Which Champions Are The HARDEST For Riot To Balance? 

2 resources for you! A: Here's a pretty cool graph riot uses to determine their "solo queue OP line" twitter.com/RiotRepertoir/status/1121824617344028672 B: Here's where you can vote on which champion you want to see reworked next year! nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2019/05/choose-a-champion-update-for-2020/#?poll-vote=open

Riven's quote says all you need to know. "A sword mirrors it's owner". Riven's sword is literally broken.

"So remember when Rengar one shot you, he was designed that way" Is that suppose to make me think thats fair?

I can define broken for you. Broken is that one Galio patch where his Q did over 100% max HP... Thinking back on it really makes me wonder how it got to live

Consider what you can do against them: Kennen - Dodge Riven - Dodge Irelia - Uninstall

LOL: We are trying our best to balance everything so that champion has a maximum of two roles Dota 2: If everyone is overpowered, No one is

Hardest Champ to balance? Ryze.. That's the reason for 6+ reworks

"RIOT TRIED TO MAKE CHAMPIONS FAIR IN RECENT TIMES" - releases Samira, Yone, Yummi xD....

Using T1's clip for corki was just priceless xD

3:10 that kha just flashed to get the blue when there were no people there. Lmao

I think the champions that are usually the hardest to balance either have the most mobility or the most CC. Thats why orianna really doesn't get any flak. Her only mobility is a movement speed buff that also acts as a slow and she also has an ultimate displacement as her only hard CC so not many people care. Too much mobility = frustrating or too strong in solo queue. But too much CC = too strong for pro play. Along with that, her winrate really doesn't get that high and she usually has an average playrate, so I think maybe she's just a perfectly made champ. I think recently riot has been doing a good job. For example, they've done stuff like nerfing morgana's ability to click one button and win every team fight and skirmish. They're much quicker to act on champs that are over-performing, Thresh, Morgana, kayle ETC and also they've taken it upon themselves to try to do a mini rework to the tank class to give them more dueling potential, where many may disagree that "Tanks are supposed to soak up damage not put out damage DUHHHHH," but that black and white thinking is what causes tanks to be so linear in solo queue. They're either too strong or almost unplayable in the meta. Tanks in LOL should feel more like tanks in Overwatch, where while they do soak up more damage than the majority of the roster, it shouldn't be so much to the point where they have no agency in solo queue but out perform in esports. All that being said, I think they should look into some other champs that aren't as noticeable in power level such as Ahri and Jinx, because their playrate is pretty high and winrate is pretty bonkers. This mostly is because of the unnecessary buff to Ahri's charm and also Jinx being buffed twice right before riot reworked the Marksmen items to how it currently is, making crit ADCs stronger. There aren't many people that complain about them so you could make a point out of that's why they're allowed to be that strong, but if that was the case, you'd have many ASol mains asking why riot nerfed their main champion while he was at a 0.36 percent banrate, which IMO wasn't warranted. And though asol was, and kinda still is a bit sleeper op, that kind of inequality is what brings on the memes of people saying "they won't nerf pretty champs that sell skins." Which I think riot should try to keep consistent or there will be more cynical thought and comments of the company being thrown around. Which, maybe riot doesn't really care about, but ruins some of the PRs they have with the community. A champ that I think is hard to balance, that you didn't add to the list, but you've talked about before, would be Yasuo. Yasuo, isn't really that strong of a champ (saying this as a mordekaiser mid player), but he is frustrating to play against which forces riot to keep his general winrate lower, which I don't really think fixes the problem. Yasuo, still the most, or one of the most, banned champions in the game, will continue to be frustrating and a pain to play against, meanwhile you have the mains/players of the champion, playing a champ that, while isn't completely horrible, isn't as strong as he could be because of the nature of his problematic kit. So It's a lose/lose situation. And recently riot's been doing these lose/lose situations alot, where when they put out new champs or reworks that are too frustrating and/or too strong, they just nerf them down to like sub 45 percent winrates and then slowly try to buff them again in the right spots, I think that's fine because it's a quick fix and they're actually doing something, but for yasuo they seem a bit stagnant to do anything, and it's a bit inexcusable for how long he's been around. I get he's a fan favorite so they're afraid to do anything that might accidentally ruins him or his champion identity, but he definitely needs a change that makes him a better champ both in strength and to make him less frustrating. I know that's easier said than done, but I think the first step should be to try to push him towards the top lane. Most of what makes yasuo feel unfair is his windwall, hypermobility resets, shield he gets for walking around, and his recourceless abilities, all of which he needs if he's laning against long range mages. But many mages, are usually super immobile, use mana, use skillshots that get nullified by yasuo's windwall and are pretty squishy in general. so though many don't really see most of what's causing the frustration is necessary for the place that riot wants yasuo in, bottom line, it still FEELS unfair based on what his champ can do based on what the majority of what those going mid can do. I actually had a friend, while we were talking about riven, yasuo and irelia. Talk about why so many people dislike those champs and he said "Well if you look at it, every other champion in the game feels like they belong in league of legends or some type of moba, but yasuo, riven and irelia feel like they're some sort of smash bros character or something. I don't think yasuo, irelia, or riven is a bad design, in fact I really like the design, but I think they FEEL oppressive because they do so much more than what any other champions can do." But yeah that's just my thoughts on the video.

