Last time you removed a sheild was with ornn and hes even worse off without it. Urgot’s sheild is what allows him fight up front in team fights.
Edit: just noticed that they are moving it to his E so im dumb but I still dont like the changes like the 0 cd w which is just asking for trouble.
I think they were planning on moving it from his W to his E...which makes more sense, really, since the E should be your engage tool.
Add Urgot to the list of champions you aren't allowed to play unless you are a high level player.
I have no clue why they would put his shield on a long windup dash that turns into a throw animation, in a 1v1 you might honestly be better off missing your E so you get more value out of your shield instead of it going down right after you finish flipping the enemy lol. Your reward for landing the spell is losing shield time and probably dps considering his passive can do full damage in quick succession now.
By player stats his E is used less than his ultimate. . .
A 4 second duration from 5 seconds is also a 20% decrease in duration, after it was fucking kneecapped and lost over 50% of its entire value.
Also, his W will hardly be useful for anything without the shield. Fuck, you self slow yourself, cannot target anything, and it makes it so you cannot viably go either crit or on hit. What the unholy fuck does RIOT think they're trying to do here?
I mean, it looks promising on paper. I'd try to test it, but the internet I have here isn't the best.
They are moving it to his E
Its on a shorter CD early but on a longer CD later
So, for those asking for why they are moving the shield: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/BiJm4R5E-quick-gameplay-thoughts-march-6
We testing moving his shield from his W to his E. Goal there is to make so that if Urgot wants to trade using his shield he has to put both of his defensive tools (dash as well) on CD. That increased risk to his trading then means we can probably give him power in other regards.
We're increasing his ult range noticeably. In retrospect we were potentially overly cautious on the range restriction originally, especially given it's easy to block or miss.
We're making AD builds less sub optimal, with the aim of opening up his itemization a bit more. Goal is still to have him as a juggernaut who tends to want to build fairly tanky. Would like to narrow the gap in effectiveness between AD and tankier builds though.
Did about 10 games last night with the new Urgot.
You hit lvl 9 and W is a toggle that makes it On all the time. With Conqueror and the right items he is CRAZY damage BUT he dies a lot too.
You basically just charge in and ether kill everyone or get killed.
Its sucks they are trying to make you think you can build On-Hit because it is not very good. They need to change his W to be full 100% On-hit for it to work but that could be too much. He just needs to survive to do damage but with the shield move to E he does not survive well enough.
YOu cant use his shield like you use too. He is not strategic any more. Before you could Pop W for the shield as a way to mitigate damage from CC but you cant with it on E.
I like W being a toggle but its just not the right direction for him.
I know that Urgot's shield was his main trade power tool, it got hit along with his passive, but this is going a tad further from the original intention. Not long ago, i made a comment about the shield, i did not complained about his passive, nor range-ish spectrum. The passive nerf was something unexpected, but if they had data that proved to be sufficient to hit, well, oh my.
Now, in regards of modifying the W and E. I am not sure what are they trying to do here.. I thought our dear Urgod kit as a bully was to also counter-measure other bullies. IF that makes sense.. Are they trying to protect certain melees? if that is the case, Urgot is not the biggest offender, nor, the solution by "tweaking" him... somewhere...I am not quite sure where Urgot is going with the changes.
I mean, they are not even moving the power curve. And now the shield scales with AD? another Riven? What is the cooldown on that?
I think the idea is that you'll E into someone when they try to attack you and just face tank the hit.
I mean, with the other buffs Urgot is receiving, he's going to become an absolute monster next patch without any other changes if and when this ships.
JUST FUCKING GREAT ANOTHER USELESS CAMPION LIKE ORRN RIP ORRN AND urgot
