Inversely, there's a special pain in playing a champion that's so well-balanced that they haven't recieved a buff in a year, but all your items get nerfed, and everyone is getting compensation buffs except you.
@@fraidei2094 i played alistar for this first time with my duo who played kallista and while the enemies were pretty bad, it felt pretty strong. I even got my friend his first penta of the season that game
"If irelia and Akali didn't have these abilities they wouldn't be irelia and Akali" Meanwhile Aatrox mains without anything from him: *sad darkin noises*
This made me quit league. Honestly, Aatrox was like 95% of my will to play league, and the other 5% is between Zyra and Diana. They remove my Aatrox, then after that remove my RQ Diana. I have literally no reason to play league, but still from time to time i log in to play some aram when i have nothin better to do. Its 3 years since and i'm still pissed. lol
One of the biggest problems for kalista imo is how much slows and as cripples destroy her, both her mobility and her dps are tied together and dependant on one another, so if she gets slowed her dash range get shortened as well, and if she gets crippled then she attacks way less and she dashes less often as a result. slows and cripples are basically roots to her, if you're having problems vs a kalista just buy frozen heart, it just works
This still doesn't fix her near 100% baron and dragon control by stacking spears. Sure, you could cap the number of spears, but that would take away the core of her kit and fantasy theme.
This feelsl ike any Vars's point about why no one play. She clearly has a weakness... but problem is, Riot keep pushing their bullshit "everything in one champ" design. Champion with distinct weakness like Kalista feels lackluster to play when you can have someone better than her.
Someone remember the pro play when ryze perma roots the maokai in early game until maokai was dead xD Or when his e could 1 hit you, when you stand in your minions and he used ult?
For the Pro Play problems it really stings since they often don't get played in Pro Play either, and how vehement riot is about it. Azir has a nasty tendency to if he is even selected in a single Pro Play match, to get nerfed the following patch win or lose. It makes me somewhat wish for a separate patch server for pro play, so some champions will actually be able to be used in Solo Queue.
The fact Riot has no response to a champion being good in pro-play but bad in norms or solo q shocks me. I can come up with 3 ways to solve the problem in 30 seconds by myself with no game dev experience, but an entire team of professionals over years can't ?
Mobility of an assassin/diver, damage comparable to that of most hyper carries, durability comparable to most juggernauts thanks to her constant healing, hard cc, soft cc, damage reduction and an AS buff. Her kit if far too overloaded for one champion, but none of these things on their own are that broken. They could fix her if they wanted too but they don't for reasons of character assassination. And as anyone will point out her only counters are CC which counters every other champion in the game (except olaf), and anti heal... Which in itself is in a state of requirement in every game because of the prevalence of champions with self healing now. Every other champion either has an inbuilt heal, or takes one through runes.
@@PhoenixIsTrash i mean, yes but why doeq they feel the need to put a build in heal when she dash and her insane healing capacity, like she already an insane amount of damage, she build like an adc most of the time, idk why they judged nessesary to give her, healing, damage reduction, stun, a "cage" that slow and put a mark on you, like you said everything she have make her overloaded, she is literally 4 good side of 4 champs!
Passive: More attack speed than jax passive, more damage than warwick passive, q - yasuo e which also has insane damage and healing, w - huge damage reduction great
She needs a 0.5/0.75s delay after a Q reset in order to Q again, just like Yasuo's E. So at least people can catch her when there are like 10 minions around.
@@_zzeero her gameplay is incredibly tame shes just a lame ripoff of sona and a disgusting marketingploy, but only gameplay wise shes basicly lux and sonas baby with slow skillshots and a better ult. But true gameplay errors are yone, viego,gwen and akshan which just designed with passives longer than rammus entire kit, so ofc they will be meta and used. I only dont like her for being a better neeko support since i love neeko support.
Yep, its never fun to play a game where you know your only chance of winning this matchup is if your opponent messes up. Thankfully Akali players do this a lot, its a hard and complex champ where you have to think many moves ahead, but its not real counterplay.
@@zandromex8985 People are having trouble with Akali's design when the only thing that is actually objectively unacceptable is that she has 450 base dmg on max lvl E. Lower that to something like 200 and we're good. Also longer cd on q but less energy would also be a welcome change.
A big thing they need to get away from is resets or at least extremely easy ability resets. Old irelia was good where she had to kill to get the reset. They could fix a lot of frustration by reverting that and making the debuff proc just give a small cd reduction
The best example is master yi. I dont care if he one shots me while being untargetable but its very unfair that he is able to be perma untargetable just because he got a takedown
@@LegendaryFusions but yi resets are some of the more balanced ones, his reset is only for 70% of the cd , and trust me it used to be worst if you played during ap yi era you know what i mean.
@@LegendaryFusions but Yi is squishy unlike Irelia. If Yi isn't untargetable he will die to a breeze. There's a reason why his most viable build is the Duskblade cheese build where you avoid being targeted at all and die to aoe instead.
Im surprised he didnt put Sylas on the list. He had half of his effects removed since release and when he came out he was getting nerfed or tweaked LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE PATCH.
One way that i think they could improve tournaments and prevent you from seeing the same comp all over is that they could implement a list for each team. Every champ picked by them or the opposing team cannot be used for the rest of the tournament starting on the quarter finals and each list is exclusive to that team. That would create fun strategies where you could either pick strong champs at the start to reduce the amount of plays and "reduce" the list or leave the stronger champs in the bench for when they are needed.
For this they would likely have to get rid of bans in tournaments since if a team kept the strong champs for later, they would just get target banned. Let's say that after every game you'd have to ban 1 champion you played in that game (groups would eliminate 8 champs for each team if you have 5 team groups) and it would reward teams that manage to pull of 3:0s and 3:1s since they would have 1 or 2 champs more than the team that got through on 5 game Bo5s. (If this was the rule, DWG would have likely won just because they stomped before and EDG went to game 5 in almost every round after groups)
Dem 1% aurelion mains are just too powerful Riot's brain said "hmm Asol sEeMs bROkEn aNd StrOnk letze nerF cuS high winrate. Hmm yes bAlAncEd" It's like riot forgot that Asol's Pick rate is so godamn low💀
@@Zero-zr6xx aurelion sol winrate is really big only cause one-tricks are playing him and noone else. imagine if only onetricks would play akali , she'd have like 60% winrate, but she's really popular so that wont happen. same with asol, if noobs would play him he'd have 40% winrate
Feedback : I live thoses "glitch" effets for transition but don't use them too much, you should use other effect such as a fade-in/out, or just pop. Otherwise it can get very repetitive. Wish you long lasting luck on Genshin & other gacha too
I think the coordination element is the thing that makes certain things so much better in pro-play than in soloque. Ryze ult is 10x better and more impactful when you’re in comms. It goes from meh cross map mobility to single handedly game winning macro tool when everyone is on the same page. Prop layers are not THAT much better than soloque players at the high end of the ladder. In many instances they’re actually mechanically WORSE, what they do have is practice and experience working as a coordinated unit, which is not what you’ll get in soloque, reguardless of elo. And what I think all of the ‘balance nightmare’ champions have is either they are too self-sufficient (I.e they need very little from their team in order to execute their play style) or they synergize too well with coordination.
The main reason Akali is broken is due to fact that only select few champions have the ability to reveal her during her smoke bomb. If there was an item that grants true sight she wouldn't be nearly as problematic. If you try to gank her, she pops W and runs away, in teamfight it creates massive issue, because inability to target her gives her huge zone control, which is not something assasin should have. Riot keeps nerfing her damage which is futile. Her damage isn't an issue, it's how quickly and safely she can deal it - low risk, high reward most of the time. I hate to bring Dota 2 everytime, but if Akali was a hero in that game she would be just another one in the pool and no one aside from the lowest of lowest rank players would complain about her, because there's plenty of counterplay for everything she can do. Irelia's can't be fixed by tweaking her numbers, because her main issue stands from how the game is designed - your own minions are your worst enemies. Again, if minions could be denied like in Dota 2, the lane dynamic would change drastically and both Irelia and her opponent would have to play carefully. Denied minion wouldn't refund cooldown or provide healing which would force Irelia to actually plan her engagements instead of going brrrr after 3 minions get low on hp. But of course denying won't be added anytime soon, as it would require to adjust multiple weak early game champions and minion behavior, so she will remain frustrating to play against especially in mid lane. I believe what's causing all of this is the fact that Riot kept adding new champions with more and more ludicrous mechanics, but the game ifself didn't evolve with it's rising roster. Summoner's Rift, with few exeptions like turret platings and elemental dragons, is played nearly the same way for the past 10 years and it remains almost unchanged. There are no alternate objectives, win conditions, neutral items or anything of the sort. Riot can announce 10 new champions coming out next week and it won't matter, because how the game is played won't change at all, it will all boil down to who can kill an enemy in the quickest, most efficent way.
What if akali loses some health when she uses the smoke bomb, but regenrates more health than she loses when shes in it. Hear me out, she needs to be more cautious when she uses it, because if she uses it in the middle of a teamfight and a chunk of her health misses she can get killed easier by a random ability. And she'll have to stay longer in it to regenerate her health, sl opposing champions can actually calculate how long it takes before her health is returned. She also gets the "guard down" staus effect, which means that any damage she takes while shrouded is amplified by 25%-15% (based on lvl) when shes in it. Or she just loses a bunch of mr and armor when shes in it.
@@CvntyPussyWIllow bad design and that nerf makes no sense? Vlad looses his hp but he heals a ton same with mundo, also early game akali has no sustain and is already kinda crippeled by huge energy cost.
Well i don't agree. Her dmg is part of the problem her e deals a tone thst it got to the point when any target that is not bruiser or tank will get over 800dmg from E2 because it deals magic dmg which is far less reducable than attack dmg She is also not fun to play early bc her q energy cost is so hugh that after using q you have nothing for a few seconds. She was designed to be that shroudy assasin that is mobile and kills from shadows with her kamas. Imo they should either nerf her e scaling or revert it to ad dmg. Nerf her shroud duration and buff a bit her q scaling or base dmg. Nerfing her skill expression like removing middle dash q is not helping
I always love when you talk about Azir, Vars. I wish he could be more viable in SoloQ and not a balance nightmare he currently is. Very imformative video on a lot of champions. :DDD
Hecarim seems like one of those champions that could do with a bit of retooling to his kit. His E and his Ult feel nice. His Q could get a lil love and E could be reworked to do something else.
The problem with Heca is that he's kind of a tank kind of an assassin and kind of a bruiser, and he either does all 3 really well or none that well. Couple that with the insane out of combat MS, strong clear on Q and great teamfight CC with ult he's way too well rounded for his own good leaving him with that insanely polarised winrate/pickrate timeline.
Same despite how bugged his r is and that ur soldiers deal close to caster minion dmg while taking back 10% of ur hp from minion aggro i still love the champ tbh
The pro play champs are easiest to balance: just split proplay from regular play because pro play is not representative of solo queue in any way. Game time also tells you why pro play meta is so different and scaling champs have a chance to get picked. Give them a unique patch with specific balance and let them run wild, it would actually be more entertaining to watch. Overloaded champs are fixable when their kit is fixed. How to fix irelia? No more infinity dash resets without a q kill. How to fix akali? Bring back control wards revealing her in shroud. Its not as hard as people make it out to be.
