Fellow summoners, which champions do you believe to be poorly designed and why?

Bishasaurus Flex·Sep 13, 2017·1 votes·407 views

I really only play midlane/sup and sometimes top. I play a lot of Syndra and I honestly believe her to be a very poorly designed champion. She has insanely high Mana costs (more than other midlaners save Lux/Veigar), is very high risk low reward, and is one of the champions that relies even more heavy on positioning. Throw in a point and click ultimate that does "tons of damage", and you have terrible champion design. Every update to Syndra either makes her stupidly powerful or insanely weak, and she is very buggy (her weird ultimate studder, her stuns don't register etc).

I wanna hear who you guys think is poorly designed and why.

9 Comments

Lost RSep 13, 20173 votes

Nunu.

Role: Support/Tank/Mage and somehow manages to be none of them.

Passive provides a largely minor and negligible boost to his four skills at the cost of no mana. Requires basic attacks to charge up (try hitting ANY minion as a support and see how that turns out).

Q: Minor heal and execute on a single minion. Temporary bonus when chomping large monsters.

W: Negligible movement speed bonus and attack speed bonus on himself and a single ally for 12 seconds. Passive adds an insulting 1% movement speed bonus.

E: Targeted damage/movement/attack speed slow. Pretty much the only good skill on Nunu, and even then it's too good.

R: AOE slow/charge that deals massive damage. Good for clearing out huge waves of minions and executing squishies, but Riot could do better.

JooshBoxSep 13, 20172 votes

Going to have to agree with the above post. Nunu is pretty outdated in every aspect. I think the Oddone put it best when he said: "with nunu, your job is to make the enemy jungler more useless than you are." His kit is boring, his thematic is boring and underutilized, and most people don't even know Nunu is the kid atop the Yeti. I hope he on the list of champions for a VGU soon.

Bishasaurus FlexSep 13, 20171 votes

Holy cow I forgot Nunu even existed. I guess that further proves the point that he's severely outdated. I hope to see him with a VGU as well.

BranbearSep 13, 20172 votes

Wukong

Xin Zhao does the same exact thing, gap closer, q ability is a steroid, both have knock ups, dive backline and disrupt enemy team by using your ultimate. Well Xin Zhao is getting reworked and I think Wukong could use some attention too. The only thing I like about wukong is his W but thats the only "skill expression" he has.

Mens Hair ClubSep 13, 20171 votes

Nunu because he's worthless but he's going to make one person on the enemy team as useless as he is. he has potential for an interesting debuff based tank (I think that'd be far more interesting than another spam-slow champ), but he falls flat in almost every way

Kindred because there is no middle ground with her, she either gets her pseudoRNG stacks and dominates you or doesn't and she flops past laning. needed a bigger rework than what she got tbh

DariusDemiurgeSep 13, 20171 votes

Morgana. She needs to be like she is in doombots. Her current form doesn't do her justice. :3c

Bishasaurus FlexSep 13, 20171 votes

Lol Morgana is Lux 2.0. Better wave clear, better shield, better Q. However I would like to see her get some love as well.

DariusDemiurgeSep 13, 20171 votes

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Lol Morgana is Lux 2.0. Better wave clear, better shield, better Q. However I would like to see her get some love as well.

I'm just meeting my quota for daily Morgana comments as people on the boards expect of me.

Only thing I'd likely want is maybe some cd time cut a bit cause even with cdr I feel like I'm doing nothing for long periods of time. As well as an increase to her 450 aa range. Since the beginning of league I never understood why her aa range was on par with someone like urgot's while other AP champs had normal to large aa ranges.

ForFoxSakesSep 13, 20171 votes

Vayne -Never in a good spot. Either insanely OP or deadweight useless -%HP truedamage counters everything -Meant to be a tankbuster but also is an everything buster -No counterplay to invisibility 2.0