I find it ironic how hashinshin actually predicted the new conqueror rune and also predicted on how riven should be nerfed.Yet everyone thinks bad of him.

how to properly nerf Riven you may ask? add a MANA BAR

I haven't played the game for a few years now, but I have a single question. Does Riven still have a shield that scales with her AD?

Everyone: nerf yi Riot games: I heard yi needs a buff?

Best example of overloaded kit today: Aphelios.

I think a common trait in difficult to balance champions are ones with powerful basic abilities and play making ultimates, primarily Ryze, Tali, and Azir, who have all been very problematic in pro-play. I think a part of this is that Riot has a tendency to underestimate the power of utility/non-damaging abilities. The only time I really remember them taking note of it was when Kled got a buff to his remount time, but they nerfed his W to compensate.

"but in silver rek'sai isn't even a champion" YIKES

1:18 who the hell does the scissors with the thumb up?

What is Balance? Riot: Yes

Eyy look at that. I really like these informative vids. Keep it up!

Riot: *reworks Aatrox quoting it was to have an easier time balancing him* Also Riot: *is literally struggling to balance him after rework compared to his pre-rework*

Hah mentioning Ryze and Azir even though Akali exists and has been nerfed or buffed basically every patch

Just call thanos so he can balance everything.

Honestly tho garen Is so overkitted it's insane. Q- silence, movement speed gain, removes all slows from garen, next auto deals 30/60/90/120/150 damage PLUS 140% ATTACK DAMAGE. W- gives bonus armor and MR up to a max of 50 each, damage reduction, tenacity E- armor shred, can crit, deals isolation damage. R- true damage to current villian, does missing hp damage. Passive- HP Regen after a few seconds. Minions do not disable passive. That's fucked.

Title : *Which Champions Are The HARDEST For Riot To Balance?* Me : *having ptsd of rengar's story and zed itself*

you can watch cowsep's mouth and see him say "I HATE THAT ITEM" when the lux used zhonya's lol

I think Jax is the model champ for this difficult discussion. One of the oldest champions in the game who is almost COMPETELY the same as he was when league was released. His simple kit doesn’t make him bad, it makes him great. He doesn’t have fancy abilities like newer champs, and that makes him consistently playable and fun.

11:52 when I saw Aatrox, i knew Hashinshin is coming, this video wouldnt be the same without him

The garen one didnt age well, he is busted now lol

Rivens changes make bad rivens worse. Back to bronze for me!

Sneaky RuneScape music. I dig. Been binge watching and you put in so many tracks. The Lost Grove track could make a good background for the future.

Honestly I love these upcoming changes to riven. My only issue with her was that she can e every 2 seconds kind of making her ridiculously tanky because her shield scales with ad which she exclusively builds. Shaving of 4 seconds enables her to be killed and you don't have to pull your hair out that she gets away with 20 HP and you can't reach her because she dashes away to often and too quickly.

