Sometimes we like to make champions that can cross the map kill half your team and remain untargetable for 5 seconds despite there being no counterplay
"We've noticed that Aurelion Sol is actually able to cs in lane. To combat this we've decided to remove the execute clause from his passive." - Riot, probably.
@@keeperofthehammer6795 asol is bad if you dont have enough games, but his roaming potential allows him to help other lanes if he has a bad match and snowball the game
@@seantierney2028 no aSol is bad, he's a much worse Tf right now literally his full combo with ult still does less then tf stun card q auto auto and have next w ready soon. He just doesn't one shot waves quickly enough without eating poke from the meta mage mid laners and has to be slamming his pots if he wants to be able to roam and not just int in with 60% HP
Climb to challenger with teemo or any dogshit champion? climb to challenger with any other champion that has cc and a dash! :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ya right! big time balance. :-P edit: aoe immunity and untargetable and dashes ten times yes mister balance come at me pls.
I swear the only reason they removed the forums and even the comments section from the patch notes was because they didn't want people to give them any criticism.
I hate saying this but forums had worse circlejerks than reddit. Had way too many upvote/downvote abuse due to low visibility on threads and barely had discussion. At some point it was common to see the same repost 6 times in a row, with the 6th time seeing upwards of 20 upvotes/views. Reddit isn't greatly better but if you have time to talk to high elo mains and just the general playerbase to gather a petition, like what Garen mains previously did with riste, then it gets way more attention on twitter.
@@apollyon1311 well, like they always do with everything that isnt popular: they did this with akali, with sett, with aurelion and they are planning to do it with illaoi, i expect everything from riot at this point
Didn't the guy who said that actually quit? EDIT: I looked it up and this is the guys current twitter bio Champion Designer at Riot- Volibear, Wukong, Malphite, and secretly buffing Warwick and Skarner whenever possible. Opinions are mine, not Riot’s.
Professional game design since before electricity. Maybe if I have all the worlds babies play tic tac toe they will have 200+ collective years of game playing experience among them. That would mean they're good at playtesting games right?
Imagine being the new guy at Riot HQ and they're like "Okay Bill, send out this video on April 1st, 8 AM, alright?" and he's just now getting to it haha Typical Riot, sending out patches, I mean videos, almost 2 months late
This video is hilarious.... " we want you to pick whatever you want", meanwhile top is full of counter picks and Riot made it worse with this season and the new items. People counter pick in challenger, in gold, in bronze, even in normals and low level games they counter pick, like wtf are they talking about? Utter BS video. They need to balance match ups, not just "champion power" across X number of games. The stats do not reflect the actual experience of an individual player in an individual game because they simply CAN'T.
I think they mean whichever champion you want out of the most played ones and don't ever look at champions like Asol cause we don't care about them and neither should you.
Can I just point out Taric is actually an incredibly strong champion with one of the best ulti in the game? Some guy got to Challenge in korea playing him top. Now I can't defend Sona just as much xD
"we check in on champions regularly" yeah... that's why hecarim was the best jungler for 6 months that's why jhin, kai'sa and tristana were terrorizing bot lane since preseason, right....
A large part of all of this is player skill, too. All three of those champions are easily countered by changing your build up, changing your runes, or by simply practicing enough so you can outplay them.
@@redcraft6038 It's not that the kits are too 'simple'; it's that they lack the ability to control the tempo of the game, and tend to fall off against highly skilled opponents pretty quickly. Or their numbers aren't big enough.
Me as a main Sona player with 1.5 million mastery points: Cut his legs and arms, kill his family using his body parts while he is watching and then burn his house to the ground with him still alive in it.
@@erdaftft2490 That felt closer to a year... He was busted in soloQ already, they forced him into proplay with over buffing; then refused to nerf him back down. I legit had him permabanned for over 8 months, every time I forgot and he got through, he shitstomped.
"Regular Check Ins on every Champion" "so how's Aurelion Sol doing?" - "Dead as always, 90% of people asking for a revert like usual" - "How nice that everything is where it should be"
I like how they have shown amumu during this one, like if he wasn't super low winrate jg rn, even on bronze that he supposedly is strong, his winrate isn't over 47% iirc. There was one moment when he was strong with sunfire, so they nerfed sunfire and amumu is now as forgotten as he was, most irrelevant jg I think
lux doesn’t need a nerf. in fact, she needs many buffs. anybody that has played more than 10 games of lux in season 11 would know this. a lot of mages don’t feel very nice right now
@@Richtofen you mean how interesting it would be? then seeing the same 10 champs in every single game they broadcast like its so boring seeing the same op champs game after game after game.
This is basically a way to rationalize shutting down and patching out any fun or unorthodox strategy. A champion thrives on proxying? He is doing somethin weird. Lane swaps are viable? How weird how dare you deviate from Riota approved game script. A champion focuses more on disruption of enemy plans and map pressure rather than on creating their own? Well what a weird way to play the game lets patch it out. At least that is how I felt the moment I heard it
@@i-plow i dunno where you're playing because i haven't seen a seraphine in a very long time and lolalytics only places her at a 0.4% pickrate at plat+
Wtf, they are trying their best and even if they don’t work perfect, they still work very well… And the community just wants to different things to make everyone happy…
Before you reply to this comment by saying "Sona has a 52% Winrate, she's broken!!!!", she has a 2% pickrate, which makes it easier for their mains to get her to a high winrate.
That's the joke, Seraphine is just a reworked Sona, both have a passive that empowers an attack/ability after 3 abilities, both have a poke and a shield/heal, then their ultimates are a wave that heavily cc Champs, the only real difference is the one has a speed buff and the other has a slow/root.
Would you prefer if they just did their classic "Nerf it until it's useless" strat or actually do gradual nerfs that won't completely ruin a champ? 'Cause if it's not the latter, then you shouldn't be playing against real players.
the champ will die they nerf it too much. look what happened to akali before. they nerf her every patch. no one plays it anymore. until they decided to adjust her
"We want to make sure every champion is playable" Can't even show the god of the entire universe, Aurelion Sol. Man's has just been completely forgotten
They also used Braum as example of champion you can actually play with, amumu as example of champion regularly checked on (yeah so regularly that whenever he hits winrate above 45% he gets nerfed or one of items he uses gets one)
I have something to say: *A U R E L I O N S O L* Quick note: High winrate does not mean good champion, it just means the people who play that champion are mainly winning, aka, they are good at that champion, look at his playrate to winrate (Plat+) 0.9% playrate to 55% winrate, this data shows that not many people play him, but the people who do are good at him.
