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I'm done trying.

Terror13·3/6/2017, 12:57:57 AM·10 votes·4,786 views

I mained Swain, Vladimir, Kassadin, Aatrox.

Riot have ruined all my champions, Swains E is pathetic until ultra late an d it only worked because it stacked with all your damage, it's impossible to hit your enemy with Q now as it doesn't leash to the champion.

Try getting yasuo in a 4 second Q small aoe lol, when it leashed to him even if he dashed through you the Q would still be on you.

They ruined vladimir, his empowerd Q does fraction more damage than what his old base Q just did all the time and the 1 second added to the cooldown totally destroys the champions ability to duel.

The E is insanely clunky and near impossible to hit even if u are in melee range of your enemy because of all the minions or other enemy champions, behind baron, behind dragon, when are you not clumped in all these things? It again is also a higher cooldown than even the level 1 old version.

The old E increased ur healing, allowing you to get off a devastatingly powerful summoners heal with spirit visage and the new masteries and your normal Q even healed FAR more than the current empowerd Q, even when you are about 5% hp.

They also uped the cooldown of your W and reduces its duration, stopping you from getting a second one off in the middle of a teamfight by zhonya's and flashing to postpone ur death to do it again

Kassadins speaks for itself, he is still ok ULTRA lategame, but I'm talking 45 mins +

Now they are working to Destroy aatrox, and people there who have absolutely no experience with him (the commentors and the riot reworkers) are gonna sit and argue with me, someone who has years of experience on him.

Without these people doing basic math to see that aatrox with two full AD items heals more hp below 50% than this new aatrox will heal with 7900 hp at 1% health (missing health heal) count it yourself, compare his current and now.

For years I've preached to riot with the same suggestions for each one, and to revert the changes to the ones they have destroyed, with compelling reasons and facts, whilst others have also did the same and got many upvotes.

But it remains the same, they believe themselves infallible, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

74 Comments

RiotGhostcrawler3/6/2017, 6:44:44 PM39 votes

Jesus christ you do realise ghostcrawler, the guy that got hired for blizzard and is now developing LOL, has NO EXPERIENCE in game design and has never studied it.

He was a MARINE BIOLOGIST and he got his job, seriously what do you say to that? You speak from a position of ignorance and act like its enlightenment!

I always find this to be a strange response. Just to clarify, I have 18 years experience making video games, all with major franchises (Age of Empires, World of Warcraft, and now League of Legends). No, I did not study video games in university, but it's rare to find professional designers with a degree in game design even today, and those programs were non-existent nearly two decades ago. I was an oceanographer for only 8 years, and that's if you include 6 years of graduate school.

Our designers are a mix of relatively junior developers to seniors with years of experience at Riot or other game studios. The more junior designers are mentored and trained by the more experienced folks, as it is with virtually every software developer. All of them play League, have a lot of potential, and have a passion to improve the player experience, or else we wouldn't have hired them.

I'm fine if you disagree with any design decisions we are making, but it's not from lack of experience. :)

Dynikus3/6/2017, 1:03:55 AM12 votes

people there who have absolutely no experience with him (the commentors and the riot reworkers) are gonna sit and argue with me, someone who has years of experience on him.

This just shows your ignorance as far as what game developers and testers do. Do you think when they're reworking champions, they just crunch some numbers and go with whatever looks good on paper?

AlienPrimate3/6/2017, 6:58:37 PM3 votes

I also dislike most of my past main's reworks but I also understand why they were reworked.

Sion could walk in with a point and click stun and blow any squishy up with his shield instantly with no threat whatsoever to him and the only counter being item 3140 summoner 1

Poppy could ult the ADC and walk through the entire enemy team unchallenged to assassinate the adc and just walk away with no damage taken from anything, including towers

Shen was fine as he was I think, but his sustain from Q was a bit of a nuisance to almost everyone he laned against.

Taric was probably my favorite champion before his rework but his total reliance on having AD enemies as well as another targeted stun doing functionally the exact same thing as old sion's wasn't really fair. The reworked Taric's stun is actually better now that it can hit multiple targets with the right person controlling it.

The next rework coming up is my current middle main Galio. While I'm scared about what he will become and almost certain they will remove his shield mechanics which is why he is my favorite champion, I'm sure I will still enjoy playing him after his rework. My biggest fear with his rework is him becoming a meta pick like Poppy. I like playing under rated champions because it is common for people to have no idea what to do against it giving me a slight advantage.