Champions need at least ONE counter

Visigoth··3 votes·431 views

Every champion needs to have a counter. You can't have the select 5 that are just absolutely absurd, another 100 mediocre champions, and then 10 garbage ones. The only counterplay to someone picking a champion shouldn't be to just dodge.

Why not let at least one champion just destroy Darius or Skarner. Remember how you dealt with Kassadin back in the day? Talon. We don't have that right now. That's the difference between broken champs now and broken champs then. There was at least one person who could kill a champion. Sure, LeeSin had an overloaded kit, but even with his great early game, Pantheon had one even stronger to deal with him.

The power creep is just so ridiculous right now, that champions are coming out with literally nothing able to counter them. Yasuo had high damage, defense from ranged attacks, and high mobility, along with CC. But as soon as a sticky melee like Jax or XinZhao got to him, he was donion rings. Yeah, Khazix could just demolish your team and invis away while jumping around and taking 50% reduced damage, but then LeeSin came around and suddenly he didn't have invis anymore. Olaf used to be an absolute beast, but after some guts, a new term called "Olafing" and eventual buffs and item changes, he's viable. And now a huge monster to melee fight. But he still gets kited like a mother fucker by any ranged champion with some kind of mobility.

Just remember guys, even the nightmare Kassadin could get stuck with Talon, but right now we don't have a Talon for some champions. And now nobody can stop some champions. So why not give Renekton his power back? Why not let Talon silence people? Why not let Akali ravage around again. Because we've all seen this before, and sooner or later Darius is going to get Olaf'd, and we won't see him for years. We don't need more champions like Kassadin to get gutted into useless garbage, so why not revamp old, trash-tier champions, and let them put new god-tier champs in their place. That way we can not only get some champs out of the gutter, but also prevent more from getting put there.

Darius is a struggle? Give him old Renekton. At least give Renek more heal and his ult regen back. It'd be so perfect to counter him, and right now I honestly don't think Renekton in his old state would be that big of an issue. Besides, Renekton's heals never let him 1v5 and just penta.

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luckmallory1 votes

Jayce shits all over Darius. They do have counters

RyzeRework1 votes

pick vlad and farm see that he has no counter

67chrome1 votes

Every champion needs to have a counter. You can't have the select 5 that are just absolutely absurd, another 100 mediocre champions, and then 10 garbage ones.

There aren't 5 champions that are absurd. Champion viability is a really subtle and steady gradient. Win rates, tournament performance, and especially how rapidly the meta can shift indicate balance is extremely close.

The only counterplay to someone picking a champion shouldn't be to just dodge. Why not let at least one champion just destroy Darius or Skarner.

Look at these 2 scenarios:

Champion A is picked because they're X% better than the next guy. Everyone plays them, but you can beat them if you play X% smarter, use your kit X% more efficiently, communicate with your team X% better, **or **hit your item spikes X% sooner.

Champion A is picked. Your opponent picks champion B, which completely destroys champion A.

Which scenario encourages the only counter-play being dodging?

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