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Using smash bros to explain the current situation in League right now

dontspinbutwin·4/29/2019, 2:23:43 AM·19 votes·9,412 views

You know that Smash character, Ganon? "DORYAH" Lookin ass dude? You know how he can kill people at literally 0% if he positions right? He's balanced, because he's a bit slow, range is a bit short, theres mild delay on his smash attacks, and is easily suceptable to long range poke. However, super skilled ganondorf players can work around this, and curbstomp the shit outta you. Get in his zone, u ded boi.

You know that Smash character, Fox? "TAH HEY TAH HEY- COMMON KUROYA-UWAHHHHHHHHHH!" Lookin ass dude? He moves super fast, and can string insane combos. He can take a character from 0% to 50% quite easily. He is balanced because he's light, so he's easy to launch, learning combos are important, as slipping up makes you super vulnerable, and his smash attacks are super short range. Skill is important with him, and its what seperates a trash fox who only dash attacks, to a master who can 0% to 100% you. Be prepared for when he comes to you, and counter him well.

Now imagine. What if, you gave Ganon the speed of fox? Someone who can move super fast, easily string combos, easily punish, and 1 shot you with tons of cushion room.

Sounds busted right? Unbalanced at all?

this ganon fox hybrid is essentially what divers in this game have become. I feel far more tanky as kled top, as opposed to illaoi top. Riven has done more damage than me, even after I went aftershock darius (this was before the dari buff), and even after i canceled her knockup. With damage creep, we've essentially given divers the damage of juggernauts. Instead of nerfing divers, what do we do?

....Like seriously, what did we do? Darius got a buff on his Q, Naut got damage buffs (NOT sustainability buffs), Renekton got buffed (for some reason. He was oppressive before this buff), etc.

Can we just nerf damage overall? Please? It'd make this game more interesting, and it'd make skill far more apparent. Sure, a skilled ganon could still shine with this fox ganon hybrid, but it would probably look the same in the hands of a novice. It used to mean something when you mained riven or vayne, you got respect. Now, people hate them, because damage is overtuned, and people play these champions for the sake of bandwagoning.

19 Comments

ChaosReyn4/29/2019, 2:42:38 AM6 votes

Tbh, I don't even think its damage that needs it - I think for almost all the major problem players, it's Cooldowns.

Think about it - Riven is a monster with basically 4 short range dashes each on pretty much no cooldown. Vayne? spams Q with no cd during ult and is basically freaking untargetable. Yasuo? Same thing - I get his dash requires a target and is supposed to be like that, but his Q can literally be procd between every single dash once he gets his CDR...and the best part is - none of these guys really even have to go out of their way for it.

CDR is something that's supposed to essentially be the "attack speed" of casters. Or by your analogy, it'd be like making all of Ganon's smash attacks instant instead of slow. Imagine a Ganon who didn't necessarily move fast, or attack fast, but who pressed his B button and instantly one shot you. Whose side-B gave him more mobility than actually moving so he just smashed it constantly. Tell me why literally every CDR item also gives assmetric fuckloads of damage? Pick one or the other, and make people choose. Do I build to launch a bunch of poke? Or do I spec for the one shot?

THAT is balance. Separation of power.

Akali is SO HOT4/29/2019, 4:26:05 AM1 votes

https://youtu.be/OzHNc0BzLsY?t=24

Parallelity4/29/2019, 4:16:38 PM1 votes

They're 2 completely different genres of game and the balance does not equal. A fighting game should not dictate the balance of an RTS game. There's no reason someone I can't kill quickly should be able to kill me quickly or vice versa. Assassins do damage and are mobile because of how squishy they are, but if a tank could one-shot me in a combo, how is it fair I can't one-shot him in one?

U R Good At Game4/29/2019, 7:49:40 PM1 votes

Renekton literally had a 46% winrate before buff...please.

Are we gonna ignore how there are as many jugs as divers in the top 15 top champs? https://u.gg/lol/tier-list/?role=top

I Smell Pizza4/29/2019, 11:28:06 PM1 votes

It used to mean something to main the combo champs. Now ignite procs electrocute, did you hit 6 first?