If you love Poppy, Vladimir, Akali and Yorick for their bull$#1t mechanics, I feel no sympathy.

Holgranth··7 votes·1,040 views

Riot is not going to intentionally make them viable with their current mechanics, those "selfish bastards" aren't interested in ruining the game for 5-9 people so you can have fun.

If you play Poppy because you like being a badass Yordle thing that slams people into walls more power to you. If you play her because you like being a ticking time bomb that removes all decision making from the enemy team at 30-35 minuets too bad. Everyone else in the game's fun > your fun.

If you like Vladimir because he has a cool theme and you want to be a vampire I am down with that. But if you like him because he has a free heal that causes damage, massive amounts of free stats and no meaningful ability costs with spellvamp, too bad, back of the bus.

If you love Akali because she is a sexy ninja lady with cool weapons that dashes around the battlefield you and I will probably get along well. If you love her because any time Riot meaningfully buffs her she becomes a free ticket to one division higher than your skills deserve, you can go commit unnatural acts with a cactus.

If you have a fetish for Yorick because he raises the dead to do his bidding you are well within your rights. But if your real fetish is for making your opponent's laning phase a living hell and denying them the ability to farm or interact with the game in any meaningful way, well you get the idea.

Frequently Regurgitated Arguments:

"But (Poppy Akali Vladimir Yorick ) is just a few minor tweaks away from being viable and balanced, large changes are unnecessary!!" _Wrong, there has never been a time where any of these champions have been balanced or fun to play against. They are broken by design, Riot has tried to "tweak" Akali in particular through small number passes and changes to item 3146 several times. She remains a binary mess, useless when behind, unbeatable when ahead unless she makes a big mistake. _

"But (Toxic mechanic X) has been a part of (Poppy Akali Vladimir Yorick )'s kit forever." Yes Riot should have made many sweeping changes to these champions much earlier. It is only in the last couple of years they are fixing past mistakes instead of cranking out new champions every two weeks.

"But I love playing them" When they are behind the curve most people don't want to have them on their team, holding out while Vladimir or Poppy farms or spoon feeding Akali kills so they can be relevant is not most people's idea of fun. When ahead of the curve only masochists that delight in having all control taken away enjoy playing against them.

"I am a (Poppy Akali Vladimir Yorick ) main and I don't find them frustrating to play against." _We can argue all day but it essentially comes down to the face that most Rioters and the vast majority of the playerbase find them frustrating and feel they remove too much decision making from the game. _

12 Comments

Sniper 03 votes

I can't really agree with akali because her weaknesses are clearly defined at every point in the game.

Vlad has them early game but then he becomes a monster later. Poppy is also weak early game but she has the same problem as vlad (minus the infinite sustain). Then there's Yorick who's weaknesses are not clearly defined at any point in the game.

Holgranth2 votes

Your reading comprehension sucks. This isn't about having weaknesses, this is about the very core design of the champions.

All these champions are deliberately kept weak because any time they are strong they are frustrating to play against and ruin the game for the enemy team.

Riot is moving away from the idea that "counterpicking" or "weak early game" are acceptable reasons for binary mechanics with no meaningful counterplay.

Count Zubat3 votes

Greetings from Vlad main. Haters gonna hate Vladimir

But okay, I can see how some of Vlad's mechanics are very annoying, but bullish*t? You know, at least his Q doesn't snare you (Ryze ), and when it comes to his invulnerability, there is actually a champ who has much worse invulnerability than Vlad (Fizz)

Yes, I'm gonna defend Vlad, cause his my main. You can say I am biased :p

As for others you mentioned, they are bullsh*t champs. Poppy and Yorick are just broken designwise, and Akali... well, she's Akali, what else can you say.

I wonder why you picked those four champs, while there are a lot, lot more champs which are bullsht. Maybe these are just four which you despise the most. I myself feel no symphaty towards Riven and Trynda mains, those two are bullsht too.

Holgranth5 votes

Vlad would be absolutely fine if he had real meaningful costs on his abilities after spellvamp.

BlackEyesBlue2 votes

Why the vamp- oh I'm sorry! "Hemomancer" doesn't have a mana bar has always boggled my mind. :/

Count Zubat1 votes

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Why the vamp- oh I'm sorry! "Hemomancer" doesn't have a mana bar has always boggled my mind. :/

Why wind samurai doesn't use mana? Why a woman using magic broken sword doesn't use mana? Why noxian assassin dudette spinning daggers doesn't use mana? The list goes on and on. At least Vlad uses health. I know, spell vamp makes his abilities practically free to cast, but at least before buying revolver he somewhat has to worry about his health. And besides, he is hemomancer: blood mage, so he uses blood for casting spells. Even going by the the path of being vampire, vampires aren't wizards: their powers aren't some kind of spells, these are super natural abilities, and vampire's powers are restricted only by sunlight (but than again, if we would make Vlad weaker in sunlight he would suck on every map other than Twisted Treeline xD). So Vlad not having mana is kinda justified by his lore and on what he is based on.

Count Zubat1 votes

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Vlad would be absolutely fine if he had real meaningful costs on his abilities after spellvamp.

I can agree with that. Buying revolver means you can start spamming your E like crazy, which is kinda a problem, especially when you think that every stack of his E increases spell vamp even more. Rito actually gave nerfs to Vlad on PBE not a long time ago, mainly increasing CD on his W and health cost on his E, but for some reason, they decided to not nerf Vlad on live servers. Not that I'm gonna complain about it :p

Crett2 votes

agree

Decrit2 votes

i haz upvotes

ReshiKillim2 votes

Well, be happy. Poppy is getting a Sion level rework soon(TM) and she'll be less utterly frustrating.

Akali and Vlad are actually in a really bad spot if counterpicked.

As for Yorick.. He's Yorick and will be Yorick until someone figures out how to make his rework not even more hellish to lane against than current Yorick

RlCARDO MlLOS1 votes

Seems Legit but I play whoever gets me fed :D

warpenguin5551 votes

lol 3 of the are getting reworks

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