Unpopular Opinion: Keep Zz'rot Portal

Velasan·10/23/2019, 9:52:11 PM·92 votes·20,617 views

This is my first unpopular opinion post so hear me out.

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, but... I really like the Zz'rot portal item item 3512 . In the past I liked Banner of Command, and I get it, a split push item that goes down the lane by itself is hard to balance. However, since then Banner has been removed and Zz'rot was nerfed to only work close to the area it's pushing (it doesn't go the same distance as before). Portal also asks that you have a high amount of max health to convert to voidling damage so it's not something just anyone would build to begin with so you will never see 3-4 people on a team building these.

What it DOES do however, and why I think it should stay in the game, is it gives tanks and supports an option to help push out waves and split push. That's not going to happen every game of course, but there will be games where the enemy just has a better team fighting comp than ours and the best secondary option to win is to place strategic Zz'rot portals. At the very least maybe if we can pull off one good team fight and drop a Zz'rot we can get through to an inhibitor. Even in a regular game it can be a nice way to help push down a tower after a gank. Nunu for example gets a lot of benefit out of portals. The move speed helps him gank, he gets tank stats from it, then he can use the portal with his passive empowering his laner to force down the tower afterwards.

There doesn't seem to be any value in taking the item away, but it does add another strategic niche to the game and functions well as an item with both magic resist and armor on it plus a bit of move speed (a lot of people forget you can drop the Zz'rot itself to give you move speed towards it).

Am I the only one who feels this way?

181 Comments

5050BS10/23/2019, 10:02:26 PM35 votes

I dont think its unpopular.

ShyImagoghnar10/23/2019, 11:33:56 PM25 votes

How to get free magic internet points: Say, "unpopular opinion" then follow it up with a popular opinion

True Garen10/23/2019, 10:32:52 PM24 votes

It's not an unpopular opinion. Nobody complained about the item, and many liked having it as an option even if we didn't build it every match. The item was actually META on some champions, a couple years ago. It filled an important niche, and we think that Riot has better things to do than remove items nobody asked them to.

Magnesium1410/23/2019, 10:00:19 PM18 votes

Agreed, its a really good item, you get some good stats and some pushing power for a reasonable price.

TwitchInMyPants10/24/2019, 5:27:05 AM14 votes

Just Riot deleting stuff to "clean up" the game again

When are they going to clean up all the damage and mobility inflation? Oh right, never.

HonestJohnTheCon10/24/2019, 10:12:45 AM8 votes

I do think that we should keep it, but can we PLEASE stop this trend of "Unpopular Opinion: [Popular Opinion]"

IllusionLord33310/23/2019, 10:35:43 PM8 votes

I love Zz’rot! It’s a strategic item that I almost always want on my tank characters for the utility (not to mention the helpful magic resist and armor boost). Also I adore the voidlings, and it would be sad to see them go...

MorgManBasher10/24/2019, 6:56:25 AM6 votes

Wait, they are deleteing Zzrot? But like, I go that item pretty much every game as Sion....RIP

mack911210/23/2019, 10:46:07 PM4 votes

The item was viable when it was oppressive.

Now it is just a troll item that has no value unless you are two champions who abuse it.