Being a main of a champion means that your are intrinsically biased towards said champion. Even if you’re not asking for buffs, the way you experience the game is primarily through the lens of that champion. In honesty I feel this actually makes you worse at giving balance advice as your feedback comes from a limited perspective. Every champ in the game warps how every role plays out.

Mostly I’m writing this after continually hearing about how Velkoz mains gave advice on how to balance the champ and were “ignored”. After reading the actual post I just laughed. The idea of “reduce damage and add skill expression” to an artillery mage is funny because their ranged damage IS their skill expression. You can’t have skill expression from the back line because the safety provides no counterplay. I think back to when Ezreal is poke dominant and how busted that is.

But even in terms of community balance suggestions it’s still a weird conversation because

  1. Reddit is not a good sample of the community nor is Twitter. The only people who see the full picture are the devs
  2. High elo players are good at playing the game, not necessarily balancing the game
  3. There are millions of players each with their own ideas of balance, and over 150 champ main subs. Devs cannot be constantly checking every Avenue for advice
  4. Devs have no obligation to give feedback on your idea, and you have no idea what internally was tried before they decided on what to ship to prod. If anything I’d never give feedback because I’d just be accused of not getting it if I disagreed

Those four points are in general, not specific to the velkoz post, just about feedback in general

  • MazrimRedditBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Consider my Riven post

    • People on reddit identify with the fundamental problem, they want to play this cool champion but are being gatekept by a mechanic that riot described as “unshippable” after. The mechanic also feels arbitrary and just obnoxious complexity to reach base stats like making Sona play guitar hero for her w to heal the same amount next patch.

    These people (and myself) are not wrong as non Riven players in identifying the problem they want solved. Riven 1 tricks and challenger players disagreeing and saying they like the mechanic is not a “better” or more correct opinion.

    A problem has been raised, the suggested solution wasn’t seen as acceptable because too many dedicated players didn’t want it (I still disagree, but it is what it is), but the problem raised remains.

    Riot’s take away is “people don’t feel like this champion is worth the effort” so they want to change that, perhaps this takes the shape of a larger change down the road.