[Patch 3.05: Balance Update] General Discussion - Page 150

On April 23 2013 13:14 Fionn wrote:
We need team icons on this board so I can support my team.

First person to guess who my favorite team is gets a gold star.

While I agree in theory, I disagree that it is an ideal solution in a large number of cases. That's because LoL forces people to work around the fog of war, a lot. First, there are two levels of this fog because picks/bans a sort of fog of war of its own. Then you have the lvl 1 vision battle before people settle in, and the fog wherein people are settling in.

This is what I would quintessentially call "The Eve Problem". The problem asks: How much weaker does Eve have to be than other champions in order to be balanced? Well the answer is 50 gold (the difference between a green and pick ward) every 3 minutes, for every pathway you normally would have warded + 125 gold for wherever you normally would have vision of your opponent and said vision is important to have (i.e. often a Karthus needed to put a pink lane ward down against an Eve (before her nerfs) if he ever extended to basically a Teemo past the middle of river). When you start to account for all that, you realize that Eve needs to be ridiculously weak to be balanced. So then we have a champ that pretty has all her power invested in one thing (stealth/hook) and if that gets shut down you are kinda worthless.

It makes the effort of balancing greater than the reward for uniqueness.

On April 23 2013 13:22 wei2coolman wrote:

A known CLG fan as admin for lol subforum now that's a nightma- oh wait......

On April 23 2013 13:18 Fionn wrote:


Nope.

On April 23 2013 13:24 sylverfyre wrote:

DARKNESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

On April 23 2013 13:22 wei2coolman wrote:

A known CLG fan as admin for lol subforum now that's a nightma- oh wait......

On April 23 2013 13:44 Fionn wrote:
not world elite, ig, omg, positive energy, or royal guzaughaou club

On April 23 2013 13:43 NeoIllusions wrote:

...
/sits in the brush

On April 23 2013 13:44 onlywonderboy wrote:

You should see how sad he gets when the rest of the staff all make fun of CLG for being bad. All the hurt feelings.

On April 23 2013 13:51 Cloud9157 wrote:
inb4 cj blaze