Lets rant on riot fixers!
Well its that time a year again. I get tired of the most irritating champion in the league (ryze) and decide to talk about how riot fucked up by removing his counter. I shall also talk about the basics of reworking a champion. As most of you know im a sion main. Old sion not the new one. I have reasons to believe that riot was throwing darts at a bunch of pictures and made a champion. Ok they were watching the finale of justice league ultimate and then they got told by their boss "you need to rework sion". Riot fixers:"awww do we have to? I just want to finish this episode." their boss "yes two years ago you said you would and you still haven't decided this."
Riot fixers sighed. They saw darksied and said "that's the new champion just fix him around a little and maby make a reference to demacia." boss replied "and his kit." riot fixers sighed picked up a dart put a blindfold on and chucked a dart at the walls. it hit spirit breaker "that's his ultimate." they said "just make it be able to hit terrain." boss said "and the rest of his kit?" "FINE" fixers said they threw another dart and they hit sions old ult "that's his passive." the boss said "are you kidding me? that would be op." fixers sighed and threw 2 more darts and they hit swains ult and yoricks ghouls "that's his weakness rapidly depleting and health." "the rest of his kit?" boss said. the fixers threw a few more darts it landed on morganas binding swains nevermore and udyr. "his q is a forever long cc that we will never work on that's melee and has a cast time." then the threw a few more darts and it hit sions e and his w with nautilus. "its a shield that stacks health and increases based on health and ap" then for his e they hit nothing. "his e is useless." the boss said "you guys really don't care do you?" the fixers said "nope." the boss said "you know a lot of players love the old sion and your takeing food from the people that love old sions mouth right?" the fixers said "we don't care hes not op enough for us to try to keep him in the game" and then this abomination was born.
If you noticed I put that fixers keep op champs in the game. lets look at the factors. Nidalee still has her q and it still hurts like hell late game with a heal for 600 and now even an epic engagement basically ap zed. (get deathcap challace and lich bane and only upgrade challace into athanes as last item) Kassadin still has his ultimate that is infinite mobility. Gragas still has his decent ap scaleing and epic burst. Rengar still has his ability to outplay someone with a heal and tons of burst damage. and skarner still has the ability to permalock you but now does it with stuns. So why does riot hate remakeing op af champions but love to remake champions that wernt hurting anyone? well lets make a new paragraph
I have reason to believe that all rioters think that we are droolies. And for the most part we are. Im not saying that your a drooly but the community shows. Proof? Lets look at the champions they removed. Mainly karma and sion. (I'm sorry xerath fans but I don't think your kit was very well changed all it did was make it a bit more of a longer ranged champions and be able to move. His ult really is just a smaller version with a longer range of the old one.) Karma was a champion that entirely required on telling your team GO GO GO. basically all you were doing was looking at the fight getting stacks and keeping an initiator alive. But you also had to know when to pull off your initiator and peel the carry. This required a lot of thinking and was entirely knowledge based. You could decimate on karma if you knew what you were doing. And this means you required to think. Sion was a champion that I could rant on for a hour. You could quickly transition to any part of the fight and usually had to do it 3-5 times in a single teamfight. He had to know when to farm and when to teamfight. And you couldn't get teleport on him as he needed the finishing for early game. Once again this takes tons of knowledge over skill. You can become the murderboss if you knew what you were doing or you could feed. I think that gbay best describes knowledge vs skill as in his video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxeVz-aOe4Q he goes in depth with it. Anyway bolth of these champions require knowledge over skill. This will certainly be like the mechanic over the pilot kind of thing (mechanics use their brain to make a plane work and pilots use skill to use the plane. usually they say that bolth do eaiser jobs.)
With last paragraph I showed that all knowledge based champions are being taken out of the game while skill champions (nidalee gragas kassadin) are being kept. That's why I have reason to believe that riot thinks were morons. They keep the champions that have heavy skillshots and power while removeing the champions that don't have skillshots but require knowledge. I do admit that it does take some knowledge to play skillshot heavy champions but it also takes some skill to play knowledge based champions. Welp that's all I have to say on this issue.
btw sion when rushed spirit visage counters ryze
~mosdeadly, the corpsemaker