I have something to say as well: The W rework was supposed to allow riot to buff the champ to increase his playrate, but no one still plays him and now the people who did play him do not play him because the new w is a completely different character. Revert the change so the people who love the champ can actually enjoy him again... I mean A U R E L I O N S O L
I still remember when in one Exil video, he said that riot never tried to mess with league community and playerbase intentionally. That didn't age so well.
Then when this is not effective, don't nerf the champ itself, but buff those that counter him, then now you have 3 more unbalanced champions, while the one you were trying to balance is now unplayable...
i mean there are champs that are too strong and too weak, but league overall is one of the best balanced games. Theres games with much larger balancing issues, but league's are amplified from being such a huge game
"Here at Riot Games we prioritize fair and balanced gameplay!" meanwhile new Mundo is soloing every single tower without minions and ending the game with full health
Its more of unintended and unhealthy ways. Examples: tank ekko, tank marksman, ranged champs all taking phase rush because no other keystone out preformed being able to literally never be caught and became a kite God, times when tanks could go into damage items without losing out on being a tank due to stats/ actives/ or some part of their kit being too strong of a defensive tool, ryze tank, ezreal being the best jungler in the game for a while, jungle champs being the best in a solo lane, etc
Speaking in broad terms that's only a good thing since if a champion starts building weird item builds that can often point towards something being unbalanced. There could be exceptions to this of course but generally it is a good way of judging whether something is broken or not.
This video feels like a slap in the face. I've been playing league for 8 years, and I've never felt closer to leaving the game than I do now. Balance, or a lack thereof, is the primary reason. In the 8 seasons I've experienced, I've never before seen one with such fundamental issues as this the current season, nor one with as shallow of a pool of viable champions. Time after time, I've seen the community identify problems only to have riot double down and worsen them rather than fix them.
@@bruh3457 I think dfg was fine as a item, you had to choose either damage or buy a zonyas. Now everyone buys stopwatch/zonyas because its the most broken item in the game for the cost.
@@ajd2393 Some older champions are very underwhelming because the skill expression was not very like today's LoL and they are absolute balance nightmares because of the current meta. Nearly everyone have some sort of outplay mechanic now.
"All these rules don't apply to a champ that just got released. We make them broken on purpose to drive up sales, then after 30 days they go into the balance period."
ok but making new champs broken has a good reason. If the champ is broken the playrate is high so they have a higher samplerate to fix things. Then they nerf it into oblivion so only a few players stay with it which then will find strategies to play it either way which then become the norm and riot can buff the champ according to if they like strats or not
@Rasmus Malmberg I totally agree on the removing mid pyke part but what are you talking about when saying he has to stuck to a teammate? I was a pyke main but didn't played a lot recently, is there something I'm missing?
"So if anything gets... REALLY far out of line, we'll change them in between patches. Immediately" 2:50 *Graves & Hecarim laughing for 4 seasons in a row*
@@sssenatorarmstrong3280 The thing is, people above bronze are just as pissed about the poor game balancing, if not more so. The only reason they titled it "for Bronzies" is because they might not fully reject this video to begin with.
@@penguin259 You have to look from this pov: they said they want to make every champion playable by anyone who wants it in any division. So when people talk about "oh you are bronze and u think this and that is broken, it doesn't matter cuz you don't know how to play, come in diamond and see nobody is playing this" is stupid. The argument is invalid because they literally said their goal takes into account every division because after all, even those idiotic bronze players are still players who enjoy league just as must or maybe even more than a diamond or master - Why did I say this? It's because you said only Viego is broken but it's important to think of all the broken champs across all divisions thus I included more. This is btw in no way shape or form a disagreement to what you said.
Mark Yetter is the king of gaslighting. Never forget the urf data "mixup" for their article that covered up their laziness balancing preseason (during the entirety of nov 2020 to season 2021 week 1, minimal balance changes. Almost zero. Their "winter break" isnt an excuse at this point for 3 months of not working)
@@PolishGoblinn the problem is silvers dont get to decide if the game is balanced or not. Riot clearly knows way more than most of the playerbase. You first need to have a good understanding of the game and then be able to have an opinion on it.
I mean.. you can call league players dumb all you want.. but its a fact that your average gold player probably knows more than the current gameplay staff
hec was a yr tho right? he got lil nerfs here n there but not the ones that counted for his damage output.. untill this last nerf gutted him (thank GOD) they have two ideas when it comes to balance nerf a champ to the ground n buff a champ to the heavens thats their balance... lmao
"if theyre ruining the game for other players we will make some adjustments: *continues to make new champs that arent fun to play against with little outplay potential and overtuned kits*
But the character design team, lore team and the balances team are different so is more like, I give you my overtuned character and you try to put him in the game without changing it much. The real problem is that ht e teams in Riot do not have coordination and just do whatever they want. The fact that Seraphine is just a kda member that do not belong to runeterra and replace Sona is not balance and design fault, its just that the publicity team wanted it that way. If they just decide to coordinate it would be better.
riot: *explains how balance works* their game: unbalanced af. also riot: *gives mundo a malz passive on steroids that counters almost all his top lane matchups* their game: gets even more unbalanced still riot: what are we doing wrong? the community: *explains whats wrong* riot even still: *doesnt listen* riot one last time: welp if we cant figure out whats wrong then nothing must be wrong
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“Sometimes we like to add champions that have all the abilities of other champions as passives or just same but better. “
"Balanced" I would say
I think that's the design team being dumb
Looking with Sonas eyes at seraphine
@@b.l.t.7808 yeah the design team is the guilty in this case
Sometimes we like to make champions that can cross the map kill half your team and remain untargetable for 5 seconds despite there being no counterplay
sometimes you can just hear the comments before clicking on the video
True
It’s a bit weird doe that they didn’t make it so their social media was on fire.
that's crazy, I still can't hear the comments, ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I can see them tho
I restrained myself from watching the full video before seeing them
@@purplereimu9701 me too
"We've noticed that Aurelion Sol is actually able to cs in lane. To combat this we've decided to remove the execute clause from his passive." - Riot, probably.
