Can someone explain to me, because I fail to see the logic. Why Pantheon uses mana, while Sett, Garen, Kled, Riven, and many many more, don't use mana? I really fail to see the logic on removing the limit of harrasing, farming, and even defensive potential on some random heroes.
Mana-gating is a way to directly balance champions & place restrictions on what they're capable of & for how long over a prolonged period.
By creating mana-less champions, Rito has more freedom to break certain champions & make them more adept at creating LC$BigPlay$. The logic is so they can make money. Balance & customer satisfaction is irrelevant to short-term profits.
use to they gated this with CDs. if you didnt have mana you had long CDS and then they came out with Yasuo
I believe they base on if you have mana or not for of it makes sense like lore wise.
So because Sett really dosent use magic, he dosent have to use mana
Also sometimes those champs have other resources (Sett grit, morde shield)
Stupid I know but hey
Usually champions with mana are those with good poke/waveclear abilities with low cd. They are supposed to be able to use them multiple times in fights, but also should be restricted from just spamming them to waveclear from safety
Pantheon has Q, a poke tool that deals quite a lot of damage with low cd, and if he had no manacosts he would just spam it for both poke and waveclear Sett's W has quite a long cd an is his main trading tool so he can't spam it Garen and Riven have no ranged poke Kled's ranged poke is his Q and its not really that ranged
