Balance team has access to so many stats but cant make sense of them

Fraggleroc·9/22/2019, 9:45:42 PM·9 votes·3,476 views

Such as Champ vs Champ ... early lead ratio, comeback ratio... Gold per minute... Champs Counters... Jungle Agency etc...

and still they allow such increasingly bad balance problems in games.

15 Comments

Soul Dealer9/22/2019, 9:53:32 PM7 votes

It’s because they got rid of the one guy on their team that actually knew how to do his job: morello. If morello was in charge again then this game would be so much better then it is. He understood certain champions were extremely problematic and nerfed them to unplayability until a solution was found. The current balance team allowed broken messes of champions to run free for a long time because they think it would be wrong to make a champ unplayable until a proper solution is found. Remember old poppy? She was incredibly broken and riot nerfed her to the point where she could be played until her rework came out.

Kai Guy9/22/2019, 9:55:32 PM2 votes

Because changes for 1 interaction affect the rest of the game. Trying to buff Poppy to have a better balance and matchup vs Yorick would be a buff so then you need to look at the impact for that on every matchup. Then if it requires you have to change those champions if there's issues and change the next wave.

Its interconnected, when you start running the # of permutations that's a massive amount data to shift thru. So... some times a bit of good old fashion Trial and Error is the way you find what is functional because the raw data alone massive so sorting out noise is difficult.

preternatural9/22/2019, 10:12:17 PM2 votes

riot knows exactly what they are doing with balance lol.

ZephyrDrake9/22/2019, 10:27:41 PM2 votes

Ok... so let me ask you this how would you for example balance the Darius vs Garen matchup in a way that won't affect every single other matchup of those champions? There are an incredibly small amount of changes that can be done in a vacuum. Every single change you make CAN AND WILL have consequences on so many other things. Some could be good, some could be bad, some could be disastrous. You just cannot just say "Trundle is too weak against ranged so let's just make this random change to make him better against it" without looking at how would that affect his other matchups.

anatasjhsh019/22/2019, 10:02:31 PM1 votes

Ehhh they want it this way they want damage to be high, as for new champions every one is trying to be CT with releasing broken champions, mind he sucks at making champions, a great champion designer creates new, interesting and BALANCED champs.

Fraggleroc9/23/2019, 6:55:10 PM1 votes

Just found out too that new Prestige skins releasing are apparently reasons particular champs needed buffs?! (Lee Sin and Riven)

Wow, just wow, Riot... you mess with the already bad balance because a couple of champs are getting new skins?

You're making a mistake. You're making a BIG mistake.