High Mobility Champions.

Fallingfloor··4 votes·1,471 views

I normally don't write on the forums but with this new champ out it raises a question i never really got a satisfactory answer to.

How to handle high mobility champions. Since Ekko came out Riot has implemented measures to bail people out of their own mistakes. Things like blast plants, even terrain phase through champs like Kayne or rework Talon.

As a supp, Top, Jungle player its infuriating. In ye olden days you had to consider pathing, terrain, and relative speed. I can no longer out smart my enemies with ambushes in the jungle. Now i have to completely ignore ganking high mobility lanes. As a Support I can't speed my ADC enough to out run 3 dashes or terrain hoping. Even as a top lane player i cant secure kills even if they have 200 health. I properly chain my CC to win the skirmish just to have them escape.

Coming from heavy strategy gaming it seems Macro strategy has been phased out to cater to, honestly, the lowest common denominator.

How do champions like Leona (aside from never using zenith blade saving it for the one enemy champ that terrain hops), Volibear, Thresh (aside from never using death sentence saving it for the one enemy that terrain phases) or Shyvana to name a few, "stick" to high mobility champs?

I'd like a riot employee to explain the counter play to this. I mean that's why they nerfed veigar way back, there was no counter play to his stun combo. This is a gameplay trend that, as far as explained to me (even by pros), can only be countered by other high mobility champions.

2 Comments

Xion The XIV3 votes

For like Zoe, you can see she has a circle on the ground she teleports back too. The thing with High mobility champions you have to figure out where they will go next. Like with Le Blanc you have to predict on where she is going and what she is going to do. You can never stop them 100% but then look at Ezreal. He was forced out of lane, because of his high mobility is stopped by forcing him to buy non damaged items early. Most High mobility champions have garbage early games.

Like Katarina for example will almost always jump to her blade on the ground. Stand near it and bait it out and you can kill her.

Fallingfloor1 votes

Not only this but it seems to cultivate "vulture" playstyle where (usually mid laner assasin) roams around the map picking off kills. Never pushing, completely ignoring team fights, and or, ignoring jungle objectives.

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