Riot, when you nerf something, nerf it hard

NoDomeAtHome·10/24/2015, 12:27:18 PM·1 votes·547 views

For instance.... Darius... Yusuo... So on... Lucian Last season, ap trist before that... Ap ex with the new jungle item.... When you nerf things instead of tip toeing around it trying not to hurt the whatever mains feelings.... Admit you made a mistake, man up... nerf them into the dirt flat stat wise or something. And then week by week buff them slowly back into balance. . . . .so that way people aren't getting jacked over in ranked by broken game imbalance. Either that or disable them in ranked. I understand you already made your money riot, but you might want to start listening to the players of your game. I looked one week recently and Darius had a 91.4% ban rate. Yet... I didn't see a nerf even weeks after that. You are a horrible company who has priorities I the wrong places. I used to love league, but after season 3 it's gone no where but downhill.

6 Comments

Critmaster Garen10/24/2015, 12:33:31 PM3 votes

ban rates dont mean shit. darius still has a high ban rate although his winrate dropped to 46%.

a lot of times bans dont relate to the power of a champion. people just ban what everyone bans, so the champion doesnt stop getting banned. combine that with the fact that a lot of people dont even read patch notes and this will keep going until pre season at least, even though he already got a series of nerfs.

and dont forget, that half of the player base of this game sits in bronze and silver. people at that rating dont ban smart. they dont build tamcomps with a specific goal in mind or ban champs that could counter their teamcomp. they dont know what to ban, so they just ban the same champions every game.

kombu10/24/2015, 12:33:59 PM2 votes

Ban rate does not equal broken. The perfect example is Darius. He's banned in nearly every low elo game because people don't know how to kite or counter pick.

I think that casual nerfs until they like the champ is better than scrapping everything and starting all over.

NoDomeAtHome10/24/2015, 12:43:18 PM1 votes

I haven't played in weeks, last I played was recently after the Darius rework. But that wasn't the point of the post... My point is you'll see nerfs that aren't enough for like two months before they finally get someone where they need to be. I am not a game designer... But I can't imagine that a company that makes as much as riot could not afford to hire some more people to work out the adding up kinks in this game. They've butchered it and it's only gotten worse and worse over the past two years. Which is why EVERYONE I used to play with has quit. By that I mean 30+ people I know that used to play, no longer play, all due to the game going to shit.

Prospector Pete10/24/2015, 12:59:26 PM1 votes

When you punch something, punch it hard.