3:50 ok tbf, losing physical damage isn't by any means a bad thing for someone who primarily builds ap, it means any magic pen she builds actually benefits those abilities Mixed damage only really _helps_ a champion when they primarily do physical damage but have a couple things that do magic, because everyone naturally has less magic resist than armor, having the random physical damage on only the _first_ part of her ult for example, effectively means it does no real damage because she builds ap and magic penetration, since they changed her ult to have only magic damage and an actual ap scaling, it's straight up done more damage even if the base values are slightly lower
It was back then when gunblade was a thing so she had hybrid damage making her hard to build against. But since she scaled with both physical and magic damage Gunblade was the perfect item for akali .
SoloQ players don't care about what their allies champion want to do. A good ryze is impossible to kill unless he messes up or is "outplayed" by a champ with at least 3 dashes, as he can outruns an Udyr going full movement speed. If your team don't understand the meaning of late scaling champ and they don't protect him in teamfights (as he alone can deal enough damage to completely wipe out the enemy team) he will be trash.
Man, those series are really awesome! As a Azir, Zed twotrick (?) I really understand the pain between giving a good numbers, and actually enjoying the gameplay. Like, one day I had actually 80% winrate on Azir, until I got to the plat 1, then, when your team does not really know how to play with you, and enemies are just smashing buttons, because they have got champs like Garen, it is much harder to climb. The atmosphere in the video is so great! Thanks for the video!
Reforging an identity is more than possible, look at aatrox, when you say "keeping their identity", the problem lingers on. This things are like a splinter, the faster you remove them, the less pain they cause
@@joaopedrocruz6432 Most people would agree with that, but the precedent still stands. If a champion's identity is unhealthy for the game, then it has to be changed. Hence why they removed Aatrox's revive after his rework was out for a bit. Yeah everyone remembered him having the cool revive with the blood pool but it wasn't fun and only added frustration to the game. If only they did this with tons of these other champions that still need it.
@@obijuankenobi3814 A revive isn't unhealthy, specially one that requires a kill to be in effect. People were just fighting him the wrong way, and when the revive was removed his pro play- solo queue divide only grew more.
Kalista could be fixed, because the main reason she is so dominant in pro play is her rend on objectives. If rend were hard capped vs monsters, then her objective control would be much more consistent, making it easier to balance that mechanic and her general efficiency separately.
You've touched upon this in the video, but to agree with you I'd say a "balance nightmare" is due to design moreover than numbers. A really good design, as in a champion's kit or playstyle, is going to be good regardless of numerical or statistical changes. A poorly designed champion will remain bad for the same reasons. If there is a frustrating design element in a champion's kit that is the source of all frustration and is the reason why that champion has to be totally nerfed and changed over and over again, I'd say for the health of the game that thing has to be changed or removed. Riot designed them, they can find a way to balance them. They don't want to because of this idea that a champion has an immovable, stone identity. They can find a way around it and keep the identity, they have entire teams of designers. Obviously a frustrating design is not fun for players to deal with if they're strong and thus prefer to have that nerfed into non-playability. However on the flip side, it also isn't fun as a main of those champions to basically pilot a nerfed champion that requires you to play perfectly to make use of that champion's high potential and stay "weak" to make up for it, especially if just a few Pro Players can abuse it. So what, Azir and Ryze lovers have to remain weak and frustrated because a Pro Player might play them too much? That's not a fun state to be in either. I would gladly trade in some of that potential power, if it meant my champion could theoretically be played to a more normal state more consistently.
Azir in particular is frustrating becauce he has massive area control and DPS in late game. If they really wanted to balance him, they could nerf the AP scaling on the soldiers and increase base dmg on his Q so in early he'd play more like burst mage and wouldn't be useless, but his late game DPS would drop in return. Yuumi is probably the most frustrating champion design IMO - Too safe for how effective she is. You could cut her numbers by half on everything and the issues would still stand. I think the fix there would be that she takes % of the dmg the person she's attached to takes. That would either force her to be attached to long range champs that avoid dmg altogether or would have to use her E on herself as well if she's attached to bruiser and give the champion actual skill expression. Also, the free poke in lane since her Q is really hard to miss... Give her better AP ratio on it but gut the base dmg...
I love azir, hes one of my favourite champs too play! But between the increase in mobility in the game, the shortness of games, and how weak he needs to be kept, hes just unplayable :(
Whenever people say Ziggs is broken now i literally want to explode I have been playing ziggs and veigar bot since i started playing league, for years ziggs haven't been significantly buffed, until a recent speed boost on his ultimate, and now people are diguring that a mage in the late game is good and ziggs can delay games just by taking towers, wow you can win without have to kill your enemies, what a concept. Just a vent, i just wanted to play my yordle boys without being guttered with "he's so op" when you are just doing what you need todo to win games
the game is really focused on skirmishes or tf right now. i get he feeling that such picks as maokai ap (focuses on objective control), teemo, signed, or literally champions that don't win by figthing are treated like trolls because its not as straightforward as mashing toy figures together/
He is being called op because of the forced ADC meta. He is easily countered by running a control mage bot instead of a traditional ADC. The thing is most players wouldn't dare, and many of their teammates would dodge claiming it's troll. Ziggs just gets to shit on ADCs and Bot lane in general because of this. So he's considered OP. I think it's justified to say he is OP from a meta standpoint but, if meta is ignored, then he's in a pretty fair position.
@@IDirtyMangoI No, Ziggs is not meta botlane because he is good against ADCs, try playing Ziggs mid into Lucian mid for example and you will see what I mean. Or play Ziggs bot into Yasuo or Samira after they get 1-2 items. Any champ that can build Wits End will also hard win against Ziggs 1v1 after they get said item. Ziggs is pretty good into control mages I think, simply because of ranged advantage, same reason why Xerath is really good into champs like Orianna, Viktor, Anivia, but really struggles into champs with good target access like Zed, Fizz and LB. Ziggs is good bot because of a few things: - Doesn't depend on own support to win lane, so he can play with scaling supports like Senna/Sona/Yuumi or roaming supports and it wont hurt your game. - Insane waveclear, makes you very difficult to dive, and you can clear waves from like an entire screen away so you dont even have to leave tower and you still dont fall too far behind in cs. - Most midlaners have roaming patterns and become strong sidelaners, Ziggs' only play mid is to punish roaming by taking tower and he cant push up in a sidelane. Botlaners are not supposed to roam and will be mid in the mid/lategame, perfect for Ziggs' team because they wont lose anything from having no midlaner to join early skirmishes. - Apart from Lucian, Tristana, Kaisa, (Yasuo, Akshan) and Samira, who all have to be paired with an engage/hook support, there are no rough matchups. The reason Ziggs moved bot was mostly just assassin/skirmisher meta in mid, he has always been a good pick into other "neutral" mage champs, but his ultra neutral playstyle really just hurts your team way too much when you pick him in midlane into a champ like Sylas, Talon, Katarina etc. who might not be able to solo kill him in lane since you dont leave your tower on Ziggs, but loves skirmishes in river/jungle or roaming bot to gank/dive.
I fucking feel you man I played ziggs for a whole week grinding him from mastery 1 to 7 for fun, end up thinking why the fuck no one plays him. Hes so fun and really skill expressive. Now hes meta and that means some nerfs comin Rip
That is easier said than done unfortunately. It is not easy to think of a way to balance a champion while also keeping the identity of the champion. No matter how much we hate a champion, I think everyone can agree that we don't want any champion to go the way of aatrox. I personally despise fizz, but I wouldn't want him to be removed or changed to be an entirely new champion. There is a balance between both keeping the kits fair and balanced but also making sure that the champion has a set identity.
@@icet0p100 I agree. It's not wise to spend time redesigning a champion's ability code then get shit on community. It's just way too risky and time consuming... that is why I propose a simple solution to ease everyone. Just make another Lux skin :D
post rework Azir was a monster shooting up to like 53%(solo) which was higher than his win rate in release as well as pick rate coming close to his 2016 pick rate peak of 16% . I think now there are just easier champs that do the same thing for less, and can do it without the team peeling them such as vlad. as well as the meta shifting toward assassins that counter Azir like zed and kat.
I think riot should (for some champs) have adjustments customized to only solo que and another only ranked. So that one champ wont be ass or too OP in ranked. And its still playable and fun in solo. You're dealing with two different groups of players.
The issue with this is that a large part of Leagues appeal is the similarities between a pro game and a regular game. Players are more attached and care more about a game they can PLAY. Even though the game itself is the same the differences in stats/different balancing would be off putting.
Very nice Video, only idea i would have for Balancing the Pro Tier champs is giving them the treatment like u have on Aram were certain champs receive buffs or nerfs dependen on the bracket they are played in, Basicly lowering their numbers the higher the level they are played in. Of course this has it's own Problems like Smurfs abusing the hell out of them in lower Elo and stuff but at least it would allow solo queue players to enjoy those champions as well.
Would adding a cooldown to irelia's q reset (separate from the ACTUAL q cd) help? I don't know, maybe once she uses her Q, she has 10 seconds of opportunity for resets, then a 30s cd where she cannot reset it even with landing ult or E. Or something like that. It's been ages since I last played league but I remember new Irelia being one of the reasons I quit.
Hecarim and similar champions are balance nightmares because they're stat sticks, all they do is run you down and if they have better numbers they win with very little counterplay opportunities. It's why item changes effect him so heavily. He's a prime example of a champion that needs a rework IMO, both so he can be in a healthier spot and have more of a unique identity.
I think the problem with irelia is that she does alot of damage and she can tank alot of damage like as an adc its not worth it to aa irelia she just heals it all back you literally do net 0 damage even if you have 600 ad. Irelia can drop to 10% hp q a whole wave of minons and be back up to 100% hp its kinda bs
I'd say Aatrox is a balance nightmare. Without anti-heal he heals himself in seconds and substantially, but when it's present he really becomes a cc bot.
To balance a champ I think Riot needs to 1 provide every champ with counterplay (messing up yourself does not count as counterplay) 2 decrease the variables per ability (a champ with 50 different abilities will always be better or have to have all of them nerfed than one with less utility) 3 design less around the extremes of skill (I like skill expressive design and I think we need easy champs too but instead of going from 1/10 to 10/10 for dificulty lets keep them at 3 to 7 so champs aren't useless in either low elo or pro play)
I think for Irelia anyways is that she’s basically strong or good the whole game. With her passive she’s scary as hell to fight early and late game because healing of op she’s basically unkillable while dashing around
VARUS. he is too good ap, ad, on hit, crit, pure mana. That's a really strong design and unfortunately that may hurt other weaker varus builds. Balancing nightmare. Also Aurelion Sol, he is either THE threat or just a little lizard that can't kite or kill
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As a ryze main I want my shields back. I this season no roa , no shield from seraphs. This season he is just a burst mage with a range of a battle mage
@@komgoo4974 He is picked because of his wave clear reliable cc and realm warp in co-ordinate play in game changing. But in solo que It used as a TF ult with less range.
@@komgoo4974 I really wish they bring desperate power back. It would increase his dueling potential. Nerf to pro play but a significant buff to solo que
@@sanithashukoor3946 Every league player wants buffs for their champs even when its unjust. Ryze mains want their sheild. Akali mains (such as I used to be) want half of our kit back or at least the ability to go e+q because that is so stupid that they removed it. We will make one of the most fun champs in league require less ingenuity that's a smart idea.