Riven's problem is that she can almost always choose her fight. She has 4 dashes a knockup a stun and a shield so she can literally jump on you stun you and dash off while shielding retribution damage. This trade goes on every 10 to 15 seconds depending on her cd. Its just too good in many many match-ups. Its no wonder that most lol players main her. Yasou is another champ that really does well into many matchups thanks to his low cd his crazy mobility (although its not "free movement" as riven's) no energy. No mana. A free shield that recharges on movement. A wall to block retribution damage by ranged champs. Thankfully due to its style of play and his inherent frailty yasou really get shit on by assassin early game but its scaling is so ridicolous he can easily feed its lane and still come up even or ahead once he gets his 2 core items. This subtle reliability is what makes him an eyerolling champion. If you shit on a scaling mage (say kassadin or zoe or xerath) they become absolute trash come mid to late game. Barely above a cannon minion's damage. Yasou instead will go 0/7 get PD berserker greaves and StatikShiv/IE and he will be able to 1v1 and kill the 12/2 cait no problem. Something not even an assassin could do. In fact he has so much damage in his kit he can go resolve 2nd and be tanky while still dishing out 500ad blows. But see a talon or zed running resolve 2nd and you will report for troll. Why is a bruiser allowed the damage of an assassin? Master yi is just a stupid champ every lower elo player is scared off cause he scales so much harder than any other champ in the game that if he gets fed early is a basic game over (and funnel strats buy into that principle). In reality Yi is really week before he gets his 2.5 item powerspike (rageblade bork and a vampscepter item, either DD or now witsend into heavy ap comp) i mean the only thing he does is RUNNING AT YOU WITH 600HP. He has no soft nor hard cc so basically if you have any kind of cc or burst you automatically win (think Vi does really well into him, rammus amumu and ww also are good counters). Vayne sucks dicks amd the decision to hald her Q cd during ult is just bad design. but rageblade is getting nerfed so at least borkblade vayne is over and Thank you Riot a good adc should still not be able to 1v5 without at least some peel otherwise why the fk wouldnt we all play adcs everywhere?

9:42 "They have too much in their kit. The best recent example has to be the Irelia rework" Riot releasing Aphelios: Hold my beer

"next time you will face an assassin as adc, remember they were designed that way for a reason, and each champion should have a weakness, each champion will have some counterplay" Yeah, not in this game apparently.

The hardest champions for RIOT to balance are supports. If they make them as useful as any other champions with way less gold, which they need to be efficient, then they thrive in the solo lanes, and if they don't, then supports just don't have as much impact on the game. How many times did Riot have to nerf a support item/champion because it was too OP in the midlane, when it was perfectly balanced as a support?

Evry champion have counterplay. Well reworked akali disagreed :D

I think Riven's pitfall is supposed to be her naturally thin skin. If she messes up her escapes, or botches the 'move' part of 'stick-and-move' then you can punish her dearly for it. The problem is that people who are good with her don't mess up often. Which brings you back to the early yasubroke days when his only counterplay was the skill (or lack thereof) of the person using him.

Make a Mordekaiser video :)

Balance: *exist* Akali: *¡A NEW FOE HAS APPEARED!*

I really like how objectively and constructively you made your points. Really good video!

If only people had 10% of your mentality League would be such a nicer place.

Good vid really hits the main points of the balancing aspect of league

Hey exil, did you leave the mobalytics team? If so why? I miss your voice in every video, (only if you want to Talk about It)

Great vid, dude, it remainded me of the old Jeremy Gaming Curious style.

Lol, "In silver, Rek'sai isn't even a champion" this is why i abuse reksai in Gold xD

"Remember, all champions are designed with counterplay". That's a bad joke, right?

If master yi builds full atk spd, he can just spam his untargetable move, and the only thing you can do is wait and hope that they run out of mana.

I just hope that Ryze doesn't get another huge rework. Do whatever you want with his ult but his other abilities make you feel like an anime mage that chains diffrent combos dependent on if you want a shield or dmg or cc and have to quickly think on which one of these you want.

-"That same tank main may despise de ADC who can shred you and kill you" - *Laughs in Rammus* "Ok" But seriously, how do you deal with Rammus other than banning him right now? buffed Cinderhulk, Grievous on thornmail means you need like 5 BTS to not kill yourself by attacking him while taunted...which lasts 3 seconds and his W reflects a flat amount of damage, so you kill yourself by auto attacking him, even if you're a mage and your auto attacks deal 50dmg(? he reflects infinitely more damage with thornmail and W than you're dealing him (I've killed myself to rammu's reflect by using Ruunan's Hurricane and attacking someone else) not to mention the DOT from cinderhulk and increased magic damage taken from abyssal mask. I've been abusing him lately because it's really easy LP

