I've long believe riot balanced around the meta the devs liked playing...

MetaCosmos·Dec 17, 2019·6 votes·2,331 views

and the way they balance TFT confirms this.

What was unanimously the most broken and hated synergy from set 1? glacial... so what did they keep for set 2? glacial.

Olaf was unanimously hated and broken by the community in set 2 so what does riot do? do they nerf him? no, they actually buff him.

Predator and Poison is too strong for a 3 set bonus you say? better nerf the only counter (kindred) inferno AND shadow.

Riot's balance team constantly goes against the grain with designs and balance choices and the only explanation is that they don't actually listen to the community at all. Instead they just balance around what they enjoy playing.

4 Comments

ToolmakerDec 17, 20191 votes

It's up to them whether they want to create a meme game. Competitive? kekw

Heroboy10Dec 17, 20191 votes

Seriously Olaf ? They didn't nerf him because of statistics. Last my 30 games I never seen Olaf winning the game.

I beat Olaf with Mages/shadow/rangers/inferno/soulbound even with Khazix.

Olaf is my last pick as ADC.

Why ? Because, being a melee unit, he is focused. He has no escape mechanism. Without rageblade and BT he is weak.

MogarlDec 18, 20191 votes

Idk about that, they just gave infernals a pretty large buff, and infernals have been at the top of most of my recent games. Meanwhile I'm a dirty glacial spammer and have been losing much more the patch.

MetaCosmosDec 19, 20191 votes

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Idk about that, they just gave infernals a pretty large buff, and infernals have been at the top of most of my recent games. Meanwhile I'm a dirty glacial spammer and have been losing much more the patch.

I don't see anyone play infernal at all since the change. they went from being strong at burning down single targets to needed a 9set to kill summoner minions, super weak trade.