As an ex hecarim main (been playing him for 6 years) I can tell that his gameplay and game design is toxic for the game... he has a few ways to show skill expression, but his true flaw is that his damage needs to be kept low... Otherwise a super quick beefy bruiser will do assassin's jobs better than assassins by oneshotting priority targets that he sees vulnerable from 2-3 screens away And that's his identity, he doesn't have enough CC/peel to be an effective tank and is too fast for his own team to keep up meaning he either has absurd numbers to 1v9 carry with no counterplay or he will suffer from being too fast for his own team... At the end of the day hecarim is left in a state where its frustrating to play him since his numbers are too low to carry alone and he's too fast to be able to play in coordination with a team exploiting hec's own strength (speed) Right now I personally have a wide-ish champ pool of meta junglers that I can play well and don't really play hecarim anymore, but whenever he becomes OP again I will abuse the shit out of him for free LP
One thing abt Irelia (as a former OTP): While her teamfights are not easy, her laning phase is pretty much braindead into most champs, especially after vamp scepter
One change to ryu was that if you cancel your upercut with a backdash it would use your 2 bars of meter, so the change was that if you canceled with a backdash it would do less damage than if you didnt, so if you dont cancel having the meter you would say to your oponent that you get them, maybe changes like this that makes the characters more expressive would be good for akali and irelia?
In Guild Wars 1, character skills had 2 different versions, PvE and PvP. Maybe Riot should also do the same thing and make separate version of champion skills for pro-play and the rest of us mere mortals. "But there are too many skills!" GW1 had thousands, so that's really no excuse.
I love ryze but sometimes I always feel my combo will burst some one and I know it can but they walk away with 5% HP flashing me teemo thumbs up I think ryze is changed so much that feeling u get when u know a champs damage and limit is changed so much it's practically a new champ
Vars what do you think about :- - Why everyone plays PYKE (im sure they do) - Why no one plays plays SION (Very obvious reasons but your way of describing is good)
the biggest frustration is vayne top if you play a melee champion with little or few cloose gaps - she will outscale you - she makes you unable to lasthit - she pokes you so you will maybe lose even XP - she has better teamfight presence (especially with tanks/enchanter in her team) - your jungler has to literally camp her (but sometimes is unable to because he doesnt know better OR the vayne has insanely good map awareness) - she can out duel you in a side lane easily with R invis, bonus AD, knockback/stun, % true damage, mobility yes you can say vayne maybe needs skill, but once u have the skill it is "Frustrating" because it has no counterplay if you are good at her. And when a champion is unbeatable once played perfectly (like scripting levels) the champion is broken period. i dont care how skillful a champion is, it needs a weakness, and in top lane i can tell you, no ranged champion (cuz she has better all in and range herself) no ap burst champion (she will buy mercs + wits end) no juggernaut (literally no chance as to outrange knockback and % damage) and no melee carry can keep up with her.
Sometimes I think destroying the identity of a champion is a good thing. I remember you talking in an earlier video about how new champions’ kits have a ridiculous amount of things included in them and no matter how much they are nerfed, the fact it exists at all means it makes the champ more viable. Why does irelia heal from her dashes? Is there any lore related reason? (Not that every kit has to make logical sense) but it feels like such a needless addition that negates the durability pitfall champions that produce the same amount of dps fall into. She wouldn’t be irelia without the same survivability, but I don’t think that survivability is healthy
I had a talk about broken champs with my buddies yesterday. We also talked about the next rework to be on Aurelion he is just too unique to actually work in the game
I just think they should change his ult to be more basic and fun and he will see a much higher pick rate to fix his skewed win rate. In the lore pantheon and his people tricked aurelion sol and enslaved him using the golden helmet he now wears. A good rework for his ult that ive heard of is to have a short duration of time where the helmet is gone and aurelion sol gets his stats hugely buffed and takes on his true form. Hes not even strong he just has such a low pick rate that his win rate is skyrocketed by the few good players who play him very well. He just needs more players for it to balence out.
Riot wont fix him tho they will just keep nerfing him like they have the last 2 years because hes ACTUALLY unique and physically well designed. If he was another big booba anime girl yk he would have been reworked 2 years ago. but space dragons dont sell skins so...
They either rework the E into some sort of combat mobility spell or the champ can never be balanced. You can't balance a champ that can shove midlane without using mana then fly straight down into botlane at lvl 3 and cc them.
I think the biggest one everyone forgets about is ekko. Man this champ was the definition of balance nightmare in the game for years. I think he was the first true 200 years champion riot ever realized, and to this day is either extremely strong or no one plays him except mains who abuse him
I play Azir from time to time, and it really is how you just said. In the earlier parts there is like no damage, I can't find it anywhere. In the late it is like I found all that damage (in dps) what I have been searching for like 30 minutes. (On full build)
You dont have to remove irelias near infinite dashes to balance her, she just does way too much damage despite not hitting any of her actual skillshots. Atm she is so overtuned she doesnt need to use her abilities properly to beat you at almost every point of the game, vs most champions.
Ryze is the exemple of peak 200 years hypocrisy When Riot decided to rework and give him this teleportation ultimate, they made the stupidest move of their whole career. Ryze was too good in competitive and organized play, so what does Riot do ? They give him THE MOST TEAM RELIANT ULTIMATE IN THE ENTIRE GAME. A brand new spell, that allows you to teleport your entire team. This is the most braindead change they have EVER done to any champion, this rework did not change anything for Ryze, they made him even more skewed towards pro play. They have no idea what they're doing. And that last mini rework he got where they removed his shields helped a little bit but he completely lost his identity, he's just a no brain no skill spam champion that doesn't even need to aim his skillshots cause everything bounces everywhere
the real issue with akali is well people say "her W is so one sided she goes for a trade and not even your minions will get to hit her back cause of it" which is particularly funny to me since she doesn't win lane against a single traditional midlaner or "she has toooo many dashes" but they were dead anyways and wouldn't have done anything even if she was standing still for the entirety of the fight no her problem is that her E deals more damage than the rest of her entire kit and then compare her to ahri ahri needs to full combo you twice and use her R the 2nd time she combos you to land 2nd part of Q, which is an incredibly hard skill shot since you and the most of her damage and even then you might need ignite to get the kill secured, and if you had to use R to go in for the E and 2nd/3rd R to land your Q you are now just a very vulnerable immobile mage also, akali has a ton of ad ratios and incredible scalings when they don't really make sense for her 70 / 131.25 / 192.5 / 253.75 / 315 (+ 59.5% AD) (+ 84% AP) since assassins are not meant to scale but rather to end the game quickly, so she inherently struggles at doing what she's designed for through her kit but then also does that through her class because she is meant to be super weak early while also being an assassin, the snowballing class, so she's either not balanced cause her laning phase is all of a sudden strong and she is just too good or not balanced cause she is too weak to get back into the game after loosing lane I think lee sin is just that much more balanced because even when he gets nerfed he's still honest to his class and he has a predictable and consistent gameplay, on top of that, even when he's nerfed so that he scales more poorly he still brings utility to his team in the form of peel and shielding
I mean if they can't be balanced around the top level of play, yes it is the champs that are the problem. That's like saying "oh this fighting game Character is S tier but they're hard to play. It's not the character that is the problem though!"
It's totally delusional thinking you can balance a game for both pro play and regular mundane players. Riot just likes money and doesn't give a fuck about how they achieve that goak
@@Kitusser The new changes were made to make pro play look faster and more engaging, flashier. Have you seen LPL? It's just one big Aram for 20 minutes
Irelia would be so easy to fix. She can stack her ability, but she can't sustain it without interacting with a champion, once it's maxed. Also there should be a hard cap on its duration once full stack is reached, regardless of whether she sustains it through champion combat or not. Right now she can stack and maintain with minions and just dash all the way to enemy turret. If she pushes and reaches level 2 first and you are not able to freeze, you end up with having to push the wave back to her. And when you are almost at her turret it's basically a death sentence if you are a early game tank or bruiser.
There is a way to balance all these champs tho in one easy way everyone forgets: separating pro play from the live game. We all talk about the fact that pro play is a different game all the time but they play the same patches we do. If balancing azir for pro play makes it a bad champion for everyone else make them have their own patches. It would definitely make pro play more interesting imo considering I don't watch it anymore now yet I still have to deal with patches being around the pro level of play.
akali doesn't need 50% win rate because she is so hard but once you are good you are rewarded with the ability to do wathever you want as long as you are good enough same with all the hardcore champ they shouldn't have 50% winrate because they are this hard to play but once you play them at a good level you are a monster
I believe the direction to take Irelia is fairly simple. Fundamentally, my idea is, adjusting her power away from Q and into the rest of her kit. Incentivizing Irelia not to max Q first means its more difficult for her to get resets as the threshold to execute minions gets lower. Remove the heal from her Q entirely means that, at least until she gets lifesteal, there is no incentive to spam Q just because it heals a lot. Last but certainly not least, Irelia can effortlessly get her Q's cooldown down to 5 seconds. Possibly lower. That said, its hardly punishing for Irelia to miss a reset because she gets it back up in just a few seconds. That said, increasing the base cooldown will give Irelia's opponents a realistic window to punish her for missing a reset or when they sucessfully cancel it mid air (think of Thresh's Flay, Quinn's Vault or Gragas' Body Slam). As such, I suggest the following changes: **Passive:** Ionian Fervor stacks last for 6 seconds, but instead of losing them all at once, the stacks decay one per second. **Q:** Cooldown increased from 11~7 seconds to 11 seconds at all ranks. REMOVED: Blade Surge no longer heals Irelia. **W:** Damage reduction now scales with ability level rather than champion level. In practice this is a buff when maxing the ability first, a nerf if maxing the ability last and about neutral if maxing it second. **E:** Damage changed from 80/125/170/215/260 to 80/140/200/260/320. Stun duration changed from 0.75 seconds at all ranks to 0.5~1.5 seconds. **R:** REMOVED: No longer reduces the cooldown of Bladesurge
what if you change ionian fervor stacks to last 5s and change the stun to a 1s-2s slow by 30% (also you could slap some 50% lifesteal effectiveness on Q, just in case)
There are very few basic abilities with their base damage/rank increase being bigger than 55 damage/rank which is Alistar W scaling for example. That is why the proposed change on her E scaling seems like a bit too much. (45/rank right now-> 60/rank proposed change). I think i would actually leave this ability as it is. I really like the W change. It seems perfect to me. On her Q i dont like the change from 11-7 sec to 11 at all ranks if you are also going to remove her R passive. That would make Irelia's late game Q go from 4,5 sec to 11 sec cd without ability haste which is a bit ridiculous of a nerf. I would much rather see the removal of her R passive which kinda forces you to max Q right now as the R passive + Q max have a significant synergy. When it comes to healing i think it is fine but only whenever she gets a Q reset (from her passive Mark or last-hit). I think the healing we so much hate on Irelia comes from Lifesteal from items + her already big auto attacks empowered by her passive (80% Attack speed) rather than her Q which provides the biggest healing when Irelia last-hits a minion wave as opposed to a teamfight or an all in. I like the passive change you proposed but personally a thing about it right now that annoys me every time i fight Irelia is that it deals magic damage... If you start losing to Irelia and want to buy resistances she deals mixed damage anyway so you cant stop her with Armor boots. It is not like she needs to max W as oposed to another ability or invest an item to deal magic damage - she builds full AD and attack speed and still deals tons of magic damage which makes her snowball very hard if she ever gets a lead.
