It's the same shit as having no resource bar 90% of the time, specially without a lot of CDR.
You're almost always gated by cooldowns unless you really try to waste your energy. What's more, the energy comes back in seconds.
I haven't played all energy champions; I'm sure like 1-2 actually care about energy. But Zed, for example, sure as hell ain't one of them.
Teridax682 votesI have to agree with this. By all rights, energy should gate burst, but in practice most energy champions have ways of restoring energy mid-fight, which ends up making cooldowns the only real gate to their power. Zed is a prime example of this, because his shadow lets him negate his E cost, and reduce his Q cost to 5 Energy a pop (!), effectively removing his energy gating altogether. Akali soon will likely be even worse, because her E costs practically nothing, her innate restores energy, and her W refills a massive amount of energy on cast as well. It effectively causes these champions' limitations to vanish past a certain level of mastery, which sounds nice on paper, but ends up with these champions being oppressive and far more difficult to counter in the hands of an experienced player. For sure, any champion should be stronger and more difficult to play against when mastered, but double-dipping into this by removing constraints goes overboard, and leaves no obvious sources of counterplay besides simply not engaging the champion at all until whichever counter-item gets built.
Bern1 votesEnergy just exists to gate burst, pretty much
La Bello1 votesI dont mind energy champs.
I just dont want them to have sustain.
Manaless champs should be using other things as resources to compensate and make them fair (usually HP).
When a champ can literally jsut sit in lane forever and win via attrition its ultra fucking annoying
are the bane of laning phase for me. I just cant stand laning against them because they can make as many sloppy trades as they want and still win the lane.
