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Is Quinn balanced?

XinZhao2WinNhao·Aug 19, 2016·2 votes·762 views

Quinn is a ranged ADC who has the damage of an ADC.

However, unlike other ADCs like Jinx and Ashe, Quinn is also more tanky and has the means to peel for herself with blinds and knockbacks. Arguably she also deals faster damage than other adcs, which gives her assassin level burst.

Personally, I've never seen a Quinn go negative KDA in any of the games I've played in before, and I think a huge part of that is due to her self peel abilities. I think that this minimizes her risk factor while keeping her reward factor high.

If you're an assassin, let's say a Katarina, against an Ashe solo farming in bot lane, you can take advantage of the fact that she's out of position and go in to assassinate her, which is what an assassin should do. However, if it was a Quinn, you could Q, then shunpo in, and Quinn would blind you, knock herself back and then crit you 3 times in a row before you could do anything else. I'm having trouble seeing what Quinn's weakness is.

Graves and Draven have this problem too.

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PermabannedGarenAug 20, 20165 votes

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Quinn is a ranged ADC who has the damage of an ADC.

Her DPS is lower than bottom lane marksman.

However, unlike other ADCs like Jinx and Ashe, Quinn is also more tanky and has the means to peel for herself with blinds and knockbacks.

The second part if basically true, but Quinn is not noticeably tankier than other ADCs by virtue of her kit or her base stats. Her defense stats are within normal realms for an ADC, and her kit has no defense steroids.

No, what Quinn sometimes does is itemize for more defense than bottom lane marksmen, which makes sense because she goes top lane to be an assassin. She's poor as an ADC.

Arguably she also deals faster damage than other adcs, which gives her assassin level burst.

She tends to itemize as an assassin. She also has less burst than, say, Rengar. Less DPS too, but that's neither here nor there.

Personally, I've never seen a Quinn go negative KDA in any of the games I've played in before, and I think a huge part of that is due to her self peel abilities. I think that this minimizes her risk factor while keeping her reward factor high.

K.

If you're an assassin, let's say a Katarina, against an Ashe solo farming in bot lane, you can take advantage of the fact that she's out of position and go in to assassinate her, which is what an assassin should do. However, if it was a Quinn, you could Q, then shunpo in, and Quinn would blind you, knock herself back and then crit you 3 times in a row before you could do anything else. I'm having trouble seeing what Quinn's weakness is.

Katarina is a shitty example. Talon or Rengar would have killed that Quinn before she would have pressed E.

Also, lol, Ashe would just ult Katarina the moment she jumps in to ult and DPS her down.

Graves and Draven have this problem too.

Draven has very little self peel and is one of if not the single most unsafe ADC in the game. Are you serious?

Graves is also not an ADC. He's a bruiser.

XinZhao2WinNhaoAug 20, 20161 votes

You know that I beat Ashes as Katarina all the time.

Quinns, not so much.

oSEXYPLATYPUSoAug 31, 20161 votes

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You know that I beat Ashes as Katarina all the time.

Quinns, not so much.

because at low level elo adcs dont know how to position properly and people dont know how to protect and peel for the adc.

say like bronze 4 45% win rate

oSEXYPLATYPUSoAug 31, 20161 votes

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Her DPS is lower than bottom lane marksman.

The second part if basically true, but Quinn is not noticeably tankier than other ADCs by virtue of her kit or her base stats. Her defense stats are within normal realms for an ADC, and her kit has no defense steroids.

No, what Quinn sometimes does is itemize for more defense than bottom lane marksmen, which makes sense because she goes top lane to be an assassin. She's poor as an ADC.

She tends to itemize as an assassin. She also has less burst than, say, Rengar. Less DPS too, but that's neither here nor there.

K.

Katarina is a shitty example. Talon or Rengar would have killed that Quinn before she would have pressed E.

Also, lol, Ashe would just ult Katarina the moment she jumps in to ult and DPS her down.

Draven has very little self peel and is one of if not the single most unsafe ADC in the game. Are you serious?

Graves is also not an ADC. He's a bruiser.

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ModWulf HelhammerAug 20, 20163 votes

"Quinn is tanky"

what the hell allows you to even think that makes sense?

asamuAug 19, 20162 votes

Yes? She's both OP and awful at the same time, because in any given game, she'll usually snowball and wreck or do nothing.

Quinn isn't an ADC, and you shouldn't play her in the bot lane. Take her top and murder your melee lane opponent while not letting them fight you ever.

Her weakness is that she's a relatively short ranged ADC with very little self peel or mobility, which is why she'll usually start getting defenses earlier than normal ADCs. To do damage, she has to get within range of the enemy team, which means she can be CCed and bursted down, and she doesn't have stealth and a knock back like vayne. Unlike the meta ADCs, who can stay way in the back line and still do damage.

She's a good duelist, but her teamfight is weak, which is why she should be taken top and used to split push/roam to get the team ahead, rather than be an ADC.

CaptanKrushnKillAug 31, 20161 votes

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Yes? She's both OP and awful at the same time, because in any given game, she'll usually snowball and wreck or do nothing.

Quinn isn't an ADC, and you shouldn't play her in the bot lane. Take her top and murder your melee lane opponent while not letting them fight you ever.

Her weakness is that she's a relatively short ranged ADC with very little self peel or mobility, which is why she'll usually start getting defenses earlier than normal ADCs. To do damage, she has to get within range of the enemy team, which means she can be CCed and bursted down, and she doesn't have stealth and a knock back like vayne. Unlike the meta ADCs, who can stay way in the back line and still do damage.

She's a good duelist, but her teamfight is weak, which is why she should be taken top and used to split push/roam to get the team ahead, rather than be an ADC.

Quinn is among the worst champs in the game. Has ONE damaging ability, and even then has to melee form it up to use it. This champ is among the worst designed pos in the game.

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