Did they actually do that?
@@Balloushop13 No its a joke because Aurelion Sol is bad.
ASol is definitly a champ you have too put some games into.
@@keeperofthehammer6795 asol is bad if you dont have enough games, but his roaming potential allows him to help other lanes if he has a bad match and snowball the game
@@seantierney2028 no aSol is bad, he's a much worse Tf right now literally his full combo with ult still does less then tf stun card q auto auto and have next w ready soon. He just doesn't one shot waves quickly enough without eating poke from the meta mage mid laners and has to be slamming his pots if he wants to be able to roam and not just int in with 60% HP
When I first started league, my friends advice is “if the game is hard, play a more broken champ” and my win rate jumped up by 30%
When I joined league 5 years ago, my friend always told me ‘if u can’t beat them, join them’
From 10%?
The higher your winrate become the more your teammates become trolls! Thats the fair riot balance system..
why does it feel like Riot's doing a "Tell me you're lying without actually telling me that you're lying" challenge
I think they lost during their first couple of sentences.
Yes indeed
Yummi JUngle
Climb to challenger with teemo or any dogshit champion? climb to challenger with any other champion that has cc and a dash! :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ya right! big time balance. :-P
edit: aoe immunity and untargetable and dashes ten times yes mister balance come at me pls.
tryy
Everyone talks about how good the music department for riot is, yall gotta appreciate the circus department's work as well
A lot of very well trained clowns.
absolutely
Indeed.
Yup
That one made me laugh, thanks
0:20 "our goal is for you to be able to pick whoever you want"
has the absolute audacity to show Sona
and Taric xd
Leik omg, you mean diet Seraphine rite?
Show's Zigg's when he constantly bullied mid to the point where he plays bot lane now.
AH YES, gut mid / top sona so you can sell Sona 2.0 who can go mid or top THANK YOU RIOT!
Im sorry, did you mean to say HATSUNE MIKU?
"Hecarim was super strong, so to balance him, we made him super weak." - Riot, probably.
...and immediately buff him the next patch.
Gutted heca but left udyr untouched
@@kenker_ape Udyr was gutted through items
@@kenker_ape Udyr can still build pure AP and is not a viable pick in High elo anymore
OH THE MISERY this happened again
You know the rules
When riot talks about balance
We make fun of them
Never gets old
until the day league dies.
And so do I
It's because they can't solve everyone's problem and they never solve mine
YEAH RITO
“We love talking about balance”
Shuts down the forums
Only brazil and latam severs still on yeah is sad but in part is because is more rentable to then to use reddit.
@@Iago.Carvalho on reddit, every post about balance is insta deleted, you can only post bronze plays there
I swear the only reason they removed the forums and even the comments section from the patch notes was because they didn't want people to give them any criticism.
@@pivorsc but that is because that have a fixed post to do so? ;-; the path discussion?
I hate saying this but forums had worse circlejerks than reddit. Had way too many upvote/downvote abuse due to low visibility on threads and barely had discussion. At some point it was common to see the same repost 6 times in a row, with the 6th time seeing upwards of 20 upvotes/views. Reddit isn't greatly better but if you have time to talk to high elo mains and just the general playerbase to gather a petition, like what Garen mains previously did with riste, then it gets way more attention on twitter.
*"regular check-ins on every champion"*
us, Kalista mains: "Trust... is a weapon"
"Riot will never betrayals you if you doesn't trust Riot"
well, buffing problem champs is a REALLY bad idea that riot seems to forget every 2 years so expect a kalista buff in like 4 months
@@joeguarinoni8923 if they do so, expect the triple amount elevated at the 10th potency as nerf like they do everytime
@@apollyon1311 well, like they always do with everything that isnt popular: they did this with akali, with sett, with aurelion and they are planning to do it with illaoi, i expect everything from riot at this point
A-sol mains be like: fine I'll do it myself
"we really like talking about balance"
"through literally dismissing the entire community and even pros and commentators"
BUT this video got 41k likes, a bit more than the 16K dislikes.....
@@Unionmaga the fact the ratio goes above 2k dislikes means there's probably an issue the community has with this video
They also had the audacity to add Sona and Taric, champions that they gutted out.
@@Unionmaga People in general are more likely to like than dislike on youtube, so the fact that it has so many dislikes is very significant.
"FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF GAME DESIGN EXPERIENCEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!" - Riot
There's actually no way that this is not satire.
Next week on, "Out of touch", we find out which department at Riot HQ thought this video release was ever going to go down as a successful one.
@@grabherbythesushi8570 this comment is not getting the likes it deserves me and my fiance are in tears xDDD lol
Look at his avatar, its a twitter user with a beard, man bun making a soy face, he is totally serious.
@@albenniehaynes2010 Stop, I'm blushing
200+ collective years of professional game design experience.
League of Honor Bans
Love getting banned for saying non-curse words like "trash team"
Didn't the guy who said that actually quit?
EDIT: I looked it up and this is the guys current twitter bio
Champion Designer at Riot- Volibear, Wukong, Malphite, and secretly buffing Warwick and Skarner whenever possible. Opinions are mine, not Riot’s.
Seen this a couple of times, where can I see where it has been said?
@@ShiftFU if you are talking about the guy quitting idk. I just heard it around a bit as well.
Professional game design since before electricity. Maybe if I have all the worlds babies play tic tac toe they will have 200+ collective years of game playing experience among them. That would mean they're good at playtesting games right?
200 collective years of experience in making out of season april fools jokes
Imagine being the new guy at Riot HQ and they're like "Okay Bill, send out this video on April 1st, 8 AM, alright?" and he's just now getting to it haha Typical Riot, sending out patches, I mean videos, almost 2 months late
"I wanna play my favourite champs but they don't fit in the meta..."
