Urgot Rework Idea

Hey Riot,

Yesterday I was watching some League-Videos; one of them covered the rumors about a Mafia-Urgot skin, when I suddenly had this idea. The least played Champ in ranked (all regions) is Urgot. Now if we take a look at his stats, his kit and his role then there are a few reasons why.

The first reason is that it isn’t really clear what role he is. He could be a “marksman” or a ranged “bruiser”. By clarifying his role with some minor to medium changes would make him a more logic pick. There is top, mid and adc Urgot. Now if we decide which role he should be, I’d say adc because he is a ranged champion and is presented as a “marksman”. Further he does have 2 abilities that could be used as adc.

Now where we clarified his role we can move on to the kit, which is the sec. reason why he isn’t that good. Now Urgot is loved (by those few people playing Urgot) for his E-Q Combo as well as for his R. So since I don’t want to kill the old Urgot I want to keep some abilities. His E-Q Combo has a really cool and unique way it acts. So I want to keep that. But his R would make no sense at all, since he is now an adc and very squishy. Meaning his R is useless in team fights unless you want to suicide. So it would make more sense to change it. The other thing is his W. His W is currently the only ability he has which scales with AP. That makes no sense at all, since he is and was an AD-champion. So changing that as well should be considered. To declare his role a bit more and making him better I suggest increasing his aa range to 475, 480 or 500. Where I think 475 would be the most balanced.

Before I forget that, I want to mention that I don’t want him to be super-mega OP after this rework. He doesn’t have to be in the meta afterwards. But I want him to be a more viable pick (like Varus, MF and Quinn). With that said let’s move on to the ideas I had for the new kit.

W: Since his shield was kind of useless (bc. it scales with AP) we need to change it into something an adc could really need. What wants an adc? Mobility, attack speed-buffs, maybe a cc spell. I know he had a slow as long as his W was active, but honestly the shield is a 1hit for the other adc. Especially in the lategame. As an example he could create a portal underneath his feet, disappear and reappear in another location in a certain area, similar to Ezreal’s “Arcane Shift”. Ofc. he reappears instantly, making him not invulnerable, much like Ezreal’s E. After the repositioning he get a slow on his aa’s and his Q for a small duration similar to the effect before the rework. That would make him more mobile and would give him the attack speed steroid as well (maybe that would be too strong, it’s just an idea). Also his W can pass obstacles such as walls and towers.

R: Urgot’s R was a great tool to prevent the enemy from escaping before and if the enemy was in range he was pretty much dead. Now that he has his W made into a gap closer he can’t stop the enemy from escaping but is able to chase him down. To make this easier and still having the chance to prevent an escape I thought about an ultimate that does it all. I came up with the idea of a drill coming out of the ground. Basically Urgot strikes the ground with one hand (or something like that) and an indicator shows where the drill is going to come out of the ground, similar to Ziggs’ ultimate indicator. The drill (and the indicator) are smaller than Ziggs’ ultimate but not to small. After a certain delay a drill comes out of the ground, damaging all enemies and knocking the enemies in the middle area in the air and pushing the ones on the outer edge away. At the same time it afflicts every enemy hit by the drill with the same effect Noxian Corrosive Charge has. The range which enemies can be locked on is slightly increased for a small duration. Obviously this isn’t a global or semi global ultimate. Instead it has a similar range to Trundle’s pillar. The changes to his R would increase the options you have to lock on a target and use his Q, which would make many Urgot fans really happy I think. On the other hand he kept a cc on his ultimate even if it isn’t guaranteed (that makes it harder to use right but it is really effective is it is used right).

Overall the rework would make him a lot better than he is at the moment. The aa range I want to keep low but not as low as it is at the moment. With the changes to him W would make him more fun to play and giving him a safer lane considering his low aa’s. Looking at all the changes we can see, that we decreased the skill you need to play him effectively, making him more appealing even to new players. With his ultimate now changed into a ground target skillshot we restore some of the difficulty but not as much as he used to have in order to be effective.

Remember I am not a pro-player and I can’t give any numbers on the scaling’s and stuff but I think it would make him better in general, not only in the game itself but in the appearance as well.

I would be happy to get some feedback on my Idea, even if you decide to change nothing (which is totally ok, I know that you can’t listen to all of your fan’s suggestions) and contact me if you want more information about my Idea.

Keep up the amazing work and never stop doing so!

With a great thanks to all Riot-Employers, Auronit

Btw. Picures of the reworkes W and R are in the attachment. THEY ARE NOT TO SCALE! Pls. excuse my English but I think it is way more beautiful and easier to understand than German.