RIOT CAN'T STOP SCREWING UP SEASON 14

[@barknkutrup55]

The fact that Phreak abused maokai and kept it broken until he reaches masters then nerfing it still insane to me. And him being having his job still is just cream on top.

[@martinputarnovoselec9623]

he must have a big severance package if he gets fired

[@demonkingrigaldo-2456]

you can tell the balance team has never won a single event in their life so the closest thing they can get is making champions giga busted and abusing them. they cant even properly play the game they write code for lmfao

[@trevormeed7044]

They have nerfed mao like 5 patches in a row lol

[@CringeGod-t3c]

@@trevormeed7044that’s the problem, they have tried nerfing him 5 patches in a row and he is still broken 🤣🤣

[@Xenphos]

​@@trevormeed7044 We've seen how riot "nerfs" champs over and over. Most times they just change stats without ever looking into the core problems with the abilties or items. Riot: "Lets remove 10 ad because it does to much ad dmg" When the problem was the ablitiy or item still has high dmg, cc, slow, dot, combos with something else... They have zero ideas on how to actually make the game balanced because they don't know what that is. That was fine when it was "Click Q deall 100 ap dmg" now you need to read a whole ass book practice how to use it correctly and find a build. They added so much bloat, stats, and inflated numbers that how could anyone even begin to fix it? They won't and it's only going to get worst with every champ and every new patch, just as it has been going for a long time.

[@pesky2119]

Ppl are like "but it's better than s13!" But s13 is probably the lowest bar ever for a league season

[@lillyie]

s13 is also the season of buffing tank items(with the introduction of jaksho, radiant and heartsteel) while nerfing marksman items(making infinity edge, navori mythics)

[@arntry8072]

​@@lillyiebut did you saw any tank viable last season other than sion hb and gaysante?

[@Darion350]

@@arntry8072 We're paying for that now with Sion being at the bottom of the list this season. Sucks.

[@saki453]

S12 was the lowest.

[@johnnymonsterrrr]

@@lillyie what a weird take

[@Ballerheiko]

"this is of course a salty video" - Dude, we know, we clicked a Hashinshin video.

[@sarunotaslt]

Well incase autoplay got you here sheensheen made sure to let you know what you gotten yourself into.

[@colossaldonut5190]

Season 14 has been a complete disaster. This latest patch is no exception. If this isn’t corruption on Phreak’s behalf then it’s incompetence to the highest degree. The fact he has a job still is insane. Smolder going from “he’s kinda strong” to “holy shit he is breaking the game” is only the most recent disaster.

[@lillyie]

when i saw that clip of smolder getting 40+ stacks with one Q due to belveth minions i knew he's gonna be 200 years

[@hatakenewt348]

Yeah bro this is totally phreak, its not like the past seasons were much worse even though phreak wasnt in them 😂 u sound like a redditor

[@redpanpan7979]

The map and obj changes aren’t even the main thing of s14 anymore it’s just broken sup Ap lethality items

[@diegoleal1207]

To be fair I read a similar comment every patch and every year (i play since season 6)

[@johnnymonsterrrr]

bro they dont care what kind of job phreak does, people buy skins = chinese happy

[@shukles7819]

maybe instead of adjusting the champions they should adjust their employees. phreak blatantly abusing maokai while they leave him at 54%+ winrate for 4 patches is ridiculous and shouldnt be tolerated.

[@noamias4897]

If LP was stocks he'd be fined or jailed for the most obvious insider trading ever

[@libertybelllocks7476]

DO A 1HR VIDEO ON PHREAK AND HIS BIAS.

[@jb6409]

yes

[@noamias4897]

Not much to talk about because it's so obvious. Just show a graph of Maokai's WR and then Phreak's opgg

[@DecadantHandshake]

yes

[@GARYtheCANNIBAL]

this video was so necessary, I actually thought I was going fucking insane. time after time I thought "man, these patches seem really really really bad." but now I can look here and see that I'm not crazy. Riot actually does suck this much at balancing the game! Thanks Hashinshin!

[@yoshirocks67]

seraphine single handedly occupying 80% of riot's brain capacity keeping every tank except maokai from being viable

[@dizzyheads]

Maokai is getting nerfed again soon bet

[@paztah2194]

Naut top/jg my beloved😔

[@lightworker2956]

You're saying four of Riot's five brain cells are dedicated to Seraphine?

