can we just gutt lee and yasuo?

xagrey·Jan 2, 2016·2 votes·445 views

not because they're op, just so we don't see them in every game in the history of matchmaking

6 Comments

SachabotJan 2, 20162 votes

-1 for excessive hyperbole.

MagicDragon300Jan 2, 20161 votes

Because Riot would totally just intentionally make champs unplayable. That's what they make them for, right?

PrinceOfStormsJan 2, 20161 votes

That's what Riot did with Poppy, Olaf, and a plethora of other champions for a considerable amount of time (make their numbers so bad that they are unviable).

TroiannJan 2, 20161 votes

So what they should do is continually tell one part of the playerbase fuck you while letting the other ones roam free?

With that kind of logic no wonder racism and bigotry is so large in this world. People have no qualms about selfishly taking what they want, while letting others take the fall.

PrinceOfStormsJan 3, 20161 votes

Well if you think about it, Lee and Yasuo are super oppressive when their numbers aren't absolute trash. Olaf, when he used to be good, could just sit on your fountain all day and kill you because of his lifesteal. Poppy (pre-rework) was cancerous before Riot gutted her (the gutting was basically mana troubles so severe you could get Athenes, Morello, and Seraph's Embrace and still run out of mana often).

Kha'zix is a current example of a champion that Riot intentionally keeps at a state where his numbers are so bad he's unviable. As an assassin, he cannot assassinate, even when his target is isolated if he didn't get super fed early.

Riot should do the same with Yas and Lee until they get Sion-level reworks where the entire kit changes, because when their numbers are good, they are seen every single game. Like making Yas's E cost 50% of his maximum flow (or making his ult cost 100% maximum flow, and removing the flow shield refresh on use). Or removing the %missing health damage from Lee's Resonating Strike, and the 200% AD ratio from his ult.

Lee in particular, because nothing in his kit screams "Blind Monk," rather, his kit screams "I do a lot of stuff because reasons".

Of course Riot won't do this because Yas and Lee have large playerbases, while Kha'zix, Olaf, and Poppy didn't (and don't).