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Champions that have Fallen Off

MaxSlinga·6/13/2015, 6:21:53 AM·4 votes·899 views

Dear Riot,

Brand, MF, Gangplank, and many other champions that were developed much earlier in the lifetime of this game are rarely seen in competitive play. Once you implemented super mobile/cc/shielded/wind walled/reverse timed/tunnels/multiple dashes/and many other awesome mechanics you left these people in the dust. ADC Mf is barely playable in platinum or above ranks. Her and those like her just don't stand up to champions like Lucian, Zed, Ahri, Yasuo, Ekko, Jayce, and Gnar... just to name a few.

These champions lack as diversified a kit as those champions and are PUNISHED for it greatly. When is the last time Brand was played by a popular team. Or how about Miss Fortune after you nerfed her into the ground. OR how about Zyra mid. She was nerfed so hard by you she became a support only champion.

Four beautiful champions that have so much character are so outclassed by mobile champs that I've lost any ounce of love I once had for this game. I am basically forced to play a few champions in my league or else the enemy team will play them and dominate.

While you are fixing numbers on Sej, or adjusting times on Caitlyn, or lowering the missile speed on leblanc's spells, why don't you show some kit changes or tweaks to those champions that really need it? Is it that hard? You come out with a patch ever 2-4 weeks, and I am disappointed every time to see that you have given up or slowed down on your goal to bring every champion to a competitive level.

Sincerely and desperately, Gods

P.S. I am not an advocate for nerfs to any of the awesome mechanics of the new intricate champions that are fun as hell to play. I am just suggesting that you bring most, if not all champions up to that level of fun and competitiveness :)

13 Comments

Ironclad Dragon6/13/2015, 6:56:51 AM2 votes

Taric doesn't even exist anymore.

WillHealForHonor6/14/2015, 1:01:14 AM2 votes

just give all champions a dash

3TWarrior6/13/2015, 6:44:13 AM2 votes

you forgot to mention Jinx, who has multiple forms of crowd control, a global ultimate and a damage/farming/attack speed steroid XD with a movespeed one to boot if she scores a kill

disregardable6/13/2015, 6:36:18 AM2 votes

MF has a minor rework going on, I think. Gangplank for sure has a rework currently as well.

Jeanne fan club6/14/2015, 7:36:07 AM1 votes

I do agree that champs were destroyed by riot, but as of the tank meta, I believe that 90% of all champs are complete vegetables compared to the brain dead ones. (wukong sej voli etc.) I do disagree about Ahri though. I used to main her before she became useless. As of right now she isn't as torn to shreds as zyra or MF, but I've had very interesting experiences with her. I came back to her for a game and ended up doing really well, 21/1/6 or something. Sure this is a bit of a crazy stat but I've been playing Ahri since lvl 7 so I have a great understanding of her. but anyway, a 2/8/3 30 cs volibear tried to 1v1 me 30 minutes in while I have void staff. I fought him, 3 charms, 6 foxfires and 5 orbs of deception later he has about half health. sure he is a tank, but really? a 30 second engage with me spaming abilities and he is only half health? He didn't even have his passive up. If Ahri can't even kill someone with that many abilities in that much time I have no idea how other champs are supposed to do anything. Ahri isn't even that good anymore. In these 3 tank comps she is purposeless. I think that she needs higher AP scaling so she is at least sort of useful in the late game, yeah she is mid game oriented but she only has 2 targets max that she can actually kill. But yeah, because of this meta there is only about 15 acceptable champs, sry to say but you have to play vayne/jinx adc or a tank in any other posistion to play the game now.

MLDzXnRRR6/13/2015, 7:22:26 AM1 votes

Brand needs major changes to become viable - he can't 1 shot the whole minion wave with one spell (unlike most of the "competetive" mages), has unsafe range and casting animations + heavy mana costs + immobile+combo reliant+ unreliable single target cc. There is no reason to pick him at all when you can have someone with superior mobility+safer waveclear+lower mana costs.

NemeBro6/13/2015, 11:27:59 PM1 votes

Miss Fortune legitimately has the second highest win rate of any ADC right now in plat and up. It spiked with this patch, and shockingly it's the players most familiar with her (125+ games) that have the lowest win rate.

Lucian, by contrast, has the second lowest, and has had among the lowest win rates for a while now.

Dragko6/14/2015, 3:48:19 AM1 votes

Kassadin Was destroyed last season.