User blog comment:ClariS/Why Not Buff Instead of Nerf?/@comment-50.53.139.17-20120831081734/@comment-4834593-20120831154917

Full reply from me incoming here (be prepared, it's long):

1) There are no champions winning 2/3rd of the game. I have also seen only very few times champions get buffed because they were overnerfed. Most nerfs and buffs are exactly what champions need. And as this post from Phreak said, buffing everyone instead of nerfing a few is a very stupid idea, because everything will snowball out of control. What Riot is doing, is like nerfing the top 10 champions and buffing the bottom 10 champions.

2) Purchase with real money if you want. I don't, and I seldom have felt the urge to do it because I wanted a champion. And I can't remember (not seeing myself nor hearing from it) that a champion (except of course Evelynn here, which was on purpose) was nerfed so far this champion became unplayable.

3) You obviously don't know the reason Evelynn was nerfed this hard. She was nerfed becasue new players stopped playing this game because they got their asses kicked just too hard by Eve. They nerfed her to not allow her to do this, while they were making the stealth rework. And then the problem just was that they couldn't find a good way to work stealth into Evelynn.

4) What happened with heals then? I don't see anything. Yes, they've become a bit more expensive, but that's because they want a more active game, where poking can't be negated all the time by a Soraka healbot. Now, you actually have to poke back and maybe lose farm too if you are getting poked, instead of just having that Soraka heal you up time after time and farming on. What do you like more? Killing champions or killing minions? If the answer is champions, then you should be happy heals have become more expensive. I don't see where hybrids have been removed, when a new viable one has just been added to the game - Diana. Lastly, you also seem to not know why dodge is removed. This was because it was purely a luck based mechanic, and when stacked on champions like Jax, you could get something like 60% dodge. Which means you were nearly immune to autoattacks.

5) First, the people who design champions and who design maps or items aren't the same people. Next, I'd like to point out that some champions are horribly OP or UP on other maps/gameplay types. For example Tryndamere on Twisted Treeline. He's just unstoppable there. Same for Irelia. Noone could stop me this morning, despite getting shut down by the enemy Jax early. And you don't want to find an Evelynn in the enemy team on the Crystal Scar. She moves around with 600+ movement speed.

6) Now you're just talking shit. Riot doesn't remove ideas people had and that pwn all of Summoners Rift, they nerf them to make it balanced and give people on the other team a chance. And to avoid permabans, because they are, in a way, also antifun. Today I had someone on my team in Blind Pick, and he said he only played Blind so that he could play Shen.

And about that last paragraph - If Cho'gath is so weak, then tell me who stands a chance against him in lane. I still have to find one, so your help would be appreciated.