Yuumi feels like they took the worst parts of a HoTS character

King Braum·9/26/2019, 4:45:25 PM·13 votes·9,252 views

Specifically Abathur and it all comes down to how Yuumi carries no consequences for 90% of the game.

Abathur for me is a very special Hero within HoTS he is one of the first characters I played and one of the biggest archetypes I wanted to see explored in League and oh boy how I regret it. But all of that mainly comes down to the execution of Yuumi's kit.

The main issue I've seen people have with Yuumi is that she's too safe as she can basically hop around champion to champion without ever being touche unless she's interrupted mid jump and despite having a kit that's very similar to Abathur, he's never seen this issue because of one big change. Abathur himself never actually sits on other heroes, instead he finds a safe spot on the map to turn himself into a cocoon from which he controls a monster that actually sits on the heroes.

This means that you can easily try to find Abathur's cocoon and simply kill him if he doesn't pay enough attention to his surrounding. Invading heroes could try to track him down and Abathur himself needs to constantly be aware of the enemies presence on the map and be sure to move accordingly to always remain in safe locations.

If Yuumi had a mechanic similar to this, where she's still not 100% safe when simply sitting on a fed enough champion, I feel like her kit in itself will feel a whole lot less unfair in return.

PS; This is in no way me requesting for Yuumi to be changed to an Abathur clone but rather a starting point for a discussion and a comparison of the two as a means of reasoning as to why I think Abathur's kit was implimented well for HoTS while Yuumi's was not for League, or atleast in my opinion.

19 Comments

jar jarvan binks9/26/2019, 5:41:56 PM8 votes

I really thought you were going to say Cho'gall.

only luciano9/27/2019, 3:01:18 PM3 votes

That's why Yummi is so annoying to go against. You destroy her and her adc in bot lane so Yummi will just perma attach to the most fed champ on her team and just death ball together. Other enchanters Janna Nami Sona can also roll with a fed teammate but they are at risk being killed but Yummi cannot be touched unless you kill that fed champion. Not mention that she has the best utility spells out of all the enchanters. A heal/shield, adaptive damage for her host teammate, controllable skill shot slow, and AOE cc. A decent Yummi will even body block some damage for their fed teammate. She does all this while her teammates catches back up.

Blessed Death9/26/2019, 7:39:08 PM2 votes

Could always have Yuumi take a certain ratio of the damage her anchor takes. Meaning if her anchor has a 1000 hp and it takes 100 dmg, she takes the same in proportion to her HP(if she has 500hp she takes 50dmg). She still be untargetable but if you chunk her anchor out, you end up chunking her out too.

Yboat9/26/2019, 9:39:57 PM2 votes

I love playing Abby, but I found yummi boring, she lacks global impact. It's let's hat some one none stop.

Smyrage9/26/2019, 10:02:00 PM1 votes

Did you know that Abathur can actually stay in the base for the entirity of the game? He is much harder to catch than Yuumi. Yuumi is at least tied to someone, who can be focused down.

EyesOfTheFox9/27/2019, 12:25:44 AM1 votes

Yuumi has different problems in different levels (elos) of play. In lower elo, she basically is useless because players just stay attached the whole time and outside her one extremely nerfed poke ability she offers no real utility until lvl 6, by that point though the enemy bot lane has probably already fed on your carry since the Yuumi is basically afk and can't really help you or establish any type of lane dominance, thus she has a 44% winrate. In higher elos where the person she is attached to is less likely to get caught out and the Yuumi player isn't just an afk bot, she can be very tricky to deal with, especially in late game team fights. In pro play, where everyone plays safe and knows when to press advantages and when to fall back and generally have better posistioning, she can be a nightmare to deal with, thus she has almost 100% pick ban (mostly ban) presence.

ModAcademy Kayn9/27/2019, 3:43:57 AM1 votes

Tfw no one remembers Mina from Dawngate :(