So Let's Talk Mad, Broken Scientists

CobaltGlow·1/6/2016, 9:10:32 PM·1 votes·557 views

Specifically, the Yordle of ridiculous lane control, zoning, pressure, and last hitting so effortless that his tauntspam makes it even worse Heimerdinger and the scientist of fling&walk2win Singed. These champs are in desperate need of balance but have hardly been touched recently. Let's be honest, Veigar Veigar might be able to delete you in one shot, and Quinn Quinn will mark you into blinding oblivion, but the key difference between them and the first two is that they can at least be dealt with. The only damage Veigar does is magic damage--just build Spectre's Cowl and Mercury's Treads and play passively so you don't lose out on gold. Then ask for a gank--that's what the early game is for. Heck, same goes for Rumble, Vlad, and most other magic damagers. (Except Malphite Malphite . Why does his Q do magic damage? Fix that, Riot; how does a golem of rock--a physical thing--do magic damage?) Quinn can mark you, but only if you get too close, and if that's the case, just turn around and play passive; she'll only get the drop on you if you make the wrong choices. Playing passive, safe, and smart against champions like these will still give you a chance to be sustained with XP and gold throughout laning phase. Doing this against Heimer or Singed, however, would be absolutely detrimental in any sense of the word. Play aggressively, and Heimer's turrets will take you out before you touch him, even with ganks, or Singed will make you toxic with poison and flings. Play passive, and they'll just farm and you still can't go last hit anyway because their kit is too broken to let you farm without dying. And either way, their kit makes it so easy to farm that the lane becomes a boring game of letting them farm every minion ever and staying under turret or even farther back because Heimer's turrets are right there or Singed's ult is up and then going back and letting them take the tower because you can't do anything. If there is a champ that won't let you do anything, then there's no game to play. Zoning is one thing, but having absolutely no room at all is another. At least when you're zoned, the lane will eventually be pushed by the enemy minions and that will give you the chance to farm. But with the mad scientists, even when the enemy minions are under your turret, you can't do jack squat because they will poke you hard with turrets, stuns, and rockets, or flings, poison, and insanity potions. YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING WHEN THEY'RE IN YOUR LANE. I would suggest that any fix on them at all revolve around nerfing their harassing gameplay and ridiculous kits of AOE and utility, at least up to the point where the other side of the lane could actually do something.

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Clutch Thompson1/6/2016, 11:25:36 PM1 votes

I main singed so I'm obviously biased but singed has far too many hard counters to even consider a nerf. Gnar, Teemo, Nasus, riven, and early game renekton give singed a new butthole. Heimerdinger on the other hand is just plain anti-fun.