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It is Completely Beyond Me Why Riot Refuses to Balanced Pro Play Separately

iPooUnicorns··2 votes·604 views

Riot continues to nerf champions that have sub 50% winrates in solo queue because of how good they are in pro play. This is incredibly unhealthy for the rest of the player base, especially those who've mastered the champions that are dominant in pro play, but aren't pro players themselves.

Riot is also very slow to nerf champions that dominate solo queue for long periods of time, and when they do nerf them, they're love tap nerfs. Kha'Zix, Warwick, Janna have been high pickrate and high winrate for quite some time now, Janna has only received love taps, Warwick is thankfully set to receive some nerfs, yet Kha'Zix has yet to get any meaningful nerfs, especially on his evolved R which is entirely too strong for solo queue gameplay.

Pro players should be able to adapt to a slightly different set of rules/balance, they are the best players in the world, they are able to adapt much faster and effectively than the average player.

6 Comments

haaaaaaalp1 votes

Keep in mind that riot only nerfs champions who underperform in either pro play or solo queue, they aren't buffing underperforming pro champions who destroy solo queue. This means that the pro play changes rarely effect solo queue because underpowered champions tend to have very low pick/ban rates and therefore much less impact on solo queue games than higher pick rate champions.

As a solo queue player, I would much rather riot nerf strong pro play champions because that makes me viewing pro play much enjoyable without having much of an impact on my own games.

PiggyTheAstro1 votes

Because there's always room for non-pro players to "git gud"?

Shukr4n1 votes

pros are the one who can play a champ at 100%. so what pros do is what champ does at that patchnote.

if u soloQ mastered a champ that is already good on pro level, u basically "get carried" by that champ output at mastered level.

if the effort u put to play that champ at mastered level is too rewarding it means it should be tweaked to allow others champs to cohexists on the same role.

my english is bad , i feel bad. still u must eunderstand that in pvp games there is no rookie level other than personal skill.

BiochemicalZombi1 votes

huh, how would pro players practice if the default game and pro game were completely different? theres not enough pros to populate a whole different game lol. The idea sounds good on paper but the Pro esports is starting to get huge so theres no reason for riot to f themselves

iPooUnicorns1 votes

They could probably just make the custom game mode Tournament Draft use the pro play balancing. Most pros scrim for practice not solo / flex queue

BiochemicalZombi1 votes

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They could probably just make the custom game mode Tournament Draft use the pro play balancing. Most pros scrim for practice not solo / flex queue

To much of a hassle and makes streaming hard if you have to practice scrims and spend your whole day playing a different game. Solo queue helps tone and keep muscle and probably gives new matchups and experience for some pros

Also its to much of a hassle to do this to pros, also i doubt people would keep up with the Pro Patches so thats not good for lcs.

Then they would have to split developers would result in even slower or less polished updates.....

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