Why has balance been so horrible this season?
I'm not talking Yasuo, or the the whole lack of diversity in pro play jungle picks. I'm talking about balance being so atrocious and unattended for this season.
Right after the Juggernaut patch you guys decided to nerf things and fix what you did. You did the same with Thunderlord's Decree in pre-season. Now, it takes multiple patches for things to fixed. As a player, this is both frustrating and insulting. I don't play blind pick anymore because I have to play draft just to have fun and not play against the things that should have been nerfed. Its insulting as player because it almost seems like Riot doesn't care about my gameplay.
That doesn't mean Riot hasn't balanced at all this season, just so little. They balanced elemental drakes mostly. But wait, what about ArmorPen Lucian, Sated Devourer, Alistar ultimate, and QSS? Sure, these were the very few balance changes that were timely or out of no where.
What about the other changes? You mean changes that either were very unnecessary (Buffing Gnar into a pick-ban) or extremely overdue (Nerfing Grasp of the Undying into a balanced state) or the ones that just completely gutted a champion (Poppy, Kalista, Azir, every "devourer" jungler).
So what exactly is my problem? Riot takes 6+ weeks on average just to balance something. And even then, usually the balancing of it is horrible.
junglers who were nerfed because of the item were said to be "on the radar" for changes after Devourer was replaced with Bloodrazor. Guess what, none of them have been buffed into a decently competitive state. Useless AP ratio buffs to let 2 melee champions use a bad item on melee champions doesn't count.
The tank meta took half the season to kill. HALF THE SEASON just to make tanks not broken. And now, everything else OP is appearing. But half a season just to balance Grasp of the Undying and 2-3 items, you got to be kidding me.
who was absurd, took multiple multiple matches just to push her from being broken, and even then they gutted her. Meanwhile Graves still exists and hasn't been touched, despite having a decently high banrate in Diamond+.
was nerfed so every champion who used to build it doesn't, unless you're Kayle or Kog'Maw. And even then, that nerf completely pushed Kayle out of the meta, and killed off Jax and Yi.
was buffed, making Irelia strong and Jax playable. Took 6+ weeks for Irelia to be nerfed, in exactly the wrong way.
And where are we now? Xerath's QWE has less AP ratio than Viktor's QE, plus Viktor gets more AP than Xerath. Yasuo and Ekko are being played as tanks with relevant damage thanks to Fevorer of Battle. Rylai's permaslows, Mallet kinda permaslows. Vlad has insane healing that no one wants to deal with and executioner.
Problem is, nerfing Fevorer makes Jax unplayable and nerfs Kayle even harder.
