User blog:Dracko40/The Angry Illithid: "Rework" = "Nerf" Apparently...

I like new champions. I enjoy seeing a new addition to the game, and I like the meta changes that some have brought with them. However, as much as I enjoy seeing new champions and new abilities, there are still some old champions that I love. I enjoy pointing out that I leveled from 1 to 15 on nothing but Master Yi.

Despite this, it is true that some older champions are falling behind in terms of power. This can easily be seen with champions like Tristana, Karthus, Rammus, or anyone that is outclassed by others.* To attempt to solve this issue, Riot has taken the liberty of reworking older champions to not only make them fresh and new, but also to make them better at what they do. So far, this has worked to great effect with Ryze and Alistar.

Last night, Riot released a Champion Spotlight for Kayle, the newest champion to be remade. After watching, I am genuinly interested to see how she will fare. My fellow summoners however, seem to be a little less patient, and have already taken to saying that this will ruin her, even to the point of calling her worse than Twitch (who's buff is coming with the stealth rework). I guess though that they do have a point. After all, when Ryze and Alistar were remade, they were ruined, and become more underpowered than they originally were....

....Oh wait. All I remember about those remakes is people praising Riot for fixing them, as well as some demanding nerfs. Let me remind you, when both of these champions were remade, people were complaining that they were ruined before even seeing the changes in action, and then made an almost 180 on their position when the remake made it to live.

For fucks sake, we don't even know the number differences. Why are you wasting time complaining about changes that you don't even know the complete details about? Don't you have better things to do? Hell, I'm excited for these changes. I'm glad to see Kayle getting some love (and a full remake to boot), yet all I see is people saying that it's a massive nerf? Come on.


 * I am aware that there are people that play weaker champions and do exceptionally well. This does not mean that said champions are on equal footing with others.