User blog comment:ClariS/Why Not Buff Instead of Nerf?/@comment-4442345-20120901054826

I personally think constantly nerfing makes a water downed game. And it kinda explains why I've been hating the game more and more over the year and a half I've played. An example would be a champ that is nerfed, then down the road a few months, more champions are out and are completely more powerful than the old nerfed champ, so all that nerf did was make them weak in the long run. Riot will hardly ever give back what they take, but will buff them in some other way that doesn't really compensate for what was taken originally (it usually takes them A LONG TIME before they make any sort of buffs too). Anyway, I read an interesting thread the other day explaining how constantly nerfing something that works (listed many examples including an AOE teamcomp that completely decimated the competition in a tourney, which got nerfed right afterward), prevents the evolution of the game. New metas, ways of playing champions, and teamcomp strategies are nerfed if they work. It forces champions into a certain "role", which hinders the evolution of the game.