@Riot You did a review for us so I did one for you !

Adrian is Daddy·12/21/2017, 12:39:18 AM·1 votes·366 views

Hey everybody

Riot reviewed us so I reviewed them, alot of things are balanced but some things are still kept unbalanced so i made a list since its the end of the season.

Theres alooooooot of tekst but i did think it through pretty well if i do say so myself.

tldr in the bottom

enjoy!

Ive read alot of threads regarding preseason and in this thread i'll write about champions/items/gamemodes etc and possible changes. **Champions ** I'll be talking about these champions and whats wrong about them and what to change about them.

Some are champions that are super binary and could have something changed to higher their skillcap. Others could have a change to their kit to make them have more counterplay.

I'm gonna start with our favorite space dragon . What is there not to love about him? He farts stars, he throw's universes, HE BREATHES MOLKYWAYS!!! Even tho his design is awesome he lacks one big thing, skill expresion. He's one of the newer champions, however all the new champions are skilled to a certain degree exept him even if you do something AMAZING it feels boring and not worth mentioning. Easy champions are good, some champions need to be easy for beginners but i feel like he should be able to do easy things whilst also having a high skillcap and i have a few idea's. https://imgur.com/a/SsEGi I'm not the best at drawing but i hope you get the idea! Aurelions q forces him to stay right behind his q for it to funtion, however if that was let go and made into a skillshot like anivia's q he could do some amazing things like predicting where his enemy will go after he r's them. The second one is instead of letting him go straight forward with Q instead now can move with it think about ping-pong where he throws his q into a direction and when he hits it again it goes another way, giving him more skill expresion while also keeping him easy and binary if wanted, or both!!!

Lets go to the next champion, the infamous dog of the top lane, Nasus. Haha, everytime i see that name my mind automatically hussles his name and makes something else out of it :). Moving on, the problem i see with Nasus is that he has a very weird gameplay pattern. Early game bullied, mid game farm bot, late game "hypercarry". He doesnt really life up to the dream cause he gets kited really easily so they keep buffing his ult again and again. What I think can take a good turn into nasus is shifting his passive to his q, this is where i explain why exactly. HIs passive is also one of the reasons why he's considered a late game carry due to the huge amount of lifesteal he gets, However 99% of that healing comes from q since its the only source of AD he has aside of his AA's. Now imagne a late game situation does he atually use his AA's to heal? he spamm's q endlessly, if this passive was shifted to his q that would leave his passive open for potentially his hypercarry dream like for example 25/50/75% cooldown on q at certain points in the game, or whatever to increase his late game dream. In turn not to make him to strong for example remove his W and turn it into something else, its well known for how unfun and toxic the skill is to play against. Second idea is changing his skills when he ults. Small form - stacking/duelist, Big form - Hypercarry. By giving him 7 abilities its easier to balance him both in his early game and late game stage, and possibly remove his w!

I honestly thing his w is a really toxic ability for both him and his oppenents, it gets easliy countered by QSS and micheals crucible and if it does theres nothing he can do to get close to the adc's. And its so unfun to play against for his oppenents. Its just a left over from an old design.

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Uhh, there's nothing i can say that everyone doesnt know already. heimer is really unfun to play against and everyone knows why. The point is that heimer spam's his machines and after taking it and sacrifices half of your health he just puts a new one, so this is how i thought about countering him. making his q storable if he has his q maxed or when he gets his r till a future rework. Its a toxic champion that even tho is counterable is not fun to play against, think of zoe.

Its satan himself "captain Teemo on duty" I'm not the best at drawing but i hope you get the idea! Aurelions q forces him to stay right behind his q for it to funtion, however if that was let go and made into a skillshot like anivia's q he could do some amazing things like predicting where his enemy will go after he r's them. The second one is instead of letting him go straight forward with Q instead now can move with it think about ping-pong where he throws his q into a direction and when he hits it again it goes another way, giving him more skill expresion while also keeping him easy and binary if wanted, or both!!!

