Are we going to talk about Rumble?

Rindin14·9/30/2016, 4:05:27 PM·1 votes·427 views

100% winrate at worlds so far, despite losing his lane rather often...Seems to me that the yordle menace has just a little bit too much impact on...everything.

His AOE damage is nuts, combined with no mana costs, good durability, and a shield to mitigate harass. He can sit in lane safely for as long as he wants (often winning 2v1 fights if he is ganked) and when teamfights roll around his ultimate is nearly impossible to win against.

Anyone else seeing something that I am not? I get that Rumble is hard to play, and that his ult is a very hard thing to land, but seriously....it's frustrating to see all of these teams lose against the same exact thing over and over again.

3 Comments

YambrinZ9/30/2016, 5:13:03 PM2 votes

You kind of explained the reasoning in your own post. He is a team fighter and you are surprised he does well in teams that team fight? Besides, your sample size is a bit small. Alistar is also 100% win, as well as Hecarim. In yolo queue he sucks because everyone is off doing their own version of what is the correct thing to do haha.

Rindin149/30/2016, 5:18:33 PM1 votes

I see what you are saying about him being good in teams that teamfight, but my point (which I realize I didn't explain as well as I should have) is that Rumble fits with the atmosphere of professional play perfectly. He excels at teamfighting, can maintain constant lane pressure (thanks for the buff on minion damage) and has a terrifying amount of both damage and durability.

I'm not saying that he should be nerfed, since pro play is not all of Lol, and the meta could change (and balancing champions only around the current meta is a terrible idea) I am just trying to start a discussion about how this could be handled.

Perhaps teams need to prioritize him more, or maybe there is a counter out there that hasn't been found yet

As to the sample size, I know it is small, but 4 out of 4 is starting to border on a statistic that could mean something.

MunchCrunchLunch10/1/2016, 12:04:19 AM1 votes

hes a team figher. and he wins his lane because hes a lane bully.

hes not broken. or op. hes rather. poorly. put together. in terms of strengths or weaknesses.

he has two contrasting strengths. which makes him too verstile.