Anyone else feel like GA makes watching pro play a lot less interesting?

HZB·8/28/2016, 5:43:12 AM·10 votes·838 views

Just a thought. I feel like makes team fights a lot less interesting to watch, particularly in pro play, and particularly on . He's already annoying for people to kill when he builds full tank, with his cc and still pretty strong damage, but then you add GA, and too me, it's just dumb to watch. Maybe I just don't understand the skill involved, but watching an Ekko get out of every kill attempt is really annoying. And watching other incredibly tanky/high-cc champs survive after finally getting destroyed is really unsatisfying to watch.

Just curious to see what other players think about this.

7 Comments

LankPants8/28/2016, 7:42:52 AM5 votes

If you remove GA or make it less viable that doesn't more would happen in pro play. The exact opposite would happen. If remove a method of mitigating risks pros simply stop taking those risks. You'd just see Ekkos ulting out earlier with less fights occurring overall.

The same thing happened with early vision. People assumed that with less wards pros would see fewer ganks comming and die more. What actually happened is that pros stopped ever extending in lane. You just ended up losing the rare aggressive 1v1 kills which happened infrequently up to that point all together.

And you are right on one thing, Ekko is a retarded champion. The solution to this however isn't to change or blame items. Ekko is the problem. The solution is to treat him as other cancerous champions have been treated historically. Gutter stomp his arse and throw him right to the back of the rework queue.

invisiblecat18/28/2016, 6:04:41 AM1 votes

I hate GA as an item. It gives so much for so cheap. You get armor and MR along with the passive that makes zilean ult useless and is a must buy since damage is so high and everyone dies in 1/2 a second

JackMcSnipeyz8/28/2016, 6:35:41 AM1 votes

It's annoying, but it has a huge cooldown and if it's build on anything but tanks it's stats dont add much (ADC doesn't suddenly turnd to a tank). I understand the frustration, but i dont think the item needs changes, it's a niche

RisenDarkKnight8/28/2016, 2:52:29 PM1 votes

Yeah I think the GA buffs can be reverted. It's not just LCS, I see it built like 4x every game in Dynamic Queue if the game goes past 30 mins. It's too cheap right now.

hotarse8/28/2016, 2:58:00 PM1 votes

the GA shuld be removed and given as a passive on one of the support items.