Poor balancing ruins the game and makes a toxic playerbase

Kat I HundeMad·3/10/2019, 5:49:49 PM·33 votes·10,897 views

To be honest it feels like the balance team at Riot don't even play the game themselves. It seems like they with each patch just pick some champions at random and roll a dice to see if the champion is gonna be nerfed or buffed.

Nasus is way too strong at this point. The buff to his Q has made him do far too much damage in the early and mid game. Before Nasus was a tanky bruiser that would scale into the late game, but now he gets his Q stacks extremely fast. Riot have given him all this extra damage without taking away some of his sustain. Champions that would counter Nasus before and make it difficult for him to stack his Q, like Teemo, do an insignificant amount of damage to him. And all the damage Nasus takes, he can easily heal back with his passive, which gives him an insane amount of lifesteal. Nasus simple has to press his Q on a minion and then he is full health again, and the healing just gets stronger and stronger with the extra Q stacks. Furthermore, his W as a way too strong slow compared to its range. He can easily press his W on his lane opponent and chunk them for half of their health with one single Q at 12 minutes in. His E also does a significant amount of damage without building any AP at all.

It is extremely difficult to prevent him from stacking his Q as he has extreme sustain in his passive.

Over all, he gets too strong too soon in the game. And his Q stacks up so fast that he does not have to build any damage at all, and he can use all his gold on building health, resistances and utility making him practically unkillable, while still doing insane damage.

Nasus is just one out of many champions that makes the game not fun to play, resulting in an extremly toxic playerbase. It really just ruins the fun and makes League a frustrating game to play, when the balance team has no insight in the game.

37 Comments

Ayzev3/10/2019, 6:33:10 PM23 votes

You could've made a good point here, one actually relevant to the title, but then you made it entirely about Nasus.

SpyKayle3/10/2019, 6:40:58 PM15 votes

Ah common misconception. Nasus is not a major late-game champion, his late-game is decent but not where he shines. Where Nasus shines is actually mid-game, has been like that for seasons.

The Skáld3/10/2019, 5:57:15 PM12 votes

Yasuo Riven are laughing about balance.

mack91123/10/2019, 6:06:41 PM7 votes

Nasus has clear counter play your inability to deal with him is not a balance issue

Anchorit Wracaj3/10/2019, 8:01:54 PM6 votes

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/overview/nasus/diamond So in Diamond Nasus it at 49.8% Win rate,4.6% pick rate,3.7% ban rate. So there is Riven with 52.6% win rate,15.1% pick rate,23.7% ban rate There is Jax with 51.5% win rate,9.9% pick rate,28.4% ban rate. Jayce is at 51.1% win rate,10.4% pick rate,13.2% ban rate Darius is at 50.3% win rate,8.1% pick rate,19.5% ban rate Olaf is at 51.0% win rate,4,7% pick rate,4.7% ban rate. Vladimir is at 50.4% win rate,5.6% pick rate,29.7% ban rate. There is sylas,yasuo,kayle with huge ban rates and pick rates also All of this champions have higher win rate,pick rate and ban rate then Nasus. So if Nasus needs nerf...they need a harder nerfs before Nasus definetly. So your point is invalid kinda much.

Floupi3/10/2019, 11:03:50 PM4 votes

You could mention like 10 op champions and you talk about useless Nasus lol

SociopathFriend3/11/2019, 4:48:54 AM4 votes

The fanbase was toxic way back in 2013 too. This isn't new and never was.

Ragnaveil3/10/2019, 5:57:31 PM3 votes

Eh, if you wanted to make that point even better, you should have used Vayne as an example along with Nasus. With Phantom Hit still existing along side her Q and R buffs, her late almost exists once she gets two items.

TinkerTantrums3/10/2019, 6:12:45 PM3 votes

It really just ruins the fun and makes League a frustrating game to play, when the balance team has no insight in the game.

According to Champion.gg a Bronze level Nasus in the top lane comes in at #7 out of all the champion/role combos, with a win rate of 53.79%.

But a Platinum+ Nasus in the top lane falls to #44, with only a 51.33% win rate.

TLDR: Nasus kills the weak.

Mr Elessar3/10/2019, 6:26:26 PM3 votes

You don't need to play to balance it.

~Rito circa 2018

GFREEMEN3/10/2019, 9:59:39 PM2 votes

KoolAid man busting through a wall "OH YA"

Been playing since S2 and never had a report Im not one to get mad about things. Game is so bad now I got a 12 game chat bad for calling someone "Trash" because THEY WERE TRASH.

Meanwhile.... Someone can Soft int all games and never hear a word from Riot

BestGmers3/10/2019, 6:41:21 PM2 votes

Let's not forget that they nerfed conq to the ground imo Still it's not so bad but PTA might be a option right now..

Speaking about nasus yea. In bronze he is really strong my team lets him stack 24/24 ..

KlydeFrog3/11/2019, 9:08:03 PM1 votes

No people will cry and complain about anything. Because people believe what they want to believe. Take ez for instance, ohh double tear OP blah blah blah. Umm 2 things he could've gotten double tear before this rework on w and it takes a decent amount of time to get double tear. Me personally I dont waste my time on double tear. Screw klepto as well, get the slow attack rune in that same tree( free ice born). Get triforce and you need transcendence, get manamune only tear item, then get ludens and static and ie and proceed to kill things. Yes ludens procs off his q now . Hidden buff people dont know .

Sucction3/11/2019, 12:20:36 AM1 votes

Nasus is easy to deal with it you've got the right champion, and if you're the top laner.

However, if you were counterpicked or some random is top, it can be rather out of your hands. It he goes into something like Vlad, he just free farms for twenty minutes and starts literally two shotting your carries.

I don't know if I'd call him overpowered, but he's certainly fucking cancerous and needs changing.

CyanSolution2473/11/2019, 12:40:17 AM1 votes

poor game balance/ design definitely makes players toxic. just last game a got shredded by a fed master yi while building tank... not gonna lie i drooped a few f-bombs and a "stop being so tryhard" followed by a "hes been try hard since champ select".

Z3Sleeper3/11/2019, 12:40:18 AM1 votes

Every time a Kayle is in a game either the Kayle is flaming her jungler or her team is flaming her.

That's how bad she is right now.

GigglesO3/11/2019, 12:46:03 AM1 votes

This thread needs more visibility. Its hard to have fun in a game where it feels so lopsided.

hotarse3/11/2019, 1:26:30 AM1 votes

If you don't want to be killed by Nasus, don't walk up to him and let him bash you over the head unless you got damage/backup. Simple as that. Towers are just about harder to avoid than Nasus.

BambooWorld3/11/2019, 6:59:07 AM1 votes

Teemo 0/6 vs Nasus, cry about nasus.

Sõna3/11/2019, 12:28:31 PM1 votes

a random scientist once said, humans are being low level civilization in the universe because of how they treat their own beings so disrespectful, betrays, hatreds, sinful. etc etc ooh, and also blame other people for being bad.

This is unavoidable, all online real-time game are the same

FFrazien3/11/2019, 2:46:11 PM1 votes

Change the title to: “ I got destroyed by Nasus, now I cry here.”

King Lego3/11/2019, 3:50:42 PM1 votes

"Poor balancing ruins the game and makes a toxic playerbase"

YOU THINK? That's why I deleted this game before I lose my damn sanity. While Nasus was never a problem to me, I agree that the Q buff is stupid. Probably to buff jungle Nasus but that also buffs his top lane since he can just go invade or take ally jungle.

Beanwi3/11/2019, 8:21:21 PM1 votes

So what you're saying is... You're mad about this. Loss