RIOT IS NERFING THE WRONG CHAMPIONS

Gntex··11 votes·3,436 views

I'm just furious and venting, so feel free to disregard everything said here if you are a nitpicky wanna be academic fword because this rant is about to be as biased as biased gets. For the first time in 4 years I feel like I might actually quit league of legends.... since I started playing in season 4, I have loved this game and played it almost exclusively, and tho like most summoners, at some points in time I hate some aspects of the game, this time it's too much and I've had enough. Why is it that riot hard nerfs, directly or indirectly, or neglects skill champions such as, yasuo, ahri, riven, azir, leblanc, kalista, and fiora, just to name a few, when they allow champions such as talon, wukong, brand, miss fortune, and fiddle run amok. To be honest, I'm butthurt because most of the champions I play are either lackluster, or damn near unplayable, but it feels like a lot of high skill cap champions are being nerfed into the ground while the brain-dead ones walk around the rift one-shotting everything within fractions of seconds. I know it can be super frustrating to deal with a fed yasuo, ahri, or riven, but at least the summoner has to invest a decent amount of time into the said champion to play it well and even if they do one shot you, it takes skill and precision to do so, meanwhile, you can pickup wukong and just delete everything on your first or second try. I have invested a lot of time into mastering ahri, leblanc, riven, katarina, yasuo, kalista, and traditional crit adcs as a whole, and I honestly want to quit league because I can't play most of them due to the fact that there are easier champions that do way more than me with less risk involved. It's like why would anyone bother playing something like zed (Even though in this case zed is actually good right now) when they can play talon, or wukong. They both are much easier to play, have way less risk involved in playing them, and do the same, if not more damage. My other problem with league right now is the adc role. I invested a lot of time in becoming a decent marksman player, and now the marksman role is almost obsolete, with the exception of a few traditional adcs. I love playing lucian, and kai'sa, but I also love caitlyn, tristana, ashe, jinx, varus, vayne, xayah, and Kalista. I get you guys are trying to keep the game fresh with these meta changes, but adc is a role that I loved playing, and now there are very few traditional adcs that are viable... I know no one important will probably read this article, and even though I'm super frustrated right now, I know that a lot of people are on the same boat as me, so in case someone from riot actually takes the time to read this, please give me hope, or tell me to straight up uninstall right now because I'm trying to adapt to these changes, but I end up either playing champions that I find boring to gain some LP, or playing champs I love and getting demolished, and since nothing substantial has happened to show me that riot has players like myself in mind, I feel like I'm wasting my time continuing to wait for league to become enjoyable again.

18 Comments

bbQsauçe6 votes

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xXRaichopXx3 votes

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I totally agree. This game has turned into a no skill fest and riot doesn't do anything about it. Champions like Galio, Renekton, Xin Zhao etc. Reign supreme with 0 skill required and 10x as effective than actual skill champions.

The jungle meta especially is so unskilled. Where the fuck is lee sin, elise etc. Instead of this garbage.

Lee Sin got ruined with the removal of Tracker's knife.

saltran1 votes

His winrate went up that patch xDDDD

xXRaichopXx1 votes

How?

saltran1 votes

Because others junglers were nerfed and the removal of Tracker knife aswell means that there are less wards to prevent the early ganks from Lee.

xXRaichopXx1 votes

But Lee basically lost 70% of his ward jumps as well. I still play him, I just miss the item.

Gntex4 votes

Dude fr, I climbed to silver in s5 almost exclusively playing Elise, but in her current state, I wouldn't touch her with the pointy end of a 10-foot lance.

Bob the Toastr2 votes

Don't you mean a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole?

Crimson Zeppelin1 votes

"XIn zhao is god-tier meta." I think this is a very simple identification that the jg meta is awful as hell.

XDargosX2 votes

Elise is my fav champ, and it feels like a troll pick now if I pick her :( Give me back my Spider Queen!

CaptainAntiHeroz4 votes

item 3114 .... Rip better days... Karma ... Rip no shield AND no cc

Colton1473 votes

Corki Lux Ziggs Ornn Galio Caitlyn Jinx Gangplank Lulu Janna item 3070

Champions that desperately need a buff.

saltran1 votes

Love you

Colton1471 votes

{quoted}

Love you

[sg-lux]

Putyin4Life1 votes

Wait gp? Why does gp need a buff he has 51%winrate and one of the best toplaners

Jeiku2 votes

Riot: " Well shit, ADC is too strong, what do we do? "

Balance team: " fucking delete the role "

LEMMiNO1 votes

NERF JAX AND Yi PLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

DNFVixen1 votes

{quoted}

I'm just furious and venting, so feel free to disregard everything said here if you are a nitpicky wanna be academic fword because this rant is about to be as biased as biased gets. For the first time in 4 years I feel like I might actually quit league of legends.... since I started playing in season 4, I have loved this game and played it almost exclusively, and tho like most summoners, at some points in time I hate some aspects of the game, this time it's too much and I've had enough. Why is it that riot hard nerfs, directly or indirectly, or neglects skill champions such as, yasuo, ahri, riven, azir, leblanc, kalista, and fiora, just to name a few, when they allow champions such as talon, wukong, brand, miss fortune, and fiddle run amok. To be honest, I'm butthurt because most of the champions I play are either lackluster, or damn near unplayable, but it feels like a lot of high skill cap champions are being nerfed into the ground while the brain-dead ones walk around the rift one-shotting everything within fractions of seconds. I know it can be super frustrating to deal with a fed yasuo, ahri, or riven, but at least the summoner has to invest a decent amount of time into the said champion to play it well and even if they do one shot you, it takes skill and precision to do so, meanwhile, you can pickup wukong and just delete everything on your first or second try. I have invested a lot of time into mastering ahri, leblanc, riven, katarina, yasuo, kalista, and traditional crit adcs as a whole, and I honestly want to quit league because I can't play most of them due to the fact that there are easier champions that do way more than me with less risk involved. It's like why would anyone bother playing something like zed (Even though in this case zed is actually good right now) when they can play talon, or wukong. They both are much easier to play, have way less risk involved in playing them, and do the same, if not more damage. My other problem with league right now is the adc role. I invested a lot of time in becoming a decent marksman player, and now the marksman role is almost obsolete, with the exception of a few traditional adcs. I love playing lucian, and kai'sa, but I also love caitlyn, tristana, ashe, jinx, varus, vayne, xayah, and Kalista. I get you guys are trying to keep the game fresh with these meta changes, but adc is a role that I loved playing, and now there are very few traditional adcs that are viable... I know no one important will probably read this article, and even though I'm super frustrated right now, I know that a lot of people are on the same boat as me, so in case someone from riot actually takes the time to read this, please give me hope, or tell me to straight up uninstall right now because I'm trying to adapt to these changes, but I end up either playing champions that I find boring to gain some LP, or playing champs I love and getting demolished, and since nothing substantial has happened to show me that riot has players like myself in mind, I feel like I'm wasting my time continuing to wait for league to become enjoyable again.

Riot stopped caring about us the player a while ago. This game will mostly die everywhere except asia, then when it finally starts dying in asia we might see it getting fixed.

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