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What I can't stand about Riot's Balancing Methods

Igotlazy··5 votes·806 views

It's not about how they change champs that bothers me. I get that League is a complex game and changing 1 champ slightly can have a ton of consequences that can't be easily predicted. The most annoying part however is when they mess up, they can leave a champ in a horribly under powered state for MONTHS without ANY compensation.

Remember these guys? Zac? Popular for 1 month, nerfed and then dropped down to the bottom of the win rates, never to be picked again. Aatrox? Same shtick. Twitch? Was generally popular, ended up getting a bit too strong, over nerfed his Q and disappears from ranked play. Elise? Very strong for most of season 3 but nerfed horribly throughout season 4 and gone from the jungle. Gragas? I'm not even too sure he's strong enough to carry his own weight after the beating he took.

Overall champs like these aren't completely unplayable. For from it. It's just they have been obviously pushed a bit too far down and there has been nothing done to get them back up on their feet? Why?

8 Comments

BluePolarizer5 votes

Gragas, Elise, Twitch, and Zac were team based champs. Teamwork in this game is looked down on. Its better for league to be 5 sets of 1v1s rather than a coherent 5v5, where everything has to balanced according to 1v1 duels in lane. LOL.

The Necron3 votes

I think riots balances are pretty pathetic, if someones powerful (fizz) they do one attempt to "balance them" which usually destroys them, of course afterwards they pretty much refuse to make any changes. Then whenever they rework okish champs (viegar, kassiden, and Zilean) they end up nerfing them harder, i bet anything they will not have any more changes for at least 6 months. Not only that theyve ignored a lot of the worst champs for years. Urgot has been complete trash since his release and is considered by almost 100% of the league playerbase as the worst champ in the game. Sion? he took 3 years to rework, and even then he wasnt impressive and is still one of the lowest played champs in the game

UnSyn Tailight1 votes

This is real, there are brunch of champs like them:

Zilean Urgot Kennen etc.

Don't even get some back up on their feet.

Some those who get reworked like Heimerdinger Sion need a balance , as well as their skills are lane bully.

Miku Lv991 votes

Yeah, I find this really bad too. Even if they gave Urgot a tiny buff each patch, so as to not worry about making him potentially OP, it'd still have made him a lot closer to balanced by now. But no, he's had like 1 change in the last I don't even know how long. And tons of other champions have been so bad for way too long.

Senteth1 votes

He is already OP.

GaleWinUnleashed1 votes

I still play Zac D:

Igotlazy1 votes

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I still play Zac D:

That's fine. He's a fun champion no doubt. However you can't deny that compared to some of the other Junglers he struggles and has struggled for quite some time.

GaleWinUnleashed1 votes

Doesn't stop him having one of the most fun initiations in the game =P

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