A list of champions who basically don't have passives.

Bârd··2 votes·771 views

AurelionSol Considering how important his stars are to his gameplay, you'd imagine he'd be spared being on this list. Sorry, but no. His "passive" is just "What my W does when I'm not using it", and there isn't any reason why it should take up a skill slot. Hell, it's not even like he doesn't have a useful passive effect in his kit. His E passive would make much more sense as a standalone ability than this, and his current passive should just be a part of his W that's tagged as "Even if not skilled, stars still materialize".

Cassiopeia Her passive is "you can't buy boots". There is no reason why she couldn't have "Movement Speed Growth" in her base stats. "The others don't have it" isn't a valid reason. The others can buy boots.

DrMundo It's an insignificant amount of HP regen. This passive could suddenly become bugged to do absolutely nothing, and nobody would notice.

Karma I like the effect, I just see no reason why this shouldn't just be a part of Mantra.

RekSai This is just a part of her W.

Renekton This is just a description of how his Fury system works. The ability bonuses aren't a part of his passive, they're the abilities. The only part of this that actually does something in isolation is that he gets more fury when low on HP... wow.

Shyvana +5 resists per dragon killed is garbage, and there's no reason you couldn't just give her above average resists. +10% damage to dragons is a dumb gimmick that you forced in just so she'd have something other than resists, but it's so awkwardly put into her kit that I'm gonna put her on the list anyway.

Syndra Her spells do something extra at max rank. Akali has this exact mechanic on her Q. Why does it take up an entire spell slot for Syndra?

Tristana There is no reason why you couldn't just give her an "Attack range growth" stat. "The others don't have it" is not a valid reason. Her spells could simply have a tagline that says "this spell's range is equal to Tristana's attack range" if you wanted to keep that.

MonkeyKing This could be replaced by a slight increase to Wukong's base stats and it would be an improvement.

Yorick This is straight up just a part of his Q2 split off into another spell because you ran out of ideas.

3 Comments

50CaliberHecate1 votes

Some of these need changes, but no all. Tristana is fairly balanced, adding an additional ability to her passive would cause her to be unstable.

Syndra’s passive is cohesive for both her lore and her kit. Akali’s case is much different because it puts her at a higher skill level. you can’t just q and get the additional passive free every time like syndra does (which ONLY happens for Syndra late game for all her abilities).

Give Cass boots, I dare you. Boots + Phase Rush + Q passive and you’re basically playing against a Jinx with her passive set to unlimited. They took this away because she simply does not need boots. She’s a high skill champ, things are suppose to come easy.

Aurelion will eventually get a kit rework anyhow, Riot has made note of him in the past being fairly difficult to play and not in a skill based manner.

Karma does not need a different passive, she needs a different W. When they finally release that update they discussed a few patches ago, she’ll be 10x better than she is now.

Most other champs on this list I don’t play so I can’t speak on be half of but many are fairly balanced with having a passive that does less. Less is more in their case.

FOR JUSTICE1 votes

AurelionSol free waveclear and pushing costing no mana at all, great for roaming and shoving

Cassiopeia free gold efficiency because she never has to invest in boots, she gains the move speed just by existing

DrMundo cant really contest this at all, never really played or much cared for him

Karma free CDR for harass on a lane dominant champion

RekSai agreed

Renekton his passive is literally how he gains fury, tfym, lol

Shyvana this gives incentive for her to farm and secure objectives, as a farm oriented jungler should have

Syndra agreed, its effects imo are small. until level 9 its not even a passive

Tristana its free attack range on a champion who is building crit, adding extra safety simply by leveling up

MonkeyKing agreed

Yorick thats because no other empowered autos actually do anything on their own

to add to the list though:

Teemo admit it, you only ever used this to hide in a brush, lmao

Sivir uhh.... kite?

Skarner makes him have no passive on 75% of the map

Soraka mobility AFTER your allies start inting

Twitch you can... stop passive health regen....?

Bârd1 votes

Most of them aren't bad effects per se, they just aren't their own abilities.

I just hate that they've so obviously had ideas for passives that are completely attached to their other abilities, but then ran out of ideas and just split those passives off from their respective abilities.

More from Gameplay

More by Bârd