Can I say thank you to Gypsylord?

Chromatic Eagle··27 votes·1,542 views

While I don't think he's the best designer (is anyone really), I like how his champions aren't so gimmicky that you have to "gut" them to make them not OP. That's not to say that he doesn't have OP champions, but his nerfs seem fair. I also love how he explains why he nerfs champions. At least I think he does. That might be Meddler.

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Drunk Rummate12 votes

I absolutely think he's the best designer :]

Even with Jinx being considered "OP" right now, she's far from rage inducing. He introduced some really cool mechanics with Gnar and Vi is simply a cool and fun champion. I can't wait to play Ekko, been watching some PBE gameplay and he just looks absurdly fun.

I will admit that he seems a bit obsessed with the 'stacking autos' concept (Vi W, Jinx Q, Gnar W, Ekko passive) but honestly that's a healthy mechanic anyways since it emphasizes sustained damage and grants your opponent more time for counterplay.

BestTristMyHaus2 votes

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Even with Jinx being considered "OP" right now, she's far from rage inducing.

I disagree, I hate her and always have. And I think the "how many abilities can we throw in a single kit" direction that a lot of recent champions have gone is stupid.

Vistha Kai1 votes

Fizz Says "Hi".

Subject 53 votes

Nidalee Elise Thresh LeeSin What have you been smoking? These champions demand that you share.

BestTristMyHaus1 votes

To be fair, Nidalee might HAVE a lot of abilities, but (at least for me) she's only really annoying because of the one. (that people just throw over and over and over again) No one denies that Lee Sin has pretty much always been broken and I can only assume Thresh doesn't get more hate because most people don't wanna play support. But that said, I don't think any of them are dumber than Jinx or Yasuo for ability stacking kit.

(I also probably rate them all below Jinx & Yasuo because they've MOSTLY been annoyingly abused in the two "weirder" roles (JG & SUPP) as opposed to being main laners like Jinx & Yas (along with Fizz))

Hello I am Bird4 votes

Actually, you tend to hate the human q the most because it allows her to cougar w, cougar e, maybe cougar q, and hop away gingerly Like, yea it chunks a lot of health but tank hat it cuz ^^^^^

Oh cmon burger, right something funny... Uh... Dodge the spear (No...) Pink ward the spear (No...) A sword mirrors her owner, so Riven is- Ugh, forget it...

Joe Dredd7 votes

No, you can't say thank you.

stop asking stupid questions ffs

Hello I am Bird2 votes

Lol people trying to downvote you Why does nobody understand sarcasm... summoner 3

ImHerVoice5 votes

he made jinx. SHe's been broken 54% winrate even in assassin meta where you played against 3 assassins and 1 adc and that was the meta.

It says a lot about a champion if they are consistantly winning games even in the most dire of situations when you're immobile.

Imo its mostly her utilmate kits disgustingly overpowered. its an AOE ad scaling ult that has fast travel time.

THe percentage damage needs to go.

The scaling needs to be toned down. remember MF? She got gutted for having an AOE ult that shredded teams and scaled .8 off AD Why isn't jinx? Because she's flashier, that simple.

Bisaknosp2 votes

trash like you should learn how to shut their mouth because nobody can clean this shit what is coming out of it

SlytherinUmbreon6 votes

It's ironic because your post is even worse then his Teemo

Celeste Benal3 votes

54% is not broken. Every assassin in the game can 100-0 her. Her ulimate is fun without being OP. And that video... I know dozens of people that changed their forum avatars to Jinx gifs. She is the reason I tried lol again. Hated it the first time.

ImHerVoice2 votes

she had 55% in the assassin meta buddy. How does an immobile adc get above a 50% winrate against 3 assassins?

Because its Kits overloaded and numbers are too high. Huge stat stick. snare mass slow aoe crits aoe ult. All good scaling.

Sammystorm2 votes

wait 3 assasins. What game have you been playing?

ImHerVoice2 votes

you know the meta that dominated the game for 3 fucking years?

that meta. WHAT GAME WERE YOU PLAYING? lol.

Icestar11861 votes

Season 3 was a bruiser meta if I remember correctly. S4 was the assassin meta, but had 2 at most (mid/jungle).

Sammystorm3 votes

Season 2 was an AoE meta. Season 3 was a mixed bag but we saw a lot of assassins go mid and in the jungle. Season 4 was similar to season 3 with at most 2 assassins. Usually only 1. I mean I can't remember when I have seen 3 assassins in one game.

ImHerVoice1 votes

season 2 was when olaf got gutted and we called it olafing.

bruiser meta died with him.

it was also the starting of the assassin meta with ahri's release. And the broken tanks came out in s2 as well if I'm remembering correctly. that sej and naut. Might've been s3 those 2 came out though.

Sammystorm1 votes

This is ironic because olaf was not touched in a single patch in season 2. He was nerfed in patch 3.1 and then reworked in patch 3.12 with a minor QoL buff in 3.6. All the powerful ad items that were released in season 3 caused bruisers to be very strong with one damage item and then full tank. We saw Nasus jungle, Renekton as the king of top lane, shyvana jungle, Rengar broken all the time, Ironically this is the last season we saw shen well he went top because he got kicked out of the jungle. Ahri wasn't really played as an assassin on her release. She definitely could do that but she was played more as an AoE mage with powerful clean up. The only assassins I can think of that might have been played in season 2 was Kat and Diana (AP master Yi if you count him). However Diana was tanky and was just absurd at the time and Kat would clean up fights not assassinate. The tanks weren't broken the magic resist and armor were broken. You would get 2000 hp and then stack armor and mr and be tankier then at any point up to the release of cinderhulk. Sejuani was never played until very recently. She was strong and riot pre-preemptively nerfed her but she wasn't ever played. Nautilas was one of the top junglers in season 2. Him, Mundo, shen, and maokai.

SpecterVonBaren2 votes

God forbid that someone that's immobile actually be viable. No noooo, please, we must make sure that every viable ADC has a dash.

Mecha MaIphite1 votes

Both teams have an adc so therefore to say all winrates of adcs should drop in a meta they get countered in doesn't make sense. One of them's going to have to win, Jinx just happens to be in a better spot than most.

Brotha2 votes

He made Ekko, therefore I forgive him for creating Vi and Jinx.

Gnar is tons of fun.

SlytherinUmbreon1 votes

No, you can't Trundle

aaronautumn1 votes

ya, u can

MrBuffington1 votes

He's been explaining his Jinx nerfs, I forget if he did for Vi. His nerfs seem pretty smart to me, at least the recent ones on Jinx. I also just really like his Zaun characters; Jinx and Vi are among my favorites, and Ekko is probably going to be a regular for me as well (been playing him on PBE, he's a lot of fun)

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