It’s on Reddita League of Legends developer has announced that the development team is looking for a way to reduce overall damage to the game. According to Bryan “Axes” Salvatore, Riot hopes these changes will arrive during the 2022 season, so you don’t have to wait until next season. This in-game damage issue was recently noted by Tim “Nemesis” Lipovšek, a former pro player, who spoke about it during one of these streams. The case has since gone viral on social media, catching Riot’s attention.
Riot’s MOBA community has often debated around general damage within League of Legends. The game knows a great power creep due to the addition of new, ever more powerful heroes, pushing the meta to evolve and the balance changes to up the damage of many champions. This damage is immense and thePlayers have often requested that they be nerfed. According to some of them, “League at the moment comes down to to whom will nukera the other as soon as possible» and even call the game «League of one-shots“. Many champions have the potential to one-shot opponents, without even needing good mechanics.
The real problem is that the sustain is too high within the game and to compensate, the damage is too high. The community would like to see adjustments made to these two factors, which would make the game much more enjoyable. Axes, developer at Riot Games said:
We are actively working on finding the right nuanced version of overall damage reduction in-game. We hope to ship the changes when they’re ready, and we’re ready to ship them during the season instead of having to wait until pre-season if we’re able to do so outside of specific launch windows. like playoffs/MSI or Worlds leadup.
Nerf damage and healing/sustain by 20% and LoL is in a good spot
— Erik Wessen (@Treatz) December 14, 2021
In December 2021, Erik “Treatz” Wessen, the support of SK Gaming had also called Riot nerfed in-game damage, sustain and shielding by 20%. Axes then shared results from their internal testing of a 20% reduction in damage, sustain, and shield.
The problem is that if such changes are made, this will greatly affect the meta and therefore the game at the professional level and given the size of the League of Legends scene, this could turn everything upside down. Riot had already recognized this problem in October 2021 and therefore declared that no nerfs would come any time soon. However, these changes are now confirmed and it is certain that ithey will affect how the game is played. Now we just have to wait and see how all this will impact the game, and more particularly the professional sphere.