A plea to Riot: Buff boring champions

GhostOfShrimpmas··2 votes·555 views

[NOTE: The following does not apply to Lee Sin, because reasons.]

Like many players, I dread seeing my favorite champions see pro play. When the Gangplank got his rework, I was blown away by how fun it was. Then I was immediately saddened by how good it was in pro play. Same with Darius's and Skarner's (third) rework. It's a terrible feeling to be given something really fun, only to immediately have it ruined because it's too good.

To prevent this problem in the future, I think the best thing would be to buff the really boring, uninteresting champions. Buff Udyr , his playstyle isn't that exciting. Buff DrMundo , he doesn't have any particularly engaging gameplay. Buff Vladimir , he's a dull draintank. Buff Annie , she's just a point-and-click-win-a-teamfight bot. Blitzcrank is incredibly hit-or-miss, but his best case scenario could be buffed quite a bit. Have you considered cancelling the upcoming Taric rework, and just buffing him to unreasonable levels instead?

Maybe think about releasing a few overpowered champions that aren't that fun, but are really good in pro play for entirely numerical reasons.

No one wants their favorite champion to be forever considered pick-or-ban, or subjected to a long series of kassadin-like nerfs that leave them incredibly unsatisfying to play. So please, just make pro play focused around less fun, less interesting champions. It would make the majority of the playerbase much happier.

3 Comments

Eedat3 votes

Funny you say that because I happen to think Udyr DrMundo Vladimir are very fun to play. I used to play Mundo a lot actually last season. I still play Vlad and Udyr to this day. Vlad is probably my favorite top laner. Something about weaving his skills together while buying time with his pool and Zhonya's is just very fun for me.

So please don't call a champion boring just because you dont enjoy them.

Ralanr1 votes

Preach it!

GhostOfShrimpmas1 votes

Vlad was just one of the first that came to mind as someone without too many high points or low points. I rather enjoy him too, but mechanically, he's not that exciting. Perhaps a poll to determine the least interesting champions would be useful to have with this.

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