An open letter to Riot Meddler

Ahristocats··59 votes·2,408 views

Dear Riot Meddler

You probably don't remember me as you read god knows how much people per days, but i still decided to write this. Write this letter to thank you for everything you did to the league of legends community

months ago you said that rioters don't go to the board anymore because everyone despises them and attack them constantly, and i feel bad for missquoting you. However you should know that everybody close to me does not know a single person that respect you more than me

https://i.gyazo.com/cb267407321431d91ec35279ba46700f.png

i admire your job and everything you do for league, i wouldn't missquote you on purpose, truth is that i simply didn't check an information that i received from a friend, why? because i didn't care if you would nerf spellthief edge or not, i just wanted you to change the coin quest and eventually you did it

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/fr/c/gameplay-balance/mg1RWfwL-meddler-we-dont-know-yet-if-ancient-coin-is-weak-or-if-frost-queen-is-overpowered

i couldn't care less if you nerfed frost queen or not, coin quest was just too bad and that was the information i wanted you to get i didn't know you would put that much importance into quotes and that's why i didn't check the information, and for that i apoligize

the main goal of this letter is to give you hope for your job, you HAVE TO KNOW that you're doing good Everyone complains everyday, but truth is that league has never been so balanced

i play this game since irelia release in 2010, i achieved master tier rank in season 5 and in season 7, i witnessed multiple attempt of balancing the game from riot a lot of time but it was pointless. Everytime a new champion would become broken and replace a former broken champion, everytime a broken champion would become so the most useless champion for months. http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=293417 Zileas game design rules were bypassed so much time that it didn't make sense, riot had no idea what they were doing.

But now, look at Lucian, look at Lulu, you're managing to turn former permabanned FOTM into viable and balanced picks. And morever you're not letting a single champion rotting in hell, Gnar Vladimir Kalista Nautilus (buffed in next patch) Singed Garen Mundo Cho'gath Diana. I can't list them all but you give love to every champion that are unplayable and i admire this will of wanting to balance the game instead of "X had his time in the spotlight

I play Dota2 Yes i do, after december 2013 the time when yasuo got released i grew tired of league's pointless struggle against endless imbalance and after discovering Rubick the spellstealer i couldn't stop myself from playing the game. Icefrog nerfs and buffs make sense in every patch, and what's more he changed so many heroes in one patch

And this is exactly what's happening right now in league. We have so many champions changed, the mundo buffs on PBE came from nowhere i didn't see them comming, and it's insane the way you did them giving mundo a niche against AP champion Unlike before: -a lot of champions are changed-changes touch the right champions -the changes are done IN AN INTENDED WAY league isn't nerfing or buffing champions randomly, you know what you're doing instead of "we're going to reduce this by X amount and see what happens"

So in the end this whole letter can be summarized by this: league will eventually reach perfect balance if you keep up the good work and continue to do what you're doing. Thank you for everything you do, i speak for myself and the people that share my feeling

https://i.gyazo.com/c60f305a7627cf343e449fe88e63c5b8.png

i love league, and i can't stand to not have fun by playing it, but right now it's incredibly fun. Long duration teamfights are back for instance, i have the fun i had in season 2, while 5 months ago i hated it i still played it, and now i'm playing it because i honestly find it fun

Thank You Riot Meddler

34 Comments

Malicious Metal35 votes

Yeah, Rioters, especially Meddler, don't get enough recognition.

I remember back when people complained about their lack of community interaction. But here we are, with almost daily threads on balance and game design.

AirKingNeo1 votes

Sadly, we get things like Kindred's rework and Aatrox being unbuffed despite countless item nerfs. That's very disheartening.

Or the consistent high winrates of champions line Thresh and Nunu and Zac going unnerfed, but somehow Singed is needing a hotfix nerf. Or how Akali is being buffed despite being an already strong top laner.

Again, very disheartening.

TonyTonyMordecai2 votes

What was hotfixed on Singed? I haven't heard anything about it yet

AirKingNeo1 votes
TonyTonyMordecai1 votes

.... Well then. Meanwhile Thresh with 30% playrate and 50%+ winrate, followed by Nunu and his simple and guaranteed kit. I don't play either, so I can't advocate for any balance changes.

