It would be great to see some under-powered champs get buffed

chide da jungler·Dec 21, 2014·4 votes·445 views

The world doesn't have to revolve around LCS. But, even though it does, what about buffing some champs who are never played AND have a low winrate in solo que? LIke what about...

gangplank? yeah you're gonna rework him. But, you could drop the W CD a bit or something.

Or, what about nautilus? 2nd-rate jungler that cant lane as an alternative.

I'm just saying: If you're gonna be so shy about nerfing lee, or leona, or tresh (who is in every high elo game or pro game), then why not give some love to some of the other champions to bring them up to their level? I remember when patches had a plethora of minor champion changes. It was nice for solo que.

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TehNACHODec 21, 20143 votes

Gangplank is one of 'those' champions you're not supposed to buff.

Okay that's going to get taken out of context really bad, uhh, do you know why Morello has very specifically stated that Poppy would probably get heavily nerfed if she ever sees competitive play as she is now? It's because her kit, almost everything other than her E, is terrible in terms of balance and gameplay. There is almost literally nothing in her kit that you can rightfully defend yourself from without another part of her kit trolling you. Because of this, she's impossible to balance if her numbers (specifically her mana) were, for example, on par with many other champions in league.

Gangplank is like a softer version of this. His kit isn't massively broken like Poppy can be if she had anywhere close to decent numbers, but it still has quite a few flaws that are hard to balance around. I can go into detail if you want me to explain why, but I'll just leave it at this: Gangplank has very little (buzzword warning) Counterplay. If GP had good numbers, like Poppy, there's exceedingly little you can do to stop him. This is why you can't really buff GP.

Now Nautilus on the other hand could use some live imo.

EffectFXDec 21, 20141 votes

Nautilus has an interesting change in the next patch that will increase his late game durability,

     Base shield value lowered to 65/70/75/80/85 from 100/150/200/250/300

     Shield now scales on 7/9.5/12/14.5/17% of Nautilus's TOTAL Health from 15% of his BONUS Health.

At level 9 that puts the shield at right around 281-282 value from base HP only. At level 18 that increases to 346

PrinceOfStormsDec 21, 20142 votes

I think Elise could use the following buffs and be balanced in today's metagame.:

-Spiderlings are now immune to AoE damage. (that way Elise can actually do Dragon now that it has AoE) -Neurotoxin changed from % Current Health to % Max health -Rappel range increased OR Rappel can be used as a semi-flash (no longer requires you use it on a creep/champion to move)

Similarly, I think Diana should have a complete rework so that she's not crappy Akali.

Yorick definitely needs a rework. He's been out of the rotation for two seasons now it's that bad.

MrSlowDieDec 21, 20141 votes

Urgot item 3070

Knight SoIaire Dec 21, 20141 votes

The world doesn't have to revolve around LCS. But, even though it does, what about buffing some champs who are never played AND have a low winrate in solo que? LIke what about...

not a wise idea usualy those champions have low winrates because riot guttet them and keeps them useless and why did riot gut them and made them useless (yes it was intentional from riot)? Well is because their kits can break a game (urgot could be a first carry with tanks survivability , elisae would be better at everything ) and even worse things would happen when those guys would get into lcs players hands (now we are speaking about champions winning games instead of players skill)

most of those guys are up for a rework