Why do people hate the Enchanter class so much?

Sushicat144··1 votes·729 views

What the title says, thanks :)

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NemeBro3 votes

Huge impact with relatively little input from the player, as well as limited counterplay.

Ahristocats2 votes

i love enchanters and that is comming from a Mordekaiser main and a former Darius main

Infernape2 votes

Because they're the most uninteractive class in the game. Their entire archetype is invisible power. Some enchanters (especially enchanter hybrids) aren't included in that (like Rakan and Taric) because both of them have to interact to heal (Rakan has to hit a skillshot and Taric has to keep auto attacking to stack his Q). All enchanters generally do is press a shield/heal button and loiter and occasionally cast summoner spells.

ProfDrDeath2 votes

Because Enchanters are primarily c##kblocking champions. And the general playerbase doesn't like it if anything disrupts their "mad-leet-skillz-roll-face-on-keyboard" plays and forces them to act more strategically.

Case in point: Janna . After her mini-rework, the only part of her kit that can be considered invisible power is her passive - and even that has a visual effect when active nowadays and is rather conditional.

Śhunpo1 votes

Did you forget her shield which grants bonus AD?

ProfDrDeath1 votes

Invisible Power is power that cannot be seen through appreciable in-game effects.

Janna's shield creates a pretty obvious bubble around its target. And, since the shielded person hits noticeably harder while that is active, it should not be too difficult to correlate cause and effect.

Taric's armor-increasing aura, for contrast, the one that increased Armor of all nearby allies all the time, is invisible power. Or Janna's previous passive which gave everyone bonus MS just for Janna being alive.

Attticus Finch1 votes

"Invisible Power is power that cannot be seen through appreciable in-game effects."

Wrong. Invisible power is any kind of stat increase that can't be interacted with. Steroids are invisible power, buffs are invisible power, damage reduction is invisible power. The visual FX has little to do with it.

FullmuteAll play1 votes

idk why, I really like to kick enchanters during lane phase

Attticus Finch1 votes

Because enchanter buffs are invisible power.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

cuz they take no skill obviously :^)

and no one likes laning w/ them because you basically afk farm unless they are said mains of that champ and knows to actually try to do something

Śhunpo1 votes

Because they're supports which outdamage carries in the early game, have amazing build options, have outstanding peel for their team and shields and heals to keep their team alive.

Additionally, they're supports which press 1-2 buttons and their job is done. As such there's not much room for interaction either in laning or mid game if they play passive, e.g. Janna shield.

Furthermore, they actually get rather tanky due to the stats. attached to items such as Locket, Sightstone, Redemption and Talisman. This defeats the whole "utility supports are squishy" concept.

If that still doesn't convince you why they're frustrating I should also say that enchanters are overloaded with utility. Janna has a knockup, slow+self movespeed, movespeed for allies, a shield which grants AD and a heal+knockback. Lulu has a slow, bonus damage, an obnoxious targeted CC ability or attack speed+movespeed buff, a shield which gives her ally bonus damage or a targeted harassment tool which allows for her Q to almost be guaranteed to hit, and then she has a temporary HP steroid which knocks up nearby enemies+slows enemies around her target. Soraka is honestly the only "balanced" enchanter because she's not overloaded with utility. She mainly heals, occasionally silences and tosses out a slow every few seconds. Nami is an odd one. She is overloaded, however she isn't that frustrating to play against because her primary peel ability is rather slow and easy to avoid.

Overall, enchanters are far too good at what they do and are frustrating to play against because unlike wardens they hardly ever commit themselves to a fight, they just sit at the back providing utility and peeling for their allies if anyone gets too close. Although, if Janna's E and Lulu's W were skillshots they'd be much less frustrating to fight.

P.S: Remove Ardent Censer.

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