[@jeremiemarion3966]

Rell and Nautilus are pretty good.

[@akaliotp6766]

​@@jeremiemarion3966supports. No other tank is viable.

[@HugoTacticool]

the entire concept of senna goes against everything a support is supposed to be, and she cannot function as a proper adc because she is a support. terrible champion in every way

[@Maximilianothe1st]

not only senna, zyra, brand and zerath too

[@jeremiemarion3966]

Because they never adressed her passive.

[@KrisAkaVenno]

​@@Maximilianothe1st Those three were designed as midlaners...

[@Maximilianothe1st]

@@KrisAkaVenno they are still palyed in sup tho, in fact most supposesd to be mid laners go to sup, which brakes the game balance obviously

[@KrisAkaVenno]

@@Maximilianothe1st yeah yeah i agree thats a good point but its just a switch in roles, its a bigger problem that immobile mages are played in botlane, but thats not a champ design fault but the bigger issue

[@Andre-od5hf]

To be fair smolder is already getting hotfix nerfed. The weird thing is that they didnt even wait a patch to nerf him at 53% while maokai was allowed to be at 55% for 4 entire patches. Phreak season everyone, the season where supports are allowed to run over the entire fucking game.

[@limitlessapocalypse2702]

How is Mao Mai 55%?

[@danneltheflannel]

Its weird people are complaining about Maokai being OP instead of Trailblazer 😅Maokai has been the same power level for the last 8-9 seasons...

[@shukles7819]

​@@limitlessapocalypse2702 its not quite 55%, more like high 54%, but he has just been the most overpowered support this season

[@Dani-of2zu]

@@danneltheflannel yea definitely the support item and not the champion as well kappachungusdeluxe

[@AltumNovo]

He wasn't 50% ban rate and 20% pick rate, big difference

[@jakesteel4916]

Smolder E doing 350 + 100% AD + 200% Passive stacks at the point you hit 225 stacks was definitely a fun and well thought out idea, and that before considering it was buffed for his builds where he stacks a ton of % damage modifiers. The amount of kills I got while E'ing AWAY from someone chasing me is downright silly.

[@KD-_-]

And the fact that the champ is one of the safest and most consistent laners

[@svantexx9484]

It's so bizarre that whenever they buff a champion it's either a winrate nudge or it's 3 enormous changes and no room between

[@TheSorrowfulAngel]

I really like that riot keeps creating "infinite scaling" champs. Almost all of them have the same issue: They are far stronger in low elo than in high elo. Aside from just winrates, I really dont think that the infinite scaling does anything good for the game. In fact, it only does bad things, even at higher elos. Cause high elo has long games, too - and those champs just get a lot of winrate from those games. You can create lategame scaling beasts without a stupid crutch as infinite scaling. Those champs just turn long games into absolute jokes, you cant even take them seriously anymore. But riot has pretty much stopped balancing for 5-6 item games. Those games are not THAT rare, they make up a decent chunk of games at all ranks. And the lategame experience of league has been absolute shit for years, yet riot just.. doesnt care one bit. And you know what really annoys me about smolder specifically? I think he has a pretty cool kit, its well designed. But between his infinite scaling, his absolutely unnecessary execute and absurd true damage, they just completely ruined him. I am not saying he shouldnt scale, he should absolutely be that heavy scaler... but remove those asinine crutches from his kit that just invalidate any kind of gameplay. I mean, Aphelios and Kaisa scale giga hard into the lategame and there are NO stupid crutches on their kit.

[@coololi07]

yup all of those champs should have a max stacks. VERY simple solution. VERY easy to balance. Viktor is great example (of stacking not necessarily balance), he's rewarded if he gets stacks early but he's still gonna get the full benefit eventually.

[@Hysterikku]

Syndra is another good example same with Kayle. @@coololi07

[@TheSorrowfulAngel]

One thing that really annoys me with riot balancing~ They do something, didn't land great okay... And they almost NEVER admit that. They then proceed to nerf something different about the champ, instead of axing one of their previous buffs or significantly tuning it back, they ALWAYS go "Those buffs were a good direction for the champ, so we nerf something else on their kit". Sometimes, thats certainly true. If you like buff a champ via significant QoL, they shouldnt just remove the QoL and instead nerf something else. But often enough, the buff was just too much or flat out stupid, like in Karmas case. The health buff? Completely unnecessary. Karma could do her dueling/kiting thing decently before that and a flat health buff only serves to make her solo lane stronger. The Q buff? Likely unwarranted. Karmas Q deals good damage early game and is supposed to fall off over the course of the game. If anything, if Q needed buffs, base dmg buffs would be the place for them, not scaling. Only good buff to her was the shield really. As that is supposed to be her scaling support output.

