Talk:Fiddlesticks/@comment-199.72.20.10-20110428132357/@comment-67.169.207.175-20110503093453

If there is one thing I have learned from the many months spent playing League of Legends it is that Riot doesn't play their own game. I have never played anything where I've seen so many unnecessary nerfs. I can only imagine their nerfing choices are based upon whoever screams loudest in their forums.

No one wants to see their champ nerfed and it devalues the purchase of said champ, especially when it often could be dealt with by giving minor buffs to other champs, leveling the playing field by building up instead of down. Some champs obviously need nerfs, but most of the time these nerfs are seemingly random, unnecessary or pointless.

This Fiddlesticks nerf is a good example of that. Fiddlesticks was a relatively worse late-game champ and what did Riot choose to do? Worsen the Crowstorm that already barely did any significant damage to a well-defended team? Reduce the potency of his silence? How would that do anything but damage his late game further? I don't even main Teemo or Cho'gath and both of their nerfs were totally unjustifiable - these nerfs bother me whether it's a champ I play with or against.