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Can I please say something about "balance" in League of Legends...

Mephisto3·1/25/2018, 2:51:20 PM·3 votes·239 views

...I am VERY critical of Riot and their approach to multiple things, and I believe a LOT could be done "better" if the objective was to create a "competitive sport" rather than a profitable game (notably: the matchmaking system and the associated ranking system). So I am not a person generally very nice to Riot...

THAT SAID: the game is ridiculously WELL balanced! It is almost unbelievable that across MILLIONS of games, across hundreds of millions of relevant combinations of teams, across skill levels from "absolute beginner" to "14 hours a day professional", winrates of individual champs are considered "outrageous" if they hit 52%... I think we should stop complaining about "balance" because we have individual issues that we cannot play well against.

There are issues to work on if League is going to be THE premier eSport (including the "amateur level", which is solo queue - oh no wait, not "solo", "solo and duos"), but it is NOT balance. Balance is surprisingly good, considering all the factors that need to "be" balanced.

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wildfox991/25/2018, 3:21:21 PM2 votes

nha,i see many games being more balanced (in my opinion)

the game is ridiculously WELL balanced! It is almost unbelievable that across MILLIONS of games, across hundreds of millions of relevant combinations of teams, across skill levels from "absolute beginner" to "14 hours a day professional", winrates of individual champs are considered "outrageous" if they hit 52%

well,it's a % so ofc it's around 50% (you are not counting single players that found some "broken" builds or knows some tricks that not everyone knows),if a champion become too strong nerf him,if he's too weak buff him,so he will be always around 50%,is not that hard...

I think we should stop complaining about "balance" because we have individual issues that we cannot play well against.

actually is not only the balance,but making the game enjoyable and funny,i know i'm exaggering but if for example the game become "wins who oneshoot first the other" or "who makes the first kill wins" the game is still balanced,you have 50% of chance of killing him,but it is not funny