What are currently the WORST champs?

Deus Imperator·Jan 6, 2016·3 votes·1,616 views

I am talking about aatrox and akali tier of nonviable, champions that needed a complete rework or serious buffs to be usable in today meta

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Pika310Jan 6, 20165 votes

Sona Yorick Mordekaiser KogMaw

These are the most extreme cases that come to mind, although the full list of unplayable champs is considerably longer.

Yuzuki YukarinJan 6, 20165 votes

Kayle Sona Teemo KogMaw Hecarim

All of these have received countless unjustifiable nerfs when Rito needed to buff them. Thus nerfing champs that were already weak and making them OVERnerfed. There are a few others I'd actually include as well, but I'd say that these are the more obvious ones.

A Miss FortuneJan 7, 20161 votes

Teemo actually was buffed pretty well pre-season with Deathfire Touch's addition. His damage according to champion.gg skyrocketed.

LF AnnieJan 7, 20162 votes

thats because he was lackluster before.

AWildAPKalistaJan 6, 20165 votes

I'm just gonna leave this here:

Cassiopeia KogMaw Mordekaiser Sion Sona Yorick Zilean

Rıots Bad ClientJan 6, 20164 votes

Whoa, slow down there.

Zilean is a sleeping op. Respect your elders!

Jas3BaeJan 7, 20161 votes

Shh, don't tell anyone. Seriously though I main Zilean, and I have to say he's cool af.

Linna ExcelJan 6, 20164 votes

Lane nidalee.

Miku Hime samaJan 6, 20164 votes

Sona Just unplayable. Everyone knows she's the worst support in the game, even Rito. Whether they're willing to admit it or not. With bottom-of-the barrel stats, bases and scalings on top of a kit that could only have been designed intentionally for failure, it's more than fair to say she's even amongst the worst champs in the game overall.

Katarina I'd say Kat is in a much worse position than Akali, but that's not to say she's good either. At least Akali is more durable.

Akali When even Westrice isn't willing to play Akali, you know she's bad.

Evelynn With the preseason vision nerfs, her passive has become even less useful than before. Yet despite this, Rito continues to keep her gutted for no reason.

Yorick This is a gimme.

LadyRenlyJan 6, 20163 votes

Akali item 3068

Tread lightly. No one disses my ~~Laura Bailey~~ ninja lady

legionnaire99Jan 6, 20163 votes

i can't think of anything there allot of the the team kind of champs but there isn't one champ in the game that is uesless

Surfer AsheJan 6, 20163 votes

Akali still works though, just the effort you have to put into using her doesn't free as rewarding as Ekko or Zed.

Really, I'd say Karthus. He gets shat on by almost any midlaner. His old niche used to be outfarm everyone with endless waveclear and suicide, but seeing as passive gold has been increased a lot since he was competitive in like Season 2 and everyone has mobility, he is, quite literally, a walking R button.

JbelsJan 6, 20162 votes

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Akali still works though, just the effort you have to put into using her doesn't free as rewarding as Ekko or Zed.

Really, I'd say Karthus. He gets shat on by almost any midlaner. His old niche used to be outfarm everyone with endless waveclear and suicide, but seeing as passive gold has been increased a lot since he was competitive in like Season 2 and everyone has mobility, he is, quite literally, a walking R button.

He still does absurd damage when he gets all of his items. If he still has to get both Tear AND Roa, that might also contribute to his lack of popularity

Very Hard EngageJan 6, 20163 votes

Veigar thunderlords crushed him, low base health pool, cant utilize it himself. all about the ad and burst right now, and its not pretty when hes on the receiving end.

KogMaw takes too long to build up, when game is decided before 20minutes right now. and kog mains have been shifted away from sniping and micro/kiting to -> plant in spot and put faith in your team (like twitch).

Hecarim doesn't have infinite mana and cant spam abilities at level 3 anymore, must be the end of the world. (yet pantheon has been the same way for forever.)

5050BSJan 6, 20161 votes

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thunderlords crushed him, low base health pool, cant utilize it himself. all about the ad and burst right now, and its not pretty when hes on the receiving end.

takes too long to build up, when game is decided before 20minutes right now. and kog mains have been shifted away from sniping and micro/kiting to -> plant in spot and put faith in your team (like twitch).

doesn't have infinite mana and cant spam abilities at level 3 anymore, must be the end of the world. (yet pantheon has been the same way for forever.)

