Strategic Diversity is being undone

ImperatorVult·8/21/2015, 4:19:43 PM·1 votes·606 views

While this season started with a huge champion pool of viable picks and strategies it has been whittled down more and more through the season. I believe this is from the undermining of pre-existing champs, for example Why risk Galio or Bard or Orianna or Kennen for a brutal stun on enemy players when you can do it on Ekko more often with less risk. Why play DrMundo Sion Nunu when you can buy a warmogs.

Ganking is much easier and successful to the point that unless you have high dmg like Viktor or mobility like Ahri it is too risky, especially against snowballers like Zed Annie Irelia .

Once one champion has begun to snowball it is incredibly hard to work objectives because you cannot sneak barons or dragons with timers and global sounds.

3 Comments

DWT123458/21/2015, 4:41:19 PM2 votes

I'd say that item diversity is the bigger problem. When was the last time you saw somebody take item 3719? Or item 3512? Hell, I've seen about 6 people take elixers ever since they came out.

StealthWarden8/21/2015, 4:32:31 PM1 votes

i havent had that problem personally, so i cant say that i agree.

Sassmast3r8/21/2015, 4:42:15 PM1 votes

This is just my opinion, but I feel like Sated Devourer of everything that has been released this season has been the most heavily impactful strategic diversity wise. I have only seen ONE person not use devourer since it's release, and that was an Evelynn I'm friends with who has actually mastered her. Whenever I'm paired with randoms, they ALWAYS get Devourer enchant because of how incredibly strong the Sated Devourer really is. The worst part is that I see people use Diana or even AKALI once, and still build devourer just because it's apparently so broken and fun. I feel like Sated Devourer breaks a few champions honestly; that's my only problem with it, but the problem is the fact that when people see champions like Udyr, Jax, Shyvana, etc, work so well with this item that they dominate games, they begin to think "Hell I bet it works on everyone, I'm ready to carry with my Sated Devourer Diana" and don't realize that, although it works, is not necessarily very effective. I think I hate it the most because I often times can't tell if some random jungler from team builder is going to build their jungler properly or just build devourer on them, sometimes I even ask them and they just lie about it. Very frustrating for me.