Champions that should NEVER have been given snowballs

Jrud·5/31/2015, 11:41:39 PM·2 votes·312 views

Riot put snowballs into ARAM as a way to give mele characters with limited quick gap closing abilities (ex: Garen, Alistar, DrMundo) a way to quickly get on top of an otherwise distance-keeping champion like Velkoz, Soraka, or Xerath.

It is great for playing those mele champs, I agree. But in doing this, Riot also gave a HUGE buff to assassin champs, and added further gap closing to champs that already had high gap closing abilities. Here are champions that I would put in these two categories that I don't think have any business being given more mobility than they already have:

High Damage, bursty Assassins: Katarina Akali Annie Diana Fizz MasterYi Talon Yasuo Khazix Zed Leblanc (TOO MANY COMBOS... TOO MANY..., SO SAFE, SO MUCH DAMAGE, IT BURNS)

Champions that already have enough mobility: Katarina LeeSin

Champions that have a crazy AOE damage or CC ability that can single-handedly destroy the enemy team: Katarina Fiddlesticks Galio Morgana Amumu MonkeyKing Ekko Malphite

How to fix this? I have no idea... I'd suggest simply disabling it for these champs, but it seems a little role-ist (kindof like racist but with roles)

Maybe disable certain abilities shortly after the snowballs? I dunno, riot is good at figuring out what to do about problems, but I can tell you, I think some of these champs having snowball is a serious problem cough cough Katarina cough

5 Comments

Jrud6/2/2015, 9:57:15 PM1 votes

Bump...

3TWarrior6/2/2015, 11:15:38 PM1 votes

well, it makes it more fun, and enemy teams don't always have these champs

Erockandroll6/2/2015, 11:40:12 PM1 votes

Honestly, Riot shouldn't just flat out restrict the use of snowball. Really the changes restrict themselves. With doubling the CD on snowball, it losses favor for champs who can't really guaranty use it's engage power. And I say this because it was being picked up regardless by a 5 man squad. (even if your were an ADC or Siege mage.)