[@tom6875]

you forgot the fact asol was randomly buffed to push his prestige skin

[@noamias4897]

I love that they outright went out and said that they don't buff champs for skins, but it continues to happen so much that it can't be a coincidence

[@VermillionMonk]

The upside of Riot continuously making changes like these is that it's a constant reminder of why I hardly play this game anymore. It's like watching someone beat your child to death right in front of you in super slow-motion

[@PsQueak2]

As someone who was extremely excited for Seraphine at her release, I'm just about ready to give up on the champion. They don't know what they want to do with her and I'm tired of trying to figure it out. They promised me a mid lane mage though, and I won't forget that.

[@gardmyhr6121]

a squsihy imobile champ that deals damage or supportive champ that scales will alwy sbe better botlane

[@samminuano4305]

The most hysterical thing that all the while doing this he forgot to mention Vayne and ranged top as a whole

[@xiariser-213]

I usually listen to these on the drive into work. But this one, a tier list of fuck ups, this is going to be gold. I don't have the self control to wait till the morning to see this.

[@murkymurky009]

Rip toriyama 😔

[@pesky2119]

Goat mangaka 😞

[@channelorsomething218]

rip goat

[@Dani-of2zu]

rip

[@Soren59]

rip

[@voidrush2738]

I swear that this is true. Hashinshin would balance the game all alone better than not just Riot Games Balance Team, but whole Riot Games company.

[@dirtydard4870]

delusional

[@robert_boss]

I imagine it’s intentionally unbalanced to keep things interesting for certain groups of players and keep them coming back.

[@lightworker2956]

I agree, but I think that Riot is over-imbalancing things, even if we keep that purpose in mind. A bit of imbalance is fine -- there's a reason we're not playing chess right now -- but this is too much imbalance.

[@TheSorrowfulAngel]

What also really grinds my gears is how riot just kind of allows champs to do degenerate stuff. I always say that Nautilus is the best example of this. He was designed as a jungler and as a jungler, I think his kit makes a lot of sense - between his dps, his hook-to-wall mechanic, his bursty combat pattern and his high reliability R, he is a well-designed tank jungler. But as support.. well, his R. His R is just unfair in a 2v2 lane. Its basically like Blitzcranks R was his hook, but point n click. They need to stop doing stuff like that. Maokai support should literally not be supported at ALL. He never has been the healthiest champ toplane either, so oust him from lanes completely - healthreg, minion mods, mana and manareg are great tools to fuck champs out of lane - they did this to other champs already, like Elise or Nocturne. Gragas has absolutely no focus in his kit anymore. They always just randomly buff him without even knowing where he should go. They need to pick a role and hard balance him around that role. Senna is another egregious example. Since her release, she has been one of the unhealthiest champs in the game. I dont think she has ever been balanced on both of her two roles. Pick a damn role for the champ, hardbind her to that role and balance her for that and that role alone. You don't want ADC Senna? Just completely fuck her AS scaling, she wont be a viable ADC anymore. Support Senna? She can be easily ousted from that role via tuning her soul mechanic and base damages. And Seraphine.. oh boy. They are currently trying to support THREE roles on her simultaneously. You cant even get two roles balanced on her. She is another champ that has just been a patchnote addict since her goddamn release. There are champs riot manages to support in multiple roles - and I think thats generally a cool thing, if a bit tricky. But some champs... dont work like that. At all. They just waste their time and resources on pushing numbers around witrhout ever actually achieving anything cause they are either too dumb or too proud to admit that their plan does not bloody work.

[@dresean3725]

I agree with pretty much everything you said, except, it seems like they might have actually hit the market with Seraphine somehow. Things might change, but she's currently balanced in all 3 roles, which is crazy

[@highchieftain]

IF YOU KEEP THE GAME BROKEN YOU HAVE THINGS TO FIX. IF YOU FIX THE GAME... YOU ARE OUT OF A JOB! IT'S CALLED JOB SECURITY SHINSHIN 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠

[@JossTecoBB]

Yeih, another 1 hour video I will be watching as I'm working

[@Coleyking69]

Same bro!

