Something That Needs to be Said About Countering Through Wards

Meep Man··3 votes·539 views

ANY champion that is countered by item 3340 or item 2043 , as in they are the only way to play against them, are poorly designed. Why? For a couple reasons:

A.) If these are truly the only ways to counter the champion in the purist, then it shows a lack of ability to beat the champion in direct combat and means the main way to beat them is to know they are coming and running away. B.) If these are, once again, the main ways to counter the champion, then there are certain cases where it's useless due to counter warding. This is especially true when these champions are ahead since a team being ahead also means they will be ahead in the vision game. C.) These items are both either limited or on a decent cool down and most champions have combat prowess that can be used more than once every 90 seconds. Basically meaning, the limited use of these items and the less limited use of the enemy champions means that a skilled user of them will just find away around the wards.

Im looking at instant kill champions mainly, like Rengar and Annie and such. They need to be readjusted or reworked very soon because if simply seeing them coming to run away is your solution to them, ESPECIALLY past the early game, then they need to be changed ASAP.

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Boulderox2 votes

Shaco , one of the healthiest of these ironically. His q can be seen from fog of war, squishy as all hell, and has very little damage outside his q and e other than right clicks. Yet still can kill murder people and is never fault other than the one that allowed it to happen.

Meep Man1 votes

Well, Shaco is... old. That's Shaco. Old mechanics, old everything. He's hard to blame or really complain about since it is only natural that a champion who hasn't been touched in years is like that. Rengar, Annie, Evelynn, and many others are poorly designed and have been noticed in some way recently. Shaco has kind of just been... Shaco.

PunkDisorder1 votes

PFFT look at this jokester, calling for meaningful counterplay in League of Legends! What a card!

No, Riot knows this. Annie, Rengar, Lux, champs that were balanced when you could ward against them are now beyond the threshold of well designed. Of course they refuse to fix it because they're busy adding yet another champ to a game. We need to have a game that's already not frustrating to play because "They picked the more OP thing" before you release yet more into the game to throw off the current "balance"

Meep Man1 votes

I wasn't really talking about Lux, just throwing her in there is a little strange since the main ones I speak of are the targeted instant killers, something Lux doesn't have. Sure, Lux might not be in a good state, but I don't believe she fits in this category.

QjTHqo3RTq1 votes

Lux is doing great, but like you said, no target burst

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