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Let's Look at HEALTHY Mobility

acepil0t·2/16/2015, 10:06:57 PM·3 votes·706 views

Everyone complains about the Lees, the Zeds, the Jarvans, and all the other champions that have mobility that don't pay enough for it. Yes they are a problem. However, there are quite a few champions that do pay for their mobility in ways that give them meaningful weaknesses. Let's look at them and see what we can learn.

Aatrox This guy has a dash on a moderate cooldown. However, he is melee and his only skillshot is both slow moving and short range. He has sustain and a great passive yes, but he is very vulnerable to skillshots and kiting when his dash is on cooldown.

Amumu This sad guy has huge mana problems in the jungle, or so I hear (haven't played him myself). His biggest asset (ultimate) is on a long cooldown and he doesn't deal insane damage.

Nautilus his q makes him fairly mobile, and he brings quite a bit of crowd control to the table, with his passive, his Riptide and his Depth Charge. However, like Amumu he has mana problems and doesn't deal tons of damage.

Skarner This guy doesn't have a dash, but his w can give him almost 600 movement speed with boots. He is very strong with his stun passive and ultimate, but he can be kited and is very vulnerable to slows. Just stay away from him!

Shen,Kennen These guys both pay huge resources for their mobility, and those abilities are on a lengthy cooldown. Kennen is very strong yes, but he has definite counterplay, being low range.

Lissandra This champion is extremely strong at the moment, but her kit is well designed and she has easy potential to be balanced. Her mobility is telegraphed and predictable and can be interrupted. I think she could be brought back in line with a more meaningful cooldown on her insane ultimate.

Obviously these guys are not all of the mobile yet balanced champions out there. I just wanted to list a few different playstyles that incorporate mobility while retaining meaningful weaknesses and are not overbearing. These types of kits are great examples and should be looked at for the purposes of balancing the hypermobile offenders.

TL;DR: Many mobile champions have great kits with meaningful weaknesses, and the mobile champions that lack weaknesses should look toward these for their counterplay and balance.

14 Comments

Fitz n The Fool2/17/2015, 4:55:19 PM2 votes

Champions with healthy/acceptable mobility: Aatrox Amumu Azir Braum Caitlyn Corki Ezreal Fiora Gragas Graves Irelia Jax Kennen Lissandra Nautilus Sejuani Shen Talon MonkeyKing XinZhao Ziggs

Champions with toxic mobility: Akali Fizz JarvanIV Kalista Kassadin Katarina Leblanc LeeSin RekSai Riven Nidalee Vi Yasuo Zed

Leti the Yeti2/16/2015, 10:19:41 PM1 votes

geez, how many champs besides kalista with absurd attack speed can kite 600 move speed lol makes me wanna get skarner now

Raptamei2/16/2015, 10:24:09 PM1 votes

Mobility is good - it adds more variety to moving around other than just walking at the same speed all the time.

The problem isn't mobility, the problem is that 1/ 75% of the cast doesn't have enough to compete with the 2014 generation 2/ everything is a skillshot and the user of the skillshot has no way to counter mobility. Fix those, add more point and click abilities, give everyone mobility, and the game will be much better.

BluePolarizer2/16/2015, 10:49:53 PM1 votes

naut has low damage? i thought so too until i saw lich bane AP naut and triforce ad bruiser naut.

AFK Push2/17/2015, 4:27:49 AM1 votes

Don't forget sion his only mobility is his ult, and can either pay off extremely well or go off completely wrong.

Bears Dont Care2/17/2015, 5:04:45 PM1 votes

Um...rek'sai and Vi only have one gap closer not counting the ult. I fail to see how their mobility is toxic when its about equal to Azir's, corki, and ezrael.