My favorite slissing lady on summoners rift, she's charming, she's gorgeous, she's deadly and she leaves all her oppenents partrified, literally. My problem with cass is the way her build limits her, Cass always builds This is 4 of 6 item slots she's forced to build and 70% of the time you wanna get this leaves her build path very limited and I personally hate that. There's other ap items like , , but she doesnt get the chance to change her build due to her forced playstyle and i just wanted to mention this when you make new ap items next season ! What i actually wanted to discuss is the fact that cassiopeia has no passive. A passive should be unique something only that champ has, think shyvanna and her dragon passive. The thing is.... nothing is preveting your enemy mid laner from just selling her shoes and getting 6 items as well, all you get is abit of extra movespeed - for a late game carry thats super underwhelming. Her passive was really well thought of and is also really good themacticly but I think she could use something that fits her late game hypercarry dream better and cass is a really good champion for that considering she has so many option because she's so medusa themed. This isnt just me alot of Cass mains feel the same.

Wow cant believe were here with the lord of meme's himself...... Fizz Fizz Fizz........ where do i start ? The amount of meme's around him in s5/s6 is probably far beyond any other champion. The thing about fizz is he is a very weak Pre 6 laner but after 6 he just keeps using his ult the moment its off cooldown and even if he cant kill you, he can easily zone you when your low enough I think this playstyle is really toxic and unhealthy so i thought about this -> changing his ult into utility rather then raw dmg and I'll show you how with my amazing drawing skills. https://imgur.com/a/eqDMC After the fizz got an update (MYMU) they made his w on hit critically strike I think personally because of this change he doesnt need as much dmg and can have more utility also cool particals for future skins, So the idea is he throws his r and it creates a vortex of 5 layers the middle on slows you the most and applies his W criticly strike, With this change i wanted to make fizz less overbearing in lane because he cant possible os any squishy with just his ULT-Q and actually needs to think through everything he does, But this also makes ganking him reliable, And we could possibly get to see fizz jungle more or even fizz support? FISH FISH FISH. Also the R stands still it doesnt stick to a target this removes the "ooh he threw his ult down bot lane but it hit me in mid lane" hitbox.

No one knows who is, Think that says enough.

2nd most played champion Nidareeeee the lovely cougar of the jungle. is a cat. The thing about nidalee is that her human w form is a non existent skill It does relativly nothing aside from her w cooldown beng lowered when she jumps on camps. In ganks its useless, in a duel its useless in team fighting its useless, its just a crappier version of a ward and thats not how a skill should be tbh. But i think this oppertunity can be used to change it and make lane nidalee viable again, its the perfect way, IMO.

While were talking about crappier versions of something, lets talk about Kindred this champion is literally a tristana rip off but worse in every aspect. The main problem i see is that their passive is really really weird, I knew it had to be changed due to old Kindred being to strong but this isnt the solution I hope you guys will take a look at her again. To make matters worse her Stacks are to damn hard to obtain to the point of not obtaining them at all and even if you do they're not worth as much. Another thing i'd like to point out is them having A really weird build path, they want crit and cdr but both dont go unless you buy essence reaver but they dont have any mana problems I'd like you guys to take a look at them and finally straightening them up cause getting 40% cdr with black cleaver and some other random cdr items and then finally buy crit is really weird. But out of these flaws in her gameplay is a really good passive When one of her strenghts is cdr you can use that in her passive. Another thing i'd like to point out is how weak they are at counter jungling, if you do a 1 v 1 you'll lose it 80% of the time since your super reliant on items and squishy unlike other junglers. I have 0 solutions to her counterjungling problem but i have to point out when I played against kindred recently the super short jump cooldown reminded me of fiora you can do something with that maybe? Imagne this: lamb marks a territory and bits an enemy champions in 1 of the 4 "vitals" if kindred hits a target her q cooldown gets reduced by X amount and if she hits the infected wound she criticly strikes for 150% ad.

Needs a kit change ASAP but before that i'd like mentioning that his ult is probably the only part that people really care about so what if its duration increases by 20% each tme he gets an assist or kill this might put him in a good spot. Atleast pick worthy.

Zoe's grandfather is here. As alot of people have suggested already giving his w a healthbar for how much it can absorb and I honestly wouldnt mind yasuo, it simply makes yasup players less forgiving if they mess up.

This is just a general question will she get a rework? her kit is super toxic and unfun to play against and honestly she's so binary that even I with my huge amount of fanatasy couldnt find anything for her.