[@DamnFury]

Same. Always a pleasure.

[@GuiltySpark-rh8ny]

That's the way to be

[@DefiantMercenary414]

One champ that I think is going to be a problem at some point is Rek'sai. The QoL buffs she got were massive, and despite her numbers being low a little bit, with the right item/direct buff she's going to be a monster like she used to be.

[@citizencj3389]

Her heal is ridiculous. She might be good with phase rush lol

[@potatoman147]

just like there used to be a free champion rotation, there will now be a broken champion rotation per patch, and it will be a nerf/buff festival to keep the game going.

[@benmayer7326]

I played morde top and someone picked karma top to counter. Level 4, her ult q was dealing nearly 200 ae damage on a fuckin like 6 second cd

[@bernardobb8]

They don’t balance to achieve balance. They prepared gragas to be popular just in time to release his new skin. Riot does that all the time!

[@kylechristensen6662]

I haven’t played since they removed the triple E “bug” from Diana’s kit. It’s been in the game for 8 years and I thought it was an intended mechanic since it’s the only skill expression in her kit. But no a rioter said they simply didn’t even know about it and when they found out they patched it(14.5). Leave it to rito for it to not even be patched correctly leaving the champion still buggy

[@sonnenblume4]

Coming back here after thinking "Is Gragas that bad" Then karma strike me and I laned against it top once. There's no way this shit is fair lmao by the time he had 2 items it's so hard to match him wtf I apologize for thinking Gragas wasn't too bad.

[@StephonZeno]

After taking a long break from this game (a year to be more precise), I'm not surprised to come back and find out that it's gotten even LESS fun to play. I don't know if it's the damage. I don't know if it's the items. I don't know if it's the changes they made to the rift. Whatever it is, the rift just doesn't feel fun or rewarding to play anymore.

[@TheHopefulOneMyBroA2C4]

And people were saying that I was wrong for thinking that Smolder is broken.

[@poom323]

Twisted Fate is actually over powered in every roles, and yes, I literally mean every role. Everything that make Twisted Fate Top also make Twisted Fate JG OP as well, his ult is the best ult for JG and his jungle clear is pretty fast too.

[@wispppp]

It's insane how this company doesn't realize that anytime this champ isn't gutted, he's pick or ban because having a Malzahar ultimate with 0 cd while being able to teleport the entire map is extremely broken and toxic. How hard is it to just make TF W a fucking skill shot and go from there?????????????????

[@ecovrse]

as an apc seraphine main, i’m fully aware she’s broken in the bot lane but my god i can’t even verbalise how frustrating it is having to practically rework my items and runes every few months because they don’t know what to do with her!! i’ve played her in mid lane a bunch too but it’s her notes passive that makes her more impactful in bot lane, increased attack range and extra magic damage leads to winning the all in because the adc is poked that is to your abilities and passive and then snowballing the game

[@ecovrse]

it’s frustrating though because sera mid is fun but if they try buff her apc sera gets buffed and people still think she’s built for support?? her like 47% win rate there vs her like 53% win rate in bot so riot balances for support?? just bring back her early season 13 scalings where she felt fair

[@ratas258]

I was playing tank teemo 150armor, 4k hp, smolder pressed ONE Q, it did 1k+ true dmg. Midgame

[@儀水鏡の妖怪霊]

Seraphine will likely not receive any changes anytime soon because they did manage to meet their goal of equalizing mid, bot and support winrates. I didn't have any hopes for it, but they proved me wrong.

[@chillchinna4164]

Phreak doesn't like Seraphine, so I don't think he'll let her just exist.

[@Grimllord]

For me an Urgot main, this season screwed other the champ really hard, i know its not that bad but the champion doesn't feel good anymore. They nerf his item into the season (BC, T.hydra (the auto reset is not that effective on Urgot), now shojin doesnt even work anymore with his legs), they maje hullbreaker synergise with him then get nerf (even tho it was warranted). His build is not that bad, but he doesnt really feel good anymore, all of his item feel clunky on him and its not fun, i feel like i need to do a bazillions things to make sûre that the item doesnt get wasted and its horrible to play its annoying

[@martinlevi3769]

Urgot has a fundamental flaw in his design which makes it impossible for him to be fixed correctly. He doesn't sell skins

[@SpookSkellington]

They really could just make TF's gold card duration scale with ap. (up to it's current max value at maybe 2-300 ap or something) That way the silly card man can't just stun you into a billion auto attacks, and AP TF can still have it's 2 second stun.

