How did you deal with your champion's rework?

holystack·10/14/2019, 9:04:16 PM·1 votes·1,849 views

With a lot of old champions starting to get reworked, like Galio, Aatrox, Akali, Urgot, or Yorick, mains of their old respective kit find themselves having to suddenly adapt to an entirely new kit.

How did you guys deal with having your favorite champion reworked into a much different champion in term of build viability, kit itself, scaling and powerspike? Did you try to seek a new champion that might fit your taste better or do you continue to play that champion despite the massive changes?

20 Comments

Moody P10/14/2019, 9:06:45 PM4 votes

dropped all of them because they've all been horrible reworks

Taric, Sejuani, Swain, Urgot.... etc

DBS Ronovon10/18/2019, 1:05:17 AM2 votes

I first Drank myself into an enraged stupor, then proceeded to sob myself to sleep for three nights cuddled next to my cry bear.

Dromar42110/14/2019, 9:32:02 PM1 votes

After Poppy was reworked, I was so lost with the new kit her q was no longer the same, her ult was and is still clunky, it was so bad that I ended up picking up a new main. But the community said her ult was toxic and that is what forced the rework on her. (Thanks for the call for a rework guys/gals). Not long after that we got the press r to win champs....

Kazekiba10/14/2019, 9:50:19 PM1 votes

Pissed that AD and Tank evelynn are gone but im happy with her new Ulti and E.

But theres no way id ever take her current W over Ravage or her old W that cleansed and reset on takedowns

SomeLink10/14/2019, 9:55:40 PM1 votes

I mean... Taric, soraka, sona, malzahar, warwick, quinn and valor, gonna count ahri as well since they went assassin > mage > assassin.

At this point I just play aram because work and life I don't have time to learn mains in sr again.

HoldMyPlank10/14/2019, 11:12:09 PM1 votes

Leblanc, Viktor, dropped them both

Lost R10/15/2019, 2:21:04 AM1 votes

I like new Galio as a mage crusher. (though i miss the colossal cheese of Bulwark in the mid to late game. Shield yourself, run in front of the minion line, and get free healing from the minions). Colossal Smash still fucks me over when getting Relic Shield kills.

I asked Riot Support to reset Taric's mastery to 0 so I could relearn him as the new champion (they couldn't). New Taric's passive makes him an even better brawler than he was before (also burns through mana much faster). I miss the old ult where he basically gave you the equivalent of a baron buff every minute, and the infinity armor, and the armor shred. OLD TARIC WAS CHEESE.

I miss the life steal bullshit cheese you could pull with old Sion, but the new one is far healthier to game design.

Poppy works much differently now. She's a much bigger bully off-tank with a versatile kit, and you can no longer ult Soraka to get invincibility while you kill everyone else on the enemy team with one shot.

Yeah, unlike the post-post-modernists, I don't miss the old champions more than I like their new forms. League used to have complete dogshit game design, and people don't want to admit that because reasons.

DOUBLE TAPPED E10/15/2019, 2:26:50 AM1 votes

Idk, Kat was one of the better reworks in my opinion, they really stayed true to what made her a champion. I just spammed her as much as possible (still do) so I could learn as much as I can about her new kit. It really provided a lot more variety to her gameplay.

The JigSAW10/15/2019, 2:52:57 AM1 votes

Honestly speaking, I've played the reworked champions far less.

Aatrox is just a joke compared to what he was. Swain's already had two or three mini-reworks, Ryze is nothing like he used to be, Irelia just isn't the powerhouse the Hiten Style Irelia was, and I never even see Taric anymore although I loved the old one in terms of his tank. There have been maybe four good reworks and about ten terrible ones, not a good ratio. I see Fiddlesticks and Volibear are up next, and already preparing to not play them again come 2020.

Prestige AkaIi10/18/2019, 12:48:09 AM1 votes

I'd been playing Akali for 5 years before her VGU, but after her mini-rework by rickless back in patch 6.22 she just felt so clunky compared to what she was originally. So when her VGU came it was like a breath of fresh air, the visual update was amazing, some of the best splashes I've seen and her new character design gave way to one of the most popular skins ever made by Riot. The gameplay update is where the VGU loses a lot of points. Her kit's so much fun, but incredibly problematic and frustrating. At this point though, she's pretty balanced outside of proplay. Also, unpopular opinion among old Akali mains, her new voice fits her character a lot more than Laura Bailey's imo.

Long story short.

Loved her original kit > didn't like mini-rework > VGU rekindled my love of the champion

AlienPrimate10/18/2019, 1:00:35 AM1 votes

I went from a Galio main to never playing Galio a single time outside of ARAM. I switched over to mostly Taric after Galio was ~~reworked~~ deleted.

preternatural10/18/2019, 1:00:56 AM1 votes

fiora - don't play anymore, rework has failed imo, but she's selling skins innit.

katarina - neato rework i just cba to commit the time to it, maybe next season i'll do a "kata only" run and see what happens but the roster would have to be stale by my tastes for that.

sejuani - played all her iterations, i still reckon the one that was just before this iteration with the 4 part E stun was what she was intended to be, but whatever we have this now. and i don't trust laners so i don't play jungle anymore anyway :/

irelia - epic rework, and one where time spent on the previous iteration really matters.

eve - rework is legit good, i just outgrew the concept so...eh

quinn - failed rework imo, ult should be reverted.

talon - kit is healthier but the fact he doesn't have a blink to match kata's is upsetting.

vlad - i literally only learned this champion because i got tired of facing broken shit in top lane, his rework has been an improvement on his previous iteration as far as gameplay health goes but his fantasy is weaker all around, has a higher crescendo when it all works as intended but the opponent feels more helpless than with his old iteration, but at the same time he has larger windows of actual weakness if they can even be called that. so yeah ok rework i guess

rengar - i can now actually play rengar despite having to aim my e-bola strike, but the bonetooth isn't what it once was so the champion is dead to me.

Zero Shingetsu10/14/2019, 9:12:44 PM1 votes

Learned them and loved them! Or if necessary, learned to love them. Sejuani was quick to pick up, and I generally liked it better than her old kit. More interactive. Galio feels better now too. Fortunately for me, I'm always shifting my methods and doing wild things, so it might be easier for me to pick up a rework than it is for some mains.