Riot Games, your most petty, fucked up act of cruelty will never deter me from Singed

ryona··1 votes·640 views

So the relatively modest playerbase of Singed have been crying out to Riot Games to buff him. They always respond with a fuck off or fuck no, but a particularly horrific act of cruelty recently was to propose buffs for Singed on PBE and then completely revert them as a giant middle finger to everyone that tried to have some Q/L going for him.

It was to pettily demonstrate who is in authority and yes, they can give him a bone, but they choose not to because it is not in their corporate interests. The company sold its soul long ago.

I think this action affirms my belief this is a company that does not give a shit about anything that does not fall under their agenda. DW, I won't be around in S8 and am only roped into this hideous season because I was under a more idealistic impression when it started.

I continue to only really play to spite Riot Games to be honest. I play champions they neglect and openly despise and hover in Diamond III - I from all of S6 to S7.

Me in S6

http://imgur.com/a/v2OMZ

I still am playing Singed on sub role.

https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=sakugabooru

I admit, it's difficult maintaining my elo exclusively playing Singed compared to before, but I remain proud that I can still be nothing short of Diamond with him alone.

6 Comments

Radiant Wukong3 votes

Singed needs lots of nerfs, not buffs.

Chønklord1 votes

He needs a rework/balance on his passive, his R and his W. not nerfs.

Singed is stagnant out of the meta due to his lack of innate ability to perform his basic kit functions.

Because he was designed to go around enemies with poison trail, and mobility creep has increased exponentially over the last few seasons, he's been pushed further and further out of viability. The nerfs and changes to mana/hp/armor/speed active items also crushed anything left for him.

paisy1 votes

I hope you're joking, plus they said they were bringing the buffs back

ryona1 votes

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I hope you're joking, plus they said they were bringing the buffs back

no, they. are. fucking. not.

And who cares, I don't give a shit if they nerf him for the lulz either directly. All I care about is just how fucking atrociously cruel it is to feign buffs to the point of placing them on PBE, then scrapping them.

paisy1 votes

Singed - We're testing some Singed changes at the moment aimed at letting him be a more meaningful damage threat later in the game. That means shifting some power later in the game, giving him better AP ratios to reward builds that mix some AP and some tankiness. These changes won't be ready for 7.12, so expect to see them vanish from the PBE at some point soon, we'll be continuing to investigate them in future though.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/L97PHhaf-quick-gameplay-thoughts-june-2

HalcyonDweller1 votes

Riot is not out to get singed players. The buffs were probably just not ready to ship yet.

Don't get all "woe is me, Riot hates us and does petty things on purpose to demonstrate and exert their power over us"

That's bullshit and no gaming company would survive actually using such draconian tactics on a free-to-play playerbase.

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