Ahristocats2 votes

you take thresh win rate in one region when meddler cares about all region in the world go to LOLalyctic and you will find that singed has 55% win rate and thresh has 51% win rate (who happens to be nerfed in next patch)

of course they will hotfix singed, no champ deserves to get 55% win rate, remember when they hotfixed nunu and zac?

Also, in your original discussion you pointed out unbuffed aatrox when he's on the VU list+got buffed to 51% win rate

Again this goes to the OP, Meddler knows what he's doing

AirKingNeo1 votes

You can look at Thresh's winrate and playrate globally, it's about the same.

They had a whole patch after the hotfix to analyze Nunu and Zac and I still don't see any extra nerfs for these overpowered champions.

He had 1.4% playrate, and then he was nerfed and nerfed by his items. Now he's a lot worse, at 0.66%. I don't know about you, but that means mostly one tricks play him again. He's too shit and just got nerfed again, and still they refuse to full.

Akali is the VGU list, has a high winrate top, AND IT GETTING FUCKING BUFFED.

Meddler nor the entire balance team has no fucking clue what they're doing. Pantheon is still overpowered. Fiora, even after the nerfs, is still overpowered. Kindred is still NONEXISTANT. Caitlyn took a whole fucking year to get nerfed. Zac IS STILL OVER 100% banrate. Balance team right now just arbitrarily changes the game; they do not balance it. If the game was balanced at all, Akali would be getting nerfs and Fiora would have been nerfed in her passive and W, instead of making her less interesting.

Ahristocats4 votes

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Pantheon is still overpowered.

won't be nerfed in a world's patch, deal with it

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Fiora, even after the nerfs, is still overpowered.

you're actually lucky that i still keep reading you after this

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Kindred is still NONEXISTANT.

http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/kindred/platinum

pick rate doubled since pre-rework win rate increased slightly since pre-rework conclusion: work on kindred was a success, and she has 50% win rate

you're AGAIN LUCKY that i keep reading

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Caitlyn took a whole fucking year to get nerfed.

because obviously you're perfect and cannot make any mistake

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Zac IS STILL OVER 100% banrate.

he's not, his ban rate dropped to 58% with 51.5% win rate and meddler already stated that they will nerf him again http://current.lolalytics.com/grid/

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Balance team right now just arbitrarily changes the game; they do not balance it.

honestly just shut up i shouldn't even have replied to this

AirKingNeo3 votes

It's world's patch, therefore we can't do anything about the 6 months issue of Pantheon in solo queue? Because a minus 10/15/20/25/30 damage off his Q is a hard concept?

Fiora is still broken. These nerfs are not enough. I guarantee you.

Kindred's pickrate doubled for the patch it was reworked on. That's it. It fell down to almost the same the next. Nor does pickrate compensate for poor performance. https://na.op.gg/champion/kindred/statistics/jungle

Who said anything about perfect? I don't know about you, but Riot has access to statistics themselves. They should be able to tell if Caitlyn is an issue. I don't know about you, but a whole year sounds like gross incompetence.

103%. That's "balanced". http://prntscr.com/fven59

honestly just shut up

I don't see how that's remotely a counter argument to the argument that the balance team does not, in fact, balance. Again, more examples: Aatrox doesn't exist anymore. Jax still lacks itemization and is a mid game champion, when he's supposed to be a late game champion. Sona was kept to have 40% extra CDR late game instead of that being reduced to 30% and actually being balanced. Akali is being buffed, despite being too strong top lane. Swain, Gnar, and Jayce, the absolute cancer of top lane, still goes unnerfed, especially Gnar and Swain. Camille is still a champion who, once she has a lead, gets a free kill every time she has her ultimate. If she gets a jungler, she still gets the free kill with her ult. Volibear doesn't exist as a champion. Death's Dance goes unnerfed again. Twitch goes unnerfed again. Riven goes unnerfed again. How many fuck ups in the last 3 months do I need to point out for you understand that "balance" is a fucking myth?

Best princess EU1 votes

yeah this is really insane...

fiora is literally unplayable and dude calls her overpowered

Joseraph1 votes

Your mistake here is taking AirKingNeo. He won't stop complaining until any champ with a dash gets nerfed so hard that their damage abilities heal opponents

Not xPeke1 votes

This is a World's QUALIFIERS patch. Not World's patch. (just saying)

NefariousQuack2 votes

Yes, Rioters are so good, I really liked their Rengar rework. I thought it was Original and really suited the champions Design. The new Q feels so much better to use than the old one. Why be a jack of all trades when you can be a jack of no trades.