7:16 og tyler1. Run it down mid lol

I agree with you on most parts but the issue is that a handful of champions and enemy builds in general can very often not be countered as a solo player. A great example would be hexdrinker rush in the mid lane. You open yourself to ganks cause you lack the damage to kill one fast enough and get out at the same time with most AD assassins rushing that, but in the pure 1v1 against a mage this item will make laning barely even possible. The same thing goes for certain types of champions, like most wave shovers and hardcore lane bullies and with those even both ways, as a hardcore lane bully you wanna play aggressive ofc and push your strength, but that opens you up to ganks, if the enemy doesn't gank you, this does not have much counterplay, if the enemy camps you, your counterplay is counterganks but that is not in your power. Also this creates this feeling of "impossible to carry" in many games if you don't play champs that can bypass their weakness through skill or builds. Imagine playing LeBlanc mid, a well hated champ who can kill many champions at ease, especially when ahead. But once you understand that playing a counter into her, like Galio Kassadin, or an AD assassin with hexdrinker rush as well as good jungle proximity makes her having to play backfoot for her entire laning phase she feels super weak. Yes you draw pressure and weaken your enemy by builds or map pressure, but if your team doesn't capitalize on it and you can never expect that in soloQ especially not below high diamond it feels like an imprisonment of a game. Imagine your entire team feeding and them having a nocturne jgl, you best believe you cannot snowball your lane if you don't play a champ which can 1v2 a nocturne gank + your lane opponent. Also playing freewin late game champs makes games a big coinflip in terms of "can your team not lose the game before you can 1v5" like Kassadin. Reach level 16 and in 90% of your games you can 1v5. The current game state is the problem, cause many things have to be played around as team and not as solo person. I know it's supposed to be a teamgame, but nowadays if feels moreoften than not, that the worst player loses the game, rather than the best player wins it and that's not a good feeling for playing with strangers.

3:08 that khazix flashed wtf

In a sense, speaking of balance in regards to League is kind of pointless. Rito Game has publicly stated they don't change the game to balance it, they intentionally change it to look the way THEY want (cause screw the customers, amirite?) They even dropped the name "Balance Team" years ago and renamed the department, specifically because they wanted to discard the guise & expectation that they were doing balancing. I do admittedly feel sorry for Rito's stats department (did you know they have a stats dep.? I didn't, until a stats Ritoer posted on the Boards to basically say "We exist! But nobody at the company listens to us...") That fact aside. Most champs aren't as hard to balance as we're led to believe. From a strictly design perspective, it's factually easier to balance a game that has more characters, because you can create niche uses more easily. League's problem is uniformity in the champion roster (why play patch 3.13 Nami when Sona has the same kit with better numbers? Why play Sona on patch 3.14 when Nami has better numbers?) Then there are champions that already have balanceable iterations, but they aren't the current iteration. Rito Game has been notorious for having an inflated ego & being too arrogant to admit their own failures (even when the entire community tells them they failed) which has led to a severe lack of reverts. Sona's best version was her original pre-4.13 kit, it would only need minor number buffs to viable in today's meta. Likewise, for Quinn, MF, Darius, Graves & many more. In recent times, for whatever reason, Rito has been forced into a bit more humility & finally given in to a few inevitable reverts, such as LB, Ahri, Kog'Maw & others, but they still have a long ways to go as a company (which should be apparent to anybody aware of their multiple criminal convictions.)

Just because most players don't know the game enough to know exactly why a champion is overloaded doesn't mean that part makes it hard to balance. Also, winrate Is misleading that's, You didn't talked about akali,

All champs are stat checked. Gives 200 hp or 800 hp to a champion, and they go from too strong to too weak.

In this game you have different roles a champion can be, and every one of them is designed for an specific application. Every one of them is strong against a particular one and weak against another one and that's how it should be. Now, there are some champions where this logic does not apply correctly and it's mainly because either the champion has too many resources at his hand (broken), some of his abilities are better than they should, whether they damage is too high, it's cc too long, the cool down is too low, etc (overpowered), or a combination of both broken and overpowered. Both overpowered and broken can be fixed, where overpowering is far easier to do (lowering the power should do it just fine) but broken, not so much. When the champion created is broken, in order to fix it you have to make compromises. Firstly, you need to have clear the role it's mainly suppose to be used for, and secondly, changes shouldn't modify the way it was already being played. The problem comes when some of this factors has to be touched while modifying the champion, and if that's so, then they should be asking themselves why they launched the champion as it is in the first place.

