What is the most useless ability in the game?

stealthfox94·Jan 22, 2016·2 votes·2,457 views

I'm not entirely sure. I don't necesarily think that all these abilities are bad just not as useful as they could be.

38 Comments

TroiannJan 22, 20166 votes

The hell? None of these are useless by a long shot.

Most useless ability is Renekton's passive.

He literally doesn't have a passive. It's just an explanation of the fury system.

stealthfox94Jan 22, 20163 votes

But I think his fury mechanic is a useful mechanic.

junglerboy16Jan 22, 20163 votes

But his passive is literally a non-ability. Resources are their own thing.

LordGeovanniJan 22, 20161 votes

actually his passive is the fury mechanic as all seconday resorces that arnt mana are and the empowered attacks that having 50+ fury gives. same as renekton and similar to rek sai

junglerboy16Jan 22, 20165 votes

Uh, none of the above.

Blitzcrank's W is an incredibly important positioning tool.
Zyra's passive may not fit her kit but true damage is never useless at all
Urgot's ult is one of the most powerful abilities in the game, in fact, that ultimate is half the reason he was gutted so hard in the first place.
Ezreal's W provides attack speed to himself and allies. Abilities aren't just about the damage they deal kid.
Talon's passive. You wonder how Talon is so disgustingly bursty? This is the real reason why.
Warwick's E is the strongest part of his kit outside his ult which is a point and click suppression. It offers immensely long ranged vision for free.
Nasus E has a massive armor Shred. Without his E he would deal significantly less damage with his Qs against those squishy ADCs.
Shyvana's Ult is an engage tool, passive and active steroid for everything about her, and lasts almost indefinitely while having a ridiculously low cooldown. If it weren't for the fact that she can be interrupted I'd say it's one of the strongest ults available.
Taric's W. Wow, seriously? You mean to say that the strongest armor buff in the game and the ability that allows his whole team to stomp AD comps is useless? My respect for your opinion just dropped into the cellar.
Nid's Cougar E is her wave clear, is totally mana free, highly spammable AoE nuke. Most comparable abilities cost around 75+ mana and have much longer cooldowns.

If you want to see a bad ability, look at Renekton's passive which is just a tooltip abut how his resource works.

No flash no lifeJan 22, 20161 votes

{quoted} If you want to see a bad ability, look at Renekton's passive which is just a tooltip abut how his resource works.

Same could be said for rumble.

junglerboy16Jan 22, 20161 votes

Except Rumble's passive also allows him to gain a pretty massive on-hit damage steroid (which can be game changing if you manage it right)

Renekton's passive just says "Renekton uses Fury and it makes his abilities stronger," Rumble's says "Rumble uses heat and it makes his abilities stronger, but it also makes him deal a $&%tload of on-hit damage and silences him if he overheats"

No flash no lifeJan 22, 20161 votes

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Except Rumble's passive also allows him to gain a pretty massive on-hit damage steroid (which can be game changing if you manage it right)

That's not his passive, that's the feature of his heat bar when it reaches max, as you said. It's indeed something renekton doesn't have, but its nature is still coming from the heat bar instead of passive.

Think of it this way. You can completely take out that passive icon and its feature; Rumble is still going to gain extra skill dmg when heat bar is over half, and he's still going to be silenced and do on hit dmg when heat bar reaches max. It's the mechanic of his heat bar to begin with.

Edit: Though I guess you can argue rumble's heat bar and renek's fury bar are features of their passives and they'd be like garen if passives are taken out.

DrCyanideJan 22, 20161 votes

Ezreal's W provides attack speed to himself and allies. Abilities aren't just about the damage they deal kid.

Laning Phase Ezreal : Soraka! I choose you! *Uses W* Soraka *Slow whirling sound as bananas fly slightly faster at a tower*

Team fight Ezreal : Go get them team! *Uses W* Zac *Bounces into the enemy team, knocking everyone up but not autoing* Syndra *Just keeps throwing balls at people* Soraka *Slow whirling sound as bananas fly slightly faster at an enemy* Jax *Jumps away to strike an enemy before it hits him*

While I agree that there's more to an ability than just the damage it brings, you almost need a more specialized team than Yasuo or Oriana in order to get much use out of it. The attack speed boost it provides Ezreal is mostly due to his Passive rather that his W, since most Ezreals aren't E-ing into their own W.

Dominick DestineJan 22, 20162 votes

Taric's shatter is complete garbage.

The aura is nice, but the active actually penalizes Taric (Hue) for using it. Imagine if Zed lost 50 base MS for using his shadow ... that sounds reasonable, right?

Z StatisticJan 22, 20162 votes

Taric has 350 armor. Loses 30 to remove 50 from each enemy hit. Totally useless.

No flash no lifeJan 22, 20161 votes

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Taric has 350 armor. Loses 30 to remove 50 from each enemy hit. Totally useless.

He's in aram with four ap teammates ,_,

Dominick DestineJan 22, 20161 votes

Yeah , **first **good luck getting that close.

Second, by the time you have 350 armor, the game will have already been decided.

Third, good job abandoning your ADC during your rush.

Terrible skill. Decent aura though.

