What happened this season?
(generic post about riot balance is generic)
But this season, Other than new skins which have been fantastic IMO have been the only thing to cheer about. I mean, new patches I get excited for but 3/4 of the changes this season have been unnecessary and just bring more problems to the game rather than creating less. I don't have much confidence that the big Patch 5.18 (AKA the Worlds patch ; Worlds games will be played on this patch) will have the needed changes, like Mr. BigLCSplays (Thresh) getting some lantern changes so he can actually have some counter play other than having to pick Lulu.
Let me go through all of the problems that have been created by Riot this season in no organized order that I can remember off the top of my head..
- Skarner rework (current one)
- Garen rework
- Morde rework
- Created the reign of Vayne and Thresh through nerfing other supports and adcs
- Fiora rework
- Kalista
- Sated Devourer
- Server move (Idc much with 50 ping, but just doing the majority rules thing and fucking Hawaii and Alaska and people with bad internet in the west when a company can afford a second server is stupid)
- New UI (isn't a problem now, but was shoved down our throat)
(comment any other problems I missed)
And here is things that haven't been balanced or tuned whatsoever in quite a few patches
- Annie
- Sated Devourer (This makes a handful of junglers incredibly strong)
- Vayne
- Thresh
- Riven
(again, comment any problems I missed)
I want to try and make this a big thread (probably wont though, rip) but I just want this to be a big post of all the problems put together into one post and maybe get some attention. I personally think Riot's balance and rework team has been careless especially the last few patches with what they throw at the game. It's hard to have fun with this game when there is all the sated devourer junglers, Annie, Vayne, Thresh, Jinx, Kalista, Morde, Garen, Riven and many others that I can't remember being picked so often and having them snowball into a big unstoppable mess.
