Weekly Community PSA From Yours Truly: Can we get rid of BS abilities?
Dear Fellow Summoners (If we are that anymore Lore wise, whatever),
Today I have these pictures ->
<- to list who will be discussed today. It baffles me how in this day and age that we have characters that can ruin your entire existence with a single ability.
Lets start with wasabi over here. For the most part his kit is okay. Yeah its mostly bull but its manageable bull. He has a Q he spams like a madman in lane that lets him a free knockup every third hit. A free dash though thankfully can't dash through the same unit twice so a positive there, but he also gets extra damage for each thing he dashes through so back to neutral, and an ult that at the time of typing this is pretty lackluster honestly. Oh and he gets x2 crit and a free shield as a reward everyone else in the game does which is move your character (yeah its weak boo hoo that's still damage mitigated). The real issue is really the fact that mans has a hair dryer he can deploy into the battlefield to completely negate just about any projectile. Yeah a
ult or similar abilities can go right past it but its not like the rest of your kit is to set that up. On multiple occasions I've seen him completely blow the cc away from him as well, take
Charm or
Crows on the literal millimeters from his body and just W it all away. Granted if it was a bit more of a deployable construct or something I could ALMOST forgive it, but making its effects pronounced at the moment of impact is cute but doesn't do much for counterplay nor does it incentivize going anything but passive which is still punishing More on this later.
Then we got sushi spear. Oh boy. So lemme just phrase this in the nicest way possible. Hes got a point and click dash, a dot passive coupled with no minion collision, and throws a shark at the enemy player. Granted his ult is a skill shot so there's at least a degree of countering you can do there and the dash is really more of a reposition tool, that does a good chunk of damage mind you, but its predictable to an extent. What we don't appreciate is how the privilege to leave the game whenever you deem fit is integrated into Playful Trickster. I can't even begin to acknowledge how many posts I've seen covering this. Bruh, just what the hell went into the design decision for this. Why don't other champions get this blessing? Hell its a skill that could make anyone viable, it should honestly just be his ultimate at this point. Throw it on
and watch as her stats go up and less random "adcs" (another post probably) get salty at getting one into a jank botlane matchup. Untargetable, Invulnerable, Uninterruptible and does a huge chunk of aoe damage AND its a repositioning tool AND its a free flash. Like damn just give him the keys to the company and let him rub his trident on the countertops too while were at it. Its a booty ability that should at least require SOME IF ANY work for the payoff it gives. More on this later
Lastly for the sake of not writing a novel regurgitating what countless others have said and experienced, we have vinegar as our last culprit. You know I remember a time he used to be quite manageable. He had a clear distinct role as an anti ap blaster. The only way to get free ap was to farm with your q so there was at least a moment of harass opportunity and his ult scaled off of the opponents ap which basically meant have your ad champs go in and blast him so the ap champs could last more than a millisecond in fights. Then good ol' rito comes in and says "Okay how is he countered? Yeah not anymore." How you gonna tell me he gets free ap FOR DOING WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS ALREADY DOING. "What everyone is is doing what do you me-" THE USE OF ABILITIES ON YOUR OPPONENT. Yeah who came up with that genius idea. Instead of the innate reward of harass and damaging your opponent which ultimately leads to a win anyway someone decided nah let's let him scale off of that too. So he just gets to the point where he autos and R's and {ANENEMYHASBEENSLAIN}. Making his ult scale off of missing hp is more of just a why in my opinion. "Oh well he underperforms against ad champs" yeah in the mid lane who doesn't? He was still melting squishies regardless, now its just that he can melt some beefier people as well thanks a lot. Let's also give an honorable mention to his cage. It's almost as if an aoe stun that walls people in could be an ultimate
you know minus the detriment of having it as an ult of course because that would be too harsh. FWI it also has a larger aoe than his ult minus the damage sure but its a stun so I'd say infinitely more deadly especially since you can't struggle and crawl away.
So what have we learned today? Absolutely nothing. Not only is this just salty ranting, but it's things that everyone has a problem with and if you don't you probably play these champs regularly. Hell I play them too when I want a free win, doesn't make it fun. And yes it does require SOME practice to be annoying with these but the problem is that even though there is a high skill ceiling there is way too low a barrier to entry. Or just rework the skills presented in such a way that they aren't so damn gimmicky. That's my two cents.
Oh and to answer the question, yeah you could just play around these abilities. Go for it hell you will find great success in doing so too, just realize that no matter who you are playing they are playing around you playing around them. So how's about making the playing field slightly more level plskthnx.
Sincerely,
This Guy
pool is also a rather tilting ability.