked before. SO much potential.

And they give it to the champion they just finished nerfing down hard. >_>

GigglingAngelFeb 4, 20152 votes

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Fiddlesticks deserved the ultimate skin. I wanted to be able to spook like no other Fiddle skin has spooked before. SO much potential.

And they give it to the champion they just finished nerfing down hard. >_>

No no, it's just "a small nerf."