Balancing gone wrong by riot and players
I wanna go over what it is I mean when I say balance has gone wrong. Because I believe it's pretty rare this happens and the one time I believe it happened was back in season 4. I am talking about Alistar top. I didn't believe the alistar top hype train up till the end even when Dyrus played it constantly and I'm a big dyrus fan. Point is I never saw the reason to go Alistar top instead of support. Yeah it did decent damage and all but I don't know I still felt like you could've picked a lot of other things over alistar top. I think the 1 justification for it was so you could allow a more utility based support on your team but I still wasn't too into it. Anyway it was just kind of silly to me but it passed by fairly quickly considering they just took away his ability to headbutt auto and nobody played him top.
The problem in season 6 is big though. Much bigger than alistar top. I know people are gonna think "oh he's gonna complain about a champion" No. I am here to complain at how dumb people are because of their ideas of what is op and what isn't.
There are plenty of things that people say are op that just clearly aren't like devourer junglers or certain tanks but the one thing that's been getting beat and battered is Udyr despite being an overall useless champion. First I am gonna eliminate the silly arguments people are gonna post.
- He gets super tanky Being a tank doesn't matter if you can't do anything else. If there's 1 thing I hate it's tanks that are useless because they don't do ANYTHING else. Take Maokai position right now for example.
- He got buffed when runic echoes came out Yes runic echoes fixed like 2 minor flaws he had. He still has about 8 more flaws that are much bigger.
- He snowballs hard. If you get snowballed by an Udyr, no offense, your just bad. Think about this what happened to make udyr "strong" (not really) and I assure you it wasn't runic echoes. ... You guessed it! Zz'rot portal. Let's go over the ascendence of Zz'rot portal! First zz'rot got buffed. Shocker. But it wasn't immediately good. Did you notice that I think it was the same patch or a patch after dead man's plate got nerfed. It was because the iDea for zz'rot was to bring back tank top lanes to be somewhat useful but with dead man's being nerfed it was just kind of an awkward build to go zz'rot first item because you would be completely useless in team fights and would be busted in a heartbeat. Sure it was OK for small skirmishes but overall it was still more of a burden than a gift. While this idea is being developed top lane runic echoes came out in like the next patch and all that theorycrafting is going on in the jungle and some people try it on udyr and is like wow! I can actually jungle a lot of pro players were like "Udyr can jungle? K what else can he do?" Very awkward silence in the jungle so we're gonna go back top to where people have concluded that it's just best to split push with champions like quinn or fiora and drop zz'rot. Guess what happens NEXT. Sunfire cape buff! That's where riot fucked up. People were hesitant to pick up the sunfire cape idea because dead man's plate was so op before and just such a nice item but had to do it if they wanted to make zz'rot op. To everyone's surprise the combo works like fucking magic you can literally build this on ANYONE from top,jungle supports and a few mids picking up zz'rot because they realized "we just need a little hp with zz'rot and we win the game." The champion doesn't matter AT ALL. "Well they did nerf zz'rot..." that wasn't a nerf that wasn't even a slap on the wrist. You know who has been getting nerfed unecessarily? UDYR. Also why does udyr happen to be the perfect candidate for this item you may ask? Because of 2 things: popularity and difficulty . There's a lot of trick2g fans and/or people that just like how easy he is to play. You can do the same on literally any other jungler.. no CHAMPION and it won't make the slightest difference. Runic echoes has been beat up as well but the first nerf I think was necessary it was rly strong but the most recent one was too far.
TL/DR ZZ'ROT IS THE REALLY OP SHITTER NOTHING ELSE