@@maciejkleszczynski9808 But that's exactly the point. Reduce the incentive to max Q (which means it deals less damage for longer, which means its harder to get resets) and increase the risk for the Irelia player who use Q without getting a reset and the reward for the Irelia opponent who manage to cancel the dash mid air and put it on a cooldown. As long as the Irelia keeps reseting, that change doesn't matter, but nowdays Irelia missing a reset mid game is more of an inconvenience than an actual problem. The idea is exactly to give a bigger window to punish the Irelia player while she don't have her important cooldown. The E change is admitedly aggressive, but that's done on purpose because the change on her Q too is aggressive. Taking power away from one part of her kit to the other. And because her E is a skillshot, the opponent can dodge it.
I’m shocked Graves wasn’t mentioned a single time as a balance nightmare; especially considering his overall history. He went from being one of least remarkable but still solid Adc’s in the game rarely subjected to balance changes to one of the most polarizing junglers where he’s either nerfed into the ground and unplayable or singlehandily making the game his bitch and able to flexed anywhere at any and all balance changes he’s subjected to.
It's weird, I've never had an issue with Whitney. Either status stacking or fighting moves put her down. Geodude is also fairly potent for the first 3 gyms thanks to type advantages and durability.
Well in Akalis case... let's just not worry about "how important to the character" the stuff is and just fix her, shes already been changed completely in kit, visuals and playstyle anyway, it's debatable if shes even more different from her original than Aatrox is.
What if, for Irelia, riot gave her 7 dashes hat must be used within 1-2 seconds of eachother. And every CHAMPION takedowns or assists she gets an extra two dashes and/or 4 minions killed with the dash gives her one extra dash. The way I see it is it gives other players counerplay to her while also keeping her skill expressive. The for her ult, keep it the same, but make the initial projectile smaller. The first enemy struck with the projectile is stunned and the outside shape it makes slows still.
Great video! I think it's fine to have champions like these... In the end, League has 155 champions to choose from (and corresponding skins for Riot to sell).
So what I got from this was, don't take ranked seriously if the champs you like aren't good. Don't get as frustrated going against Irelia or Akali since they will always exist and there's nothing you can do about it. Just play a norm or two and then go play other games that aren't as horribly balanced as league.
I find Akali way less annoying than Zed or Qiyana tbh. I really like mages and marksmen so that might bias my opinions (Since Akali can do way longer trades than those two). Zed's damage is just dumb high and he can basically kill any champion once he reaches lvl 6, and Qiyana is an assassin that can CC chain you. At least with Akali you can get away from her W and she will be vulnerable to attacks again.
Kinda true but Akali can deal waay more damage than Qiyana also if you dodge just one of her abilities she wont have enough damage to kill you which mostly means she has to run away or die. Meanwhile Akali easily has enough damage to kill adc or mage twice while dodging everything with ber bs movement speed
I honestly think win rate is a fundamentally flawed way to quantify a champion power, a lot of people and even channels like pro guides and mobalytics use win rate to say that some champions are struggling or that they are weak, but what a low win rate actually means is that PLAYERS are struggling to win playing the champ, the best example for this are new champs, that on release should always have a low win rate since players are testing what the champ can do and what builds/play style are the best, of course champs that don’t fit how most people want to play are not getting high win rates. Champions like Ryze, Gankplank and Kayle that need to farm and scale before been strong are always going to do poorly because most players like fighting and can’t wait to get their items, so they fight anyways and then they are 0/5 at 10 minutes calling jg diff. Another thing that a lot of people don’t realize is that makes win rate a flawed way to estimate power is that no one will exploit all the strengths of a champ on their first games, but almost every one will at least try every champ between 2 to 5 times before deciding to main the champ or drop it forever, if everyone plays Akali 5 times for the first time, wins 2 games, loses 3 and then never play it again, the champ would technically had a 40% win rate, but that is not because the champ is bad, is because there is no way you can master a champ in 5 games. In conclusion, win rate means nothing, nerf Yone.
For Irelia it's ridiculous that she can stand still while charging an ability that deals damage and reduces incomming damage and renews the mark for her Q. I think that is the main problem with her, because you can have a tankish who has high damage(Darius), a diver who can do a lot of damage(Lee/Xin), or even a bruiser with great speed, damage, tankiness and powerful in team fights(Hecarim). The thing is that you can kite Darius, you can dodge Lee Sin Q, you can burst down Xin Zhao, and you don't feel like Hecarim touches you and you die. He's not famous for being like a monster in 1x1/pickoffs and similar. You can't do nothing against a Irelia who knows exactly how to play. Even Riven and Akali who are monstruous when mastered you can burst down, but Irelia press a button and you waste all your combo for 30% of her health(and she lifesteal in 3 Q's in the minions). If they take down the tankiness from her W(i think) it would be A LOT less toxic, and wouldn't feel so unfair as it is now, AND the Irelia players never think of her as the "suddenly tank champion that can bait the enemy to cast all their burst for nothing". What i mean is... Even when you land a Morgana Q, you can't kill her and you can't even do real damage to her unless you have 3 men beating her shit down and she still can take down the squish one.
That is not the only problem. If you make a scaling champ, it must be weak at some other stage of the game, but she is one of the most broken early games, mid game and late game. That's the real problem, just like fiora, camille and riven. Why would I play Garen if you have a stronger early, mid and late game than I do? Why would I play an "unkillable" tank if you gonna deal 600 true damage at me lvl 6 with just a single skill, or you have so much mixed damage I cant build as items as fast as you increase damage? And if I try to play an artillery mage to drain you, and you outheals my damage with minions... what's the point? The only counterplay is burst you, as you said. And slayers are the best to do that thing. That is the reason that this meta is all about bruisers and slayers
"I can't legitimately think of a way to make it so champions like Irelia and Akali can exist without having those abilities. They wouldn't be Irelia and Akali anymore." They're ALREADY not Irelia and Akali anymore. Irelia has a W that does true damage, an E that stuns anyone higher HP than her, and an ult that shoots 4 daggers out hit all enemies in a line. Akali has an ult with 3 targeted dashes. The current champions going by these names are nothing but zoomer imposters. The worst case is Fiora. The abomination we have now is NOT Fiora. Fiora has an ult called Blade Waltz, the coolest ult in the entire game, which causes her to blink rapidly between all enemies within a certain radius, dealing several hits randomly to enemy champions within range. Without this ability, she is NOT Fiora. Give up the ghost, bro. They've already done this to dozens of champions. They took away Irelia's ult and gave it to Gwen. They claimed Poppy's ult was WAY too strong to be in the game, but then they just made it EVEN STRONGER and gave it Mordekaiser. They've been ruining champions forever. I genuinely hope they ruin Akali and Irelia, because the new versions of those champions are complete cancer, along with Pyke and a few others I can't remember at the moment.
The worst part of these characters is that riot ends up removing some mechanics that makes the character less skill expressive. Like removing Akali’s e+q combo doesn’t make her less frustrating to play against but makes her less fun to play
Fixed the ear piercing sibilance :D Hopefully the S's sound less death inducing~
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Mind if we get a video on A Sol. Wether he needs a rework?
my ears don't explode anymore, gj.
I noticed! It's so much nicer now no offense!
SoloQ just needs to become more team oriented and not a solo person against the world..
Inversely, there's a special pain in playing a champion that's so well-balanced that they haven't recieved a buff in a year, but all your items get nerfed, and everyone is getting compensation buffs except you.
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I feel like this with Syndra but I’m not entirely sure if she’s gotten any buffs or nerfs in a while
@@Step43099 she literally got buffed like a patch ago, reduced q mana cost
sounds like any mage
everyone forgets about jayce
Me when I play Kalista: this champ is so weak
When I face a Kalista: wtf this champ is broken
literally every champion if they know how to play it.
I've only been frustrated playing against Kalista 1 time, and only because I was playing Ezreal and couldn't hit a single Q all game
Try to play a kalista with a premade support that plays Braum or taric
@@fraidei2094 i played alistar for this first time with my duo who played kallista and while the enemies were pretty bad, it felt pretty strong. I even got my friend his first penta of the season that game
kalista players only play duo with supp mains, usually tresh, braum.
"If irelia and Akali didn't have these abilities they wouldn't be irelia and Akali"
Meanwhile Aatrox mains without anything from him: *sad darkin noises*
New Aatrox Q3 is basically old Aatrox Q.
But yeah, It's pretty sad
@@mr.paperbag771 ???
Old W is now his passive
@@ExposingOreo Just the lifesteal every 20s (less if you use your Qs), the extra damage by sacrificing hp is gone.
This made me quit league. Honestly, Aatrox was like 95% of my will to play league, and the other 5% is between Zyra and Diana.
They remove my Aatrox, then after that remove my RQ Diana. I have literally no reason to play league, but still from time to time i log in to play some aram when i have nothin better to do.
Its 3 years since and i'm still pissed. lol
One of the biggest problems for kalista imo is how much slows and as cripples destroy her, both her mobility and her dps are tied together and dependant on one another, so if she gets slowed her dash range get shortened as well, and if she gets crippled then she attacks way less and she dashes less often as a result. slows and cripples are basically roots to her, if you're having problems vs a kalista just buy frozen heart, it just works
Flanking, bursting, any form of cc except silence is enough to render her useless
This still doesn't fix her near 100% baron and dragon control by stacking spears. Sure, you could cap the number of spears, but that would take away the core of her kit and fantasy theme.
They should just make it so all mobility skills get the same nerf as kalista jump does. Including even flash.
@@CorruptionAura but flash is a blink
This feelsl ike any Vars's point about why no one play. She clearly has a weakness... but problem is, Riot keep pushing their bullshit "everything in one champ" design. Champion with distinct weakness like Kalista feels lackluster to play when you can have someone better than her.
The video is only accurate if you make 9 remakes of this to simulate ryzes design
This
And 17 if you add kayle
Ryze pre-rework was basically a free win. The instant, non dodge-able, non counterable snare was hilarious.
To use. Not to play against.
Well, i remember his old design when his R made all his spells an Aoe. THAT was broken
@@theanydd1 yeah. Going spellvamp with that aoe ult was nuts, I remember late game ryyze could one vs 5 teams back then.
@@shanecoffing Actually, all Ryze's iterations can do that, the previous ones just made it way easier.
Someone remember the pro play when ryze perma roots the maokai in early game until maokai was dead xD
Or when his e could 1 hit you, when you stand in your minions and he used ult?
@@AlryFireBlade i still remember that clip. they were bot lane and Mao was under tower to literally forced to sit there LMAO
For the Pro Play problems it really stings since they often don't get played in Pro Play either, and how vehement riot is about it. Azir has a nasty tendency to if he is even selected in a single Pro Play match, to get nerfed the following patch win or lose. It makes me somewhat wish for a separate patch server for pro play, so some champions will actually be able to be used in Solo Queue.
agree 100%
+ if pro teams don't want to fight a non-gutted and not-undertuned Azir , THEY CAN BAN AZIR.
The fact Riot has no response to a champion being good in pro-play but bad in norms or solo q shocks me. I can come up with 3 ways to solve the problem in 30 seconds by myself with no game dev experience, but an entire team of professionals over years can't ?
@@collinharris4848 What solutions do you have in mind?
@@xCorvus7x
Different servers
Reworks
ARAM treatment of champion numbers based on skill level/MMR/brackets/rank etc.
