Stop lowering Ult cds!

130x·4/5/2018, 9:54:00 AM·112 votes·5,289 views

I am completely sick of this. Where is the option to outplay anyone when ult cds are dropping to under 30 seconds on average. I do not understand the point of this. People complain about "snowball," and it is not even that, it is this ult cd crap. Ult cds should never be under 60 seconds ever, they are powerful champ deleters in most cases and there should be opportunities to play around them. Penalties for using ults early or at the wrong time. Now there is not. Ults are just another regular ability and now champs like lux should be able to use 3 ults per teamfight.... I try not to think of Riot as trolls right now but it increasingly becomes tougher and tougher. This shit makes 0 sense.

151 Comments

nelogis4/5/2018, 10:28:16 AM60 votes

"hey he used his lvl 1 R like 40 secs ago, I think I should be able to.... nah he has it up again... anyway thats a silly death but now that I'm back to lane there is no way that he just ults aga.... fuck this game"

Battalion4/5/2018, 11:00:04 AM25 votes

Lux Katarina Blitzcrank

Yup

DunkmasterDennis4/5/2018, 12:47:51 PM23 votes

Fucking late game Tryndamere

Dope Solo4/5/2018, 3:01:50 PM19 votes

The balance team is the chief problem.

Frog goes moo4/5/2018, 1:28:05 PM17 votes

How much of a troll Taliyah would be if she had 30 second cooldowns.

hhaavviikk4/5/2018, 1:25:11 PM17 votes

I remember when they increased the CD of I believe garen's ult because ''it felt bad to die to his ult in lane and then when you returned it was up again so we're increasing the cooldown''

now it's low cd ults party

Alevity Xiaku4/5/2018, 3:50:32 PM16 votes

Let me explain this to you as a Lux player. For one, as many have pointed out, her ult is dodgeable and the snare to be ulted is dodgeable.

Lux's kit's power requires that she uses ult. Without her ult, she pretty much just pokes relatively negligible damage(unless she's ahead) or you have awful positioning. So what happens if she misses her ult in a team fight? Then she waits for her ult to be up which means she's not contributing to fights much. So what happens if you kill someone with her ult in a team fight? Then she still waits for her ult cd. The CD reduction is so that a Lux that does her job can continue to be relevant in team fights. You can go "boohoo why does she get 2-3 ults in a fight," but for her to do so, she needs to be winning that fight AND other champions have abilities at their disposal to use without waiting on a CD. ADC can just auto and crit for "900" damage consistently throughout the team fight.

Lux's ult is pretty much her main damage in a rotation, the resets are just so she can keep doing her job if she's doing well. The assist change was made because recently, due to shield, hexdrinker, supports, that one rune that's pretty much hexdrinker, Lux's ult doesn't always execute, even on a squishy. Now with this buff she gets the reset if the ult would have killed the enemy but your team is who gets the last hit.

Some ults are designed so that it's what a champion needs to finish an opponent. I mean that's how assassins work and their ult CD can be even lower or fully reset.

Melledoneus4/5/2018, 4:41:49 PM9 votes

Karthus No, keep going.

Shen Soon, my friend. Soon.

Yorick We will have our revenge.

koshkyra4/5/2018, 1:49:32 PM9 votes

I mean you can just dodge the laser

MangoInfinity14/5/2018, 1:53:16 PM9 votes

what about akali, teemo, kog'Maw, etc.

xSightlessx4/5/2018, 2:29:28 PM6 votes

What about kassiden?

Masala Chai4/5/2018, 4:42:26 PM4 votes

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AMYS GRAVE4/5/2018, 10:46:03 PM4 votes

That's definitely part of the power creep.

VortexV94/5/2018, 8:22:15 PM3 votes

Agree.. It's very dump how Lux can use ult so often...

Daizumi4/6/2018, 2:27:27 AM3 votes

Udyr at least I get to choose which ability is at a 60+ second cooldown.

In all seriousness I agree to a certain extent. I remember two seasons ago you actually had to choose between having 40 CDR or having more stats which was a delicate decision. Randuins omen or frozen heart etc. now practically everything gives CDR and it's so easy to reach the cap without sacrificing damage or any stats.

Tahminatrix 4/5/2018, 5:22:18 PM1 votes

TahmKench still has one of the highest cds when you have a full cdr + ultimate hat + presence...does that mean tahm`s ult is gamechanging? He cant babysit the splitpusher and wait to ult them in because most of the time he is the only thing stopping the enemy team from engaging.....

Why are super crazy damaging / ccing group fight ults lower than his....