Riot: lol shut up bronzie
You can go 0 20 and who's stoping you lol
@@mosesslippers6370 Riot, because they'll probably ban you lol
@@91yugo77 thats the thing, they wont xD
@@91yugo77 if you really try to play and not trash talking, that will not happen
If you're in bronze, the meta literally does not matter
Riot: The game is "balanced"
Everyone: You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means
Sorry, but I do not think riot has a basic understanding of what the word "balance" means
i mean they are trying sure but its nowhere near a balanced state lol
Zed just entered to oneshot this comment.
@@FerFerDeo1521 Diana politely demands you to open your Jungle to her.
I mean, its balanced...for some characters i mean, they never said it was balanced for everyone
"Our Goal is for you to be able to pick whoever you want"
"Sona and Taric appears"
This has to be a shitpost
This video is hilarious.... " we want you to pick whatever you want", meanwhile top is full of counter picks and Riot made it worse with this season and the new items.
People counter pick in challenger, in gold, in bronze, even in normals and low level games they counter pick, like wtf are they talking about?
Utter BS video.
They need to balance match ups, not just "champion power" across X number of games.
The stats do not reflect the actual experience of an individual player in an individual game because they simply CAN'T.
I think they mean whichever champion you want out of the most played ones and don't ever look at champions like Asol cause we don't care about them and neither should you.
Can I just point out Taric is actually an incredibly strong champion with one of the best ulti in the game? Some guy got to Challenge in korea playing him top. Now I can't defend Sona just as much xD
Tell my why taric and sona? Im just a noobplayer still learning
Not to mention trundle
Riot: we balance champs so you can play any champ.
Player: plays off meta pick.
Riot: banned
The problem with off meta, is that there are people who would grieve just because you picked an off meta, and you probably wouldn’t want that right?
I personally don't like the ppl who play off-meta cuz it doesn't work at all.
Nobody has ever been banned for playing something off meta.
Nubrac would like a word with you
@@kepler4192 then punish those who grief, not who play off-meta.
"League Balance for Bronzies"
I see Riot has made a video for their own balancing team, nice!
I’m 30 seconds into the video and I’ve never felt more lied to in my entire life
Why exactly did they lie about?
@@itsgonnabeokay9341 Nothing, but memes don't care about context lol
@@itsgonnabeokay9341 as long as yone keeps doing what he does without a nerf, they are liying to us lol
@@kindredgaming797 thats what a silver would say. Yone can be easly dealt with, with proper champions. Riot wont balance their game around low elo.
SO TRUE! This vid almost made me puke in disgust
"regular check-ins on every champion"
Aurelion Sol mains:
Tf mains, Skarner mains, Alistar mains.. aaand so on...
Sol is one of the, if not strongest, champions you can play. You just need to play him correctly.
they exist?
Nothing, because there are none.
@@eternalquark5993 i think a sol is fine he is just not the same in terms of having fun playng him as he was before :(
Riot: "don't call people bronze, it's insulting"
Also Riot: This video.
Riot never said that?
@@sssenatorarmstrong3280 He means the title is called "League Balance for Bronzies"
So... If someone is bronze, would you call them gold?
@@suzzies “omg shut up you grandmaster”
🦀
lmao riot, April's fools was nearly 2 months ago
Hagungun
@@David-jn1gg gunchinshin
Imagine this was released on April fool's, 5Head strategy
gunChinshin will live forever!!!
"We can make sure league is balanced whenever you log on" Great, so when can I log on?
You can't because they haven't fixed their client since 2009 lmao
@@WitchYuki22 The league client gave me more depression in the last year than corona smh
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"we check in on champions regularly"
yeah... that's why hecarim was the best jungler for 6 months
that's why jhin, kai'sa and tristana were terrorizing bot lane since preseason, right....
This company is a shitpost
Yooo its just meme now how they dont care about the players and straight up lying into their eyes.
A large part of all of this is player skill, too. All three of those champions are easily countered by changing your build up, changing your runes, or by simply practicing enough so you can outplay them.
@@bentowers3614 wow u such a 5head u can outplay tristana. Trust me a lot of players can, but thats not a point
@@bentowers3614 wait so you can outplay a champ by building and playing differently? No wayyy if only it was like this for every champ
this video feels like such a mockery, i just can't take it serious
fax
I agree
I miss your blue nunu
this felt like a great comedy sketch. I laughed the whole video
as shaco said why so serious
If the game was even slightly balanced, tournament play would have a champion pool of more than 20.
Yeah I never saw a teemo, Sona, blitzcrank, ziggs, Annie so often in tournament games
@@bernhardtrian7471 Cuz their kits are too simple for pro play
Then riot will not earn money. Then the game bankrupt. Goodbye league player hello mobile legends😂😂😂😂
@@redcraft6038 yes in fact udyr is hard
@@redcraft6038 It's not that the kits are too 'simple'; it's that they lack the ability to control the tempo of the game, and tend to fall off against highly skilled opponents pretty quickly. Or their numbers aren't big enough.
"We balance the game so you can play any champion you want."
Press X to doubt
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I talked to a new player about Sona yesteray. They asked "Oh you mean Walmart Seraphine?"
I cried.
Flame him, make him watch TF Blade if you have to
@@cabbage8258 Chill bro im just sad im not a monster.
Me as a main Sona player with 1.5 million mastery points: Cut his legs and arms, kill his family using his body parts while he is watching and then burn his house to the ground with him still alive in it.
Thats a good one. :-D
@@vageliskyriazis6914 i mean sarcasm is a thing, but thats not sarcasm thats inhuman.
Riot: "We can make sure League is balanced"
*With like average 2-3 months delay*
Hecarim???
Riot: "we cAN MaKE sUre leaGUE iS baLaNcEd"
*pats Riot on the head* it's ok buddy.. maybe someday.. maybe someday.
@@erdaftft2490 That felt closer to a year... He was busted in soloQ already, they forced him into proplay with over buffing; then refused to nerf him back down.
I legit had him permabanned for over 8 months, every time I forgot and he got through, he shitstomped.
A decade later the decade old champs cant find a stable base line to make new champions around... maths hard for SJWs.
@@DKrog *slaps riot with a laptop* NO, IT'S BEEN YEARS LEARN ALREADY
“We love talking about balance”
"but we never listen and never do it right" - Riot, probably.