I hate how irelia has the healing of a warwick while having the mobility of a yasuo it's so stupid
Idk why they haven't remove the healing part yet, don't just nerf it, just straight up remove it pls riot
Mobility of an assassin/diver, damage comparable to that of most hyper carries, durability comparable to most juggernauts thanks to her constant healing, hard cc, soft cc, damage reduction and an AS buff. Her kit if far too overloaded for one champion, but none of these things on their own are that broken. They could fix her if they wanted too but they don't for reasons of character assassination. And as anyone will point out her only counters are CC which counters every other champion in the game (except olaf), and anti heal... Which in itself is in a state of requirement in every game because of the prevalence of champions with self healing now. Every other champion either has an inbuilt heal, or takes one through runes.
@@PhoenixIsTrash i mean, yes but why doeq they feel the need to put a build in heal when she dash and her insane healing capacity, like she already an insane amount of damage, she build like an adc most of the time, idk why they judged nessesary to give her, healing, damage reduction, stun, a "cage" that slow and put a mark on you, like you said everything she have make her overloaded, she is literally 4 good side of 4 champs!
Passive: More attack speed than jax passive, more damage than warwick passive, q - yasuo e which also has insane damage and healing, w - huge damage reduction great
She needs a 0.5/0.75s delay after a Q reset in order to Q again, just like Yasuo's E. So at least people can catch her when there are like 10 minions around.
OMG, I love this topic, can be renamed :"Rito's big errors"
OOOO
That they admit are errors . Stuff like yone and viego are on other levels of error
@@theimmortaleye7511 weird way to spell seraphine
@@_zzeero her gameplay is incredibly tame shes just a lame ripoff of sona and a disgusting marketingploy, but only gameplay wise shes basicly lux and sonas baby with slow skillshots and a better ult. But true gameplay errors are yone, viego,gwen and akshan which just designed with passives longer than rammus entire kit, so ofc they will be meta and used. I only dont like her for being a better neeko support since i love neeko support.
@@theimmortaleye7511 idk whatever the fuck your point is but we're talking about "Riot's big errors" and seraphine has a bullshit-fuckery of a lore
"One mechanic that isnt fun to play against"
Akali: looks at her kit, looks back to the video, yeah we didnt see that
Of course we didn´t see that, it´s in shroud
Yep, its never fun to play a game where you know your only chance of winning this matchup is if your opponent messes up. Thankfully Akali players do this a lot, its a hard and complex champ where you have to think many moves ahead, but its not real counterplay.
@@Dingdong2730 yeah the only way to beat that bs is winning the early because there shes actually weak
@@Dingdong2730 she will just press E and one shot you!!!
@@zandromex8985 People are having trouble with Akali's design when the only thing that is actually objectively unacceptable is that she has 450 base dmg on max lvl E. Lower that to something like 200 and we're good. Also longer cd on q but less energy would also be a welcome change.
A big thing they need to get away from is resets or at least extremely easy ability resets. Old irelia was good where she had to kill to get the reset. They could fix a lot of frustration by reverting that and making the debuff proc just give a small cd reduction
The best example is master yi. I dont care if he one shots me while being untargetable but its very unfair that he is able to be perma untargetable just because he got a takedown
@@LegendaryFusions and its a issue bcs of duskblade.
@@LegendaryFusions but yi resets are some of the more balanced ones, his reset is only for 70% of the cd , and trust me it used to be worst if you played during ap yi era you know what i mean.
@@milonchello1643 ik he had a way more op version but with some ability haste that 70% is like 90%
@@LegendaryFusions but Yi is squishy unlike Irelia. If Yi isn't untargetable he will die to a breeze.
There's a reason why his most viable build is the Duskblade cheese build where you avoid being targeted at all and die to aoe instead.
"Balance nightmares"
Pretty much 50 percent of the league roster XD
"If no one's balanced, everyone is balanced"
-Rito 2009
Maybe that's because the champs that aren't balance nightmares are the ones that rito hasn't touched since 2009.
@@helvetios549 Pretty much, for the most part at least.
Only 50%?
Im surprised he didnt put Sylas on the list. He had half of his effects removed since release and when he came out he was getting nerfed or tweaked LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE PATCH.
"Some of these champions are a lot better at high levels of play"
Shows the LCS logo.
Damn Finally a man of good faith
One way that i think they could improve tournaments and prevent you from seeing the same comp all over is that they could implement a list for each team. Every champ picked by them or the opposing team cannot be used for the rest of the tournament starting on the quarter finals and each list is exclusive to that team. That would create fun strategies where you could either pick strong champs at the start to reduce the amount of plays and "reduce" the list or leave the stronger champs in the bench for when they are needed.
For this they would likely have to get rid of bans in tournaments since if a team kept the strong champs for later, they would just get target banned.
Let's say that after every game you'd have to ban 1 champion you played in that game (groups would eliminate 8 champs for each team if you have 5 team groups) and it would reward teams that manage to pull of 3:0s and 3:1s since they would have 1 or 2 champs more than the team that got through on 5 game Bo5s. (If this was the rule, DWG would have likely won just because they stomped before and EDG went to game 5 in almost every round after groups)
Azir and Aurelion Sol gotta be here.
Yeah, they're looks overpowered right now. Let's nerf them.
nerf azir pls so i have more reasons to not play the game
aurelion is very powerfull only in solo Q if a onetrick is playing him. which you'll see once every 1000 games, probably
Dem 1% aurelion mains are just too powerful
Riot's brain said "hmm Asol sEeMs bROkEn aNd StrOnk letze nerF cuS high winrate. Hmm yes bAlAncEd"
It's like riot forgot that Asol's Pick rate is so godamn low💀
@@Zero-zr6xx aurelion sol winrate is really big only cause one-tricks are playing him and noone else. imagine if only onetricks would play akali , she'd have like 60% winrate, but she's really popular so that wont happen. same with asol, if noobs would play him he'd have 40% winrate
Feedback : I live thoses "glitch" effets for transition but don't use them too much, you should use other effect such as a fade-in/out, or just pop. Otherwise it can get very repetitive.
Wish you long lasting luck on Genshin & other gacha too
Hey thanks for the feedback!
I think the coordination element is the thing that makes certain things so much better in pro-play than in soloque. Ryze ult is 10x better and more impactful when you’re in comms. It goes from meh cross map mobility to single handedly game winning macro tool when everyone is on the same page. Prop layers are not THAT much better than soloque players at the high end of the ladder. In many instances they’re actually mechanically WORSE, what they do have is practice and experience working as a coordinated unit, which is not what you’ll get in soloque, reguardless of elo. And what I think all of the ‘balance nightmare’ champions have is either they are too self-sufficient (I.e they need very little from their team in order to execute their play style) or they synergize too well with coordination.
The main reason Akali is broken is due to fact that only select few champions have the ability to reveal her during her smoke bomb. If there was an item that grants true sight she wouldn't be nearly as problematic. If you try to gank her, she pops W and runs away, in teamfight it creates massive issue, because inability to target her gives her huge zone control, which is not something assasin should have.
Riot keeps nerfing her damage which is futile. Her damage isn't an issue, it's how quickly and safely she can deal it - low risk, high reward most of the time.
I hate to bring Dota 2 everytime, but if Akali was a hero in that game she would be just another one in the pool and no one aside from the lowest of lowest rank players would complain about her, because there's plenty of counterplay for everything she can do.
Irelia's can't be fixed by tweaking her numbers, because her main issue stands from how the game is designed - your own minions are your worst enemies. Again, if minions could be denied like in Dota 2, the lane dynamic would change drastically and both Irelia and her opponent would have to play carefully. Denied minion wouldn't refund cooldown or provide healing which would force Irelia to actually plan her engagements instead of going brrrr after 3 minions get low on hp.
But of course denying won't be added anytime soon, as it would require to adjust multiple weak early game champions and minion behavior, so she will remain frustrating to play against especially in mid lane.
I believe what's causing all of this is the fact that Riot kept adding new champions with more and more ludicrous mechanics, but the game ifself didn't evolve with it's rising roster. Summoner's Rift, with few exeptions like turret platings and elemental dragons, is played nearly the same way for the past 10 years and it remains almost unchanged. There are no alternate objectives, win conditions, neutral items or anything of the sort. Riot can announce 10 new champions coming out next week and it won't matter, because how the game is played won't change at all, it will all boil down to who can kill an enemy in the quickest, most efficent way.
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What if akali loses some health when she uses the smoke bomb, but regenrates more health than she loses when shes in it. Hear me out, she needs to be more cautious when she uses it, because if she uses it in the middle of a teamfight and a chunk of her health misses she can get killed easier by a random ability. And she'll have to stay longer in it to regenerate her health, sl opposing champions can actually calculate how long it takes before her health is returned. She also gets the "guard down" staus effect, which means that any damage she takes while shrouded is amplified by 25%-15% (based on lvl) when shes in it.
Or she just loses a bunch of mr and armor when shes in it.
Or like a summoner spell that applies cripple in an area so she cant use movement abilities in it.
@@CvntyPussyWIllow bad design and that nerf makes no sense? Vlad looses his hp but he heals a ton same with mundo, also early game akali has no sustain and is already kinda crippeled by huge energy cost.
Well i don't agree. Her dmg is part of the problem her e deals a tone thst it got to the point when any target that is not bruiser or tank will get over 800dmg from E2 because it deals magic dmg which is far less reducable than attack dmg
She is also not fun to play early bc her q energy cost is so hugh that after using q you have nothing for a few seconds. She was designed to be that shroudy assasin that is mobile and kills from shadows with her kamas.
Imo they should either nerf her e scaling or revert it to ad dmg. Nerf her shroud duration and buff a bit her q scaling or base dmg. Nerfing her skill expression like removing middle dash q is not helping
I always love when you talk about Azir, Vars. I wish he could be more viable in SoloQ and not a balance nightmare he currently is. Very imformative video on a lot of champions. :DDD
SoloQ is not about Azir,but he needs an rework
Hecarim seems like one of those champions that could do with a bit of retooling to his kit. His E and his Ult feel nice. His Q could get a lil love and E could be reworked to do something else.
The problem with Heca is that he's kind of a tank kind of an assassin and kind of a bruiser, and he either does all 3 really well or none that well. Couple that with the insane out of combat MS, strong clear on Q and great teamfight CC with ult he's way too well rounded for his own good leaving him with that insanely polarised winrate/pickrate timeline.
it should fuck girl champs and make little hecas come out of them when they die
Maybe make him ghosted while on E?
Still a loyal azir fan despite him not being ideal in solo queue and occasionally producing some of the worst frustration i feel in this game.
Same despite how bugged his r is and that ur soldiers deal close to caster minion dmg while taking back 10% of ur hp from minion aggro i still love the champ tbh
The pro play champs are easiest to balance: just split proplay from regular play because pro play is not representative of solo queue in any way. Game time also tells you why pro play meta is so different and scaling champs have a chance to get picked. Give them a unique patch with specific balance and let them run wild, it would actually be more entertaining to watch. Overloaded champs are fixable when their kit is fixed. How to fix irelia? No more infinity dash resets without a q kill. How to fix akali? Bring back control wards revealing her in shroud. Its not as hard as people make it out to be.
i wish theyd just fix his bugs...thats all i ask
3:50 ok tbf, losing physical damage isn't by any means a bad thing for someone who primarily builds ap, it means any magic pen she builds actually benefits those abilities
Mixed damage only really _helps_ a champion when they primarily do physical damage but have a couple things that do magic, because everyone naturally has less magic resist than armor, having the random physical damage on only the _first_ part of her ult for example, effectively means it does no real damage because she builds ap and magic penetration, since they changed her ult to have only magic damage and an actual ap scaling, it's straight up done more damage even if the base values are slightly lower
It was back then when gunblade was a thing so she had hybrid damage making her hard to build against. But since she scaled with both physical and magic damage Gunblade was the perfect item for akali .
