How Excited Are You For The Next Patch?

Personally I love that pirates is getting shot in its big dumb aggro face.

The nerfs to both decimate and Riptide sermon make it difficult for aggro decks to justify running both cards.

Like yeah pass pass Riptide sermon is still a super viable play pattern for a control deck, but the aggro deck now needs to decide okay well if I want to flood the board, play Riptide, and decimate for 6 two times I might not have the spell mana to do all of that.

And honestly thank God

The second deck hit is plunder pirates but not as much because they don't run decimate. Like I don't love the deck because it's kinda ping ping ping blah here's my gangplank narf.

But people enjoy it thats good.

Massive Fiora buff to a 4 mana 4/4 honestly they did this for one reason and one reason only. Going wide became the only viable way to play LOR even the best control deck was Heimer grandma, and it just floods. Nami Tf just floods, aggro just floods, it was too easy and reliable and uncounterable.

So if you want to que into a tournament, or ladder with 3 decks that all do the same thing but just represent aggro vs control wincons then that one edgy Fiora player will wipe you and honestly that's okay.

Umm as for the buffs to daybreak and nightfall all good with me, same thing with master Yi being the worst card of the expansion actually doing something now.

The nerfs to high variance decks equally great I don't like peak, and I certainly don't like Concurrent time lines.

The buff to orn is nice, he was already on the edge of viability.

Swain is good, it used to be that Annie tf was undoubtedly the better deck by far, now it's a valid consideration between the two.

They didn't nerf anything that didn't need it like hate spike and ninja, and they didn't buff anything that will break the game but revitalizes low playmate champions.

Overall I can't wait, I literally won't que again till pirates gets murdered, and it's been several years in the making.

I've played a lot of pirates, and I'm not sad to see it knocked down a notch. However, it's probably a mistake to think that this kills the deck. That deck always finds a way to be relevant (at least in lower ranks), regardless of the nerfs that target it.

Swain is going to be terrifying.

Fiora is going to find a way to break the game.

If their goal was to completely shift the entire meta, I think they accomplished that.

That is kinda the goal of a balance patch yeah. Like I dont envy Riot of they add rotation everyone will be pissed.

If they do a massive comprehensive balance patch to shift the meta people will be pissed who aren't me.

So kind of a dammed if you do dammed if you don't scenario.

But I think after this patch lands the already great balance of LOR will be just about perfect.