The least counterplayeble champions in the game by far and both adc :^) the meme's There are 2 things I hate about this champion her jump mechenic and her e on top of turrets. Her w has to much range it feels impossible to gank her pre 6 and post 6 is just gets worse even if tristana somehow manages to mess it up if she has her e stacked up she can just jump back i really really hate this about her they should really decrease her w range. E applying to tower. Tristana is a monster in both team fights and splitpushing while also being super safe in both I really dont like it she pushes towers so fast and playing against it is not fun especially considering pushes in really fast because of her e. she just eats at your tower and you cant do anything due to minion aggro and missing last hits. Awefull to play against needs to be removed if they wanna keep her w the way it is, IMO. I dont like the fact that his ult boosts him this much both a damage boost and the range. Remove the damage on it and im fine he's really squishy and no mobility so I get that he has long range but when he has burst, not even dps it gets super difficult to win against him, if its even possible to win against him in the first place. His late game is aweful and unfair to play against, giving him the chance to get into late game is bad but i dont think having nill chance to win against this champion in the late game is fair too. Should have SOME counterplay.

God i hate this champion before and after the rework she's god awefully unbalanced. I love that riot tried to change nothing in her kit just to keep her identity the same for players that likes her/mained/main her. I said it once and I'll say it again having an assassin that is ranged, has so much mobility and cc on top of it IS NOT going to be balanced it doesnt matter how much you keep her kit the same, she will be toxic to play against. she's still far to safe because of her W and even if you manage to get close she has her e that has the range and hitbox of nickies ass. Her e range should drasticly be reduced Its range is longer then flash. Or id suggest self cc like with malza's ultie cause she is no fun to play against and impossible to gank.

I love and he's my pick up support if I get autofilled and god its so aweful to play against him. He has so much in his kit. And I like that he is a pretty skilled champion but there's one thing that i hate. Why... does... he... have... a... shield.... on.... his.... w.... I mean common, its already a disengage tool with doesnt exist on a support and to top it off its also a shield. Removing it wouldnt hurt his mechanics but it would by far decrease the amount of stress he gives his oppenents. Its aweful enough to have an adc escape with low hp due to his w but to also give it a shield is going to far. He can choose if he wants to go in or not which no other support has, he can extend his cc, has a fuckton cc in the first place, can cancel certain things like dashes all while remaining ranged and doing a shitton of dmg on his aa because of his passive. His kit has to much, periode. And removing something which isnt needed could possibly help him having a more balanced playstyle.

The best lcs mid laner for the longest time.... Same problem with leblanc, to safe while having a tonfuck of dmg his kits needs a slight rework cause otherwise he's not gonna be balanced tweeking his numbers is like tweeking irelia's numbers she's broken or weak she cant be balanced. Its the same when he's decent hes super good, when he's weak he's trash.

Now its time for my numba one champion smile. This is not a talk about her being bad or good. I wanted to point out that Riven's r has a mechanic that masks her q animation if you do a E -> R -> Q fast enough and wanted ask if its possible to turn this into a new mechanic?

That was it for champions, now lets move on to the second phase, which is.

** items.**

One thing ive been wanting to say since forever R.E.M.O.V.E or change its buildpath the stats in this item are actually pretty good but building it is more useless then getting AP on Riven.

next is lethality. Honestly lethality or bruiser/armor pen has been nerfed to oblivion because ranged champions use them better then they do and while you nerfing it again and again all thats left will be half assed items and when that happens adc can simply go back to crit while bruisers have nothing left. I suggesting halfing the effectiveness on lethality items ranged that dont have a meelee form. The point of removing brutalizer was to add diversity for bruisers but thats slowly being neglected because all their items get nerfed into abyss. I honestly think this is a must buildpath's got nerfed just so ADC have different build paths, its understandable but this is also one of the reasons why bruisers are doing worse RN.

I said it before, Dorans shouldnt be stackable, there are enough mana items already this isnt s5. It basicly gives to much sustain with the HP and mana regen for the wrong champions. weve seen this already with galio and gragas.

seekers armguard is supposed to be the counter part of one gives ap/armor other gives ad/mr but the difference in effectives is way to big. I always thought hexdringer was op but now with nullifying orb its gotten worse, unlike zhonya's your not in a statis if you buy a maw. Hexdringer is without a doubt the better part of them, I suggest making a small shield that obsorbes ad dmg for 3 sec instead of the added armor.

