Sincere question to riot about champion design

yangus Beef·1/18/2019, 10:02:52 PM·1 votes·1,402 views

Why would you make Akali and Irelia with the precedent of Kassadin and Yasuo or even Jax ? It should seem obvious that combining great defensive capabilities, mobility, and hyper carry potential pisses off the community, making them hate the champion and banning them every game until a hard nerf. Champions need to have some weakness in order to be fun to play against, and combining those three aspects allows very little counter play, particularly at high elo. Balancing them, in my opinion, is quite easy regardless. Simply make them extremely weak early game, so that players may have some conceivable counter pick/play against them even in high elo.

3 Comments

Agam1/18/2019, 10:38:30 PM1 votes

Honestly, I think we just need to all be allowed TWO bans each. Given time, people will be able to ban 2 champions in the same amount of time we are currently banning one. The champion pool has doubled since I started playing, but the # of bans has remained the same.

Divewing1/19/2019, 2:42:14 AM1 votes

akali is fair, irelia is only strong cos conq is, yasuo is fair, jax is complete horseshit and has been for ages - needs a rework.

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ºFerrAhriº1/19/2019, 7:04:36 AM1 votes

idk about what it's like in high elos,.but to be fair, kas, yas and jax are quite different from those two. kas and jax just run at you like a bulldozer. If you let them get in range, you are as good as dead. it's no damage limit on the wind wall, so a good yas can just block everything while he run you down.

I agree that akali's smoke protect her under tower is kindda stupid. but other than that, unless you are a squishy adc without any cc; akali is actually fun to play against. all her damage are all skill shots. fights against becomes a contest of trickery and mechanics. and as for irelia, she had her dashes and was tanky even be4 the patch. that was kindda her thing.

i think what you are annoyed about is their crazy late game carry potential when fed. but then you can say the same for champions like nasus. the only difference is akali being fed comes in the form of deleting people one by one. and nasus comes in the form of tanking your entire team and smashing your towers to pieces.