Z StatisticJan 22, 20162 votes

Every time I play Taric, I build around 300 armor unless the enemy has someone like Orianna or something. It is incredibly easy to get armor on him.

Mecha MaIphiteJan 22, 20162 votes

Alistar passive

you can go full ap and you'll still only do a whopping 2 autoattacks worth of damage, if you even manage to stay on them for the duration

useless outside of softening minion waves, tower damage is insignificant too

No flash no lifeJan 22, 20162 votes

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passive

Ignores unit collision, allowing alistar to move through targets freely and knock them around as desired.

No flash no lifeJan 22, 20161 votes

Tbh, most of the skills you listed are very important - to the point where I was wondering if you're being sarcastic or not, but I doubt you are.

Edit: In fact ya I can't even pick one to vote on

OverpoweredSoapJan 22, 20161 votes

AD Ezreal's W is just sort of there.

Extra burst damage for like 1 level and after that you're losing dps for using it.

KaiokoJan 22, 20161 votes

Except you can boost the attack speed of anyone hit...

stealthfox94Jan 22, 20161 votes

Which is rarely significant.

junglerboy16Jan 22, 20162 votes

It's pretty significant when pushing towers or in a team fight.

DrCyanideJan 22, 20161 votes

There are 11 towers on the enemy team. If we assume the average game lasts 35 minutes, and Ezreal helps take all of these towers at regular intervals, then he's using his W about once every 190 seconds... for reference, Karthus's ultimate starts with a 200 second CD.

Lets be honest, on AD Ezreal the ability only serves as another way to proc item 3057 .

Aeolian MelodiesJan 22, 20161 votes

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AD Ezreal's W is just sort of there.

Extra burst damage for like 1 level and after that you're losing dps for using it.

enhance whole team's potential to take down buildings and objectives

HolyCrapItsMeJan 22, 20161 votes

None of these seem useless at all to me. zyra's passive is pretty hard to hit though...

PDE5 InhibitorsJan 22, 20161 votes

Blitz's W, Urgot's R, Ez's W, WW's E, Nasus's E, Shyv's R, Taric's W are all EXTREMELY fucking important lol.

I have no clue what talon's passive is or Nid's e.

The only useless one is Zyra's passive, and it's only useless because it's shitty.

No flash no lifeJan 22, 20161 votes

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I have no clue what talon's passive is or Nid's e.

The only useless one is Zyra's passive, and it's only useless because it's shitty.

I think talon passive is more dmg dealt to cc'd target. Quite useful since he slows target when he dives and any additional dmg is important for assasin. Nid e is aoe frontal attack. Without it you clear jungle much slower and you lose early game burst - the strength of nid so to speak.

Zyra's passive is projectile, and you know what happens when projectiles land on the knee.

Edit: I think we need to realize by now that this guy's trying to troll us and we've completely fallen for it zz.

PDE5 InhibitorsJan 22, 20161 votes

You'd be surprised at how many dumb dumbs there are.

LadyRenlyJan 22, 20161 votes

Urgots ult only seems useless at level 6 because of its short range. At level 2 or 3, it's a different story.

Tarics W is what kills people

Im your RomeoJan 22, 20161 votes

! moM rouY

cuddlykitten4Jan 22, 20161 votes

Non AP Nasus's E? You find that armor shred useless for his Q? Come meet me in top, we have much to discuss ;)

OH MAN NOT GOODJan 22, 20161 votes

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Dasdi96Jan 22, 20161 votes

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Annie E.

While people use it to charge up your passive, this is supposed to be evaluated by the ABLITY ON ITS OWN, not in combination with another spell

The armor/mr boost it gives is actually really good and it is why item 3027 is good on her. You will become a kind of tanky mage.

No flash no lifeJan 22, 20161 votes

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The armor/mr boost it gives is actually really good and it is why is good on her. You will become a kind of tanky mage.

Well the stats are far from useless, but I somewhat agree that skill seems out of place for a mage. I mean, if you can replace annie's e with lb's w, will you do it? @_@ I feel like a tanky skill should be used on a tank and annie can definitely use some more dmg skills and/or mobility. (Nope, I'm definitely not trying to make annie op because I intend to main her once I do my jap patch with Rie Kugimiya voice)

L Psy KongrooJan 22, 20161 votes

Aatrox 's entire kit.

No flash no lifeJan 22, 20161 votes

Taric doesnt need to get close, enemy frontlines will dive.

Taric only needs 2 items plus a boot to get 300+ armor. If game ends that early then holy u r too gud or...I hope it's not the other way around.

Adc? Wat adc, I'm top taric yo. Jokes aside, again taric didnt abandon adc, enemy frontline simply dove to his face.

LordGeovanniJan 22, 20161 votes

every single one of these abilites have a great use stupid that blitz cranks w got a slow on in though. expecailly cause blitz crank doent have real good hp and relys on his passive for deceptive tankyness cause even though he is labels as a tank his stats as a tank are putrid. he basically has adc hp but with a sheild that goes on a significant cd

LordGeovanniJan 22, 20161 votes

Most useless skill pick any of rivens skills they are all so gated by cdr and are really hard to use. and they scale so poorly. Kappa