8:09 the comet landing on the ground smoothly matches the noise from the background music
I'm very surprised how popular ryze is in pro play after everyone says the champion is not a champion anymore.
SoloQ players don't care about what their allies champion want to do. A good ryze is impossible to kill unless he messes up or is "outplayed" by a champ with at least 3 dashes, as he can outruns an Udyr going full movement speed. If your team don't understand the meaning of late scaling champ and they don't protect him in teamfights (as he alone can deal enough damage to completely wipe out the enemy team) he will be trash.
Man, those series are really awesome!
As a Azir, Zed twotrick (?) I really understand the pain between giving a good numbers, and actually enjoying the gameplay.
Like, one day I had actually 80% winrate on Azir, until I got to the plat 1, then, when your team does not really know how to play with you, and enemies are just smashing buttons, because they have got champs like Garen, it is much harder to climb.
The atmosphere in the video is so great! Thanks for the video!
Reforging an identity is more than possible, look at aatrox, when you say "keeping their identity", the problem lingers on.
This things are like a splinter, the faster you remove them, the less pain they cause
Aatrox was a really bad rework, he doesn't even have an identity anymore.
@@joaopedrocruz6432 Most people would agree with that, but the precedent still stands. If a champion's identity is unhealthy for the game, then it has to be changed. Hence why they removed Aatrox's revive after his rework was out for a bit. Yeah everyone remembered him having the cool revive with the blood pool but it wasn't fun and only added frustration to the game. If only they did this with tons of these other champions that still need it.
@@obijuankenobi3814 A revive isn't unhealthy, specially one that requires a kill to be in effect. People were just fighting him the wrong way, and when the revive was removed his pro play- solo queue divide only grew more.
@@joaopedrocruz6432 You sound like an Akali main
@@rommdan2716 Don't play assassin's in general they are too weak.
Kalista could be fixed, because the main reason she is so dominant in pro play is her rend on objectives. If rend were hard capped vs monsters, then her objective control would be much more consistent, making it easier to balance that mechanic and her general efficiency separately.
Exactly! Identify a problem instead of mindlessly giving a champion +2 base AD or removing 10 Health
I think one way to fix them is to make solo queue a stand alone mode with separate champion stats. Just like how they adjust champion stats in ARAM
That would be using the brain, and rito doesn't like that
You've touched upon this in the video, but to agree with you I'd say a "balance nightmare" is due to design moreover than numbers. A really good design, as in a champion's kit or playstyle, is going to be good regardless of numerical or statistical changes. A poorly designed champion will remain bad for the same reasons.
If there is a frustrating design element in a champion's kit that is the source of all frustration and is the reason why that champion has to be totally nerfed and changed over and over again, I'd say for the health of the game that thing has to be changed or removed. Riot designed them, they can find a way to balance them. They don't want to because of this idea that a champion has an immovable, stone identity. They can find a way around it and keep the identity, they have entire teams of designers.
Obviously a frustrating design is not fun for players to deal with if they're strong and thus prefer to have that nerfed into non-playability. However on the flip side, it also isn't fun as a main of those champions to basically pilot a nerfed champion that requires you to play perfectly to make use of that champion's high potential and stay "weak" to make up for it, especially if just a few Pro Players can abuse it. So what, Azir and Ryze lovers have to remain weak and frustrated because a Pro Player might play them too much? That's not a fun state to be in either. I would gladly trade in some of that potential power, if it meant my champion could theoretically be played to a more normal state more consistently.
I've never understood why the few are able to ruin the experience on a champion for the many.
Azir is playable in theory. There's strength in his kit still. It's just that he's super buggy and riot doesn't bother/can't fix it.
Azir in particular is frustrating becauce he has massive area control and DPS in late game. If they really wanted to balance him, they could nerf the AP scaling on the soldiers and increase base dmg on his Q so in early he'd play more like burst mage and wouldn't be useless, but his late game DPS would drop in return.
Yuumi is probably the most frustrating champion design IMO - Too safe for how effective she is. You could cut her numbers by half on everything and the issues would still stand. I think the fix there would be that she takes % of the dmg the person she's attached to takes. That would either force her to be attached to long range champs that avoid dmg altogether or would have to use her E on herself as well if she's attached to bruiser and give the champion actual skill expression. Also, the free poke in lane since her Q is really hard to miss... Give her better AP ratio on it but gut the base dmg...
I love azir, hes one of my favourite champs too play! But between the increase in mobility in the game, the shortness of games, and how weak he needs to be kept, hes just unplayable :(
He is pretty playable,but to actually play and be cool you need to be a fucking nerd machine that training every day 19 hours straight
Whenever people say Ziggs is broken now i literally want to explode
I have been playing ziggs and veigar bot since i started playing league, for years ziggs haven't been significantly buffed, until a recent speed boost on his ultimate, and now people are diguring that a mage in the late game is good and ziggs can delay games just by taking towers, wow you can win without have to kill your enemies, what a concept.
Just a vent, i just wanted to play my yordle boys without being guttered with "he's so op" when you are just doing what you need todo to win games
the game is really focused on skirmishes or tf right now. i get he feeling that such picks as maokai ap (focuses on objective control), teemo, signed, or literally champions that don't win by figthing are treated like trolls because its not as straightforward as mashing toy figures together/
He is being called op because of the forced ADC meta. He is easily countered by running a control mage bot instead of a traditional ADC. The thing is most players wouldn't dare, and many of their teammates would dodge claiming it's troll. Ziggs just gets to shit on ADCs and Bot lane in general because of this. So he's considered OP. I think it's justified to say he is OP from a meta standpoint but, if meta is ignored, then he's in a pretty fair position.
@@IDirtyMangoI No, Ziggs is not meta botlane because he is good against ADCs, try playing Ziggs mid into Lucian mid for example and you will see what I mean. Or play Ziggs bot into Yasuo or Samira after they get 1-2 items. Any champ that can build Wits End will also hard win against Ziggs 1v1 after they get said item.
Ziggs is pretty good into control mages I think, simply because of ranged advantage, same reason why Xerath is really good into champs like Orianna, Viktor, Anivia, but really struggles into champs with good target access like Zed, Fizz and LB.
Ziggs is good bot because of a few things:
- Doesn't depend on own support to win lane, so he can play with scaling supports like Senna/Sona/Yuumi or roaming supports and it wont hurt your game.
- Insane waveclear, makes you very difficult to dive, and you can clear waves from like an entire screen away so you dont even have to leave tower and you still dont fall too far behind in cs.
- Most midlaners have roaming patterns and become strong sidelaners, Ziggs' only play mid is to punish roaming by taking tower and he cant push up in a sidelane. Botlaners are not supposed to roam and will be mid in the mid/lategame, perfect for Ziggs' team because they wont lose anything from having no midlaner to join early skirmishes.
- Apart from Lucian, Tristana, Kaisa, (Yasuo, Akshan) and Samira, who all have to be paired with an engage/hook support, there are no rough matchups.
The reason Ziggs moved bot was mostly just assassin/skirmisher meta in mid, he has always been a good pick into other "neutral" mage champs, but his ultra neutral playstyle really just hurts your team way too much when you pick him in midlane into a champ like Sylas, Talon, Katarina etc. who might not be able to solo kill him in lane since you dont leave your tower on Ziggs, but loves skirmishes in river/jungle or roaming bot to gank/dive.
I fucking feel you man
I played ziggs for a whole week grinding him from mastery 1 to 7 for fun, end up thinking why the fuck no one plays him. Hes so fun and really skill expressive.
Now hes meta and that means some nerfs comin Rip
ziggs is annoying but no way in hell i'd call him OP.
To be honest, if a champion is a balanced nightmare, they really need a rework overhaul.
Correct.
That is easier said than done unfortunately. It is not easy to think of a way to balance a champion while also keeping the identity of the champion. No matter how much we hate a champion, I think everyone can agree that we don't want any champion to go the way of aatrox. I personally despise fizz, but I wouldn't want him to be removed or changed to be an entirely new champion. There is a balance between both keeping the kits fair and balanced but also making sure that the champion has a set identity.
@@icet0p100 I agree. It's not wise to spend time redesigning a champion's ability code then get shit on community. It's just way too risky and time consuming... that is why I propose a simple solution to ease everyone.
Just make another Lux skin :D
Nice, rework 15 last champs
@@cloudynguyen6527 As a lux main, I heartedly agree…though i also main Yasuo so idk
post rework Azir was a monster shooting up to like 53%(solo) which was higher than his win rate in release as well as pick rate coming close to his 2016 pick rate peak of 16% . I think now there are just easier champs that do the same thing for less, and can do it without the team peeling them such as vlad. as well as the meta shifting toward assassins that counter Azir like zed and kat.
I think riot should (for some champs) have adjustments customized to only solo que and another only ranked. So that one champ wont be ass or too OP in ranked. And its still playable and fun in solo.
You're dealing with two different groups of players.
The issue with this is that a large part of Leagues appeal is the similarities between a pro game and a regular game. Players are more attached and care more about a game they can PLAY. Even though the game itself is the same the differences in stats/different balancing would be off putting.
Yeah idk why they still make Pro-Play and Solo-Que in the same pile of sh8t
It be much easier to balance to seperate the two
Playing kalista late game feels like shit sometimes if they have ignite and anti heal ur just ded
nah the most shit you can feel while playing Kalista is when they have an auto attack slow or slow in general
play Draven, it's fun everytime
@@4rc-en-ciel you don't know what true pain feels like until a nasus presses W on you while playing kalista
@@ΔημήτρηςΛάππας-θ7η It is a 4sec slow if i am not mistaken, but it must feel like hours lmao
@@ΔημήτρηςΛάππας-θ7η I've had that pain on Quinn when I player her top :). Also felt the pain of playing Kalista top and gettting slowed by darius.
Very nice Video, only idea i would have for Balancing the Pro Tier champs is giving them the treatment like u have on Aram were certain champs receive buffs or nerfs dependen on the bracket they are played in, Basicly lowering their numbers the higher the level they are played in. Of course this has it's own Problems like Smurfs abusing the hell out of them in lower Elo and stuff but at least it would allow solo queue players to enjoy those champions as well.
Would adding a cooldown to irelia's q reset (separate from the ACTUAL q cd) help? I don't know, maybe once she uses her Q, she has 10 seconds of opportunity for resets, then a 30s cd where she cannot reset it even with landing ult or E. Or something like that. It's been ages since I last played league but I remember new Irelia being one of the reasons I quit.
Just ban her lol?
"I used to rule the world"
- old Yorick mains, probably
Hecarim and similar champions are balance nightmares because they're stat sticks, all they do is run you down and if they have better numbers they win with very little counterplay opportunities. It's why item changes effect him so heavily. He's a prime example of a champion that needs a rework IMO, both so he can be in a healthier spot and have more of a unique identity.
I think the problem with irelia is that she does alot of damage and she can tank alot of damage like as an adc its not worth it to aa irelia she just heals it all back you literally do net 0 damage even if you have 600 ad. Irelia can drop to 10% hp q a whole wave of minons and be back up to 100% hp its kinda bs
I think they should remove the healing on her dash entirely.
I love seeing the Yugioh comparisons as a yugioh player
Hey cool video, I really like the part at 12:42 about vlad
I'd say Aatrox is a balance nightmare.