It’s called “Balance for Bronzies” because no one on the balance team is above Bronze
Underrated comment xD
So true :D
HOLY ..... nice one!
LOLLLLLLL TRUEEEEEEEEEE
EYY GOTTEM XD
"You can play any champion you want to" Unless you like Aurelion
Or kalista
Azir tbh
aurelion sol has the second highest winrate this patch by the way, 54.1%
aurelion is pretty strong if you don't draft yourself into a team of divers
@@Betroid Azirs kit is too utility focused for buffs on stats homie.
"When a champ is losing too much, we hit him with buffs"
Azir: "So, that was a f-ing lie!"
Azir is hard to balance. Pros already use him with his bad winrate, so buffs would make him even more dominant there
Except he is getting buffed next patch...
@@ahmedhossam2035 Only to get nerfed two weeks later if he becomes meta in pro.
Azir doesn't need buffs. He needs another rework.
@@ahmedhossam2035 55 mana on a yes a huge buff
@@riven4121 What do you want to rework about him?
"Regular Check Ins on every Champion"
"so how's Aurelion Sol doing?" - "Dead as always, 90% of people asking for a revert like usual" - "How nice that everything is where it should be"
To be fair 90% of aurelion players is still few people
@@lucaskp16 shut up Sona carbon copy
@Teo84 XDDD
I love to see people talking about my main, it is about time that someone actually does something about this champ.
I like how they have shown amumu during this one, like if he wasn't super low winrate jg rn, even on bronze that he supposedly is strong, his winrate isn't over 47% iirc. There was one moment when he was strong with sunfire, so they nerfed sunfire and amumu is now as forgotten as he was, most irrelevant jg I think
Riot: “We check in on EVERY champion”
Is Aurelian Sol not in the game anymore?
He might as well be didn't see him around the last few decades.
Who's Kalista?
@@deadxlive5569 Kalista should stay gone, and Akali should be sent to that same place...
Who is Aurelion Sol?
@@iintro5417 he's this champion in wild rift and lor where the champion pool is smaller or so I've heard.
"well give them a nerf"
*increasing lux ultimate cooldown from 22 seconds to 24*
Perfectly balanced as all things should be
then nerf everything else
To be fair, in games where people have a basic grasp of how to play, 2 seconds is a lot more than it would seem like.
Kata -5 move speed definitly helped me not get oneshot anymore as a Midlaner :)
lux doesn’t need a nerf. in fact, she needs many buffs. anybody that has played more than 10 games of lux in season 11 would know this. a lot of mages don’t feel very nice right now
"if every champ is broken , the game is balanced"- riot games
it's not true in league of legends btw
I guess you never played any other MOBA
if only every champ was broken... do you know how wild LCS, MSI and Worlds would be?
@@Richtofen you mean how interesting it would be? then seeing the same 10 champs in every single game they broadcast like its so boring seeing the same op champs game after game after game.
Yeah seeing more than 4 champions for each role would be pretty wild indeed xD
"Or if a champ is doing something weird"
*doesnt show viego or morde
Im more surprised they dont show something like Samira that is basically 3 champions in one
This is basically a way to rationalize shutting down and patching out any fun or unorthodox strategy. A champion thrives on proxying? He is doing somethin weird. Lane swaps are viable? How weird how dare you deviate from Riota approved game script. A champion focuses more on disruption of enemy plans and map pressure rather than on creating their own? Well what a weird way to play the game lets patch it out. At least that is how I felt the moment I heard it
Ffs I want to flame but the art style was too adorable... actually scratch that seraphine was an ADC for like 6 months wtf riot
Was?
She actually still is an adc and btw on steroids
@@i-plow i dunno where you're playing because i haven't seen a seraphine in a very long time and lolalytics only places her at a 0.4% pickrate at plat+
@@cyanidecreampie it was popular more for competitive and she's been nerfed since
Lets talk about Swain :)
I hope this video is for the balance team itself, so they remember what they're actually supposed to do.
It does feel like it is a call out on themselves.
Wtf, they are trying their best and even if they don’t work perfect, they still work very well… And the community just wants to different things to make everyone happy…
@@destinydeoxys4489 i invite you to see wr and popularity of league champs
@@destinydeoxys4489 i dont even think they try
@@destinydeoxys4489 even if they arent trying their best no champion will ever be ''equal'' too each other
"Is this an out of season April's fools joke?"
a month later april joke xD
Also, explain Sona's nerf-to-the-ground status when you released e-girl Sona 2.0 a.k.a Seraphine.
Before you reply to this comment by saying "Sona has a 52% Winrate, she's broken!!!!", she has a 2% pickrate, which makes it easier for their mains to get her to a high winrate.
New champion, what do you guys have in mind? Let's just remake Sona slightly, then make it a new champ instead.
You cant sell a rework can you?
That's the joke, Seraphine is just a reworked Sona, both have a passive that empowers an attack/ability after 3 abilities, both have a poke and a shield/heal, then their ultimates are a wave that heavily cc Champs, the only real difference is the one has a speed buff and the other has a slow/root.
@@lucaskp16 you can
“Wow Leona is too tanky with a lot of cc let’s nerf it”
-W does 10 less dmg
Would you prefer if they just did their classic "Nerf it until it's useless" strat or actually do gradual nerfs that won't completely ruin a champ?
'Cause if it's not the latter, then you shouldn't be playing against real players.
but the problem is the damage that she can do early, she is supose to be tanky and have a lot of cc.
@@matte5404 pretty sure they would simply prefer less cc or tankiness.
the champ will die they nerf it too much. look what happened to akali before. they nerf her every patch. no one plays it anymore. until they decided to adjust her
@@matte5404 I would absolutely want that
"We want to make sure every champion is playable"
Can't even show the god of the entire universe, Aurelion Sol. Man's has just been completely forgotten
They even had the odacity to show sona 😂🤣
They didn't even show jayce. All he needs are some number changes
LMAO I THOUGHT THE SAME THING!!!!!!!! i was like if they dont show aurelion sol i know this dude bullshitting and what do u know.
taliyah waveclear too stronk so instead of nerfing it lets make her a jungler!............................................................
