Whats up with Riot using "Strategic Diversity"?

Phife··4 votes·625 views

Its like a campaign manager for the presidential election is telling people keywords to keep spewing out... You keep saying "strategic diversity" as if there's any difference between the 5 people who are in the jungle or the 4 people that go bot lane...

How is it strategic, or diverse when people just pick something because its strong and you (RIOT) hasn't nerfd it yet.


Has anyone seen the changes to nid on PBE? Given her spears are considered toxic and her kit is really flexible when she marks an opponent... SHE WASN'T PLAYED UNTIL RIOT MADE A CHANGE IN JUNGLE FOR HER. Now they opened up grounds in which to nerf her W and her E... But wait... nid's traps and E? Those weren't the problems with nid... Do you know what this means for Riot? They'll keep nerfing nid until they see a drastic drop in her play rate.

Its what they've done time and time again for every champion in the game. (X champ becomes strong -> nerf ) Why don't you flip the switch and swap places on the chess board, Look at the counters and spells that affect a (OP) champion INDIVIDUALLY and work on buffing those qualities to counter X champ.

What i'm getting at is, Riot keeps things in rotation. even if its for a week or two, they don't like seeing champions being played because of their "*POWER *", Well let me tell you something Boards. Would you like to see a champ you play get buffed in an irregular way, just to see them nerfed because suddenly their damage "came from out of the blue"?


Here's a proposition; When you notice a champion Rise to power / play in any scene whether it be competitive or not. or even bronze and silver, Try finding the champions weaknesses and exploiting them by buffing other champions that "STRATEGICALLY DIVERSIFY" the situation.

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Fed by Snu Snu2 votes

Nidalee's weakness has and will always be a strong Zac.

Keyword is "strong" and Riot not wanting him that way.

You won't have much luck in what you are saying, even though it's true. I kept saying that Nidalee didn't need a complete rework but 4 simple steps of reworking the heal to something less passive, toning down the hitbox(although this isn't a Nidalee alone problem, it's just hitboxes in general in this game), buffing Zac and buffing Diana. Nidalee would instantly be fine back then.

People are now complaining about Lissandra. Solution is as simple as buffing Spectre's Cowl so that it doesn't give pure shit regen. Giving back some mana regen to other mages would also help.

Same for J4 and Vi. It's not their strength that is the problem. It's that they are the only ones who can actually survive the jungle with enough hp to gank after some camps. A jungler's strength is irrelevant if you can't get to use it anyway.

But people will just keep on asking for nerfs.

I'm just waiting for the Swain QQ to come after Lissandra gets nerfed.

Zed might be the only one whose QQ is legitimate at this point in the game. Although his problematic position can be traced back to previous changes. Problem is that those changes are just too many in his favor by now.

Phife1 votes

I couldn't agree more, People dont realize that this game is full of champions and items that aren't being used because they've been nerfed into oblivion, instead of buffing their counterpart champions.

Phife2 votes

No one else got an opinion for themselves? Fucking robots man...

Hizsoo2 votes

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lojician2 votes

"Strategic diversity" is just riot's excuse for screwing over champions and playstyles they dislike. It never applies to things they like, just things they dislike and want to phase out.

For instance: fighters get pushed out of top lane by lulu/gnar/etc. It's ok because having two solo lanes dominated by ranged lane bullies is "strategic diversity".

By contrast having an adc support bot lane every game is perfectly fine and requires no diversifying.

People taking ignite top lane and playing for kills: summoner spells need more "strategic diversity".

People taking teleport top on both teams literally every pro game and the vast majority of high elo games: LC$ teleport plays outweigh the need for diversity.

Etc.

Phife1 votes

lmao basically...

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