↑ Oman wrote: ↑ Papa Zito wrote:IMO
Ekko is massively overtuned right now. Needs srs nerfs.
Excluding Bard, I can't remember the last time a champion was released in any kind of balanced state.
Lately they've been releasing them undertuned at least. Better than the not so glory days of 2012 when basically every champ was bugged and/or incredibly overpowered to the tune of 60% win rates. The main problem now is they knee jerk buff them and it brings them a little too high, which is when they centralize the meta around themselves. Out of the last 7 champs that came out, I want to say only Rek'Sai and Braum were day 1 power houses. Unless we count rework Sion and probably rework Ashe. But yeah: Gnar, Kalista,
Velkoz
, Azir, and Bard all got buffs after release.
Edit: 2012 was definitely the worst for guys being OP on release I think, but it wasn't like it was every single time then either. But Nami, Syndra, and Sejuani don't cancel out Darius, Zyra, Diana, Lulu, Rengar, ect.
Sometimes a sandwich is just a sandwich.