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It sucks when pro play happens to ur favorite champion

Veraska·9/11/2018, 7:03:19 PM·8 votes·3,151 views

Im reading through that emotionally charged sejuani thread full of sej players sad to see their tank get nerfed over and over again

As a rengar player i can relate, it sucks when ur just an average person with average mechanics but the top 1% show what the champions capable of and gets them nerfed over and over and over

After a certain point i had to stop because my champion who i had just put my last 200 hours into is just too hard to play, i could 1st time xin zhao and have a better experience and an easier time carrying a lead. 200 hours wasted.

When an older champion or a more linear champion (wukong, yorick) get picked in pro it feels like a death sentence for that champion. This is because the champions are simple they have 4 abilities and they only work in so many ways, and any numbers nerfs are felt 10 times as hard then someone like ryze/azir/gnar who just have more options on how they play the game

Not that i dont sympathize with ryze mains, seeing your champion get nerfed because bejergson knows how to cs just sucks

There isnt an elegant solution to the issue, its just a symptom of riots balance philosophy where they try to balance for everyone

Im not saying wu or yorick were nerfed because pro play btw, they were soloQ monsters, i think wu got picked once in eu, not sure about yorick

Now urgot might be next because his priority in pro play has crep'd up noticably

6 Comments

haaaaaaalp9/11/2018, 7:16:39 PM2 votes

It is better to have pro players get your champion nerfed than to have your champion so bad no pro team will touch them.

I played chogath before and after his mini-rework last season. After his rework, he got a few nerfs from pro play but it was honestly so much better playing him than before the rework when he was too weak for any team to look at.

Otarito9/11/2018, 11:23:55 PM2 votes

As someone who mained Taliyah until 8.11, I agree with this. Because of pro-play, my sustained AOE battle mage, is now a single-target burst-mage. She also doesn't work mid all that well anymore, so I either ditch the champion, or ditch the role. Sad times

Colton1479/12/2018, 7:29:19 AM1 votes

Azir Kalista Ryze item 3070

Leto GT9/12/2018, 7:21:12 PM1 votes

I kinda start to hate pros and all this world event for that reason. The experience of the average players is thrown off as if balance was only justified based on the best performers in the best organized environnement. Who de f*** cares pro scenes except stakesholders anyway? It's boring since s3.