Rant on League of legends

werewolvecaster·4/29/2015, 5:31:22 PM·5 votes·1,021 views

I am pretty damn tired of this League of mobility crap, i'm tired of every champion have 100 escapes built into their kit then flash as well. I enjoy playing cho, skarner, bard, viktor and azir but most of those champions have 0 to little mobility. I have a hard time playing them because of lack of buffs or just being so slow I can't run away without getting saved by teammates. I want to be able to enjoy these champions without being kited to death or outclassed. It is frustrating trying to play champions that others can do better I don't want better I like the idea behind the champion not how good they are. It is just hard to play them in most metas and I want to be able to use them with a chance of winning without getting cheesed by some mobile champion.

10 Comments

Narasimha4/29/2015, 6:59:59 PM5 votes

In all honesty, are you sure its not you? Cho and Skarner are pretty strong right now, Bard is getting to a good place, maybe one more patch or so, Viktor has decent enough combat mobility with his upgraded Q and his damage in teamfights is incredibly strong, and Azir... well, he's just a mess right now.

ur dead kid4/29/2015, 8:11:19 PM5 votes

every champ has cooldowns, its all about targeting them when they cant escape. its pretty simple. dont ult fizz when he can just e away. dont ult zed when his ults up. its so easy....

The Paulrus4/29/2015, 5:58:50 PM4 votes

Honestly, I agree with him but his reasoning on it does suck.

Lack of parity in mobility is a huge problem unless it has a huge tradeoff. Think of some of the most annoyingly OP and the lack of counterplay champs that there are right now. Typically champs you'd consider Freelo.

Zed Katarina Kalista Fiora Riven Fizz LeeSin Leblanc

What do they all have in common? Dashes, blinks, dodges, hops. In other words, overpowered mobility.

Why is mobility a problem? Because adds large amounts of both offensive and defensive power. Enemy low and running away? Gapclose and kill them. Losing an encounter, hop out. Trading at range? Hop into range, attack, hop back out before they can damage you. Skillshots? Sorry, they're pretty much nullified. Ganks? Sorry, I'm back under tower now.

Having higher mobility gives you the ability to control the lane. You can hop in to push them back, then hop back out. The main counter argument is to CC them. The problem with that is most CCs are either channeled/delayed abilities like Chogath or are such short range you won't be able to target them Ryze .

The key issue is, you have to distinguish mobility into two different types, movement speed and movement abilities. The problem comes in when you give high movement speed champs highly mobile abilities as well. The problem is Riot has not only given these champions high movement speed, and high mobility abilities, but high burst damage as well. This leads to a low risk, high reward dash in, fire your abilities dash out, giving you a very low risk gameplay style. While this is helpful against taking down adcs mid/late game, it also makes for an oppressive laning phase where it's very difficult to trade with your opponent.

For a better idea of some more healthy mobile champs see: Hecarim Rengar Khazix MasterYi Talon . While they are fairly mobile, they can't 100-0 you, dodge your skillshots/attacks, and hop back out before you even know what happened. They all have strategic weaknesses. The Freelo champs I listed above don't have that, short of item 3157 , which isn't really counterplay and has a 90s cooldown, longer than most of their blinks/dashes/hops and is only useful to AP champs.

Jamie Vardy4/29/2015, 5:39:35 PM1 votes

So you want the champions with mobility nerfed because of the few champions you play that don't have much mobility (logic). Most of the champions you listed have more than way to shut down mobile champions. ( Bard immobile LOL)

werewolvecaster4/29/2015, 9:36:19 PM1 votes

Awesome got a bunch of salty leblanc fizz and zed mains downvoting my thread. 0 Common sense just screw League lets turn into boring mobility creep bs. And yes I know they have cooldowns but they are too low and can be frequently spammed for toxic gameplay.