This is the problem with a lot of champs right now. lvl 2-3 snowballers is what to play Any champ that takes 20+ minutes of farm to be anything are dead weight.

Lauricella3Jan 7, 20161 votes

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thunderlords crushed him, low base health pool, cant utilize it himself. all about the ad and burst right now, and its not pretty when hes on the receiving end.

takes too long to build up, when game is decided before 20minutes right now. and kog mains have been shifted away from sniping and micro/kiting to -> plant in spot and put faith in your team (like twitch).

doesn't have infinite mana and cant spam abilities at level 3 anymore, must be the end of the world. (yet pantheon has been the same way for forever.)

to be honest stormraiders surge is far better on veigar anyway.

L Psy KongrooJan 6, 20163 votes

Aatrox Teemo Singed Taric KogMaw

MunchCrunchLunchJan 6, 20161 votes

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if you have an ap teemo on your team and hes kinda good. he can kill the enemy adc 10/10 times. thats all he needs to do to be useful.

HayRossJan 6, 20161 votes

If you play Singed right, he's a fucking god. And Taric is surprisingly viable, actually

Slamurai JackJan 6, 20163 votes

Why do people think Aatrox is so terrible? There's literally nothing to actually support the idea that he's bad. He's not great but he's hardly the worst champion in the game either.

Rıots Bad ClientJan 6, 20161 votes

AAtrox is bad because hes a terrible laner, his only esc can be stopped by almost everything. And he has a bugs where his w(I think) where it doesn't apply with his current life steal.

FızzJan 6, 20162 votes

aatrox isn't a bad laner a good aatrox don't die in lane and can win trades at lvl 6 (you don't feed the enemy top laner) don't underestimate him he's a good dueler but yeah he's squichy as hell and isn't that scary when having some kills early and is usless when enemy team have hard cc

edit: i just read you other post and yeah you'r right

SeargentAnusJan 6, 20162 votes

Vlad. Still one of the most irritating champions to play against, but at least you know his teamfighting is poor compared to most mages.

FurretHasAGlockJan 6, 20164 votes

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Vlad. Still one of the most irritating champions to play against, but at least you know his teamfighting is poor compared to most mages.

Vlads teamfighting is godly, wat? XD

SeargentAnusJan 6, 20162 votes

I'd consider it poor next to the mages being played right now due to his lack of CC, his short range spells, and his lack of mobility.

JbelsJan 6, 20162 votes

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I'd consider it poor next to the mages being played right now due to his lack of CC, his short range spells, and his lack of mobility.

How often do people message you about your name in game?

SeargentAnusJan 6, 20162 votes

Every now and again. I've had it since early Season 3, so I don't think Riot cares.

ShonjlJan 7, 20161 votes

Vlad even in his weakest state currently(He has to be permenantly weak else he is literally unkillable) he is a god of a teamfighter, which is basically only countered by pitiful early game. Don't allow him to farm and god forbid don't let him get kills and he is near useless, but let him farm his items or get kills and good luck killing the guy even at low health without dying in the process.

He has similar to a Zed's Ult but is AoE and also increases damage taken while it is on you, a low cooldown, very painful, massive sustain spell that is spammed, a get out of jail free card, and an aoe spell that can't be dodged other than not being in range. All his spells will heal more than their health costs, all but his pool are basically 3ish second cooldown, and he builds hp tanky due to his passive.

Idk about you but the once in a blue moon I played Vlad, I literally was a god. Roughly 3.2k hp, and like some 800 ap. Could heal for over 1//4 my hp every like 2 seconds. And would laugh through all your CC as I pooled under it. Unless he is shut down early, you aren't winning that game if Vlad is against you and isn't braindead.

Death by GlamourJan 6, 20163 votes

Vlad is a great teamfighter and scales well into late game

Someones ShadowJan 6, 20162 votes

I'd actually say one of my big favorites is in a pretty abysmal spot. He was already pretty lackluster in season 4 when I started playing and there had been word of a full rework and VO for him for a while. However a new item came out in preseason 5 and at that time riots answer to everything was still 'nerf all the champs' so the last champion that got that kind of reactionary treatment was my first main Warwick . They never even went back to give him any of his power back, can't even get by as a walking team buff or decent mid game ganker anymore. Basically you have to pray you don't get invaded and that your team doesn't feed until you hit six, then afterwards you're gone for x2 as long waiting on ult cd. Come on riot, if this is the season of the adc, ww could be the perfect answer for all this bs mobility and protect comps.

