Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-28112409-20171018053338/@comment-30105631-20171024064744

Jallybwan wrote: ProfessorArceus wrote: Vamps are annoying and ruins games. '''In your opinion. Three words, Professor, and it makes what you say actually true. ''' Doesn't mean that they're unbalanced. That's actually quite common, thinking a role is unbalanced because it's boring.. '''As I said, balance and fun go hand in hand, but aren't the same thing. You're just repeating what I said, but making it seem like it's a bad thing. (Which it's not.)''' Take Medium for example. People are saying that it's so weak. It isn't. It has huge potential and in he ideal game it is very balanced. There tend to be more scumslips in dead chat. Sometimes experienced players feed reads through the medium. The medium is incredibly powerful, but its drawback is the fact that it is swingy and dependant on the dead. '''That's the main thing crippling it. If there's no chance of being revived by a Ret, most players will just leave, which in turn leaves the Medium nearly useless.''' The points you brought up Jally all depend on the incalculable variable - the players. Unless the debate is about players, they should never be able to swing one because the truth is every game is different, and even though negativity and bad players in the community are very much expected, I find that a lot of my ranked games aren't as filled with noobs as most believe. I won around 7 of my placements in ranked this season, and only one of the ones I won were carry games.

The myth that the majority of ToS players is overblown, a legend perpetuated by a vocal minority, but the game's playerbase isn't as cancerous as everyone seems to think.

Besides, the skill of the town is just another variable, and with more opportunity for randomness in the new role list, each game is different from the last.