Just watched the Kastila Champion Spotlight.

Daedalus871·Nov 20, 2014·7 votes·1,108 views

Congratulations to CertainlyT for designing a champion that can make the #BigLCSPlays that will be nerfed every other patched and will still be must pick/ban at worlds.

I would complain about all the bullshit that is in her kit, but I'm not sure that more than 20% of the people in my elo will be able to use her close to effectively.

Seriously though, whenever CertainlyT makes a kit, Riot should split that kit in half and give it to two people who won't overload it.

16 Comments

Killer X 12Nov 20, 20141 votes

Real talk tho. Has he made a champ that wasn't completely bullshit yet?

Meep ManNov 20, 20143 votes

He certainly makes champions with identities. I think some other champions are too underloaded in my opinion.

Killer X 12Nov 20, 20141 votes

Yea, that is fair. You deff have defining traits in his champs...to bad "its fucking op" is what people say before and after that trait.

Daedalus871Nov 20, 20142 votes

Darius Zyra Zed Thresh Yasou Kalista

I wasn't playing all that much when Darius was released, but he was apparently bullshit as well.

Killer X 12Nov 20, 20141 votes

The only one of those i think that wasn't completely op was Thresh. He could just do alot of things which pissed people off. Even then however, he still had to get nerfed. All his champs get nerfs a patch or two after release because they don't know how to do math lol.

At least he didn't work on Kass. His ult prolly woulda been global.

killd0zerNov 20, 20141 votes

No, thresh is still a good pick and he's gotten nothing but nerfed since release. He has lost in every area, losing dmg and mechanics (shield only affects 1 ally). He's still strong

Killer X 12Nov 20, 20141 votes

Yes, i agree he is still strong. The potential for outplay is large.

Daedalus871Nov 20, 20142 votes

If CertainlyT worked on Kass,

Passive would remain the same ... except it would have a magic shield every 5 spell casts Q would remain the same ... except the shield would be replaced by bonus AP W would remain the same, ... but it's passive would shred MR E would be some sort of long ranged skill shot with a displacement that could apply W's passive R would be mostly the same, ... except for the slow it would apply on landing

BismuthiniteNov 20, 20141 votes

Darius Zyra Zed Thresh Yasou Kalista

I wasn't playing all that much when Darius was released, but he was apparently bullshit as well.

Wasn't Zyra designed by Morello?

SmokingPuffinNov 20, 20141 votes

I wasn't playing all that much when Darius was released, but he was apparently bullshit as well.

Champion designers don't do the balancing. They make the kit, not the numbers.

SmokingPuffinNov 20, 20141 votes

Real talk tho. Has he made a champ that wasn't completely bullshit yet?

Zed is often cited as the healthiest assassin kit, due to the amount of skilltesting plays you can make with his shadows and the amount of counterplay his assassination pattern affords the target.

Zyra is a pretty awesome design. Released overtuned, has since proven to be pretty interesting in both support and mid.

SookoNov 20, 20141 votes

Real talk tho. Has he made a champ that wasn't completely bullshit yet?

is often cited as the healthiest assassin kit, due to the amount of skilltesting plays you can make with his shadows and the amount of counterplay his assassination pattern affords the target.

is a pretty awesome design. Released overtuned, has since proven to be pretty interesting in both support and mid.

To be honest, I think Darius is the best champion he has made. He has mana costs, low mobility, and isn't as tanky as most bruisers. That's a real weakness. Why I don't think Zed is healthy is due to the fact that you have to wait for your inevitable death, usually as an overconfident player spams laugh and his mechanics are similar to LeBlanc's when it comes to juking. To me the healthiest assassin kit is Pantheon. I hate him, but his mana costs and falling off late game mean real weaknesses, a bit like Darius, most other champions CertainlyT makes have less distinct weaknesses (those two you mentioned never really become weak, but, for example in Zed's case, he is at his weakest during early game, with some energy costs and high CD on shadow, yet he isn't as weak as, for example, Singed in his early game, nor anything similar). Still I think his ideas are good, but maybe someone else should duo with him to keep him from unleashing monsters.

BRBGTGBOWFLEXNov 20, 20141 votes

He's one of the best champion designers. Kalista is fine and probably needs some numbers tuning.

He just gets hate because people have issues dealing with champions that aren't simply copies of other champions but with small numbers changes and minor retouches on already existing abilities. Take Jinx for example, she does nothing particularly interesting. Her kit isn't particularly innovative and none of her abilities introduced something we haven't seen anywhere else. She's a great champion, and very well executed, but she isn't innovative.

I agree with Inept Maverick. There are many underloaded champions that have no hugely unique identities or that have too much of their power in one small facet. CertainlyT spreads his power budget and builds meaningful... I hate this word... synergies between his champion's abilities.

All of his champions need to be tuned after release because they do interesting/different things and it takes awhile to get them in line because** new things are harder to balance than old things.** I don't think it's a really hard concept. And Yasuo was never really problematic on release, he became problematic after they had to buff him.

Daedalus871Nov 20, 20141 votes

Kalista an Ashe with mobility from the looks of it, so any melee champion without a gapcloser is flat out going to suck against her.

But she is new and exciting, so it sucks to be melee.

ClueClownNov 20, 20141 votes

I really like the creativity that comes along with Kalista and champions with crazy kits like her. I'd rather have a wide variety of ways to play than some basic moves. And if they're op at first they'll get nerfed. It's not like Yasuo is exactly Yasu-OP right now. He used to be, but he blends in pretty well with everyone else now.

MinrogNov 20, 20141 votes

Yeah sure. All of his characters are so interesting/different. Cause Darius wasn't just another version of Garen with 3x the damage and a mini Blitz hook instead of a sword swing. Zed wasn't just Leblanc with higher DMG and more escapes.

Thresh is Blitzcrank 2.0 with Veigar's Q bonus as a zero skill passive leech. The singular thing he's added was the Lantern, and that's the only part of the whole deal that is neat.

It turns out Kalista is a troll champion. Either she's trolling the enemy team with unlimited mobility or she's trolling her allies by force binding them and throwing them into enemy towers. The guy who is making these decisions isn't operating on a budget, he's just taking 7 or 8 skills from other characters, doubling the base damage, and cramming them into 5 slots. So innovative.