From a balance standpoint, why should any champion in the game have burst damage and sustain damage?

Hibeki·Jan 12, 2015·3 votes·502 views

Meaning they have burst focused kit but have a decent form of sustain damage?

example syndra: Burst kit with sustain Q

9 Comments

SEKAIJan 12, 20152 votes

Well the whole category of ADC.

By mid-late game, their every auto is a burst, and if they don't kill you with their first AA don't worry the second one 0.5 sec later should do the trick.

HURRAAAYYYYYYYYYY

HibekiJan 12, 20151 votes

ADC's are their own problem, don't even act like they are a balance standpoint for the game.

OnegarionJan 12, 20151 votes

But every champ essentially has both. AA for weaker champs are sustained damage and blowing all their CD at once is essentially burst damage.

HibekiJan 12, 20151 votes

Auto attacks in general don't count...

OnegarionJan 12, 20151 votes

Why? You are talking about damage and AA do deal damage. Its not fair to count them out.

Kuroi86Jan 12, 20151 votes

Why are so many champs able to deal sustained damage with their Q. Why do ability based marksmen like Ashe , Caitlyn , Graves , MissFortune , Quinn & Vayne have both burst and DPS for sustained damage. Why do mages, bruisers, assassins, marksmen, supports and even some tanks have sustained damage and burst damage!

HibekiJan 12, 20151 votes

Sigh so many people missing the point.

When I say burst and sustained damage, I mean a LOT of short term damage while still maintaining decent long term damage.

Like Ziggs, ziggs can EQRW not necessarily in that order, but the persisting E, low cooldown Q, and passive gives him decent long term damage as well

Kuroi86Jan 12, 20151 votes

My point is, it's ridiculously common to have a form of persistent damage on top of having burst damage. Most champs have an ability that they can spam like nuts late game, the most some of them need is a target, many don't need that much. Mid game even you see stuff like this. About the only point you don't see many champs going spam happy is early game due to mana constraints.