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Why do I even bother?

Niyumi··1 votes·246 views

Every single champ I enjoy is just apparently hated by our Chinese overlords Tencent, and they are all nerfed into oblivion, so that only the braindead, boring as fucking hell champions who do nothing but click on people and automatically win are even viable. Not like I really expect much more from a God damn F2P company though -- balance isn't lucrative for an F2P company, rather, FOTM champs and classes are.

Is Ori even a viable pick? Is Ekko? Is Azir? Do they have ANY use at all besides being basically a support for teamfights? Why is it that only champions with a kit so fucking simplistic and boring to use are worth anything? LB, Yi, Fizz, Xin, tanks in general, ADCs in general... and anyone else with targeted abilities. If you're not one of those, well, you basically lose from the beginning -- in what world is that "fair" or "balanced?" I just really don't understand how Riot can lie through their teeth about how much they care about their game, and all the effort they put into balance... when anyone with a brain and a functioning eye can see that they really just don't give a damn. At this point, I don't even think they have a balance team; it's all just a bunch of sleazy suits sitting at a table thinking about how to best boost sales and profits while making people think they're actually doing something beneficial for the game.

  • "-3 AD on Vayne" -- yet she can still 1v5 and win at full health. That change just totally balanced her, right?

  • "We made Brand's W a little more expensive" -- yet he can still just slam his face onto his keyboard and instantly kill you.

  • "We made Swain's root have a slightly shorter duration" -- yet he still clicks on you and laughs as you just passively die.

Placebo changes like that are NOT balance. It's just a fucking trick to make the kiddies settle down about some champ they hate.

As long as targeted abilities and braindead champions are far, far more powerful than skillshots and complex champions... this game is not balanced in the slightest. What champs did you see at Worlds? You saw Azir once, and then a bunch of braindead clickers and CC bots (No, Elise and Lee are NOT high skill champions in the slightest). But, you know, "diversity" and "balance" are things. What reward do I get for having pathetic damage, no mobility, very predictable attacks, being squishy, and all that? None. I just get killed repeatedly by whatever clicker is in favor at the time.

So, really, why do I even bother playing champs I enjoy? It's either play a champion I can't stand, and win without any effort whatsoever, or lose (unless the enemy team is special needs). How is that balanced? I'd love for Riot to explain it to me, and prove that the company is more than just a bunch of greedy assholes humping their wallets and fantasizing about milking whales with their latest hype-fest skin sale or champion release as the base game rots.

So, give me a list of the "balanced" champions for me to play and fall asleep during games with. At least then I'd start winning, instead of just lamenting the fact that every champion I enjoy is useless.

6 Comments

disregardable3 votes

Your low elo is showing.

Hello I am Bird2 votes

Stop being so... toxic :3

shadowsaotome1 votes

So what are your favorite champs then?

Niyumi1 votes

For mid: Ori (9/10 games I feed, 1/10 I carry), Ekko (when I first bought him, I was great with him, now I just suck), Azir (his damage is just laughable, even though I know his kit to the T), Kass (he does okay), Syndra (carry pretty easily with her).

For top: GP (after all the nerfs, he's just so weak now), Gnar (hit or miss. I either carry hard or feed hard), Darius (same with Gnar, but a little easier to do well), Poppy (I stomp with her as jungle, but top is kind of iffy) and more recently Graves (carry hard and then fall off).

For jungle: Shaco (hit and miss), Eve (usually hard carry, but have a bad game here and there), Poppy (same as Eve), Rek'sai (don't do too well), Tahm (depends on my team) and Nid (hit and miss).

For ADC: Trist (usually carry, some bad games -- but she's not fun. Just one of my go-to ADCs), Lucian (usually do pretty well), Ez (either feed hard or carry hard, no inbetweens), and Graves more recently (just like top, I DOMINATE for a while, then fall off).

For support: Bard is my all-time favorite, but his performance depends on how your team follows up. Tahm (usually do well), Braum (not very fun, performance depends on ADC), Morg (super boring, usually don't do well), Annie (easy champion, but I die when I get focused), Lux (eh, I usually just push people out of lane, don't do much else).

Those are my usual picks in each role, but maybe not my favorites. My favorites would be Ori, Syndra, GP, Gnar, Poppy, Nid, Graves (new one), Eve and Ez. Of those, I do horribly with Ori most of the time, and GP isn't too good after his nerfs. The rest are kind of carry hard or die trying -- so I either go 20/5 or 5/20.

2 Weezy Baby1 votes

How to be low elo - complain about boards about how bad you are.

Niyumi1 votes

At least I can stand up and call bullshit when I see it, instead of just exploiting all the braindead, broken as hell champs that fill this game. There aren't many games even worth playing anymore, and League is slowly losing its appeal -- I don't want it to die off entirely too, so maybe if I complain enough, Riot will open their eyes and stop humping their wallet for once. ^^

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