The Last "Hit for a thing" Passive

All Might Jr·Jun 23, 2015·2 votes·918 views

Can the design team start fading out this trend? Having more and more champions getting the exact same passive is, at least from my point of view, redundant and a bit boring. Especially since it's main purpose is to just give him 3 hits so his tongue lash can stun, instead of slow, meaning it's almost EXACTLY like Braum's.

And personally, I thought giving it for Tahm doesn't exactly fit him in terms of theme. Maybe something to emphasize "Making a deal", or his taste for the "Finer things". Or try to incorporate his siren's song into his kit? I don't know exactly, but I feel like his kit and the teaser paint two very different pictures of the character. One is a giant frog King Dedede, the other is an "Ol' Scratch" kinda folk figure with a strange yet captivating charisma for such a demonic figure.

7 Comments

TeemoJenkinsJun 23, 20151 votes

I think it lends to a greater skill cap. Instead of just button mashing you have to time your ability activation to greatest effect.

All Might JrJun 23, 20151 votes

Not really. It's simply a placeholder passive so that you have a wall in-between your abilities actually becoming useful instead of the kit just generally being useful. I don't think giving him an actual passive and having the two abilities that work off of it just work instead. There's ways to add to the skill cap than just "there's a wall between you being useful and that is auto-attacks"

Togekiss24Jun 23, 20151 votes

Hell, doesn't Braum have to stack FOUR times to get his stun off? Why does this guy get three?

I feel like it's one of those features kind of shoved in there to make him viable as a support champ. It's like they went "okay, we definitely want him to eat people and lash at them like Likitung, but where can we fit in hard CC to his kit?" "Oh yeah! Just give him a stacking passive!"

All Might JrJun 23, 20151 votes

Technically, while Braum's 4 hits equal a stun, Tahm has to do 3 hits and THEN an ability to get his hard cc off. And if he STARTS with his Q, he gives up the CC unless he wants to eat them instead. So basically, Braum's just got a superior version of his passive since it ALSO buffs his AAs and can give him hard CC without mana cost.

Woook3rJun 23, 20151 votes

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Technically, while Braum's 4 hits equal a stun, Tahm has to do 3 hits and THEN an ability to get his hard cc off. And if he STARTS with his Q, he gives up the CC unless he wants to eat them instead. So basically, Braum's just got a superior version of his passive since it ALSO buffs his AAs and can give him hard CC without mana cost.

And braums can be triggered by his adc....

Woook3rJun 23, 20151 votes

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Hell, doesn't Braum have to stack FOUR times to get his stun off? Why does this guy get three?

I feel like it's one of those features kind of shoved in there to make him viable as a support champ. It's like they went "okay, we definitely want him to eat people and lash at them like Likitung, but where can we fit in hard CC to his kit?" "Oh yeah! Just give him a stacking passive!"

Other champions can trigger braums passive.

All Might JrSep 15, 20151 votes

So no apparently this is still a thing.

Great.