Talk:Graves/@comment-71.59.218.232-20111028153920/@comment-71.59.218.232-20111028234605

Wow Rapacious - I really upset you. You should learn to control that anger. It's not healthy. Notice how I'm not angry? Let it wash away. You might make it to your 40s. I don't even know where that anger's coming from - if you're not one of the people I described who bought Graves 'cause he was OP, then what's the problem? Some people buy champs for other reasons. Did I say ALL people who bought Graves did it for that reason? Practice literacy before you attack me.

Anyway, people could've bought Graves because they thought he was a cool concept. I don't disagree. But there are a ton of people who buy new champs just because they know they're relatively unknown (and thus difficult to counter) and Riot has a history of releasing champs more often too strong than too weak (Yorick and Maokai are definitely examples of the 'too weak' category).

And I'm sorry that some of you are too naive to realize that Riot is a company that wants to make money but, sadly, they are. Is there a financial incentive to release OP champs? Yes, of course. If Riot released crap champs, they'd get less sales. If they release awesome champs, they get more sales. But then everyone who plays the game routinely gets pissed and Riot ends up nerfing the champ. So they win both ways: they get players to buy new champs AND they keep old players from rage-quitting.

I like this game. I'm not particularly great at it and I don't claim to be (although I do have enough IP to buy this champ since accumulating IP has very little to do with skill). But I also don't lie to myself about the mechanics of the game. If you think Graves, who has higher base stats than pretty much every other AD carry AND is tanky is a tad unfair. And based on the LoL message boards, I'm hardly alone in this, especially from the high elo crowd.