Riot's really gone off their rockers with regards to balance. Some of the changes, I get. Adding an extra Shadow champion when Shadow's already a fairly strong meta build (ehhh I prefer just Mage 6 Veigar but Kindred/Yi can output some serious dps with Shadow 4) causing what amounts to a bit of a nerf to the trait by shifting it from 2/4 to 3/6, that's a step in the right direction.
Giving Light an actual item-free way to obtain the advertised 9 synergy and making 6 easier to obtain, step in the right direction--then buffing Light which was already a strong trait...not so much. I get that Light comps are a bit feast-or-famine, that do them right and they dominate but you can easily do them wrong, but this just makes it nigh impossible to do wrong.
The buffs to Inferno including the same "make possible the obtaining of 9 with no spatula item", much needed--it was always a synergy that I thought desperately needed a buff and this change is precisely the sort of thing I feel it needed. When it goes live, probably will actually run inferno comps seriously!
Buffing the ranger trait, also desperately needed! Rangers aren't viable as a synergy right now so they need all the love they can get. Most rangers you run for other comps, e.g. Vayne for Light, Ezreal for Glacial, Twitch for poison (imo a mistake since poison's not a good synergy in my opinion but people still use him for it, not ranger), Ashe for Crystal, Kindred for Shadow, etc.
Buffing Cloud, also much needed! Cloud has always been super weak and super duper not viable; the only time to run a Cloud comp is on a Cloud map and even then it's not very viable. (You need four sparring gloves, two chain vests, and then two additional defensive items, in order to get the most out of the comp.)
Buffing some champions who were living synergies, e.g. Ashe, Varus, Sivir, Lux, also much needed! And nerfing Druids (Maokai and Ivern) is also a good idea because of the aforementioned nigh-guaranteed safe-placement when using them.
But Riot.
I realize these changes aren't live yet.
But what the hell were you thinking with the rest of those changes.
Berserkers were already one of the strongest comps in the game due to Olaf and Volibear--now you want to add raw attack damage to Berserker 6?
Summoner 6 was already one of the strongest comps in the game, and yet Summoner 3 was already one of the weakest synergies in the game--you buffed 6 and nerfed 3 rather than vice versa?
I understand buffing Electric 2 and agree that it was weak and needed the help--but you buffed Electric 3 which is one of the strongest synergies in the game?
Buffing Malphite's ult which is already one of the best ults in the game? I realize his ult didn't deal much damage and this was a buff to the damage, butstill. Malphite's ult works similarly to Sejuani's ult or more accurately Cho'gath's ult in being a huge area aoe stun; making the ult stronger by adding damage to it is ridiculous.
This is buffing some comps that desperately needed to be buffed, yes.
But it is also buffing some of the strongest comps in the game.
Properly executed Light.
ANY execution of Berserkers. (The hardest part of which is getting an Olaf.)
Buffing Ocean/Mage/Mountain/Warden (particularly the latter two halves of this).
A proxy-buff on Predators, via the hard nerf of the main counters to Predators (being, Summoner 3/Druids both getting hard nerfs).
What the hell Riot.
I hope you realize how stupid those are and don't let those go live, because, uhhh...yeah. They very much don't need those changes.
Giving Light an actual item-free way to obtain the advertised 9 synergy and making 6 easier to obtain, step in the right direction--then buffing Light which was already a strong trait...not so much. I get that Light comps are a bit feast-or-famine, that do them right and they dominate but you can easily do them wrong, but this just makes it nigh impossible to do wrong.
The buffs to Inferno including the same "make possible the obtaining of 9 with no spatula item", much needed--it was always a synergy that I thought desperately needed a buff and this change is precisely the sort of thing I feel it needed. When it goes live, probably will actually run inferno comps seriously!
Buffing the ranger trait, also desperately needed! Rangers aren't viable as a synergy right now so they need all the love they can get. Most rangers you run for other comps, e.g. Vayne for Light, Ezreal for Glacial, Twitch for poison (imo a mistake since poison's not a good synergy in my opinion but people still use him for it, not ranger), Ashe for Crystal, Kindred for Shadow, etc.
Buffing Cloud, also much needed! Cloud has always been super weak and super duper not viable; the only time to run a Cloud comp is on a Cloud map and even then it's not very viable. (You need four sparring gloves, two chain vests, and then two additional defensive items, in order to get the most out of the comp.)
Buffing some champions who were living synergies, e.g. Ashe, Varus, Sivir, Lux, also much needed! And nerfing Druids (Maokai and Ivern) is also a good idea because of the aforementioned nigh-guaranteed safe-placement when using them.
But Riot.
I realize these changes aren't live yet.
But what the hell were you thinking with the rest of those changes.
Berserkers were already one of the strongest comps in the game due to Olaf and Volibear--now you want to add raw attack damage to Berserker 6?
Summoner 6 was already one of the strongest comps in the game, and yet Summoner 3 was already one of the weakest synergies in the game--you buffed 6 and nerfed 3 rather than vice versa?
I understand buffing Electric 2 and agree that it was weak and needed the help--but you buffed Electric 3 which is one of the strongest synergies in the game?
Buffing Malphite's ult which is already one of the best ults in the game? I realize his ult didn't deal much damage and this was a buff to the damage, butstill. Malphite's ult works similarly to Sejuani's ult or more accurately Cho'gath's ult in being a huge area aoe stun; making the ult stronger by adding damage to it is ridiculous.
This is buffing some comps that desperately needed to be buffed, yes.
But it is also buffing some of the strongest comps in the game.
Properly executed Light.
ANY execution of Berserkers. (The hardest part of which is getting an Olaf.)
Buffing Ocean/Mage/Mountain/Warden (particularly the latter two halves of this).
A proxy-buff on Predators, via the hard nerf of the main counters to Predators (being, Summoner 3/Druids both getting hard nerfs).
What the hell Riot.
I hope you realize how stupid those are and don't let those go live, because, uhhh...yeah. They very much don't need those changes.
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