Pls remove the synergy that + has. The synergy they have is way to good and its a must buy on almost all the crit relient adc. Vayne used to buy 90% of the time she doesnt even buy it anymore cause statik + canon are so effective. With this , can have her runaans mechanic back, we all know why Cait was meta in february and it wasnt because of runaans RIOT wanted to keep her viable without having to nerf her dmg same as they're doing with Ezreal and his as now (not so reliant on it) but this season she got hit with a ton of nerfs and i think that giving her back some of her power while reuding it from another part should give her clear weaknesses.

This item was legit core on ashe, first buy always. However people are actually using it better then she does, its super cheap and has good stats this allows late game carries to reach power spikes earlier. I suggest bringing it back up to 3100-3200 its shouldnt be so cheap this is one of the reasons this botlane is win meta is going on with some other stuff i'll be writing about later.

last but not least I wasnt talking about the item itself rather the grevious wounds passive its really REALLY strong. cutting 40% of the aa'd targets self healing is abit to much. There was a time in which items like these did not exist and you were forced to dps the enemy. In this time champions like mundo, swain reigned supremed but in these passed few months i havent see a mundo, I love playing against mundo even tho his kit is super simple he stands up for being on of the interactive champions. The decreased self healing that can be bought and easliy be obtained (even for tanks now) is to much for him to handle i suggest turning grevious wounds to decreasing 30% self healing it would be fun playing against Mundo and stuff again.

This covers the section items

Now moving on to.... Bruiser keystone Ive seen the red post that meddler made and they want to make a keystone in resolve tree, I dont think this is a good change. Actually I think its a bad change runepath were made for certain champion types in the game right? presion -> sustained dmg, domination -> burst, Resolve -> tanks do you really wanna put a keystone for champions that wanna do dmg for snowballing in a runapath thats just a ball of resistances, and tbh theres not a single runepath where its gonna fit in. the chance is super big that if you do place it in the resolve tree nothing will have changed. I suggest making an entire new tree. This is the easiest solution honestly if you get a new runepath for bruisers you can balance them around that tree if your gonna meddle with the resolve tree Meddler, you'll be causing problems for both classes. Runes reforged is good and did a solid job on giving diversity to champions but you just have to accept that bruisers need a new runepath.

Also with dominion theres a rune called, Revenous hunter and another called Taste of blood. Their basicly the same just a small difference. I dont like that 2 of them work the same way.

Objectives

Herald, Right now its really effective because bot/top lane swaps in the first 8 min of the game its really helps them get all the towers really fast. When the early/bot meta is over it might seem really underwhelming.
Towers the biggest reason why this early game meta started in the first place. Towers are so easy to take down. Heres my solution Basicly what u guys did was lower champion damage but higher minion damage. Thats like saying remove 5 ad/ap from X champion but increase X champions core item with 5 ad/ap. If you wanna buff a tower you have to buff it, you cant exchange something for something else then nothing will come out of it. Like for example you guys buffed riven recently with 5 ad on q but nerfed her core items. When you do that you arent buffing her. I suggest removing the added minion dmg. Towers are a really important part of the game if they go down to fast then you get early game meta's they go down to slow your stuck in late game one. So you need to take 1 step at a time, remove the minion dmg buff. If that doesnt work i'd suggest trying this 1 enemy +5 mr/armor 2 enemies +15 mr/armor 3+ enemies +30 mr/armor the first gank of a jungler can result to a tower being taken which is something really bad this could possibly strengthen the early game while limiting its effectiveness mid/late game when carries have some stats and pen.

Tl;dr some items,champions,gameplay need to be changed to balance things.

Ps: Its pretty much confirmed that a top laner is getting a new ultimate skin. As much as I love Riven, could you pls make one for Irelia she doesnt have any skins that stand out and her skills could have pretty good particals. I know Riven is probably high on your list for ultimate skin because she's bascly the reincarnation of an anime champion in a game, and her fanbase is the biggest. I'd be happy if you gave the ultimate skin to Irelia and made a Frostblade/Project/Dreadnova skin for her instead she fits all those themes really good.

Gl HF on the fields of justice.....

@Riot You did a review for us so I did one for you !

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