Without anti-heal he heals himself in seconds and substantially, but when it's present he really becomes a cc bot.
He heals a lot with goredrinker though, kinda like Vlad, but less consistently and he kinda doesn't deal enough damage or kills you in seconds...
Yeah, and with that in mind in a tf you get ignited 2/3 times and get assblasted by the enemy team
To balance a champ I think Riot needs to
1 provide every champ with counterplay (messing up yourself does not count as counterplay)
2 decrease the variables per ability (a champ with 50 different abilities will always be better or have to have all of them nerfed than one with less utility)
3 design less around the extremes of skill (I like skill expressive design and I think we need easy champs too but instead of going from 1/10 to 10/10 for dificulty lets keep them at 3 to 7 so champs aren't useless in either low elo or pro play)
I think for Irelia anyways is that she’s basically strong or good the whole game. With her passive she’s scary as hell to fight early and late game because healing of op she’s basically unkillable while dashing around
VARUS. he is too good ap, ad, on hit, crit, pure mana. That's a really strong design and unfortunately that may hurt other weaker varus builds. Balancing nightmare.
Also Aurelion Sol, he is either THE threat or just a little lizard that can't kite or kill
i love your vids so much man. there's something calming about them.
muh voice ;3
I always wondered why I like your content so much and know I find out that not only you know your fair bit about Pokemon but Yu-Gi-Oh as well. Massive respect
I've never understood why they didn't just give kalista the jinx treatment and cap her spear damage on large monsters. Seems like an easy fix to me.
Akali was a unstoppable force when her rework first came out, you were not safe in your fountain
That Whitney frustration can be solve by getting a Machop from the NPC at the store.
As a ryze main I want my shields back. I this season no roa , no shield from seraphs. This season he is just a burst mage with a range of a battle mage
And somehow hes still picked in pro play and high elo a ton. These champs are WEIRD.
@@komgoo4974 He is picked because of his wave clear reliable cc and realm warp in co-ordinate play in game changing. But in solo que It used as a TF ult with less range.
@@sanithashukoor3946 Lol. His r can also be a perfect way to int the game.
@@komgoo4974 I really wish they bring desperate power back. It would increase his dueling potential. Nerf to pro play but a significant buff to solo que
@@sanithashukoor3946 Every league player wants buffs for their champs even when its unjust. Ryze mains want their sheild. Akali mains (such as I used to be) want half of our kit back or at least the ability to go e+q because that is so stupid that they removed it. We will make one of the most fun champs in league require less ingenuity that's a smart idea.
Vars: Never make something inherently frustrating!
CertainlyT: RUclipsr say what?
As an ex hecarim main (been playing him for 6 years) I can tell that his gameplay and game design is toxic for the game... he has a few ways to show skill expression, but his true flaw is that his damage needs to be kept low... Otherwise a super quick beefy bruiser will do assassin's jobs better than assassins by oneshotting priority targets that he sees vulnerable from 2-3 screens away
And that's his identity, he doesn't have enough CC/peel to be an effective tank and is too fast for his own team to keep up meaning he either has absurd numbers to 1v9 carry with no counterplay or he will suffer from being too fast for his own team... At the end of the day hecarim is left in a state where its frustrating to play him since his numbers are too low to carry alone and he's too fast to be able to play in coordination with a team exploiting hec's own strength (speed)
Right now I personally have a wide-ish champ pool of meta junglers that I can play well and don't really play hecarim anymore, but whenever he becomes OP again I will abuse the shit out of him for free LP
yep , it is pointless to ward vs him , he is just too quick
@@orkhepaj no its not, you need to ward properly and not brainlessly
@@orkhepaj ward near dragon/herald pit for bot/top since his ganks are quick but telegraphed and you should be good
@@eamichelena then he just comes with jump rock and then uses ulti , there are not enough wards to get every path
One thing abt Irelia (as a former OTP):
While her teamfights are not easy, her laning phase is pretty much braindead into most champs, especially after vamp scepter
You freakin read my mind. I was thinking just yesterday if you would ever cover a video about champs that are balance nightmares
One change to ryu was that if you cancel your upercut with a backdash it would use your 2 bars of meter, so the change was that if you canceled with a backdash it would do less damage than if you didnt, so if you dont cancel having the meter you would say to your oponent that you get them, maybe changes like this that makes the characters more expressive would be good for akali and irelia?
In Guild Wars 1, character skills had 2 different versions, PvE and PvP.
Maybe Riot should also do the same thing and make separate version of champion skills for pro-play and the rest of us mere mortals.
"But there are too many skills!"
GW1 had thousands, so that's really no excuse.
I love ryze but sometimes I always feel my combo will burst some one and I know it can but they walk away with 5% HP flashing me teemo thumbs up I think ryze is changed so much that feeling u get when u know a champs damage and limit is changed so much it's practically a new champ
Vars what do you think about :-
- Why everyone plays PYKE (im sure they do)
- Why no one plays plays SION
(Very obvious reasons but your way of describing is good)
the biggest frustration is vayne top if you play a melee champion with little or few cloose gaps
- she will outscale you
- she makes you unable to lasthit
- she pokes you so you will maybe lose even XP
- she has better teamfight presence (especially with tanks/enchanter in her team)
- your jungler has to literally camp her (but sometimes is unable to because he doesnt know better OR the vayne has insanely good map awareness)
- she can out duel you in a side lane easily with R invis, bonus AD, knockback/stun, % true damage, mobility
yes you can say vayne maybe needs skill, but once u have the skill it is "Frustrating" because it has no counterplay if you are good at her.
And when a champion is unbeatable once played perfectly (like scripting levels) the champion is broken period.
i dont care how skillful a champion is, it needs a weakness, and in top lane i can tell you, no ranged champion (cuz she has better all in and range herself) no ap burst champion (she will buy mercs + wits end) no juggernaut (literally no chance as to outrange knockback and % damage) and no melee carry can keep up with her.
2:45 I thought "WTF" but I than realised that Ryze has 4 levels over him and went "...yeah, that's about right."
Good rundown, with good examples. I specifically like the HG/SS example 😃
Sometimes I think destroying the identity of a champion is a good thing. I remember you talking in an earlier video about how new champions’ kits have a ridiculous amount of things included in them and no matter how much they are nerfed, the fact it exists at all means it makes the champ more viable. Why does irelia heal from her dashes? Is there any lore related reason? (Not that every kit has to make logical sense) but it feels like such a needless addition that negates the durability pitfall champions that produce the same amount of dps fall into. She wouldn’t be irelia without the same survivability, but I don’t think that survivability is healthy
I had a talk about broken champs with my buddies yesterday.
We also talked about the next rework to be on Aurelion he is just too unique to actually work in the game
I just think they should change his ult to be more basic and fun and he will see a much higher pick rate to fix his skewed win rate.
In the lore pantheon and his people tricked aurelion sol and enslaved him using the golden helmet he now wears.
A good rework for his ult that ive heard of is to have a short duration of time where the helmet is gone and aurelion sol gets his stats hugely buffed and takes on his true form.
Hes not even strong he just has such a low pick rate that his win rate is skyrocketed by the few good players who play him very well. He just needs more players for it to balence out.
Riot wont fix him tho they will just keep nerfing him like they have the last 2 years because hes ACTUALLY unique and physically well designed.
If he was another big booba anime girl yk he would have been reworked 2 years ago. but space dragons dont sell skins so...
They either rework the E into some sort of combat mobility spell or the champ can never be balanced. You can't balance a champ that can shove midlane without using mana then fly straight down into botlane at lvl 3 and cc them.
I think the biggest one everyone forgets about is ekko. Man this champ was the definition of balance nightmare in the game for years. I think he was the first true 200 years champion riot ever realized, and to this day is either extremely strong or no one plays him except mains who abuse him
I play Azir from time to time, and it really is how you just said. In the earlier parts there is like no damage, I can't find it anywhere. In the late it is like I found all that damage (in dps) what I have been searching for like 30 minutes. (On full build)
You dont have to remove irelias near infinite dashes to balance her, she just does way too much damage despite not hitting any of her actual skillshots. Atm she is so overtuned she doesnt need to use her abilities properly to beat you at almost every point of the game, vs most champions.
never thought I'd see gameplay of double in a tournament when watching a league video
Ryze is the exemple of peak 200 years hypocrisy
When Riot decided to rework and give him this teleportation ultimate, they made the stupidest move of their whole career. Ryze was too good in competitive and organized play, so what does Riot do ? They give him THE MOST TEAM RELIANT ULTIMATE IN THE ENTIRE GAME. A brand new spell, that allows you to teleport your entire team. This is the most braindead change they have EVER done to any champion, this rework did not change anything for Ryze, they made him even more skewed towards pro play. They have no idea what they're doing. And that last mini rework he got where they removed his shields helped a little bit but he completely lost his identity, he's just a no brain no skill spam champion that doesn't even need to aim his skillshots cause everything bounces everywhere
the real issue with akali is
well people say "her W is so one sided she goes for a trade and not even your minions will get to hit her back cause of it"
which is particularly funny to me since she doesn't win lane against a single traditional midlaner
or "she has toooo many dashes" but they were dead anyways and wouldn't have done anything even if she was standing still for the entirety of the fight
no
her problem is that her E deals more damage than the rest of her entire kit
and then compare her to ahri
ahri needs to full combo you twice and use her R the 2nd time she combos you to land 2nd part of Q, which is an incredibly hard skill shot since you and the most of her damage and even then you might need ignite to get the kill secured, and if you had to use R to go in for the E and 2nd/3rd R to land your Q you are now just a very vulnerable immobile mage
also, akali has a ton of ad ratios and incredible scalings when they don't really make sense for her 70 / 131.25 / 192.5 / 253.75 / 315 (+ 59.5% AD) (+ 84% AP) since assassins are not meant to scale but rather to end the game quickly, so she inherently struggles at doing what she's designed for through her kit but then also does that through her class because she is meant to be super weak early while also being an assassin, the snowballing class, so she's either not balanced cause her laning phase is all of a sudden strong and she is just too good or not balanced cause she is too weak to get back into the game after loosing lane
I think lee sin is just that much more balanced because even when he gets nerfed he's still honest to his class and he has a predictable and consistent gameplay, on top of that, even when he's nerfed so that he scales more poorly he still brings utility to his team in the form of peel and shielding
I very much appreciate the Fire Emblem Fates music in the background
Pro play just needs to be a different version than the regular game
This video is all about what I'm always saying: Broken and overpower are too different things. I like this.
When a bunch of characters are overpowered because of "esports".
Maybe it's because the champions aren't the real problem.
I mean if they can't be balanced around the top level of play, yes it is the champs that are the problem. That's like saying "oh this fighting game Character is S tier but they're hard to play. It's not the character that is the problem though!"
It's totally delusional thinking you can balance a game for both pro play and regular mundane players. Riot just likes money and doesn't give a fuck about how they achieve that goak
@@marianoherrera6038 how does your first sentance correlate to the 2nd one
@@Kitusser The new changes were made to make pro play look faster and more engaging, flashier. Have you seen LPL? It's just one big Aram for 20 minutes
The problem are the normal players who are bad at the game,simple as that.
