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I don't understand why some people think Riot balances the game around proplay

Sasogwa·4/19/2018, 10:52:42 AM·2 votes·882 views

They clearly don't. Meta in proplay is pretty much always set in stone and revolves around a small champion pool of the most busted champions in the meta. A lot of picks are intentionally garbage in high elo to proplay so that they don't abuse low elo (Garen, Master Yi to name a few). Now maybe Riot did the huge mistake of nerfing some champions that were 100% godlike tier pick or ban and had retarded winrate in pro play while completely warping the metagame around their kit but that's fine cause they got sub 50% wr in soloQ? Please. Riot's torn apart because they wanna please everyone but that isn't quite working in balance terms. Other games (like Dota2) have immensely more diversity in competitive because they don't care about winrate in casual play (and seeing that, casual players play whatever they feel like and don't feel forced to sheep the prometa).

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130x4/19/2018, 11:16:33 AM1 votes

Uhhh, because that is what they state they do....

Infernape4/19/2018, 11:21:39 AM1 votes

-looks at Ryze, Kalista, Shen, Azir, Galio and any other champion that was dumpstered because they were commonly picked in pro play while underperforming outside of it-

Pandemic Punch4/19/2018, 11:24:55 AM1 votes

Yes they do. They say they do....

They just don't ONLY balance around pro play

JustaNewb4/19/2018, 11:25:05 AM1 votes

Because RIOT SAYS that they balance around Pro Play. Openly. Maple has said it a number of times, once just 4 days ago.

Dragfin4/19/2018, 2:33:48 PM1 votes

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They clearly don't. Meta in proplay is pretty much always set in stone and revolves around a small champion pool of the most busted champions in the meta. A lot of picks are intentionally garbage in high elo to proplay so that they don't abuse low elo (Garen, Master Yi to name a few). Now maybe Riot did the huge mistake of nerfing some champions that were 100% godlike tier pick or ban and had retarded winrate in pro play while completely warping the metagame around their kit but that's fine cause they got sub 50% wr in soloQ? Please. Riot's torn apart because they wanna please everyone but that isn't quite working in balance terms. Other games (like Dota2) have immensely more diversity in competitive because they don't care about winrate in casual play (and seeing that, casual players play whatever they feel like and don't feel forced to sheep the prometa).

The game is balanced around teamwork. Pro players understand what teamwork is. Most people on here have no clue what teamwork is. They begin to make threads like this because of it. That is the simple truth that too many low elo players with GOD complexes can't grasp. I have never had that problem because I understand what teamwork is.

It makes sense that they balance around pro play because pro players actually have a full understanding of how to play the game and RIOT can better judge what they need to tweak. I don't understand why that is so hard for people to comprehend.

Sasogwa4/19/2018, 2:54:56 PM1 votes

I mean they do include proplay in their concerns but their balancing is EXTREMELY FAR FROM BEING EXCLUSIVELY LINKED TO PROPLAY. If it was, freaking Garen would have 78% winrate in bronze.