Artillery Mages Requires too much effort

taleofsonata··2 votes·576 views

The amount of precision a player needs to have to play these champions is unbelievable... Especially in a Meta with mobility and high movement speed builds. Unless you're a scripter, it requires years of knowledge with this champion. Ziggs Xerath Velkoz If I were to compare Yasuo Riven skillcaps to these champions, they would not even come close to them.

You're punished as bad as an ADC when it comes to positioning, you're helpless when a Zed ults you. You will 100% in pretty much any Hard Engage comps. You're Super Item Dependant, yet your laning phase is super hard against bad match up. As an Artillery mages you want to build item 3174 because the amount of mana sustain it gives you fits with your spammy gameplay but the low amount AP and the other support passive doesn't benefit you. item 3001 You don't benefit from the Aura because most of your spell outrange the Aura, but you have no choice if you're looking for an MR item.

Please Riot do something about these champions, and Ban those scripters soo we can actually see their actual % Winrate. I'm pretty sure an average player is around 40% while a scripters is like 80%.

18 Comments

Paroe4 votes

Fizz vs Xerath.

Pre 6: Fizz: QWE Xerath: Okay i have to harass with my heavily telegraphed Q and poke with my basics to keep my mana up. i have to save my E for when im running away because its useless up close and i need to save my W for the 2 second window when all his abilities are down.

Post 6: Fizz: RQWE Xerath: Frag this. Im buying a travelers charm.

Artillery mages are immobile mages who are supposed to have high burst and waveclear. they are meant to be seige champions.... but they dont have the damage to do that. having to clear with TWO abilities as opposed to one cough fizz, LB, yasuop, zed cough ruins this for no reason other than riot seems to think AP is broken for some god aweful reason.

Marshbouy3 votes

The amount of precision a player needs to have to play these champions is unbelievable...

90% sure this post is bait

Evewynn2 votes

You don't really need to aim super well, just throw stuff at the enemies until they're whittled down. The more enemies, the easier it is. Having a hard time fighting the opponent? Just push from a mile away. Tear and lost chapter remove any mana troubles one might have.

taleofsonata2 votes

Clearly you have never touched them in High Elo. Oh look a minion waves is coming, Yasuo is right infront of you.

Shadòw1 votes

Gold 5 0LP is not high elo..

taleofsonata1 votes

I was matched up against a Diamond 5 Yasuo main with 600k MAsteries.... I still beat him... I play Rank to get to Gold 5 for Free Skin, if it was plat higher I'll get there just for the Free Skin. but my normal MMR is very very high.

Shadòw2 votes

you know that normal mmr and ranked mmr are two different things?

let me fix it for you:

I got boosted to Gold 5 for Free Skin

taleofsonata1 votes

????? GOLD 5 Is easy to get, are you having problem to get there?

taleofsonata1 votes

But didn't check the champions I ended up spamming to get there, Brand 1 game lost.

Shadòw1 votes

still doesn't change the fact that it is not high elo.

Artillery mages do what they should do, you have to play with your range.

1 800 MID LANE1 votes

Which only supports what he's saying more. Ranked MMR and normal MMR are different things. This can explain why he's going against Diamonds in normals and is only Gold 5 in ranked. It could say the opposite, though. Those Diamonds could have low normal MMR and high MMR in ranked. However, if he was "boosted" to Gold because of mediocre normal MMR, that implies that the Diamond player in question did also. You may as well say that they either both have low MMR in normals and both got boosted in ranked or that OP's MMR in normals is higher than in ranked.

Shadòw1 votes

op.gg says he usually gets matched around silver/gold elo in normals

Evewynn5 votes

Playing a champ vulnerable to all-ins against a yasuo is just begging to get spanked.

Not sure why you're close enough to let Yas harass you anyways, should just be lobbing at the wave and farming under turret in that matchup.

taleofsonata2 votes

When a Minion waves enter lane thats when he has the gap close enough to get to you.

Evewynn2 votes

But..you're an artillery. Just farm from under the turret, you'll reach the middle of the lane. Better than walking up waving a "kill me" sign.

dark100dark1001 votes

Gapcloser is > than long range mages. Long range mages > tanks without gapcloser. Sorry noone plays with such tanks.

DrCyanide1 votes

{quoted}

As an Artillery mages you want to build item 3174 because the amount of mana sustain it gives you fits with your spammy gameplay but the low amount AP and the other support passive doesn't benefit you.

Not any more you don't.

More from Gameplay

More by taleofsonata