Talk:Irelia/@comment-108.85.84.234-20120504012028/@comment-4957501-20120504130204

Source? It's common sense. You do know that, for example if say BMW makes a car, to put it simply and dumb it down, a different group of people will work on the design concept and a different group of people will work on the actual engineering right? That overall several different departments will work on a lot of different things? Well, that's what happens in the case of most things and that's why there are departments in companies, to divide the load and focus solely on their appointed tasks, maximizing the overall efficency. http://www.riotgames.com/company/team - I'm pretty sure they have all those departments for a reason and not just to look cool hmm?

You might agree with OP, but in the end this is mere speculation on both of your part with no hard evidence whatsoever. IMO though, there's no reason to accuse Riot of doing such a thing. You'd think if they always tried such badly thought out and blatantly obvious methods to get us to buy new skins for champions such as temporarily buffing them, people would've noticed and called them out on it by now, right? Plus, I don't know about you, but most people actually buy skins on champions they LIKE playing, they just don't randomly buy skins for whatever champion is currently considered strong if they don't play them and especially so if they don't even like the skin, so if I found Frostblade Irelia a cool skin (pardon the pun), I'd actually buy it for that reason, not because she happened to receive a minor buff the same patch. But then again, you'd say this sounds like speculation too, so here's the source.

Let's take a short look at the last 3 patches,

V1.0.0.136 (Lulu patch) - Skins released this patch would be  Jurassic Kog'Maw, ' Fisherman Fizz,  Mafia Graves' and  Battle Bunny Riven'''. Buffs made to Kog'Maw, Fizz, Graves or Riven this patch - 0.'''

1.0.0.138 (Hecarim patch) - Skins released this patch would be Warlord Shen and  '''Gatekeeper Galio. Buffs made to Shen or Galio this patch - 0.'''

V1.0.0.139 (Spectator mode patch) - Skins released this patch would be Frostblade Irelia,  Rune Wars Renekton and  '''Blackthorn Morgana. Buffs made to Renekton and Morgana this patch - 0. Minor buffs made to Irelia.'''

Well guys, I guess that settles it. They happened to buff Irelia the same patch, so they're clearly taking advantage of us and trying to exploit the situation for their own profit. After all, what would they care about properly balancing the game THEY MADE right? Scumbag Riot.