Who's the most poorly designed champion in the game?

Why is Katarina not on this list..

probably. He's designed to overwhelm people who don't know how to play against him so he can go to other lanes and overwhelm them. However he becomes dead weight if you outplay him once.

He just needs a rework badly. There's nothing great about him, and he's so annoying to play against at first.

Aatrox. Okay concept; gameplay severely lacking. Gimped by his passive and built in lane sustain, cannot be very effective in team fights. What really sucks is that he was hyped up to be a God of War Darkin Race and he inspires armies with his combat prowess, but he turned out to be a solo split pusher that falls off harder than Pantheon's shits down the mountains of Thermopylae. He's outclassed in almost any area he could excel at. There are tanks that do more and sustain better, there are fighters that are stronger, and there are splitpushers who push harder. He's really just a bunch of stats wrapped into a generic fighter champion with a revive passive. I want to like Aatrox. I really do, but I can't find something besides his lore to like about him.

is pretty bad, in that it's never a skill matchup. Either he counters you and there is zero counterplay besides sitting back and waiting for jungler intervention, or you counter him and laugh at his face while you stay barely out of reach and wear him down to nothing, with little he can do about it. Also, his reset is the only one that does NOT trigger on assists, so he is encouraged to KS and not help his team unless theres's an execute in it for him. But then again I love playing him.

may not necessarily be poorly designed, but they ruined the spellvamp stat for everyone because they synergize with it far better than any other champions in the game, and when spellvamp is strong they exploit it to obnoxious levels. she exemplifies the fighter problem. She has a little bit of everything and it's unclear what her role is. She also has very few weaknesses. Her only real weaknesses are true damage and her shit early game. True damage is relatively rare, and people can work around her trash early game (like by taking her jg for example. It's insane, you have to try it!). Once she has some items, she becomes obnoxious to deal with, and it doesn't help that she can build whatever she wants and still do massive damage while also being tanky thanks to her passive and ult.

she's an ADC who can take care of herself just fine. This runs counter to the entire definition of "glass cannon", in that if she is skilled enough, she can fight without someone protecting her because of her mobility, invisibility, and self-peel (this is why smurfs always play Vayne, they can hypercarry the game without depending on the support 20 divisions below them). As interesting as an assassin/ADC hybrid sounds, it just doesn't work out very nicely, at least in this case.

Gonna go with . Doubled crit forcing builds, wind wall is super binary, infinite dashes is just plain dumb, ult is mechanically reliant on comp. He needs a rework!

2nd place for .

I casted my vote for Yorwick, the evil offspring of and . God help us all.

Tossup between Vlad and Riven.

Shields and heals with no cost are an abomination.

Broken by design wise? Poppy is my vote. There is a reason she is kept in an over nerfed to hell state. And nerfed to hell again whenever she gets popular. Riot doesn't want you to use Poppy because her ult and passive are just so broken.

Annie.

Point and Click AP burst mages with AOE stuns are really hard to balance. If there's no risk in pulling off your full combo then it makes it really hard to balance her. She's not OP right now, but it's really hard to keep her in a good place because of her design.

River King/Loch Ness/Gentleman Cho-Gath/Southern Drawl Catfish.

kit = tie between veigar and gangplank overloaded Q's and lack of skill synergy, they're just far too niche usage. design/skin = yorick, i just see a green and brown blob, i dont really see a champion. big hunch and a stick, i wish he had more detail.

Vladimir is literally the reason why Spellvamp is weak.

Kalista! :l

LeBlanc is also poorly designed. I still love her though, she's my main.

Pre-relaunch Sion. He was an abomination of a champion, composed of Arnold Schwarzenegger references, and he was an bruiser tank mage thing. His kit didn't make much sense, he was ugly as sin, and his ridiculous AP scaling made him stupidly powerful with next to zero counterplay.

elise and evelynn top these champs unless you are meaning "broken" or "op" instead of poorly designed

evelynn's only purpose now is to help a lane snowball early(as any jungler does...) and then build tanky late game or die. her kit has little to no synergy with her play style (for instance, an ult that does a small aoe burst damage % current hp that shields her) an assassin with a shield that doesn't function and an ult that literally can't kill its target. Her Q is very short ranged but is a targeted effect. Her E is entirely physical so unless you build AD or nashor's tooth, it's useless to her

elise: her kit is still pretty bad for team fighting

Yasuo has never truly been balanced.

Ekko definitely is up there, dunno why he's not on the list. So is LB, and frankly, I'm just going to say it, Zed's design really isn't healthy.

Vladimir because he scales defensively by building offense and offensively by building defense. And because he ruins the fun of having useful spell vamp on other casters simply by existing. (they have to keep spell vamp a bad stat just so it doesn't break him and maybe akali)

Kassadin. Design team really wanted Zeratul in this game. Too bad this isn't Starcraft. Infinite teleports = dumbest design known to man. Kalista is a strong runner up with the AA hop.

I kinda want to say just because of his ult. It bothers me so much that he's gotten buffs in the past, but they still ignore the fact that most of the time, you need to Flash in order to actually utilize your ult.

is pretty poorly designed. He either gets steamrolled in lane and does nothing all game, or he creates an incredibly infuriating experience for the enemy team with very little interaction or consequences. It's quite literally a case of placing a Shroom and walking away.

and are just as bad. Provided the enemy's health bar drops at a higher/equal rate as your mana bar, you can poke them out of lane with very little interaction. If they try to farm, they get poked down. If they get poked down, they have to recall. If they don't recall, you can all-in with an Execute and plenty of tools to escape/nullify return damage. If they do recall when they get poked down, their tower will die instead.

I honestly cannot decide between Tryndamere or Warwick. Which one do you guys think is worse?