In the past few months, a series of streamers from North America and Europe have landed on the Korean server to challenge themselves. First, TFBlade and then names like Katevole, Thebausffs, YamatoDeath, Tyler1… all performed rank climbing on the Korean server. The most prominent among them is definitely Thebausffs with his champion Sion and his special, unique but effective gameplay.
It seems that Thebausffs’ goal when going to Korea was just to climb to Challenger, so after reaching this milestone, he returned to Europe not long after. However, when he returned to his hometown, Thebausffs received bad news when his champion Sion was heavily nerfed in the form of a zombie because the amount of damage done to the structure was drastically reduced. Moreover, the item that the guy uses a lot, the Tien Cong Hammer, also eats a lot of nerfs, so Thebausffs couldn’t hide his frustration in recent streams.
Thebausffs was quite upset about being unreasonably nerfed
Thebausffs: “Are you asking me if I knew about Sion’s nerf? Yes, I did and it was a ridiculous decision. Who the hell would think Sion is a strong champion? To myself, who I’ve played Sion a lot, I don’t even think this is a strong champion. Why did Riot go to nerf this champion while ignoring a bunch of other Top lane champions?”
Thebausffs’ complaints are basically true when Sion is a relatively underselected champion in solo queue and the win rate is only around 49%. In addition, Sion also rarely appears in tournaments, so this champion cannot be called OP in the hands of professional players. The only reason Riot nerfs Sion is that they don’t want to see players take advantage of the Zombie form to destroy towers.
Riot wants to prevent kills but still eats turret shields too easily
Recently, Riot Games announced that they are looking to reduce damage output in League of Legends and want the game to be slower. That’s why Riot did this to prevent a game that accelerates the game by taking advantage of Sion’s Zombie form to destroy the house. Either way, it can be seen that this editing decision from Riot Games is quite absurd and deserves criticism.
The fact that nerfing a champion with less than 50% win rate is quite confusing from Riot
In contrast to Sion, the nerf Hammer of Progress received a lot of support from gamers. The amount of stats is so great that this item can be bought by most Top lane champions at extremely cheap prices. Having the nerf limit damage to structures on basic attacks will make this item a lot harder to use than before.
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