Just wondering. Every champ in league is pretty similiar in that they are all conventional, i.e. there is no placing of eggs (Murky) or blowing yourself up for tons of damage (Techies). The closest thing League has to an unconventional champ is probably Shaco, and that's pushing it. I think League would really be a lot more entertaining if there were more diverse champs. What do you guys think?
DWT123455 votesCreating soldiers that do all your primary damage
Swallowing other champions
Creating magical portals that other people can take
Nope, there aren't ANY champions with unique mechanics
Sightless662 votesLeague has plenty of champions with unique and unconventional mechanics. Azir has his soldier control. Bard warps allies through walls. Draven has to juggle shit to do damage. Gnar transforms uncontrollably. What would you call these mechanics if not unconventional?
And yeah, it doesn't have a Techies, but fuck Techies. He saps the fun out of whatever matches he's in. The Techies motto is "having fun by making sure 9 other people don't". Screw him. Not every design deserves to see play.
you lovemee1 votesLeague has plenty of champions with unique and unconventional mechanics. Azir has his soldier control. Bard warps allies through walls. Draven has to juggle shit to do damage. Gnar transforms uncontrollably. What would you call these mechanics if not unconventional?
And yeah, it doesn't have a Techies, but fuck Techies. He saps the fun out of whatever matches he's in. The Techies motto is "having fun by making sure 9 other people don't". Screw him. Not every design deserves to see play.
Its not unconventional, unconventional would be something that didn't exist. All those things existed before they were created in other mobas
APrinnyDood2 votesWhat the heck are you talking about? Like hell all those things existed in previous mobas. There haven't been any mobas that use those mechanics. Point me to the juggling champion in a past moba. Show me the past Draven.
Yeah, these mechanics were unconventional when they were thought up, because they didn't exist before and hadn't been done.
you lovemee1 votesI'm not talking about past Moba but these mechanics existed in past MMOs and RTS. They were thought up by other people in the past and Riot took it and put it in League makes it unconventional? Do you know what unconventional means? When those ideas first came out years ago in other games that's unconventional, when you import something from 1 genre to another that's just taking ideas.
APrinnyDood1 votesDoing something that hasn't been done before in a major genre of games isn't conventional just because the idea has existed before. That's not what unconventional means. Unconventional means "not based on or conforming to what is generally done". Just because something has existed before does not mean it is "generally done". There is plenty of shit in this game which has shown up rarely and as a very minor part of past designs, and wasn't made into a major mechanic until being added to League. That's unconventional. Doing things differently even through unusual innovations on past ideas is the core of what unconventional is.
There is no point in going with the definition of "if it's ever been done in MMOs or RTS before than it isn't unconventional". All that means is that no MOBA has ever had any unconventional ideas at all. Every idea in any MOBA was done before. Techies, Murky, Abathur, whatever. All done. It's an unrealistic and nondescriptive standard, so who gives a fuck if we meet it? The term doesn't matter to MOBAs at all. It certainly doesn't describe the concept OP was trying to get across in his post.
RookPusher1 votesThe humble brag of the fanboi sees no logic, only kool-aid.
