[Suggestion] Making Silence healthy

Fjiordor·Apr 13, 2016·2 votes·595 views

So we all know that the silence got removed from due to lacking counterplay. I personally think, that silence is a very interesting form of CC which definitely should be made usable in old and future champion designs. So here is my proposed solution to introduce counterplay to it:

Let silence affect only Champion abilities. This would give people, who got silenced the possibility to flash/qss/zhonyas etc.. In that case the enemy would have a chance to react while still being impaired in terms of their reaction bandwidth.

11 Comments

TotalJerkApr 13, 20162 votes

Silence got removed from those champions not because it's unhealthy, but because silences do not belong on assassins. Making matters even worse, their silences required practically no real skill to land.

FjiordorApr 13, 20161 votes

I wasnt talking about giving them the silence back but about opening the possibility for future Champs to have silences in their kit and I also dont want to see every silence removed.

QuephaApr 13, 20161 votes

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I wasnt talking about giving them the silence back but about opening the possibility for future Champs to have silences in their kit and I also dont want to see every silence removed.

Almost immediately after removing the silence from either Talon or LeBlanc, Riot went ahead and made Soraka's silence into an AoE. They don't have a problem with silences, they had problems with Talon, LeBlanc and Kassadin.

AbyssphereApr 13, 20161 votes

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I wasnt talking about giving them the silence back but about opening the possibility for future Champs to have silences in their kit and I also dont want to see every silence removed.

You don't get what he's saying. The point of his post is that future champions can have silences and the silences that currently exist in the game don't need to be removed - the silences that have been removed up to this point were unhealthy but there are healthy silences in the game (Malzahar, Soraka) and there's potential for healthy silences in future.

Stop thinking about how to make silence healthier (it doesn't need to be any weaker, it's already one of the tamer CCs?) and think about healthy abilities and champions that you could put a silence on. That's all that's needed.

QuephaApr 13, 20162 votes

You are completely mischaracterizing those changes.

Silence is NOT the part of those abilities without enough counterplay The champions as a whole did not have enough counterplay because they have gapclosers combined with high burst combined with a TARGETED silence

There's nothing wrong with Malzahar's silence, or Soraka's silence, or Garen's silence. One is a skillshot, two of them are on champions that lack the ability to burst you from 100-0, and all three of them are on champions without dashes or blinks.