Balance Nightmares, hmmm. Can we talk about Aurelio Sol. Maybe
Been waiting for a video on the 200 years foundation made my rito
Irelia would be so easy to fix. She can stack her ability, but she can't sustain it without interacting with a champion, once it's maxed. Also there should be a hard cap on its duration once full stack is reached, regardless of whether she sustains it through champion combat or not. Right now she can stack and maintain with minions and just dash all the way to enemy turret. If she pushes and reaches level 2 first and you are not able to freeze, you end up with having to push the wave back to her. And when you are almost at her turret it's basically a death sentence if you are a early game tank or bruiser.
There is a way to balance all these champs tho in one easy way everyone forgets: separating pro play from the live game. We all talk about the fact that pro play is a different game all the time but they play the same patches we do. If balancing azir for pro play makes it a bad champion for everyone else make them have their own patches. It would definitely make pro play more interesting imo considering I don't watch it anymore now yet I still have to deal with patches being around the pro level of play.
akali doesn't need 50% win rate because she is so hard but once you are good you are rewarded with the ability to do wathever you want as long as you are good enough same with all the hardcore champ they shouldn't have 50% winrate because they are this hard to play but once you play them at a good level you are a monster
I believe the direction to take Irelia is fairly simple. Fundamentally, my idea is, adjusting her power away from Q and into the rest of her kit.
Incentivizing Irelia not to max Q first means its more difficult for her to get resets as the threshold to execute minions gets lower. Remove the heal from her Q entirely means that, at least until she gets lifesteal, there is no incentive to spam Q just because it heals a lot. Last but certainly not least, Irelia can effortlessly get her Q's cooldown down to 5 seconds. Possibly lower. That said, its hardly punishing for Irelia to miss a reset because she gets it back up in just a few seconds. That said, increasing the base cooldown will give Irelia's opponents a realistic window to punish her for missing a reset or when they sucessfully cancel it mid air (think of Thresh's Flay, Quinn's Vault or Gragas' Body Slam).
As such, I suggest the following changes:
**Passive:**
Ionian Fervor stacks last for 6 seconds, but instead of losing them all at once, the stacks decay one per second.
**Q:**
Cooldown increased from 11~7 seconds to 11 seconds at all ranks.
REMOVED: Blade Surge no longer heals Irelia.
**W:**
Damage reduction now scales with ability level rather than champion level. In practice this is a buff when maxing the ability first, a nerf if maxing the ability last and about neutral if maxing it second.
**E:**
Damage changed from 80/125/170/215/260 to 80/140/200/260/320.
Stun duration changed from 0.75 seconds at all ranks to 0.5~1.5 seconds.
**R:**
REMOVED: No longer reduces the cooldown of Bladesurge
what if you change ionian fervor stacks to last 5s
and change the stun to a 1s-2s slow by 30%
(also you could slap some 50% lifesteal effectiveness on Q, just in case)
There are very few basic abilities with their base damage/rank increase being bigger than 55 damage/rank which is Alistar W scaling for example. That is why the proposed change on her E scaling seems like a bit too much. (45/rank right now-> 60/rank proposed change). I think i would actually leave this ability as it is.
I really like the W change. It seems perfect to me.
On her Q i dont like the change from 11-7 sec to 11 at all ranks if you are also going to remove her R passive. That would make Irelia's late game Q go from 4,5 sec to 11 sec cd without ability haste which is a bit ridiculous of a nerf. I would much rather see the removal of her R passive which kinda forces you to max Q right now as the R passive + Q max have a significant synergy. When it comes to healing i think it is fine but only whenever she gets a Q reset (from her passive Mark or last-hit). I think the healing we so much hate on Irelia comes from Lifesteal from items + her already big auto attacks empowered by her passive (80% Attack speed) rather than her Q which provides the biggest healing when Irelia last-hits a minion wave as opposed to a teamfight or an all in.
I like the passive change you proposed but personally a thing about it right now that annoys me every time i fight Irelia is that it deals magic damage... If you start losing to Irelia and want to buy resistances she deals mixed damage anyway so you cant stop her with Armor boots. It is not like she needs to max W as oposed to another ability or invest an item to deal magic damage - she builds full AD and attack speed and still deals tons of magic damage which makes her snowball very hard if she ever gets a lead.
@@maciejkleszczynski9808 But that's exactly the point. Reduce the incentive to max Q (which means it deals less damage for longer, which means its harder to get resets) and increase the risk for the Irelia player who use Q without getting a reset and the reward for the Irelia opponent who manage to cancel the dash mid air and put it on a cooldown. As long as the Irelia keeps reseting, that change doesn't matter, but nowdays Irelia missing a reset mid game is more of an inconvenience than an actual problem. The idea is exactly to give a bigger window to punish the Irelia player while she don't have her important cooldown.
The E change is admitedly aggressive, but that's done on purpose because the change on her Q too is aggressive. Taking power away from one part of her kit to the other. And because her E is a skillshot, the opponent can dodge it.
I’m shocked Graves wasn’t mentioned a single time as a balance nightmare; especially considering his overall history. He went from being one of least remarkable but still solid Adc’s in the game rarely subjected to balance changes to one of the most polarizing junglers where he’s either nerfed into the ground and unplayable or singlehandily making the game his bitch and able to flexed anywhere at any and all balance changes he’s subjected to.
It's weird, I've never had an issue with Whitney. Either status stacking or fighting moves put her down. Geodude is also fairly potent for the first 3 gyms thanks to type advantages and durability.
Well in Akalis case... let's just not worry about "how important to the character" the stuff is and just fix her, shes already been changed completely in kit, visuals and playstyle anyway, it's debatable if shes even more different from her original than Aatrox is.
What if, for Irelia, riot gave her 7 dashes hat must be used within 1-2 seconds of eachother. And every CHAMPION takedowns or assists she gets an extra two dashes and/or 4 minions killed with the dash gives her one extra dash. The way I see it is it gives other players counerplay to her while also keeping her skill expressive. The for her ult, keep it the same, but make the initial projectile smaller. The first enemy struck with the projectile is stunned and the outside shape it makes slows still.
Great video! I think it's fine to have champions like these... In the end, League has 155 champions to choose from (and corresponding skins for Riot to sell).
It's not "fine" to have someone like irelia in the game when you see them all the time and every time they destroy the entire enemy team.
@@labros9999 mad cause bad -im a irelia main btw
So what I got from this was, don't take ranked seriously if the champs you like aren't good. Don't get as frustrated going against Irelia or Akali since they will always exist and there's nothing you can do about it. Just play a norm or two and then go play other games that aren't as horribly balanced as league.
Vars video just in time for lunch break
I find Akali way less annoying than Zed or Qiyana tbh. I really like mages and marksmen so that might bias my opinions (Since Akali can do way longer trades than those two). Zed's damage is just dumb high and he can basically kill any champion once he reaches lvl 6, and Qiyana is an assassin that can CC chain you. At least with Akali you can get away from her W and she will be vulnerable to attacks again.
Kinda true but Akali can deal waay more damage than Qiyana also if you dodge just one of her abilities she wont have enough damage to kill you which mostly means she has to run away or die. Meanwhile Akali easily has enough damage to kill adc or mage twice while dodging everything with ber bs movement speed
I honestly think win rate is a fundamentally flawed way to quantify a champion power, a lot of people and even channels like pro guides and mobalytics use win rate to say that some champions are struggling or that they are weak, but what a low win rate actually means is that PLAYERS are struggling to win playing the champ, the best example for this are new champs, that on release should always have a low win rate since players are testing what the champ can do and what builds/play style are the best, of course champs that don’t fit how most people want to play are not getting high win rates.
Champions like Ryze, Gankplank and Kayle that need to farm and scale before been strong are always going to do poorly because most players like fighting and can’t wait to get their items, so they fight anyways and then they are 0/5 at 10 minutes calling jg diff.
Another thing that a lot of people don’t realize is that makes win rate a flawed way to estimate power is that no one will exploit all the strengths of a champ on their first games, but almost every one will at least try every champ between 2 to 5 times before deciding to main the champ or drop it forever, if everyone plays Akali 5 times for the first time, wins 2 games, loses 3 and then never play it again, the champ would technically had a 40% win rate, but that is not because the champ is bad, is because there is no way you can master a champ in 5 games.
In conclusion, win rate means nothing, nerf Yone.
For Irelia it's ridiculous that she can stand still while charging an ability that deals damage and reduces incomming damage and renews the mark for her Q. I think that is the main problem with her, because you can have a tankish who has high damage(Darius), a diver who can do a lot of damage(Lee/Xin), or even a bruiser with great speed, damage, tankiness and powerful in team fights(Hecarim). The thing is that you can kite Darius, you can dodge Lee Sin Q, you can burst down Xin Zhao, and you don't feel like Hecarim touches you and you die. He's not famous for being like a monster in 1x1/pickoffs and similar. You can't do nothing against a Irelia who knows exactly how to play. Even Riven and Akali who are monstruous when mastered you can burst down, but Irelia press a button and you waste all your combo for 30% of her health(and she lifesteal in 3 Q's in the minions). If they take down the tankiness from her W(i think) it would be A LOT less toxic, and wouldn't feel so unfair as it is now, AND the Irelia players never think of her as the "suddenly tank champion that can bait the enemy to cast all their burst for nothing". What i mean is... Even when you land a Morgana Q, you can't kill her and you can't even do real damage to her unless you have 3 men beating her shit down and she still can take down the squish one.
That is not the only problem. If you make a scaling champ, it must be weak at some other stage of the game, but she is one of the most broken early games, mid game and late game. That's the real problem, just like fiora, camille and riven. Why would I play Garen if you have a stronger early, mid and late game than I do? Why would I play an "unkillable" tank if you gonna deal 600 true damage at me lvl 6 with just a single skill, or you have so much mixed damage I cant build as items as fast as you increase damage? And if I try to play an artillery mage to drain you, and you outheals my damage with minions... what's the point? The only counterplay is burst you, as you said. And slayers are the best to do that thing. That is the reason that this meta is all about bruisers and slayers
"I can't legitimately think of a way to make it so champions like Irelia and Akali can exist without having those abilities. They wouldn't be Irelia and Akali anymore."
They're ALREADY not Irelia and Akali anymore. Irelia has a W that does true damage, an E that stuns anyone higher HP than her, and an ult that shoots 4 daggers out hit all enemies in a line. Akali has an ult with 3 targeted dashes. The current champions going by these names are nothing but zoomer imposters. The worst case is Fiora. The abomination we have now is NOT Fiora. Fiora has an ult called Blade Waltz, the coolest ult in the entire game, which causes her to blink rapidly between all enemies within a certain radius, dealing several hits randomly to enemy champions within range. Without this ability, she is NOT Fiora. Give up the ghost, bro. They've already done this to dozens of champions. They took away Irelia's ult and gave it to Gwen. They claimed Poppy's ult was WAY too strong to be in the game, but then they just made it EVEN STRONGER and gave it Mordekaiser. They've been ruining champions forever. I genuinely hope they ruin Akali and Irelia, because the new versions of those champions are complete cancer, along with Pyke and a few others I can't remember at the moment.
I been perma ban GP from ss11 and I’m not gonna stop any time soon. The fear of cc dodge is more than anything to me
CONGRATS ON 100k Vars!
Thanks for the fire emblem fates ost in the background :D
The worst part of these characters is that riot ends up removing some mechanics that makes the character less skill expressive. Like removing Akali’s e+q combo doesn’t make her less frustrating to play against but makes her less fun to play
1:27 Yone didn't need a buff
He was broken since he came out
I'd like to see Ryze come over to WR. I feel like he'd fit in very well
akali, on launch was that every trade is one sided, now days its the same but you cannot lose a trade under your tower.