HayRossJan 6, 20162 votes

item 3930 item 3153 item 3091 item 3022 How to annihilate people to small bits

MerxamersJan 6, 20161 votes

plus item 3124

HayRossJan 6, 20161 votes

Never tried that on him, but it's worth a try. I would probably need to replace one of my offensive items though to make it so that i'm not obliterated to bits instantly

AbusingMyRightsJan 7, 20161 votes

This guy knows whats up. Max q then e. If they try to fight and don't win straight up they arent getting away. Not to mention the wild sustain.

JbelsJan 6, 20162 votes

Galio Passive scales with MR, forcing his kit to compensate for that by either doing less damage, or being harder to hit with. Not to mention Athenes sucks right now, his build is a confusing mess of damage versus survivability

A Miss FortuneJan 7, 20161 votes

You have to take in consideration if that he happens to be against a heavy magic damage team then he has an enormous chance of winning and there's not much you can do against him. He has the ability to do quite a bit of damage and can even blow up squishy champions who lack proper defensive resources and he can do all of this while taking next to no damage in return with insane sustain and tankiness. His kit also synergizes well with pretty much majority of the items in the game.

Death by GlamourJan 6, 20161 votes

Ad ezreal and caitlyn spring to mind, both are lack luster compaired to the others. Some may mention kog but his problem is the game ending faster than him being able to gear up.

Kha riven and urgot are a few champs, just outclassed by others in their class

A Miss FortuneJan 7, 20161 votes

My only issue with Caitlyn is that she needs to do well to be relevant. With her only having one auto attack steroid and meh base AD she doesn't have a whole lot going for her. That and her Q is easy to dodge and the damage is worthless if you hit multiple targets, her ult is totally useless in most cases, and her traps are ridiculously easy to avoid.

If Caitlyn does well she becomes a high ranged sieging monster that's impossible to take care of because her strong self peel and range. If she doesn't do well her lack of auto steroids and her unreliable abilities makes her one of the worst ADCs to play.

Mael broJan 6, 20161 votes

Udyr is quite literally garbage. He can't engage. He can't build devourer, because what's the use if u ain't getting to the backline. And he's the most kitable champion in the existance. Although i will give him credit and say that he's a great farmer. I think Udyr can be viable, but he needs total rework.

5050BSJan 6, 20162 votes

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is quite literally garbage. He can't engage. He can't build devourer, because what's the use if u ain't getting to the backline. And he's the most kitable champion in the existance. Although i will give him credit and say that he's a great farmer. I think Udyr can be viable, but he needs total rework.

You are joking right? You are playing him wrong then. Chicken oh I mean Uydr is to stun and kill if you cant do that then RUN RUN RUN away chicken. All Udyr does is ether kill you and there is nothing you can do about it because he can out run you or he runs away because he can stun and out run you. When he dies he is because he didnt gauge his target right or he was ganged up on.

Zane ZephyrJan 6, 20161 votes

Skarner Urgot Warwick Ezreal

personally I'm not too fond of ezreal because I don't like his kit, three skillshots and one of them is a glorified basic attack that can't crit and another one that only hits champions

I don't really see a reason to play ezreal over someone else that could do his job better. I just feel like his kit needs a pretty sizeable change to it

A Miss FortuneJan 7, 20161 votes

Ezreal is currently one of the strongest solo queue ADCs due to his mobility, global presence, and he can abuse his high range versus assassins like Zed that are extremely popular right now.

AbusingMyRightsJan 7, 20161 votes

I find he caps out with a higher ad than most as well with the muramana. 400+ AD is attainable. He does take a little to get going, but he's safe and strong.

FowusJan 7, 20161 votes

skarner isn't THAT bad but he's certainly not super good

SkiasJan 7, 20161 votes

Yorick Twitch Rumble Jayce

EcchiOtakuTMJan 7, 20161 votes

To be viable only yorick, urgot need reworks, Not mentioning any mages since riot has a mage patch coming.

Everyone else just needs slight buffs such as kog/poppy/Cait

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/tj99ntLT-poppy-needs-some-tlc I woould suggest for poppy

And illaoi does need a rework since fools who can't move complain about her damage while smart players who avoid everything and ask the adc to buy 800g executioner when lane phase is over make her useless.

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/16saqRzt-riot-illaoi

I would suggest that for illaoi