[@villekuronen6242]

make it 400 ap so tf cant get it just by buying rageblade, Lich bane and meybe 1 other ap item

[@noamias4897]

That's still dumb because that makes AD tf unplayable. He's only good as AD because of gold card, so just remove all incentives to go AD

[@villekuronen6242]

@@noamias4897 good...... champion is much easier to balance when he can only go either ap or ad......

[@villekuronen6242]

@@noamias4897 there's reason why champions like kata and kaisa are ridiculously hard to balance since they can go at least 3 different builds

[@noamias4897]

@@villekuronen6242 yeah but then just nerf the AD build instead of hamstringing the AP build that's totally fine

[@limear]

I get that they wanna iterate on Smolder's design but they could spend 3 minutes crunching the numbers before pushing this shit in the game

[@avarise5607]

47:50 it scales with collective years of experience in design, approx 1 point per 20 years of experience

[@nicoseaton4567]

Karma support has a 46% win rate while Karma mid has a 52% win rate. Malignance is the problem. Karma could get her ultimate back kinda often for four years. It became a problem only now. We will absolutely see her again in these notes because they are changing the way her ultimate refunds cooldown. Which will put karma support at like a 44% win rate and will guarantee they have to change her again.

[@notalpharius2562]

Oh and lets not forget the items...Let's not forget the items...(Vietnam flashback)

[@Orendiz]

I just love seeing how season 14 went from everyone getting super hyped about le biggest season of all time, back to everyone suffering and realising that changing the map, items, and mobs, does not make the game more fun when the core problem is not adressed (riot's horrible balancing and code). I love seeing ppl who used to tell me about how epic s14 is, turn to saying how horrible s14 is. It's allmost as if putting more layers of pain on rotting termite infested walls does not actually make for sturdy walls and only serves to temporeraly mask it. God i hate being right.

[@whitebullet361]

Guys for Janna im not even kidding when im saying this, Riot August said that if Janna's winrate is not 53% winrate it means that she is doing something wrong, and again im not kidding when im saying this. That guy at riot is that deluded.

[@AMaleDaG]

Using riot as a synonym for stupid is very accurate

[@noamias4897]

I refuse to believe that a single person works in balancing full time and is stupid enough to make so few, but stupid changes. For every patch a group of people work 80 hours each on "balancing" the game and they still make so many volatile obvious mistakes they have to back track after people complain for a while

[@geoDB.]

They even broke the gragas counter

[@GoodMrFe]

I think a lot of these balancing problems come from the fact Riot balancing team doesn't play this game at a high level. there's crooks like phreak who play meta stuff and get to decent ranks cuz they spam that shit but they fail to realize what makes what broken. There are already a ton of broken stuff in the game but they don't get played that much so they fly under the radar and then Riot flies in and gives them a buff and they become batshit broken. This is what happens when you rely on data alone and look at those numbers without realizing there's more depth in the balance

[@francobuzzetti9424]

dear rioter stalkin shin how to fix league: -don't buff dmg numbers for a year (that'll lower the power creep a bit) -there are abilities with actives and 2 passives, remove that, an ability should be only 1 thing, maybe 1 extra passive if it makes sense) -stop making shields scale by ap or ad on freaking assassins or "fighters" you build dmg and also get health? -don't buff stuff carelessly, just nerf the outliers and the rest will have a chance to rise up on their own(looking at you jg) -make every single item adaptive adaptive on the pbe for 1 month just to see which items are actually good regardless of ap or ad type (oh great zed rushed void staff and deathcap, well maybe those are keeping mages from having actual good abilities cause they are all running around with 500ap and almost 100% pen at level 12) -remove at least 50% of damage scaling sources on pure tanks(you wanna play tank? good, but you don't do more dmg than a dmg champion, that's common sense) -disable new champions for ranked for at least 2 patches ideally 4 -make abilities actually cost mana, energy, hp or whatever.. nowadays energy is a suggestion, mana is so you can build tear, hp costs get refunded ,rage is a heatbar till your champ does something or dies, and "no cost" is a freaking joke have a nice day

[@PetitGarry]

After having to deal with TF, Karma, ASol and Gragas I just stopped playing the game cause of how bad it is this season. When I see smolder and senna this patch I’m happy I did. They NEED to fire the head of the balance team and it’s not even close. Removal of mythic items could have been so good but they ruined it so bad, and yeah new lethality breaking the game AGAIN too.

