Share your insane (and probably terrible) balance ideas that would never actually be implemented

Zenthon Prime··4 votes·601 views

Because I have a lot of them:

  1. Completely gut Ezreal, Kayle and Vladimir to the point where they are unviable without a rework under all circumstances (I'm talking sub-40% winrate). I'm talking about crap like removing the one-hit from Ez's Q. With these champions out of the way, more serious work can be done on itemization for AD casters and mages (now that Sheen effects, onehits and spellvamp aren't broken instantly by these champs).

  2. Make an Abathur-style champion (completely global).

  3. Instead of fully reworking Urgot, give him a GP-tier rework. He's got a solid identity as an anti-assassin and anti-carry AD mana bruiser already, he just needs some love to make it really stick.

  4. Rework Rengar so that he can't oneshot, but instead support a style similar to S4 tank Rengar.

  5. Make Teemo a viable champion. He isn't even that cancerous anymore compared to a lot of the crap we deal with now.

  6. Remove ward-hopping for everyone except Katarina. Buff Lee and/or Jax as needed (which some people will interpret as "not at all").

  7. Remove Titanic Hydra from the game completely, or rework it so it's not appealing to mobile damage-dealers. Right now it's just enabling gimmicky tank builds and not actually helping juggernauts that much compared to stuff like Black Cleaver.

  8. Make turrets (or at least outer turrets) take massively reduced damage the lower health they get at early on in the game. I'm talking making them literally impossible to kill before a certain time, but having it so you can still chip away at them if you get an advantage in lane. This is aimed at killing off the infamous "laneswap, turret trade" meta in competitive that ruins early-games for viewers and denies early strategy.

So what equally crazy ideas have you guys come up with?

19 Comments

kagepaladin1 votes

Give Annie Brand's passive and turn her Q into Brand's R

Zenthon Prime1 votes

So she has no stun but her Q bounces and she does %hp burn damage passively?

Huh. You know, I could see that working in some fashion.

kagepaladin2 votes

or or we could just take on brand's passive in addition to her keeping her old one do the Q into R thing and pop her into doom bots of doom game mode.

Zenthon Prime1 votes

Oh. Well that's terrifying.

kagepaladin1 votes

now featuring extra doom. you handle the nerfs i'll handle making ppl broken as all get out.

Trídent1 votes

OH GOD

FioraWillCarry1 votes

Give Aatrox invulnerability on his Q. If Fizz can have one on his gap closer with a super low cooldown, why can't Aatrox have that too. Insane right ?

Athenes Lulu1 votes

Lulu can now cast polymorph on more than one target at a time.

Make a 3rd scaling value called Utility Power, where CC durations can last longer as UP goes higher. Yes, even applies to non-supports. If you know what "utility scalings" (that base off AP currently for some whatever reason) are, then that's what the "utility power" is all about. (IMO it's a stupid idea because of how much overhaul Riot has to do)

Thresh's lantern is now clickable by enemies. If an enemy Alistar clicked it, he can travel to Thresh for a cheesy Q knockup on Thresh's team.

Make turrets deal % HP true damage.

Lulu has reduced "heal" effects upon ulting herself.

Lulu can no longer W ally/self cast, and no longer E enemy cast.

Sona now has hard CC in her kit outside of her ult.

Soraka can cast W on herself, in her current state.

Trídent1 votes

make Veigar E an actual black hole

DECAKILL

SleepyLionCub1 votes

Change nidalee traps into snares, and heal nidalee on her pounce, then remove her human form heal, and replace it with a medium range tether, like karma or leblanc.

TekkenPlayer1 votes

Nerf malphite's scaling base damage and CDs on ult while increasing his armorarmor passive

Make Lux's E have much lower range but reset her ultimate after each kill or assist

Vayne tumble CD buffs like they gave Ezreal

Make Yorick into a micromanage summoner type champion with the ghouls having unique skills rather than just autoing. Or having the ghouls be controllable with the mouse.

Reduce culling range on Lucian

Make nami have higher scaling with AP. E now increases attack speed

Completely gut xin Zhao's sustain

Make Orianna's ult a singularity DPS instead of a shockwave ( like a black hole)

Make azir have CD resets on W and E when he gets a kill or assist

ModWulf Helhammer1 votes

You know they are actually reducing Culling range, right?

TekkenPlayer1 votes

Then I must not be crazy..

No flash no life1 votes
  • Make it so TahmKench can use R or teleport and get to destination before releasing the devoured target.
  • Make LeeSin and Vayne immune to blind effect (damage dealt remains unchanged).
  • Make it so flying champions are not affected by ground-targeted spells and traps
  • Make it so Blitzcrank gets pulled over if his hook lands on someone heavier than he is
  • Make it so Lucian actually becomes unseeable to Nocturne when he turns on ult
  • Make it so Cassiopeia E cooldown resets if target's afflicted by any form of poison (singed twitch teemo etc). I mean, they're all poisons, wats the diff?
  • Make a Sephiroth skin for Yasuo
Lauchmelder1 votes

Revert all changes to patch 4.20. One of the most balanced patches I saw.

xl Kirito lx1 votes

Wasn't that the Weedwick patch?

Lauchmelder1 votes

It was. A few champs were still strong, but nothing worth being permaban in ranked.

xl Kirito lx1 votes

This should be fun. Specifically,

  • Iceborn is melee only.
  • Remove the attack speed from Gusinoo's Rageblade.
  • Tricksters Glass is added to SR.

I actually had like 10 more, but they were along the lines of "Bring back season 5". Generally,

  • Stronger towers
  • Teleport meta brought back.
  • Nerfing of bruiser items.
  • Nerfing ADC's
  • ... Nerf everything.
Nyhver1 votes

Ranked now blinds you from what the opposing team is picking, and having a champion on one side doesn't disqualify it from pick to the other team

All champions are way more mechanically intensive / have meaningful counterplay/outplay/mind games

That'd cause a huge public backlash

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