Can we do something about the FOTM champs?

superfire444··3 votes·657 views

These champion have ~52-54% winrate, High playrate and are absolutely obnoxious to play against. They lack counterplay and feel much stronger than other champions in their category. These champions are unfun to play against.

Vi - Her damage is waaaay too high resulting in a sick clear speed and the ability to one shot the enemy carry while building semi tank. This is undodgeable. I suggest to lower her damage on her E. Maybe make her R interruptible but faster?

Hecarim - Same as vi - I suggest to make his E dodgeable

Vayne - Does too much damage while being too mobile, having selfpeel and uncounterable invincibility. - Nerf her AD steroid from her ult or nerf her passive

Janna - Can't be caught, her shield is low CD but high shield AND gives loads of AD - Make her slower (I've seen janna's with 530 base speed), nerf her shield CD and AD

I can list more but those champions aren't played as much as these four. Sure they DO have counterplay but compared to other champions they really don't even come close.

Edit: funny how I'm getting downvoted without counter-arguments. It's funny how boards cries about yasuo but when someone else says something...

9 Comments

Hyperiön2 votes

Vi hasn't been touched like at all in 1-2 years. She isn't broken, just people abusing cotc.

Tormentula1 votes

She did get a Q buff not too long ago.

Q buff + Trinity changes + CoTC + the current meta of junglers being all weak to vi is making her super strong right now.

I don't think Vi is broken, just all her answers are super weak right now.

Junkο1 votes

The problem is that every other jungler got nerfed hard because only Lee Sin is allowed to be viable apparently. So now Vi is suddenly the only strong jungler again (besides Lee), and her kit is fairly antifun so she will probably be nerfed, and the cycle will repeat. Also she can decently clear the new jungle while most others junglers have really slow Krug clear and can't take Raptors at all.

khorney1 votes

Janna is squishy and isn't fotm. Fotm would be Cait vi Vayne hec. Play zyra and Janna is dead

Avienal1 votes

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Janna is squishy and isn't fotm. Fotm would be Cait vi Vayne hec. Play zyra and Janna is dead

I swear every time i see a "Play X champion and you easily shut down X champion", its basically a slap in the face because 'just one champion' should never only have just one 1 champion that can fight it evenly or just one 1 champion that out'right hard counter them, it should be a particular 'set' of champions who will make you regret playing a 'powerful champion' so often to where people will decide to stop relying on that champion as often.

Janna's kit lets her be part of the annoying support and now even JUNGLER batch of champions who grab item 3117 for super scummy chase down enemies and hit them with a ease CC like Blitzcrank/Thresh's Q and it does not even matter on the low move speed on the boots because they only need to get out of combat for a few seconds to get it right back going and then they are impossible to catch again.

At the very least Janna's only 'actual' damage ability is easily telegraph'd outside of her scummy bush Q plays and long as she is not tapped once with damage, she can easily outrun any enemy champion's attempt to dive or CC them and always has R to fall back on to push out a diver champion and even can push champions who stealth scum to easily 'dive closer' but can still be hit with that large AoE knock back, With also her 'health per second tick on R' can count as a pinch heal buff in a team fight to make use of the knock back to 'halt' the team fight for a moment and let her team get a good chunk of heal in the process.

Add in also her W move speed is not locked to only out of combat, but indefinitely exists while its off of cooldown, can trade it out to slow a target for 3 whole seconds for a slow that can get scaled up to 80% cap (and its NOT DECAYING), still does sizable damage too. Plus her ability to throw a shield on turrets and give her target a AD bonus on top of the shield, she is literally got the full kit to catch up to enemy champions, slow and knock up harass them till her ally catches up to her with the help of her +8% move speed bonus for any champion allies running towards her and then basically let their ADC buddy get a easy kill if done right.

She's got enough to scum play and since her W easily compensates for the trade off of grabbing item 3117 , she can devour that item and basically be like a indefinite Quinn in R status for roaming power.

khorney1 votes

Zyra counters most bot Champs which is why people play her. Or play raka counter there supp supp with a supp supp of your own like Nami or raka

SGT Dingle Berry1 votes

There's no such thing as nerfing the FOTM. Nerf 4 champs and 6 will rise to take their place. Even without buffing new champs can rise up if their weaknesses are erased by nerfing others. FOTM exists in every game, every meta and will never ever stop.

superfire4441 votes

What else do you suggest I call these?

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