Not xPeke3 votes

The problem is, and I might be wrong but it's what I feel, is that Rioters and Volonteers alike seem to pay more attention and engage in discussions with prominent Boards users like maybe yourself, or Rubick, etc.

It's like being part of the "cool club". There's a circle, if you ain't in it you just won't feel the same interaction others do. Nothing wrong with that don't get me wrong, it's normal, I'm just stating how it is/feels like.

For example the screenshot above of you being able to ask and receive answers. Maybe you were able to because it's you. A randomer probably wouldn't have gotten a reply. Sure, they do, but it's more likely you or other more prominent players do. Again, I mean no offence to you or any Rioter. It's just something I'm feeling on the spot at the moment - could be mistaken.

Big Lincoln6 votes

i'm a cool boy but riot never responds to me

i did the dishes and i took out the trash, i have 200 good boy points :^(

Mordepool2 votes

The Gameplay threads are amazing. It's hard to understand how dumb people in this community behave: belittling the very life of the game

Riot posts more on the Boards in a Month (about Meaningful Gameplay changes/Rework concept Brain storms.) Than like ALL of S1&2.

I know that may seem like an exaggeration but if it is. It's a Slight exaggeration.

You young kids have it sooooo good and some of you are too Blind to even read the Patch notes.

Rant over. (none of that was directed at you MM, your too respectable for that sort of behavior)

Melledoneus3 votes

I have done my best to recognize the awesome man that Riot Meddler is. I have posted about him doing a good job, defended him against ignorant naysayers, and even offered him a cookie on the Boards... publicly. And he accepted it!

And I would do it all again for the upvotes because Meddler can't get enough recognition for the love and dedication he pours into making this game good.

Automated Riven2 votes

Some of the complaints make me yearn for an ability to go back and okay season 1 and 2 again. Teach some of these whipersnapperes a thing or two about an unbalanced game. The league today is by and large the most balanced game I have ever played. And yes there are obvious outliers cough garen is still garbage cough but the amount that riot does right far outweighs what they do wrong.

Melledoneus1 votes

Riot killed the memes. Including Lee Sin.

There is nary a champion I can point at these days and say "this champion is blatantly overpowered and has no exploitable weaknesses."

Need Gold 4 Tent1 votes

XinZhao the 6-man team on his own.

Twitch item 3031 item 3046 item 3077 item 3077 item 3077 item 3077

LeeSin Wtf is this useless weak champ? (Day 1)

ModKnightsKemplar13 votes

Thanks for sharing!

I, too, think that the game is moving in a great direction right now. Nice to hear positive feedback on the Boards every once in awhile.

Sidenote: I'm still hoping we can turn Gameplay into a place that Rioters DON'T hate to visit. Active project for the Warden team :^)

Laughing Fish5 votes

The Wardens will make the boards great again.

AirKingNeo2 votes

To be fair, gameplay could be made a better place simply if balance wasn't a joke.

Joseraph2 votes

Well, I cant find the words "Nerf" or "Fiora" in this comment, so maybe you're improving? Take an anti-salt upvote friend, you need it :)

AirKingNeo1 votes

She probably will need one again.

TálØnly6 votes

Can't wait for your threads about lethality and how broken it is lmao

Tyermaillin4 votes

"Self-masturbation" Uh lmao

YambrinZ1 votes

Is that something like wet water?

Sleepcoma3 votes

Upvoted for visibility :)

IxtaliKing2 votes

This is sweet +1

Jerry SeinfeId1 votes

I've always thought ppl gave riot too much shit for what they do.

Now they're hotfixing fucking singed so nvm that fuck em.

... is what i'd like to say but atleast they're trying.

Hyrum Graff1 votes

7.14 is a damn good patch. Not quite as good as mid-S5, but good enough that I don't care.

ZaneShadow1 votes

Thank you for writing this. I feel bad the boards are so toxic. I wish I could get feed back from them but the boards have seriously reduced hay chance with so much negativity.

Thank you Riot, and I truely do think your doing a good job.

StarGuardianWeeb1 votes

Werent you the guy that literally made a post calling out meddler and he owned you into the dust, used a item 3026 to revive you, then murdered you again? Rubick X Janna or some shit?

If so glad you saw the error of your ways and now realize that shockingly, Riot actually does try their best.

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