Restrict Gameplay and Balance Board to Plat+ Players

Live2LetDie··4 votes·543 views

It's simple really, riot doesn't even accept applications to their balancing team unless you have a platinum account minimum. To many lower elo players crying about every champ that beats them(riven,ahri,vayne). I understand 89% of the community is below plat 5 meaning 89% are not qualified to balance champs so the board should be free of this. Real balances are being buried.

Tldr: limit board to plat+ elo so real balances can be discussed and not buried.

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Thief of Time2 votes

I agree completely, not to long ago I made this long post about how to change vaynes silverbolts so they work better late game and not early, post got buried under a bunch of whine post.

+1 from me

Live2LetDie1 votes

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I agree completely, not to long ago I made this long post about how to change vaynes silverbolts so they work better late game and not early, post got buried under a bunch of whine post.

+1 from me

Exactly, I would never see that post because every 2 min there is a post crying about champs that stomped them the game before. I'm actually going to take a look at yours right now :p

Yosuke Apperu2 votes

wow, you didn't post something really stupid xD Your change isn't a bad idea, but i'm a bronze so that means my opinion doesnt matter and essentially even though I'm backing your idea up, my elo says that I'm not entitled to do so because I'm not plat

Live2LetDie1 votes

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wow, you didn't post something really stupid xD Your change isn't a bad idea, but i'm a bronze so that means my opinion doesnt matter and essentially even though I'm backing your idea up, my elo says that I'm not entitled to do so because I'm not plat

Correct because you could also back that riven needs nerfs. It goes both ways.

Yosuke Apperu1 votes

Lol erm... With riven.. give her a resource and buff her damage to compensate.

luckmallory2 votes

If 89 percent of the community is below plat, they should probably be deciding the balance since they are the general player base. Not the 8-12 percent who are extremely good. Also i know plenty about the game to comment and im only gold 2( plat last season)

I have seen diamonds say incredibly stupid things and i have seen bronze players say really intelligent things. Everyone deserves an opinion.

Live2LetDie1 votes

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If 89 percent of the community is below plat, they should probably be deciding the balance since they are the general player base. Not the 8-12 percent who are extremely good. Also i know plenty about the game to comment and im only gold 2( plat last season)

I have seen diamonds say incredibly stupid things and i have seen bronze players say really intelligent things. Everyone deserves an opinion.

The general player base does not have the knowledge required to balance said champs because of their elo. Lower elos are still learning the game and get trapped in the mindset that they lose because their opponents champ is to op when in reality it's just the team didn't know how to deal with it.

Higher elo players understand the game and know when X champ is in the we have to do Y strategy and if X champ can't be stopped by any # of strategies then they need to be tweaked. Not "my team got destroyed by vayne so she is op", o look no one bought a pink and you only had one cc.. What were you expecting?

luckmallory1 votes

I'm not saying it isn't annoying to see them whine all over the place, but they are basically almost the entire playerbase. It doesn't matter if they have perfect knowledge of the game, they represent the community and is what Riot should strive to look at to make happy. Do i think they should whine because they got stomped? no i don't but do i think they can give valid opinions about the game? Yes i do

Sairek Ceareste1 votes

So, I've played the game since beta, but I've barely ever touched the rank system because of a lot of reasons -- many of which that does not include because I am a "bad" or "inexperienced" player. So because of that, my opinion should automatically be moot based on the color of my border and not my actual experience of the game?

If you think Plat players may not come from a bad game and demand a champion be nerfed or is OP or whatever to rage on the forums, their opinions biased or their judgement clouded because a Skarner went 22/0/8 or something ridiculously high, then you are being silly. Nobody's opinion or understanding of something is better simply because they worked for a shiny border, there's a TON of variance in regard to this. This post is a clear example of someone (you) handing out a ridiculous compromise.

For example, as someone who has main'd Soraka since the beginning of the game (open beta) and played through many of her multiple reworks, I believe I would be more qualified to talk about Soraka as a champion in whole more than you, even if I am unranked. And this just isn't in the support role either. I've played Soraka in all roles -- Mid, Top, Jungle, even as an ADC for the hell of it (it has never worked well by the way), and in various other game modes, such as dominion, 3v3, etc. Soraka is about 95% of my gameplay.

So how about this -- we let people speak their minds as a whole community, and let good ideas be good ideas, and bad ideas be bad ideas, rather than saying every idea posted by a person is worthy of consideration, based on nothing but the color of their border?

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