Dumb Idea: Make Competitive Balance Changes Different From the Normal Game

destroyer22719·Apr 19, 2019·4 votes·1,057 views

I honestly can't stand it. Champions are buffed because they are bad in soloQ but are nerfed because they are too OP in competitive. An enjoyable competitive scene came at the cost of soloQ. Champions like , , , (before the rise of AP galio), , , (refering to kennen adc after Rekkles abused it). Seriously I honestly can't stand this bullshit. If Riot are making balance specific changes to mode like ARAM, URF, and Nexus Blitz. Then they can do it to competitive. 99% of all players of league of legends play in the normal soloQ stage. Not a big fancy stage to play in front of thousands of viewers. Their gameplay shouldn't affect everyone else. Champion picks/bans and winrates show that they are drastically different from soloQ. I honestly see why not Riot couldn't make balance specific changes to their competitive scene.

5 Comments

SalronApr 19, 20194 votes

Most of those champions were also destroying high elo soloQ, it's not just because of competitive that they got deserved nerfs And you can't make separate balance changes for each because pro players practice in soloQ and they can't do so properly if the game isn't one and the same in both

ThingamajigApr 19, 20193 votes

Sounds great will definitely kill the game next brilliant idea please

Hawthorn TreeApr 19, 20192 votes

...you mean to say that we shouldn't balance a game around the people who play the game at the highest caliber, understand the game the most, and extract the maximum efficiency from every aspect of the game?

Maybe you can just get better at the game, instead of asking for an entirely different game to accommodate for the fact that you aren't skilled enough.

MordridtheBlackApr 19, 20192 votes

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...you mean to say that we shouldn't balance a game around the people who play the game at the highest caliber, understand the game the most, and extract the maximum efficiency from every aspect of the game?

Maybe you can just get better at the game, instead of asking for an entirely different game to accommodate for the fact that you aren't skilled enough.

there is an entirely different game to accommodate for that

it's called Smite

Shíníng DíamondApr 19, 20192 votes

I know a few competitive games that take this into account and it really works for them. However, I believe Riot themselves have come out and said that they don't want to do that because part of their appeal when you watch a pro game is that it's something you can pull off in your own games. I'm too lazy to try and find you the source but I'm pretty sure that's their stance on it.