Which do you prefer to fight against?

The Sword Saint·12/6/2016, 10:21:36 PM·1 votes·352 views

Champs who can only really be strategized against? (ex. annie, singed, tryndamere)

Champs who can also be outplayed by mechanics, but who have many tools outplay your mechanics right back? (ex riven, yasuo, vayne)

Note: the second type of champ still has champions and strategies which let you outplay them hard without letting them use their mechanics (funnily enough many of them come from the first category of champion), they just also give you some room to fight back mechanically if you choose to, albeit at a disadvantage.

Note 2: this vote doesn't cover every option on the spectrum obviously, I'm specifically interested in the preference of which edge case you'd rather deal with.

4 Comments

The Sword Saint12/6/2016, 10:27:07 PM1 votes

I'm going to vote first, and this may surprise people since I'm a riven main but I pick the first option.

I prefer to fight against enemies I know I have to fight with strategy because if I mess it I can just adjust my strategy for next time while knowing that there wasn't much I could have done better with mechanics to come out on top... because if I let myself think I could have just used better mechanics I'm more likely to try the same thing again and again and keep failing and blaming my fingers instead of my strategy.

I know not to chase the singed or to try and run at the annie without surprise as riven because that's going to work so rarely that it's not worth considering. my mechanics aren't going to impact that. If I know that ahead of time I just won't try those things and will try something else.

Additionally if I know the matchup or teamfight will come down mostly to strategy instead of mechanics I don't feel as much pressure to 'perform' by perfectly executing a lot of combos to be useful and can rely instead on going in at the right place and time. I'd rather not every fight I'm in be a stressful contest of mechanics where I could lose even if ahead on gold because of a misclick and risk throwing the match.

Papa Slothy12/7/2016, 12:44:31 AM1 votes

it might just be me, but your wording "I can outplay but it's hard" sounds biased. Maybe remove the "but it's hard" or replace it to "I can mechanically outplay"/"I can strategically outplay"