Diana's broken. - Her passive won't always trigger at the 3rd strike, but at the 4th one. - She gets her E passive (gain AS for your next 3 bassic attacks whenever you cast a spell), even if she didn't put a single point on it. - If you Q, R into a target, and it dies before you can reach them, your ult goes on cooldown. -Her E passive sometimes won't go off. - Sometimes, when you kill a minions with your Q, R, you won't get a reset. - Her R won't reset if you hit a target before her Q hits it. You R into a target, and throw a Q mid air. The Q travels faster than you, so you *should* get a reset. You hit the target, it gets marked, you get there, the mark gets consumed, but you don't get a reset. - Phase Rush and Nimbus cloak would go off like 2 minutes AFTER you've done your combo. You're going back to lane, and all of the sudden you're Sonic. So yeah, she's broken.

it's very fascinating to watch this video again after 5 months. Champs like Master YI and Tryndamere will always me OP in low elo since one of the can't die and the other having true damage and untargability since both champs are hard countered by one thing and that is CC which honestly not that many champs that low elo players like or seem to like to play provide makes them such terrors and I have no clue who thought it's a good idea to have trynd's ult not scale with points put into his ult having a 5 second invulnerability at level 6 is quite strong. Meanwhile Akali is hyper broken in the highest of MMRs and pro play that she got nerfed so hard that she is not even a champ anymore and champs like Malphite and Cho that are building AP now and become Assassins instead of tanks is definitely not intended design.

I might be compeltely wrong, but since I play this game since 2009/2010 I've always loved immobile mages like Karthus, Xerath, Vel'Koz, (used to) Annie or for example Brand when he was released. I've since that always played Xerath/Vel'koz mid no matter the match up because I knew their strong sides and weak ones too. But you can never feel the bitter taste, when even a really fed 8/0 Xerath can fall down to something like Master Yi. I really don't care if I loose or win, but the feeling when you play really well... Outplay your counter in mid, roam to both other lanes with successful kills only to be killed with a character that has a S I N G L E item is just discouraging feeling for people who want to get into League or play it for a while. For me personaly it is really great to have characters like this, it makes you think different and try new things how to overcome this situation, but some champions feels a bit much overpowered when it comes to "First item power spike". Now this game has lots and lots of possible outcomes when it comes to matching up aganist some champions. In role are their personal skill, their division, internet connection and other stuff so no matter what you try and always get your ass kicked by 1 item Master Yi (for example)... it just feels discouraging to say at least :^) I often refrain from speaking about this topic, since League is more toxic then DotA on Russian server whilst not being a Russian AND most of the responces are just some Chad from Gold 1 telling me to get out of bronze and I would speak differently. I've started my rank at bronze no need to hide that, but slowly climbed through over the years. First I started at Bronze 4 and ended up at Silver 2. For a first season when I tried ranked I was quite pleased (I didn't play Rankeds until like season 2/3) and then another Season came, I started at Silver 4 and ended up in Gold 4. Again some progress and I was happy. Another was from Silver 3 to Plat 5. At this point I took rankeds more seriously and as a University Student you have sometimes lots and lots of times but sometimes you don't even have a time to wipe your ass. Well then I tryharded into Plat 1 and the promo for Diamond begun. Sweat on my forehead, missclicking last hits, missing important spells, wasting flashes etc. I didn't make it to Diamond that year, but then the tank meta came ( I think it was around that season) and with my Xerath mid I could only staple my dick to my desk. I could literally do nothing after one of their items (mostly Spirit Visage). And since then I could feel the pain of dealing with "1 item power spikes" only to stop playing rankeds what so ever, people don't play for fun, can really take the game seriously (even at Plat1) and I don't personaly like this kind of place (I have a work place where people are more serious then they should be so why deal with the same shit in my free time aye?) First it was Nautilus or Sejuani that was just pain in the ass to deal with, then it came to characters like Rengar/Kassadin and after the Tank meta nerf I just can't find a spot for immobile champion where no matter the assassin, it will always delete you. When you have no mobility, it is sometimes really hard to succeed when almost every champion nowdays have some form of Dash/Jump/dodge ... what am I even trying to say at this moment... Welp I can't wait for comments like "Git gud" and good luck in the Rift bois n' gals... Yuumi might be useless, but she's annoying af :^)

11:55 talking about fairness in recent times while showing a clip of Aatrox, a champion that is still top tier pick/ban, LOL! good one

The little bar on health to indicate execution threshold for Pyke/Cho'gath is such a big help.

