Yes, I'm Making a Post About Balance

xPlainDollx·1/5/2016, 8:43:36 AM·1 votes·609 views

I know this will probably piss off Riot, but at this point, I don't care. I'm not gonna complain about Blitz or Lee Sin because they can carry games, having champs like that is fine but there are some serious balance issues right now in League that can get exploited and do get exploited. Let's go over the things that I believe are not balanced:

  1. Illaoi - Yes, she's a new champ, I get that but what the hell is her E? It makes her laning really overpowering which, combined with her passive, means that laning against her is a nightmare. But if she was balanced, then her team-fighting and Roaming should be weaker to compensate and balance the game. Right? Nope, her Q givers her enough spell vamp to make sure that she almost never dies but also does enough damage to kill the entire enemy team very quickly. This isn't balance, I don't care what you say, it isn't.
  2. Jungling - Riot made some changes to this recently that made me and a lot of other jungle mains cry. They made the items way more expensive and the actual stats you get from them are terrible. That would be okay, if they were support iteams, but, unless if Riot wants to make junglers supports now, they are very under powered. This would be okay, if you didn't have to get them to be successful in the jungle. Yes, the Jungle items are shockingly under powered.
  3. Minions - Let's think about this from a lore standpoint. Minions are mindless servants to us summoners that are basically cannon fodder to the Champions (the things we play as) that are supposed to be bad-ass people that can slaughter minions in the thousands. That said, why does one wave of minions cause enough damage to seriously cripple a champion in the early game? That doesn't make sense from a lore standpoint. The champs you be slaughtering them, not cowering behind their own minions until they are almost dead then killing them and taking the credit.
  4. Tristana - I'm a terrible ADC and I can carry a game with Tristana. That alone should be enough to realize she needs to be nerfed.
  5. Soraka - "But we just nerfed her." Yeah, barely. It didn't do anything to her ability to carry games. Nerf her more.

This is just a short list of things that aren't balanced in the current patch, in my opinion. This doesn't even touch on the bugs that are abundant (I just got killed by a Graves that I couldn't target because he was embedded in the terrain) or small Champion teaks that would make the Champions better. Yes, this patch has issues, but it's preseason, so you're forgiven, for now.

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