[@sakai699]

the problem with smolder is not being scaling champ its the fact that he can play safe early unlike other scaling champ like aurlion sol being vulnerable,or nausus actauly need to walk in mele range to last hit minion with his q,so far every match smolder is in if it goes beyond 20 min its over for the other team, that excute is acuatly borken,he just have to land 1 single ability on u n if u get damaged by other stuff u get excuted

[@xdds-ii4yb]

The % max hp true on Smolder is already beyond disgusting to me.. but the real insult to injury is that true damage be effected by amplification modifiers these days. And there are so many ways to do this.. Liandries, RM, Horizon, Shojin, Quickblades, your local support Bloodsong purchaser.. oh yeah and there's Shadowflame too! (which also interacts with the crit modifier from IE just for good measure, you know in case your champ scales with every stat in the game LOL)

[@megadumbo6]

PHREAK IS ON A RAMPAGE

[@KawaiiAzusa]

Accusing ADCs of metawhoring is pretty dumb and again shows your bias against them. First off, Kaisa and Ezreal ALWAYS are among the most picked champs, they are fan favourites, skin sellers. Secondly, ADCs have by far the most limited champ pool. It's roughly 1/4th of the toplane champ pool. So of course every single ADC will have a higher pickrate. Thirdly, Smolder is the second highest picked champ, but he is played ADC, midlane and toplane. Fourthly, every lane meta picks. Toplane Vayne getting more popular as people realise she is broken? Ehy don't you accuse toplaners of being meta slaves? Bias is why Edit: Just to add to this: Kaisa and Ezreal have a negative winrate and are considered D tier. Ezreal is also a very popular pick by auto filled people. Sure ADC are metawhoring picking that insane 47% winrate Kaisa

[@citizencj3389]

Because win rates are TOTALLY an indicator of whos meta in adc. LoL

[@KawaiiAzusa]

@@citizencj3389 What kind of argument is that? So picking something that statistically will make you more likely to loose is meta now? Picking a highly picked champ is meta even if the champ is not? If you really think Ezreal is meta, you have no idea what you are arguing. Look at the history, Kaisa and Ezreal are among the top5 most played champs since forever. There was no reason for Hashinshin to randomly start an ADC rant at that point, especially one that makes no sense for multiple reasons I listed. Calling 47% winrate Kaisa a meta slave pick is just insane, when the whole video is talking about high winrate champs nit being addressed

[@justDeniso7]

Riot just wants to relive the glorydays of 70%banrate kassadin

[@michaellimone224]

Actually might be big brain in the long run, if they eventually get to every champion making them all giga busted the game would probably be a lot more fun, just everyone being overpowered

[@geoDB.]

You are my favourite background noise generator

[@Big_T7]

Anybody noticed that most of the time anything is unbalanced its ranged champs?

[@tobias97erdt]

For kognaw in particular i would say adcs don't like playing him for the low own agency his kit provides. He eighter is overtumed as he is now or adc players will prefer to play ANYTHING else.

[@AstrumVerith]

As a ksante main I am so sad about of the state of k'sante right now. I know most people are happy about it because of showmaker copy pasta, but he is only good in pro play.

[@orvilgrunmeier7559]

I'm with you man. K'Sante is a meme now, so no matter how terrible he actually is the community is going to call him OP and broken despite dozens of other champions doing exactly what he can do but better. Idk why malphite 100-0 bursting an adc while building full tank in the duration of his ult knock up is somehow more palatable than K'Sante using his full kit with flash to get the same result and is squishy in his ult.

[@AstrumVerith]

​@@orvilgrunmeier7559 Thanks for the support. Phreak and the balance team buffed his tank aspects (the reason he is picked in pro play) to the point when he can just gracefully lose lane but still be useful because he scales so hard with levels. But the all out form, which is why people enjoy him, has been nerfed to the point that a lot of the time ulting in a team fight is trolling. This patch if I ult someone they just walk away from me. Maybe they have to flash. He is clunky, his q does less damage than an auto early game and you go oom really quick post rework, and his w is now a self root in all out while they just walk away from you because you don't keep your q stacks when you ult and they removed the slow. To balance him I would recommend they revert the rework and ensure he has lower level scaling but higher mr/armor scaling. Add back the true damage scaling, remove the attack speed, add back the healing scaling with resistance instead of levels, bring his max hp down to like 60 percent during all out... IDK just spit balling here.