One of the best counterpicks to ranged AD back in the day had to be AD Ahri. That was a seriously fun, but very overpowered way of playing

7:03 CORKI ATTACK SPEED [*] 0.638 right now, back in the day it was 0.7 something, got nerfed to the ground

seems like kalista is hard to balance considering she's always either been op or unplayable

You make such good videos. I’ve been watching them for quite some time now and I am not sure why I haven’t subscribed sooner. Keep it up mate

13:10 I didn't understand what you meant, but then it came to my mind the Omega Squad Teemo skin. That skin made me surprised how big the mushroom AoE is compared to what I thought

the udyr one reminded me of that meta when he was literally unkillable cause he'll just run away as fast as he could. Was a permaban for me back then

so everytime master yi 1v5 your whole team because someone fed him remember thats how he was designed, thanx for watching

Wait, did you completely forgot you can go AP Shyvana? It has one of the easiest abilities to land, her dragon form E, which is on a 5(?) sec CD (with CDR) and has a 100% AP Ratio and 350 base damage rank 5.

u deserve a medal because this is completely unbiased and a great honest answer to whats going on with balances and not only did u give a great response you left both sides of the argument open. great job!

I actually agree with you on every single champion here , or category of champions , people usually think a champion is OP just because they have a weak champion themselves , or maybe they are tilted , or they do not know how to counter play that champion . One thing tho , Aatrox this season is a total mess, he has gone from being S tier to being MIA for 2 months , to building One item and decimating in a 1v5 . So now he's the best top laner there is , next patch he'll be nerfed again , this is nuts .

1:30 that's why bruiser shaco is so nice to play with. Knowledge based, able to carry and as bruiser enough damage to threaten soft targets, but tanky enough to not be worth focussing in a teamfight.

Personally i believe that the hardest group of champions to balance are those champions that have a high skill ceiling. The reason is that those champions are usually worthless in low elo (Azir below platinum\diamon is usually just a chicken) but they are really strong once you master them...so how do you balance them? If they nerf them they just disappear from the game and if they make them simpler they become really OP. We saw this with Kalista and Azir, 2 champions that were gods in competitive so they got nerfed hard and they just disappeared from the game until riot buffed eworked them.

i loved it when you mentioned runescape i was saying it in my head then you said it XD

"...or the next time master yi gets a penta kill..." "...each champion in theory should have some weaknesses and some strenghts.."

I feel like the deeper issue with stat stick champions is not that they have simple kits, but their kits are linear and simplified. With garen you use your 2 damage abilities asap when close to get your damage out and use w to get tanky other than that you have an execution when in reality you have: Stacking armor and mr on minion farm, stacking armor shread on your e, a silence, a speedup, true damage, cc mitigation, and a qss for slows. The champion plays simply but the kit is overpacked to where it is either too much or not enough. Garen players dont rely off of their skill they rely off of their strong linear abilities to be powerful. The same can be said about all of the other champs you mentioned, Mundo can fight you at any distance because of aa resets and sustained damage, shiv just has to land e and she is doing massive onhit ap %hp shread with just auto attacks, Udyr is literally a spam and rmb champion so most of his play comes from skill expression but since he has no blinks/dashes his build is usually focused around compensating for that, corki has it all for an adc(escape, resets, onhit, a way to ignore armor stackers. The way I see these champions they are like meals served in bowls. To have a balanced meal you need to have your dishes properly equaled out and with individual nerfs and buffs to the champs you can add or subtract from individual bowls(Like adding a protein to a dish) The issues come into play with multiplicative damage from items and runes. I imagine these damage numbers being like the main part of the meal(like the broth). You have to add it to every bowl equally. The problem is is that these champs have too many outlets for item and rune damage to get abused. Buff runes a tiny but and someone who has a ton of damaging abilities suddenly becomes super powerful. Just look at what kind of a monster Jayce becomes when his items/runes get buffed and he doesnt get touched. Looking at it this way I feel like stat stick champs cover a much wider coverage of problem champs in league (Akali, Elise, Sylas, Kayle, Ect) Champions with many outlets for damage vs champions with few outlets for damage will always be either very successful, or very bad.

i remember reading patch 5.22 , the juggernaut , the only thing i remember was the last words in they comment : we turned him into a pentakill machine... i think i got like 73 pentas or something that season in solo queue as darius only

I feel like I'm the only one who has something against Nasus and i think thats the reason I'm in silver 3.

