Patch 5.24 Unecessary Balance Changes!

I just wanna go over the changes RIOT has specifically made in this patch. Just...skimming over it,really. OK! What do we have first? Nidalee buffs....what? Oh, you just think her spears need to hit "harder". First of all, she has been hitting "harder" throughout almost the entire season of season 5! Before you question my knowledge of jungle champions, I am a jungle main. I've played a few Nidalee games and, while I don't quite like the champion, she's more than a "strong" champion. Understandably, with all the changes that has occurred there are slightly better junglers than nidalee (Mundo,Kindred and Elise for example) That does NOT warrant a buff for Nidalee! Because as of right now, Nidalee is not far behind. She's arguably 1 of the top 5 junglers and you may give a slap on the wrist to Mundo and Kindred. But, I am just making an assumption here. Is it because you want Nidalee to be number 1 again? How immature is that? "Oh! but her early game isn't quite as strong as everyone elses' and early game is whats important this meta" GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK! You think her early game is weak? That's pretty much mostly why she was picked up in the jungle in the first place! Next one.

Anivia nerfs. Okay, I am not a mid-lane expert, but I haven't seen the so-called strengths currently making Anivia "broken". The mid-lane is a little BRANDED with fire instead of the icy prowess of ice champions. I don't see this BRAND of champion even being remotely good, while better. Doesn't make her the BRAND new OPieOP. So, your nerfing a champ that needs some spotlight after quite a few years out of it. I'm sorry? I think Anivia was played in competitive and I can see why pro players would pick her up. But she's far from being a top pick in SoloQ. Good on you Riot with the massive Zed buffs though! That's gonna be fun to play against for the rest of December until you realized that maybe there's something you should've stretched back a little.

Azir bug-fixes! Go figure! Fix your shit... Bard buffs. Fair play, I know he isn't the greatest support, but remind me why Bard needs buffs over the many other supports that are not only worse off right now, but just have been shat upon time and time again..never seeing the light of day, unlike Mr. Brad. Who quickly made a name for himself after release, quite literally.

Brand. I know the numbers make this look like a decent nerf, but I just want to highlight something real quick. "We're going a little lighter on this nerf choosing to tap efficiency/ harrasment, because Death-fire touch is also getting nerfed" and then they quickly touch upon this ideal that it is his "Go-to keystone mastery". First of all, even though DFT is getting..."nerfed" that just balances the strengths of the champions, more or less, required to take this mastery and just dims them down a slight bit. That doesn't make Brand a lesser option to his fellow "DFT" takers, that makes him more appealing in comparison, not stronger, just more appealing. Sure the champions that aren't required to take become slightly more appealing to brand aswell. But thats where the second flaw comes in. Brand doesn't REQUIRE DFT. Brand is so incredibly strong right now that you can probably go stormraider's surge and still outdmg your enemy laner. That said, the obvious follow-up would be Thunderlord's Decree, which I love this mastery btw, but this is the mastery that really needs the nerfs, get your shit right! There's nothing stopping Brand from using Thunderlord's Decree and being just about as strong as he was with DFT. Also, did anyone see the DFT nerf? That's not a nerf that's a rewrite. I guarantee you will not notice a single change and if you do, dont worry it deals the same amount of damage. Tons.

What else? A few nice balance changes that kind of needed to happen, although not really prioritized. I could rant about Hecarim, but it's kind of stupid and makes really no sense. I mean I understand the changes, it's just so random and unecessary. Mainly because it just seems like a..not much of a nerf, but a slap on the wrist that didn't have to happen if you just FIXED FUCKING CREEP BLOCK YOU DUMBASSES! If you can just magically make things ignore unit collision, why not instead of doing this, give minions the ability to ignore unit collision, specifically against champions! Unless someone gives me a good reason as to why they haven't thought about this, I am going to lose my shit and then have to find it, pick it up and dump it into the toilet.

Jinx buff. Rito pls. Ah, I really don't care...So long as you don't buff someone stupidly crazily OP since release that's made a name for themselves by just existing and should be deleted because they're just a broken ass piece of shit that warrants no praise for the amount of broken success that they have received, simply because ppl have the option of farting on their keyboard. Man, am I glad RitoGames wouldn't do anything as unreasonable as that...Now wha-..........Riven is in the same sentence as "buffs"? Actually I think I am just jumping to conclusions, they probably mean they are buffing every champion that is NOT Riven so that they could be on an equal level as her...OH! no nvm they're buffing Riven...

I am not gonna lie, I saw riven buffs like a month or 2 ago where she would gain this "edge" crap and I quit the game for awhile (even though it was pbe) Because I knew that the game was probably gonna go straight to shit. "It's just a health regeneration buff, nothing too over-bearing." It is too overbearing! Any Riven buff is overbearing! Give Riven +1 more Max HP thats fucking overbearing! I don't mean it now, but this means that Riot has their eyes on giving Riven STRENGTHS! More than she has right now! When that time comes...Jesus Christ... I'm honestly expecting a buff where she can't be permabanned, because thats how broken she is. RitoGames: "So, we felt like Riven hasn't been played too often........BECAUSE OF ALL THE BANS, so we're removing the option to ban her!" I am just...so done! Oh yeaaah! You remember when they used the masteries as an excuse to not nerf brand hard? They did that here too! Look, I know AD Casters may not have masteries designated for them. That said, doesn't mean they are lacking. Kha'zix is one they briefly mentioned, first of all, Kha'zix isn't batshit broken. Second of all, Kha'zix may not be one of the top tier junglers, but he is far FAR from the worst! I still consider him tier-1 just barely reaching out of tier-2. He still needs more attention than Riven. Why? Nobody really notices this because junglers play for specific strengths and focuses on those strengths alone. This meta is early game, get the strongest possible early game jungler you can! Yeah this one..."What about this one? it has strong early game aswell but it also is pretty strong late-game" "NO! This has slightly stronger early game THIS ONE IS BETTER" So we play Kindred,Elise and actually thats why you may still see Gragas around even though he got nerfed to shit.

For the most part, Jungle Riven is very strong. The issue is that it doesn't focus on any specific strength. She's just very strong in every part of the game, her early game is just barely less conceivable than the top junglers right now. That's why she is played top/mid...and bot, yes it happens! Where she can wholeheartedly use all her strengths to her maximum advantage. So the question still stands "Why are they buffing Riven or at least why are they eyeing her to sneak a couple of game-breaking buffs for?" Simple. RitoGames are stupid as fuck.

I think I should stop here, there are other stupid shit like the Skarner nerf..which they actually are trying to tell people is "needed" because he is "dominating" in the jungle. LMFAO! But I covered the stupidest shit in here already..so Can't wait to see what they actually plan on buffing on Riven. Is everyone else excited? I know I fucking am not. Tootles.