I think I now realize why Ghostcrawler dislikes "melee slap fighters"

IsIsGankedParis··5 votes·835 views

I was playing a game in ranked as Darius(surprise surprise) when my Nautilus and I get caught out by the enemy Leona and Renekton and we decide to engage in a duel.

Long story short, I ult within 5 seconds of the engagement(knowing this will be a hard battle) and since my ult was on a 60 second cooldown(this was 35 minutes in the game) my ult comes back off cooldown and neither side is below half health because of both sides tankiness and sustain through items. Both sides ADC's and other players were watching and commenting in all chat how this was a battle of the titans and that neither side will fall for a long time.

Fast forward 1:38ish after the initial engagement, Nautilus and I come out on top and win the engagement with both sides saying; "After an eternity later, the battle is finally over."

I found it fun and all but it did seem kind of stale, I think I sort of understand how boring that can be to watch from an audiences perspective but man that was fun to play as Darius.

Nautilus hated that whole fight as he did 0 damage when his shield was down.

6 Comments

FrozenIndustry13 votes

Nautilus hated that whole fight as he did 0 damage when his shield was down.

I've been saying forever that Riot needs to separate the damage of Naut's W from the shield duration. You're lucky to get it to last more than 5 seconds in a regular fight.

Sire Hippington5 votes
  1. This sounds like all of you did built 100% fulltank, otherwise you will not need that long to kill anyone as darius, unless u are far behind. 25%arpen from E, high stacking up damage from passive and a truedamage execute, darius is **the **anti-tank-bruiser

  2. As u said your self, such fights can be incredible fun to play, and i think the fun of the players should be more important than the fun of an eventual esports audience in a game

redniwediS4 votes

The way I see it the problem wasn't the whole "slap fight" thing, it's that the team members of those involved did nothing. They could have come and helped you, or perhaps pushed a distant lane since they know where a few enemies are. The fight itself might be a bit stale to some people, but keeping an enemy busy for over a minute can be an advantage.

PerishSoftly2 votes

Naut that didn't build Devourer? I love Devourer as Nautilus, it gives him all the damage he needs in a fight, and you still have a ton of space to build tanky. Additionally, you are rewarded for being tanky and assisting in fights, and your clear speed is greatly improved.

Talamare1 votes

I support and love those types of fights, but really if it took you guys nearly 2mins to kill each other... One group could have easily walked to a tower to end the fight

PatMcGroyn1 votes

When Sion's rework first came out, we had a mirror match top lane, and when we were full build, we both duked it out in the Drag pit with the whole team watching. I was able to ult at the beginning and end of the fight. I won though cause I had BotRK to his Tri Force.

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