Riot: tries to make champions more fair and reasonable. Also Riot: reworks Aatrox to become Riven 2.0

nice video man.

The one champion that Riot cannot balance AT ALL is Azir. His win rate has been below 48% patch after patch after patch and they still feel comfortable nerfing him because he’s still too strong in the hands of pro players. In the hands of a pro, his team fighting is unmatched, he can siege lanes quickly, he can defend lanes just as well and he can find picks very easily too. His laning however is absolutely abysmal in soloequeue and he’s pretty much unplayable for most people. Even in pro play, his win rate is seeing a dip especially with the most recent nerf.

The main reason that balancing is hard is damage, either tank doing more damage than it should, bruiser being pretty tanky while dealing massive damage, mages and assassins one-shot squishies in early-mid game, or adcs does too much damage so the rest of the team only need to baby-sit the adc. Aside from that there's also problems like item/rune efficiency, item build , how their counters has been performing .etc.But the most important thing is they dont want the game to get too stale, by seeing same champion too much over hundredes of games.

Using a Hashinshin clip unironically to explain something is new meta.

What needs to be changed? Hashinshin: Yes

Didn't know Jimmy Fallon is a Garen Main.

I'd love to see a video on why Riot has historically had a terrible track record with designing and balancing AP Assassins. Katarina, Akali, Leblanc etc.

About the last points , a Rengar has just his ultimate as a guaranteed way to get onto someone. If a dedicated assassin cannot kill a squishy with his only reliable engage tool , the player who plays that champion would be better of playing something stupid like AD Zilean or Soraka. People who main squishy ranged carries have to understand one thing , those divers go extremely deep in order to get you and will get cc chained to death IF you position properly. Of course sometimes even if you position properly they may still get you. Or positioning properly might mean waiting for some of their abilities to be on cooldown , and they may never use them so you may never have a chance to go in. But this experience is not exclusive to you. I play a lot of Jax and good adc/supports can shut me down completely. Wich forces me to splitpush or just frontline for my team while getting MELTED by their carries. My point is , most champions will never get to play their ideal game plan. No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

Who needs balance when you've got Prestige Star Guardian Urgot?

yall better be votin for my boi Fiddlesticks.

Champions with no mana costs and low CDs are inherently overpowered. They can bully their lane opponent with no punishment. The only counterplay is to either out-damage them (not likely) or simply sit under the turret and try your best to keep up in CS (also not likely).

At the time of 10.9: -Wukong -Akali (still) -supports as a class -Darius -Miss Fortune (God please Nerf this champ) -assassins in general are too strong -Marksman top

i think the easiest fix for riven would be that the q cd starts when she casts her last q (or when the timer goes off for not using the last/2nd last charge). that way it doesnt feel like she starts lvl 3. also fucking fix her w and e scaling to be bonus and not total ad like its supposed to be, then they can start looking at her numbers if thats too much. also id liek to add that winrates can largely depend on players not champions (as in when someone plays this champ they dont do x), like seriously, i never see a kayn hit towers, inhibs, drakes or heralds. when they have nothing else to do. all they care about seems to be how many or how fast can i kill x, then do nothing with their death timers when they do that. so yes, i believe if people playing kayn(and mostly other assassins from my experience) actually started doing something with their kills they winrate could go up. id say there are bigger problems rn than that hto and thats those 10 champs that can play like complete pussies and never be in danger without any sacrifice (except small amounts of cs). and no am not talking about the top .5% of players even tho i see that shit on their streams too so yea.

I'm fine playing against Riven, fine against Irelia. But Master Yi? That's different topic.

Yo Exil, long time subscriber, RIven main and member of the notifications squad here. I love to see you shine brother. Keep up the good work and expanding on your content.

is Riven unfair ?: The riven main obviously says no

3:11 he must've really wanted that blue buff huh..

Im so happy for your channel growing up as fast as it is, mate. Good luck with your work, and keep being a humble man. I root for you

Balance? How about a Vladimir with 4k health that can one shot me