[@Andre-od5hf]

@@AstrumVerith He shouldnt have all out form ,period. Giving a full tank thats supposed to be a warden a button that turns him into akali/irelia was probably one of the biggest game design mistakes that has ever happenend in this game, like on the same level as a shit like senna and yuumi.

[@AstrumVerith]

​@@Andre-od5hfthe point of the champion is to be as the wise freak said "A top laner for top laner mains who are tired of playing tank and having no impact, they said, fine ill do it myself. And that can be heard in his voice lines" His all out form is a cool concept, but it is hard to balance. I find that most people that complain about his all out haven't played a game on him. It's not some win button where he all of a sudden becomes an assassin and has zero counterplay any tank top laner can 0-100% an adc if they are ahead, ksante just had to press more buttons to do it. For example a full tank volibear can currently run at you with Q, drop an e on you and a w. Then ult you, maybe w you again. You're probably dead, and by the way while he was doing that he healed up too. Malphite just presses R and while you're in the air he takes you down to nearly 25% hp if you're an adc and he has a few armor items. Again I think a lot of the issue comes from the high pro pick percentage and the showmaker comments. I invite you to play him if you think he's broken, you will feel like a wet noodle in lane and any other top laner will roll you.

[@noamias4897]

Nah fuck Ksante only thing me and phreak agree is on ksante belonging in the trash

[@ZTheTinyTonTerror]

Phreak is textbook you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

[@zurcarak]

i wish they changed kog passive to something else lol

[@orshabaal8990]

idk why they dont just rework kog passive. its just uniteractive and if youre immobile you just have to accept the damage and at the same time its not a very usefull passive

[@leiuwu3965]

welp if you think league balance changes are bad you have not seen brawl stars balancing changes where the current meta is "fight op characters with op characters lmao"

[@ultimatemachine457]

Collector Caitlyn, my worst nightmare

[@jakiii368]

smolder just needs his burn damage chanched to magic damage and the execute should be activated at 300 stacks or removed and they will buff ldr and mortal reminder + infinite edge so tanks get punished for assasins and mages one shotting them

[@ja0062734]

Hash i feel robbed i could easily watch a 4 hour version of this video lmfao.

[@Stefan-to1ct]

what a phreaky season

[@chiidybang370]

Reworking seraphine is not a champ problem is a balance team problem. Its as you mentioned: riot doesnt know in what position she should get played. She was released as a midlaner. She has the kit of a midlaner. Just balance her around midlane instead of trying to balance her for 3 roles at the same time. Janna is op since half a year. Riot doesnt care. All they did is make her gameplay worse and also make her easier to play at the samd time.

[@metalop8454]

Seraphine: getting 2 reworks for seasons Sona: 🤡🤡🤡

[@coldresin]

I despise Smolder with all of my being, and after reading the patch notes, I’m making his ban rate higher Edit: omfg I said the exact same things about Senna too, I hope that champ gets gutted to death. Rework her into an adc and nerf support item damage (mainly Bloodsong and Zaz’Zak’s) and it will be fine. Alternatively, nerf her damage and make her an actual support, not both

[@Kevinterell]

RIGHT THROUGH THE COUNTERSTRIKE!!!!!!!!!

[@TheMilchBroetchen]

nerf singed nerf singed

[@JohnSkyrim2]

Give Ksante some decent movement speed and dash speed back. Nerfing all out q slow was fair and enough. You can give lower his Q mana cost if you won’t buff his E back.

[@ethanol7294]

Thanks for the video

[@felipeavila2416]

Weird how they create the problems in the game themselves and then take 8 patches just to fix the problem that they created Meanwhile Cho'gath is unplayable for the past 6 seasons

[@villekuronen6242]

gotta be honest: it would have been massive surprise if riot didnt screw up everything

[@manelmiquelino5653]

I recall Karma being 46% on the first patch before the buff. So they overbuffed her. Don't get why they didn't nerf her back right away though.

