So there is a lot of discussion about certain MAGES being too strong

Skorch··3 votes·428 views

And instead of nerfing Ahri and Ziggs or even Anivia (believe it or not she has a higher winrate than Ahri MID)

Can we nerf some AP Items instead? Like a large majority of AP champs are doing well as well as Mages supportso wouldnt nerfing some Items nerf the class as a whole like it may need?

BTW: Yes i know Lethality and Graves Quinn and ADCs are still an issue but seperate issues with balance are seperate.

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McFatal1 votes

u made a big mistake complaining about mage balance in a mage/support infested zone site.

Skorch1 votes

I have seen MANY people complaining about this over defending it.

Tahminatrix 1 votes

All those downvotes though ;-; My upvote isnt strong enough

The issue is mages have too much of an impact and can carry fairly easily due to the fact that they have such high damaging kits despite being aoe and having moderate to high amounts of cc....

They are basically jack of all trades champs with such generic kits that can suite most teams..the fact that they can do such high amounts of damage while dishing out cc and being ranged in an aoe is beyond me.

Mages should either be more reliant on teammates peeling for them or peeling for teammates...or both..(they are all allowed to be unique)

You`ve got Brand "support" who is able to pump out stuns left and right while also nuking teams down and shredding through any aegis + redemption combo...why? because he can reliably peel for himself and does damage based on the enemy max% just nerf the cooldown on his stun if you want him to do that kind of damage.....

Then you have Velkoz Ahri ..both able to self peel and do true dmg...vel koz gets to aoe knockup/slightlyback while ahri gets a single target taunt/charm along with mobility.

Atleast Zyra has longer cooldowns and/or is more reliant on teammates doing the damage while she peels ...the only reason she can ever do so much dmg to a squishy is because she gets magic pen which the enemy squishy can spend 450 gold to counterbuild...she has a zoning kit that offers peeling and low-medium damage....which I find balanced to an extent

Maybe the issue is riot didnt enforce assassins enough into the meta and they need to put a single slot dedicated to assassin in each team...or add a 6th player per team just for this....otherwise I don`t understand why riot does not nerf the meta mages rather then buffing the adcs causing other classes to suffer and then we have the good old riot inflation.

Psybicilin1 votes

The reason these mages have high win rates is due to the colossal amount of monkeys (like me) in soloQ. If you have a hard time with dodging skillshots, those champions are extremely hard to play against. This is why blitz has such a high win rate, but sucks at the highest levels of play.

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