Am I the only one that finds it weird that Alistars headbutt is on W? It essentially is a gapcloser (for your combo).
Looking at other gapclosers that interact with a Champion or are simple dashes you will mostly see it on E. Wouldn't it make more sense to move his headbutt from W to E and vice versa?
Lovely Pants2 votesWell, for one, it's tough on the playerbase to retrofit the position of abilities. It's at best a low-gain kind of change for the stress you inflict on existing players of a champion who have established expectations, and that's really not worth doing. Players are temperamental when it comes to the slightest changes in feeling of playing a champion.
Alistar being such an old champion it's possible there was simply less consideration of assigning the order of his abilities at the time of his creation, but I would also make the argument that he has such a strong core combo with his Pulverize and Headbutt that the QW position feels more comfortable. You could say that together the two abilities make Alistar's primary ability rather than most champions who lead off of their Q as some kind of micromanage intensive ability. Using them in combination requires a lot more concentration, target selection, and purpose.
Well, that's just my thoughts. I know the devs have mentioned something on this subject before, but I don't remember exactly what it was. I think they have said something to the effect that they balance things like familiarity with similar abilities with impact, frequency, and general feeling.
Kewlayd1 votesI would have always liked the skills to be interchangeable, except for R. So you could put them where you would like them.
An example would be, for me, to have Alistar's combo W->E, it just feels more natural for my fingers to work that way. Instead of W->Q.
It could also work on other champions if you could change the skill key.
Lauchmelder1 votesThat's basically it. I don't even play Alistar but it feels odd to see a gapcloser on W. Maybe it's just due to most dashes + gapclosers being on E nowadays
Kewlayd1 votesI would have it to where my most used skills would be E and Q being my least used skill.