[@dresean3725]

To be fair, that was the first patch while everyone was finding out the new system and what items to build. Not saying this is the cause for it, but that might have contributed to her lower winrate. Plus, the buffs they gave her made her better as a solo laner, so they still fucked up either way

[@kingkazims8587]

Hello shinshin, can you maybe review the adc subreddit Im sure u will have a lot of fun, or get depressed either way it would make for a fun video. These crybabys go absolutly mental their they want adcs to be more tanky items, same base stats as melee champs, more damage, more xp, more range ( because if a melee champ can engage on them that means range is useless) and lots of other stuff. Also they think on hit adcs and adcs that build lethality are not even adcs.

[@veiregor]

I can never get enough Rito Roast videos

[@kudohlol9379]

Theres always going to be a OP and a Underpowered character, its a game of math.

[@SkittleBombs]

I really like watching patch note and I haven’t played this game since them changed ap and riot specials teemo and now he feel terrible to play on hit since they needed his ult and terrible to play shrr build because he balanced on 100% AP no HP builds

[@kennethyates1725]

urgot is one of the most useless champions i have ever seen in league but hullbreaker change allowed urgot to apply the passive very often and just melted you once he got this item,

[@cabbage4259]

phreak is insider trading with league ranked

[@dresean3725]

Wait everytime you said you were looking for a new champion, I would say "Vayne". I'm very surprised you didnt mention her. What rank would she get on this tier list?

[@fahed2544]

51:40 exactly my thoughts

[@ratas258]

I miss playing maokai support and getting flamed because noone played him there before item rework. S9

[@ricardomilos10]

Cant wait for another patch of Maokai being OP and phreak refusing to nerf him properly because he wants to climb elo and brag about online internet points

[@panzershreck8077]

Can someone explain to me the biggest problems for league rn? Im pre much a new player in bronze-gold atm. But what are the actual things that have changed throughkut the years that people truly hate bout the game rn? I don't really have a problem with anything being unbalanced because I have no clue what is unbalanced and what is normal, lol.

[@BloodDrenched-y6i]

Basically over time the game damage and snowballing was reaching really absurd levels. They had to do durabilty update multiple times, they took away mythics which lowers stats but this season we still have insane burst with ap items and lethality items, ap items got nerfed so its mostly lethality making the game so awful, and i would say ranged champs are getting insane favortism from Phreak, seraphine, Senna, Vayne, and smolder, all these ranged champs are allowed to be op but dont care how that makes jg melee champs and top lane champs a lot worse to play and feels awful. Essentially too much dmg and ranged favored meta, tanks are useless in solo q.

[@8bit-ascii]

instead of showing whats broken in a season. You could make videos on how to „abuse“ these broken metas. So more players abuse it, to the point where a lot of players facing an „abuser“ will complain about the broken stuff and riot games will have to push out a patch.

[@pmakins95]

Senna and Maokai are fucking cancer on bot lane, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A BAD ONE IN YOUR TEAM

[@gabrielcoelho7909]

Whats the best site to check lol stats and tier list?

[@citizencj3389]

Fiora still is overpowered smh

[@meropticon_1651]

This season is why I havent touched league in 3 months now. Eomm is still in the game, and the game balance is in the gutter. Just unfun.

[@redpanpan7979]

Tbf tho adc is so meta skewed right now that you are nerfing yourself by not playing senna or smolder or a mage like sera or hwei

[@jaotrx7163]

Why ksante is a hyper scale tank? If now his passive dosent even scale anymore.

[@Firecloud20]

you want a number the number is 12 out of 10 they somehow manage to make the lp system shit yet add shity champions thats op as fuck and not fix it for months before making something else broken as fuck xd that is league and it has been this way since season 1 problem is that they have to many champs in the game now so they appear more and more every time they do a tiny change and you gonna see this getting worse as new champs comes out since it will get harder and harder for the company that already don't know how to balance stuff try to balance champs when they have 200+ of them xd

[@Zubarus]

shin & box is the best News format about LoL. box get from show to show even more sexy XD

[@Vithonil]

I think your biggest mistake in this whole video is the core idea that RIOT would be interested in actually balancing the game to a well, balanced, state. They are def. just buffing/nerfing champs on a rotation to push more skins and the keep the game from being stale. Are they kind of overdoing it lately? Yes, definitely. But they haven't balanced the game to be all champs even in power in probably years..

[@meesvijfhuizen8271]

No ilioa?