Looking at the highly criticized "failure champions" of recent years. There is a pattern.

Zeppelins circus·12/4/2019, 2:45:17 AM·3 votes·1,163 views

TahmKench Yuumi Akali Kalista To a extent Pyke Ryze Vladimir These champions are not "pro picks" because they have strong numbers. They have a defensive "I pressed this and you can do nothing about it" button. Most of them just "remove" themselves from the game to be non-interactive, and due to the law of this game that "defensive abilities are determined by the user who will use it or not thus makes it virtually impossible to be proactively baited" Yasuo Fiora Teemo It creates the worst of results.

Or in other words. Riot logic: If you are invincible for a certain amount of time, why do you need tanks or defensive items?

11 Comments

Chainman312/4/2019, 2:49:22 AM4 votes

How is yasuo invincible? How is teemo invincible? How is kench invincible? How is ryze invincible? You made claims without any support to validate your statements.

WoonStruck12/4/2019, 4:45:30 AM1 votes

Vladimir's design is fine. It just falls apart when everyone is building glass cannon because he deals more damage and you can't take as much damage.

If the game were properly managed, a lot of champions would stop looking as problematic.

In the past, Vlad needed multiple rotations to kill a squishy target. Vlad didn't significantly change. He wasn't designed around himself and the enemy team building glass cannon because the game wasn't a steaming pile of shit at the time.

The only "failure" here is the meta Riot keeps forcing.


Also, Ryze doesnt fit in there. Ryze is broken because his EQ does over half your HP and is off CD in less than 2 seconds.

And he has infinite braindead waveclear, so even if he were bad early (he's not), you couldn't punish him.

His W wouldn't be a problem if he actually required a couple rotations to kill you.