I used to play aurelion sol but stopped playing him because they removed the toggle W
The irony of Ryze being put as wining "too much" in this animation is so funny
They used Teemo as an example of champion being too good with pros and bad for soloq, if that isn't crazy enough I don't know what it is.
They also used Braum as example of champion you can actually play with, amumu as example of champion regularly checked on (yeah so regularly that whenever he hits winrate above 45% he gets nerfed or one of items he uses gets one)
"we do regular check ins on EVERY champion"
meanwhile skarner that went years without a single change because not a lot of people played him.
He was on the list for rework but people picked udyr, and i guess shyvana was second, so next reworks will be shyv and skarner im guessing
I mained Skarner BECAUSE of his
@@mosesslippers6370 Skarner was one of the firsts in receiving a rework...
I maining skarner hope he dosent get a rework he is good in the state right now
Skarner bad, crystal man stab me with tail and drag me to their team
Rito in the video: wE ArE BaLaNce
League community through this whole video: ???????????????
In the west only, east dont care about patch balances
They like to tell us funny jokes
i can hear the questoionmark pings in my head while reading this
@@allenchristianarizapa6232 not exactly, its just that they accept without seeing the structural problems of this balance team
League of legends and balance in same sentence is itself an irony
League of Legends isn't balanced.
There you go, not ironic! ^^
is a contradiction by itself
an oxymoron*
oxymoron
So, Why you keep playing it?
I have something to say: *A U R E L I O N S O L*
Quick note: High winrate does not mean good champion, it just means the people who play that champion are mainly winning, aka, they are good at that champion, look at his playrate to winrate (Plat+) 0.9% playrate to 55% winrate, this data shows that not many people play him, but the people who do are good at him.
AMEN
he's good.
after you learn him, that is.
@@alexmcfly31415 It feels really wacky to play
Aurelion what?
I have something to say as well: The W rework was supposed to allow riot to buff the champ to increase his playrate, but no one still plays him and now the people who did play him do not play him because the new w is a completely different character. Revert the change so the people who love the champ can actually enjoy him again... I mean A U R E L I O N S O L
I still remember when in one Exil video, he said that riot never tried to mess with league community and playerbase intentionally. That didn't age so well.
"If the Champ is winning to much then we hit them a nerf"
Riot: -5 Movespeed
So true
*Screams in Irelia*
plus they show ryze, 40% winrate op
Kata is too broken nerf her ms by 5 so she becomes unplayable xD XD
lmao katarina
"If Teemo is crushing in pro games"
*I swear if I ever have to see that day...*
I mean, we saw what happened with Udyr. You never know.
@@kouseki5049 true
@@kouseki5049 before he is completely erased from meta cause if your champ doesnt have 28250 dashes and skillshots they cant have nice things
@@guifdcanalli I understand whatyou are saying but I disagree
"If the champ is winning too much, we give em a nerf"
>Kata nerf -5 ms
This is true
Then when this is not effective, don't nerf the champ itself, but buff those that counter him, then now you have 3 more unbalanced champions, while the one you were trying to balance is now unplayable...
ngl the 5 MS i sorta feel and sorta dont sometimes
Kat relies heavily on roaming so it kinda is big tbh
i quit kat becuz of that nerf no cap
"I don't play the game, I make the rules." -Riot, probably
Camille
A very wise person - fan of another franchise - once asked: "Is this some kind of offseason april fools joke?"
Love it
I had a stroke reading this
*franchise and *april fools joke
*once
Blizzard was cold that day...
'League is Balanced' has to be the absolute funniest statement anyone has ever uttered from Riot.
i mean there are champs that are too strong and too weak, but league overall is one of the best balanced games. Theres games with much larger balancing issues, but league's are amplified from being such a huge game
compared to other games. yeah i think the statement has somee weight to it
because you know what balance looks like
And, they care
@@Klosterhasi no it ain’t look at apex legends that game is honestly very close to being balanced
You're good with words, terrible with facts. That's unfortunate.
"Here at Riot Games we prioritize fair and balanced gameplay!" meanwhile new Mundo is soloing every single tower without minions and ending the game with full health
You know how we will fix a champ who is pretty powerful? Let's just make him broken -Riot, probably
Never laughed this loud since the April Fools Malphite splash art
riot: says "Balanced"
community: i'm gonna end this mans whole career
Dude they say balance?
İ had a 14 3 garen in my game and i was 15 10 and he killed me with his R and Q
Beat and buried a Dead Horse.
@@morgandalf9969 who were you?
@@thesehandlesarefuckingstupid Pyke
"We can make sure League is balanced whenever you log on"
So, why dont you do it then?
u gotta wait for 10 more years :)
is it not? only champs that really seem out of line rn are fiddlesticks xin zhao and swain adc?
Don't question them, bronzie. They clearly know better. /s
@@miloooo38 BRO, IT JUST A JOKE MAN
@@miloooo38 beside ur name is worth dying for
Riot has an art team that makes beautiful music, and a balance team that makes hilarious comedy.
The Lion, The Witch, And the Audacity of this Bi-
Being lied to your face doesn't feel good. I felt that they're mocking our intelligence.
The video is called "League Balance for Bronzies." I'm not sure how much more on the nose they could be with the mockery.
"League Balance for Bronzies."
So the video is intended to teach the balance team?
we've been trying to show them this video for months but they just refuse
REKT!!!!
YES.
To show how bad the balance team is
Cant wait for episode 2 where they cover how politics, profit, and bias do not at all influence the balancing
Like the calling from US ARMY
"We make sure league is balanced whenever u log on"
That's why the client is trash.
We did it, we solved the case.
nice one
This is the literal definition of "good intentions bad execution"
Are there even good intentions though? It just seems like a political ad trying to gaslight me.
Sometimes: *bad intentions, good execution-*
Literally what I was thinking. They are trying, but the mob of angry players will sadly never be satisfied entirely.
couldn't have said it better
@@wieran35000vr amen to that. This is 100% riot just trying to safe face.
