Stat-Sticks

I'm tired of it. I really, really am. At what point am I supposed to take this game seriously when so many champs on the roster get free stats just for existing, or on a single button press? gets double crit chance, which is 2000 gold worth of free crit by his second item, 50% free armor pen when he lands his ult, which is nearly as much armor pen as a Lord Dominiks + a full stacked black cleaver (35% from Lord, 24% for fully stacked cleaver is 59%) and don't even get me started on his shield and CDR on his Q with attack speed.

gets up to 50% bonus movement speed and fucking EIGHTY PERCENT bonus attack speed on his ult which is 2000 gold worth of free attack speed. Let's not even get into the godforsaken passive or his W.

Get's 40 AD and up to 90 move speed forward just by pressing R. 1400 gold worth of AD just with an R press.

Gets 110% free attack speed with her Q (not even ult!), 2750 gold worth of attack speed on a single button press.

None of these abilities even have to be landed to give the full gold value up front of what they do. And notice, ALL of these champions are balance nightmares and are constantly complained about on the boards. These are hardly the only examples. How many patches did it finally take to nerf back out of relevance?

just headbutting their all in since they get so many free stats off of their passives and abilities that even from behind they can often just faceroll a combo and stat check you into next week? How about having miss both her root and her ult and somehow manage to come back and stat check you because fervor + conqueror is fucking disgusting?

And how about we talk about conqueror while we're on the topic of stat-checking. Sustain, true damage, and up to 30 (1050 gold worth) AD/AP all rolled into one package. What are the requirements, you might ask? Hit an ability or auto. You get 8 seconds between hits to keep your stacks up. There is no other keystone that lasts as long nor gives as much as a conqueror.

Even the supports. The most complained about support for year after year? that's right, . Because with a single button press she's giving a good 1400+ gold worth of AD to a champion that's gonna double that on a crit.

Year after year after year it gets worse. They are finally reworking whose entire kit was built around stat checking with a stupid amount of %hp magic damage and sustain.... only to have his ult allow him to reliably stat-check the enemy adc because he can force the 1v1 from an absurd range and no marksmen is beating a bruiser 1v1. Neat. Who enjoys counterplay anyway?

Stop with the god damn power creep. Pull damage back, pull cdr back, and rework these godforsaken stat check factories. Nothing in the universe is more tilting then watching someone miss everything in their kit, get caught out of position, fail burn a summoner on nothing, only to turn around and WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK FUCKING STATS BOY! (looking at you especially ) It's nearly every freaking game. There's no skill expression. No counterplay. No teamwork. Build full AD and show me your stats, that's how you win. I've watched a get CC'd for four entire seconds only to pop out with Conq fully stacked and heal through everything because conq + a dorans blade + full crit at 24 minutes = half his HP back per Q. How many slows and dashes do you need to actually chase and kill or run away from an ?

Do you think is played because of his outplay potential? or every ability in his kit just dumps free gold on him to an extent that a level 3 Lee sin can 1v1 any other jungler in the game cuz he's got 'stats'. Probably both, if I'm honest, but I digress.

It needs to change. The reworks are going in the complete opposite direction. , , and upped the skill curve on this champs but didn't remove their stat-checky nature. New champs aren't much better. and are just a stat check and a stat stick respectively. had to have his passive nerfed around five times before it knocked him out of god-tier pick. And ? 2.0, although with a higher skill cap I will admit.

There's nothing that raises my blood pressure pre-match more than knowing I'm laning against a champion that even if I dodge their entire kit and land all of mine they are still going to stat-check me for most of the game. Nothing kills my drive faster than bullying a out of lane only for him to hit level six and stat check me under my own turret without minions despite being down a level and 30 CS.

I can't be the only one.