So, about resource-less/alternate resource champions....

Cryo00·Apr 21, 2016·3 votes·543 views

Why are they a thing ? It seems kinda advantageous towards them because they only have to manage one resource over others who have to manage two. Some alternate resources are hard to manage (Rumble's heat, Gnar's rage), so I'm fine with those guys being manaless, but what about for champions like Katarina, Vladimir, Renekton, Riven, Tryndamere and this little shit ? They will never have to worry about going oom in lane or in extended team fights. I feel that all champions should have mana, or if they don't then at least have an alternate resource that is hard to manage.

4 Comments

ModWulf HelhammerApr 21, 20161 votes

I don't have the energy to type out a whole response detailing the intricacies of the different resources, so I'm going to use the easy way to get this point to you: if those champions had mana, they would be stronger.

NilokApr 22, 20161 votes

But be more punishable when they over stayed or over extended from a gank and thus be harder to play sloppy and be less prevalent.

Though it may be more the extra passive slapped on some champions.

SuperCosmicHoboApr 21, 20161 votes

Don't complain about vladimir like that. Well sure he has no mana, but he's trading pretty high costs of health to perform actions. His e and w already takes 30% health off of him already in the new rework. Since e is spamable, those who keep spamming it recklessly will get killed, and his w is straight forward, use it at the wrong time. Die. His q though, kinda a nerfed until you hit that 3rd shot, which is less than 3 seconds span. Giving the enemy time to flee-ish... The ones you should complain about is champs like Yasuo, that damn champ has literally no absolute cost on anything, and even comes with a free shield once in a while. Riven, is alright she's decent. Sometimes if she doesn't go all in at a confrontation, she's kinda screwed in trades. Katarina, idk feels broken sometimes, moves just can't be dodge unless you're out of range. Renekton is meh, and tryndamere is alright (kinda does a lot of damage with attack speed). The one that I hate the most manly is Yasuo, cause he really does so much damage and in a pretty short amount of time. I think Riot did say that they are going to make it so that mana-less champs will have to play a little more cautious or so. Hopefully it's implemented.

XPL TurdongApr 22, 20161 votes

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Why are they a thing ? It seems kinda advantageous towards them because they only have to manage one resource over others who have to manage two. Some alternate resources are hard to manage (Rumble's heat, Gnar's rage), so I'm fine with those guys being manaless, but what about for champions like Katarina, Vladimir, Renekton, Riven, Tryndamere and this little shit ? They will never have to worry about going oom in lane or in extended team fights. I feel that all champions should have mana, or if they don't then at least have an alternate resource that is hard to manage.

Because champion identity and uniqueness, keeps the game fresh. If Riot has chosen to just give them mana, they would be the same as everyone else and boring as hell and have been way stronger.

Imagine Yasuo with mana costs, his kit would have to be so much stronger because of how he's designed, and then people would be complaining about them doing obscene amounts of damage instead of having an alternate resource bar.