"Or if a champ is doing something weird or ruining it for others"
He really just said "build them how WE want you to build them"
Senna: Oh I can build health! :D
Riot: *Sett Rs senna for being built different l*
Its more of unintended and unhealthy ways. Examples: tank ekko, tank marksman, ranged champs all taking phase rush because no other keystone out preformed being able to literally never be caught and became a kite God, times when tanks could go into damage items without losing out on being a tank due to stats/ actives/ or some part of their kit being too strong of a defensive tool, ryze tank, ezreal being the best jungler in the game for a while, jungle champs being the best in a solo lane, etc
I mean if a champ is getting a boosted win rate and generally making the game unplayable then it should be nerfed.
Me who’s running around with AP rakan: Sweating intensifies* RIOT DONT YOU DARE RUIN MY RAKAN. PROTOBELT IS ALREADY RUIN DON’T RUIN MY MAIN
Speaking in broad terms that's only a good thing since if a champion starts building weird item builds that can often point towards something being unbalanced. There could be exceptions to this of course but generally it is a good way of judging whether something is broken or not.
This video feels like a slap in the face. I've been playing league for 8 years, and I've never felt closer to leaving the game than I do now. Balance, or a lack thereof, is the primary reason. In the 8 seasons I've experienced, I've never before seen one with such fundamental issues as this the current season, nor one with as shallow of a pool of viable champions. Time after time, I've seen the community identify problems only to have riot double down and worsen them rather than fix them.
Then you havent played for 8 years. Do you not remember kassadin? Or dfg? Or the leblanc rework?
@@bruh3457 I think dfg was fine as a item, you had to choose either damage or buy a zonyas. Now everyone buys stopwatch/zonyas because its the most broken item in the game for the cost.
@@geosungeosun if you think dfg was fine you dont understand how ridiculous that items winrate was. The item.
@@geosungeosun "stopwatch ..its the most broken item in the game" is that like a pun?
@@bruh3457 isn’t zhonyas old af too and got it’s components nerfed? Idk seems like u reaching
“We can make sure league is balanced every time you log on” right
😂😂😂
Just because you refuse to diversify the champions you play doesn't mean the game isn't balanced.
Cries in half the champs
@@ajd2393 some people enjoy playing a few champs, the problem is some champs remain consitently broken or consitently dog
@@ajd2393 Some older champions are very underwhelming because the skill expression was not very like today's LoL and they are absolute balance nightmares because of the current meta. Nearly everyone have some sort of outplay mechanic now.
Riot: "If a champion is winning too much" *points at ryze*
y'all must be stuck in season 7.
Ryze being hard to balance has kind of been a running gag for the last 8 years or so. ^^;
ryze isn't winning because of OUR PLAN
and then show Poppy as an underpowered champ lmao
it's actually funny they made ryze their example for the stronger champs get nerfed when he has had like at most 5 changes in the last 2 years
@@kenji4992 Hey, you are not supposed to spread that information.
‘Then all that matters, are your skills.’ *AP twitch suddenly standing behind me and kills me with 3 autoattacks* *SKILL*
using pink ward to counter twich with your team
*SKILL*
Up twitch is weak asf right now ap got already nerfed leave my rat alone
@@pulsefireezreal9134 the 0/6/1 zed of the team oneshoting that same twitch whit one button *SKILL*
whilst talon/ kha/ rengar/blue kayn one shots you..
@@stormy7854 ok
"All these rules don't apply to a champ that just got released. We make them broken on purpose to drive up sales, then after 30 days they go into the balance period."
ok but making new champs broken has a good reason. If the champ is broken the playrate is high so they have a higher samplerate to fix things. Then they nerf it into oblivion so only a few players stay with it which then will find strategies to play it either way which then become the norm and riot can buff the champ according to if they like strats or not
@@MenschausdemletztenJahrtausend if people don't ban they
@@MenschausdemletztenJahrtausend thats what pte is for, not public servers.
@@DanKaza PBE is still to small samplerate.
@@sirguilhaume1964 that's where normal blind comes into play
I just checked the date to make sure its not April Fools' Day
I would watch this but I'm too busy playing Yuumi with my feet in diamond.
Riot: "And if they are doing something weird."
Low key just stated that they nerf non meta tactics.
funnel back on the menu! :-D lets make it happen boys! Or smite top/mid please i want my chally smite back pls riot! do it!
@Rasmus Malmberg I totally agree on the removing mid pyke part but what are you talking about when saying he has to stuck to a teammate? I was a pyke main but didn't played a lot recently, is there something I'm missing?
@Rasmus Malmberg ??? i havent seen seraphine anywhere but support in months lmao theyre buffing her mid what kind of crack u smoke
@@colemcquestionable4950 they SAID they were buffing her mid, but they buffed the shield on her W. she's gonna stay support.
low key they just told supports to get back into the kitchen and out of every lane or jungle.
"So if anything gets... REALLY far out of line, we'll change them in between patches. Immediately" 2:50
*Graves & Hecarim laughing for 4 seasons in a row*
So true
I like how you titled it "for bronzies" to imply that anyone who disagrees with your balancing must be a bad player
The opposite actually. Whoever believes what they said in this video is probably bronze.
They titled it “for bronzies” because anyone above bronze knows this already
@@sssenatorarmstrong3280 The thing is, people above bronze are just as pissed about the poor game balancing, if not more so. The only reason they titled it "for Bronzies" is because they might not fully reject this video to begin with.
it’s just a pun on the popular guide series “for dummies” 🤦♂️ they didn’t mean that much by it
funny, because you just implied everyone in bronze are generally just bad players
riot games: we dont want a toxic community
also riot: "Legue Balance for Bronzies"
This speaks volume about their idea of fair play and correctness
has the exact same vibe as 200 years
okay snowflake...
good point
I love being lied and condescended to by a billion dollar company.
2:37 "Players are smart. Sometimes too smart."
Whatchu talking about? You know that Rito is just a small indie company.
With 200 years of game design experience
"We balance champions..."
Viego, Samira, Irelia, Sett, Gwen, Ezreal, Caitlyn.... there arent enough bans for every broken champ in lol.
