This board colossally misuses, misunderstands and misbrands “stat checkers/stat checking.”

In other words, “I do not like it, therefore it is a ‘stat checker’ and thus this displaces any blame I should take for my poor play and applies it to something else entirely (the champion).”

I am not going to get into specific cases of where I see it used wrongly because honestly, I don’t want to risk violating rules by calling out threads/players. In addition, it happens pretty regularly, so...

Let’s just define what a stat checker is/does:

A champion that has very little meaningful gameplay choices. They simply defeat you by being statistically superior. Generally these champions are point-and-click and are fundamentally and mechanically easy to grasp. What are some examples of stat checkers?

(it pains me to say it, but it’s true - more on this in a bit)

Pretty much any tank is a walking stat stick.

Point and click mages.

AD Carries are NOT usually stat sticks, even though their premise is very straight forward and their damage is point and click. That is because their gameplay revolves around kiting and kiting or orb-walking/chasing is actually fairly mechanically intensive. You absolutely know when you have someone on your team who can do it, while you painfully feel when they can’t. However, stat checkers don’t have this dilemma - their gameplay revolves around decisions and less around mechanical play.

This leads me to my next point:

Stop stigmatizing the idea of stat checkers. Sure, too much of any concept being invested into one aspect is bad. More aptly put, a champion resting on the solo basis of simply stat checking probably isn’t great design - but, as we stand in the current game, those champions are necessary. For every stat checking tank or bruiser, understand that ultimately they hit a wall where they can no longer stat check and that’s where they fall off. And just because they stat check doesn’t mean they don’t have gameplay, they just have less. And in a game where champions like Yasuo, Riven, etc. exist with practically no functional cooldowns and infinite outplay potential, straight forward “stat” checkers are some of the best kits to overcome these champions. You may not like stat checkers, but they’re necessary most of the time.

So please, let’s stop misrepresenting this term and just call it what it is: you hate a champion for whatever reason - and that reason may be perfectly valid. But labeling it something that sounds cool and iniutively correct doesn’t make what you say true, it often time just makes you seem like someone that subscribes to hiveminding while avoidsing critical thinking.