Don't forget Leona's cute root-stun-root
@@raaahgoesthedinosaur Let's not forget how out of range some champions are.
honestly i only think viego is broken out of all of them
@@penguin259 You have to look from this pov: they said they want to make every champion playable by anyone who wants it in any division. So when people talk about "oh you are bronze and u think this and that is broken, it doesn't matter cuz you don't know how to play, come in diamond and see nobody is playing this" is stupid. The argument is invalid because they literally said their goal takes into account every division because after all, even those idiotic bronze players are still players who enjoy league just as must or maybe even more than a diamond or master - Why did I say this? It's because you said only Viego is broken but it's important to think of all the broken champs across all divisions thus I included more. This is btw in no way shape or form a disagreement to what you said.
@@saikato9946 just curious on which champs do u consider broken in diamond elo
"our goal is for you to be able to pick whoever you want"
literally so many champs are never played and other are over 10%
the playrate being low doesnt mean you cant pick them? its up to personal preference
@@knessovich Meta champions are not a preference, it's baked into the game.
Ahri was literally dogshit tier for a long time
Also they broke hecarims spine 3 times because he was too strong.
@@PixelTrooper Tbh Ahri is just average. Not too bad nor too good.
"Make some other adjustments to solve the problem" is an interesting way to say "Force everyone into the meta we designed".
RIP Sona Mid
Sona mid was never strong. It was a meme at its height.
@@Judg3m3nt but sona jgl was a major
@FireFtw i like ur profile pic ;D
You mean sona top right?
They removed sona's ability to not be glued to the hip of another player. And then they decided to make Sona a troll pic by adding seraphine.
Rito: Balanced
Vandiril: It's a gold mine
Riot: “We check in on EVERY champion”
Also Riot: Sylas
Exactly
as an azir main this feels like a "dO yOu gUyS noT hAvE pHoNEs?!" moment
Hey, maybe it's an out-of-season April Fools joke!
Haven't you heard them? They nerf aspects that make a champ too strong in competitive... The 10 dmg w nerf didn't affect solo Q at all!! /s
Completely... They had the balls to even put him in the video.. BUT HEY!! HE IS COMFORTABLE TO PLAY!!
"League Balanced whenever you log on". Dude I took a break of 1 week and morgana rumble became junglers quadra-flexable oneshotting you with one item
preeeaaach
because you're bad at league
@@oddremarks12 ah yes his skill definitely changes the fact that morgana and rumble pulled a amumu and are insanely op along with shaco,Elise,etc
@@oddremarks12 everyone will tell you that both are broken no matter the rank even if the wr doesn't reflect that.
@@oddremarks12 look the MSI final
''WE WANT TO MAKE SURE LEAGUE IS BALANCED EVERYTIME YOU LOG IN ''
I swear no one at Riot actually plays the game
I never logged in this game and it was balanced kek
@@shamrock3957 they do but Y*tter Scruffy hardstuck Gold IV with 30% wr
So, their goal is for everyone to quit the game?
Man they just be capping hard
-Yeah, that's why we killed Sona
-Understandable have a nice day
Riot Scruffy: We actually put a lot of time balancing the game
Playerbase: Unfortunately for you, the comunity wont see it that way
then it is time wasted, they are wasting time, they do wrong things
Mark Yetter is the king of gaslighting. Never forget the urf data "mixup" for their article that covered up their laziness balancing preseason (during the entirety of nov 2020 to season 2021 week 1, minimal balance changes. Almost zero. Their "winter break" isnt an excuse at this point for 3 months of not working)
Riots attempt at balance are the same tactics used for gun control.
@@PolishGoblinn the problem is silvers dont get to decide if the game is balanced or not. Riot clearly knows way more than most of the playerbase. You first need to have a good understanding of the game and then be able to have an opinion on it.
I meannn, 200 years is a lot of time to be fair
"players are smart"
Sir this is league youre talking about
players are smart but they are most certainly not
they cant call stupid to their costumers tho
I mean.. you can call league players dumb all you want.. but its a fact that your average gold player probably knows more than the current gameplay staff
Lmao
@@Aqwtiny no cap
"So how do we balance our game? *Magic of course!"*
*_"JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!!"_*
Is that a darkviper AU refference?
I... got that refference!
OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOOOOOD
0:51 they really had the audacity to show ryze here
Riot: "We can make sure League is balanced"
udyr and heca meta for 6 months btw
Heca isnt meta anymore
you better check some patchnotes and Hecarim's stats in 10.9 and 10.10 xD
darius too
dude they nurf udyr so many times it flank from op tier to b tier.
hec was a yr tho right? he got lil nerfs here n there but not the ones that counted for his damage output.. untill this last nerf gutted him (thank GOD) they have two ideas when it comes to balance nerf a champ to the ground n buff a champ to the heavens thats their balance... lmao
"if theyre ruining the game for other players we will make some adjustments: *continues to make new champs that arent fun to play against with little outplay potential and overtuned kits*
Exactly.
Say hello to Rell. Now what?
But the character design team, lore team and the balances team are different so is more like, I give you my overtuned character and you try to put him in the game without changing it much. The real problem is that ht e teams in Riot do not have coordination and just do whatever they want. The fact that Seraphine is just a kda member that do not belong to runeterra and replace Sona is not balance and design fault, its just that the publicity team wanted it that way. If they just decide to coordinate it would be better.
most new champion are kinda bad except sett, and seraphine.
@@cameronsmiljan9374 Then explain Rell if she's so overtuned and has no outplay potential. No one plays her.
""We want to make sure every champion is playable""
Aurelion Sol and Sona be like : you sure bro ?
Well, Sona at least sometimes appears in game
yah sona still has my 3rd highest mastery but i havent been able to play her successfully for awhile now.
They don’t exist
sona is playable just weaker than other sups and aurelion sol is fine in higher elos
@@AloeEdits she is playable, but why would anyone pick her when there is Seraphine
riot: *explains how balance works*
their game: unbalanced af.
also riot: *gives mundo a malz passive on steroids that counters almost all his top lane matchups*
their game: gets even more unbalanced
still riot: what are we doing wrong?
the community: *explains whats wrong*
riot even still: *doesnt listen*
riot one last time: welp if we cant figure out whats wrong then nothing must be wrong
HAHAHAHAHA true
I have only seen 1 mundo that was feeding so far
@@csapomate7372 Might be another troll or he is just so dumb at the new reworked Mundo