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Why do People Hate Quinn?

dusara·3/19/2016, 7:15:10 PM·4 votes·2,387 views

** Taking all of this into account, my question becomes this: Why does everybody hate quinn? Do you think she's garbage? If so, why?** tl;dr: Quinn takes skill to play, I almost always (~80% of the time) play well with her, yet still get a lot of heat everytime I play her.

Full story here: Alright, so, one day, I got ADC for Draft and thought to myself "I've played Twitch for 3 games in a row, I'm getting sick of it." Actually, I typed that into chat. Somebody suggests "then play a free ADC." During that game, I ended up with a 9/2 KDR, the enemy team surrendered at the 25 minute mark. From then on, I noticed the pattern with Quinn: either I hard carry and the enemy surenders at early game (~30% of the time), I fall flat on my face because I have a crappy early game (~20% of the time), or we go into lategame and have a legitimate match (~50% of the time). So my question becomes this: Why does everybody hate Quinn? Everytime I play Quinn and somebody is feeding and I say "play more conservatively" and/or "stop feeding", they immediately respond with "shut up, you're playing Quinn!" Or else I'll have a match where somebody on the team just gave up at the 10-minute mark, because comebacks clearly never-ever-ever happen, and I say "why did you give up?" and he says "hur-dee-dur-dur, you're playing Quinn!" Now, if Quinn actually were a garbage champion, I would say that that has some merit. But, the thing is, she isn't! She takes actual skill to play, you can't just farm like crazy and become a late-game god with her, you have to choose the precise moment when to attack, when to run, when to push, etc., even when you're fed. Because of this, it seems like people just don't like her because they don't have the skittlez necessary to play with her, which would be fine if they didn't immediately write her off as a trash champion. When I play Quinn, seldom is the game I don't knock over at least 4-6 towers. At early game, I roam and I gank like crazy (slow + burst combo + boxed in enemy = death), if I'm getting outlaned, I'll stay in lane to keep my tower alive, usually quite successfully, since I'm never away from my tower for long, even when ganking (I can thank Valor for that). If one of the other lanes is struggling, I'll wait until I've pushed all the way to the enemy tower, then fly down and support that lane (usually taking out its first tier tower in the process). At lategame, I'll push two lanes at a time (three if if I needed a little extra tankiness from a zz'rot portal or Banner of Command), and I'll use a ruby wardstone to ward up the enemy jungle so I seldom get ganked. Late-game, I'm obviously going to drop off in my ganking potential, since I become more focused on knocking down enemy towers than actually killing the enemy, but I rarely end a match with any less than a 1.5:1 KDR, and more towers knocked down than anybody else on my team.

9 Comments

Tyrone Lannister3/19/2016, 7:46:42 PM3 votes

Its not a question of whether or not shes trash or requires skill. Shes just so damn annoying to lane against. She reminds me of teemo

Tormentula3/19/2016, 7:20:20 PM3 votes

Quinn isn't the best adc to be honest. Where quinn is cancer is top lane, where she basically counters and snowballs every top laner hard, and then roams and kills other lanes easy. As an adc she doesn't snowball as hard as she's reliant on her support, which can either be helpful or harmful.

She's basically every adc in a nutshell, you're either 15/0 or 0/15, if anything quinn is more easily able to catch people out and recover/get ahead. Just I feel adc quinn is a nerf to top lane quinn imo.

ff4sk3/19/2016, 7:58:47 PM2 votes

She doesn't require skill, just someone who knows how to utilize a champion heavily reliant on roaming and picking off squishies.

people hate quinn because she's currently so broken that she's top of the list in mid, bot, and top while still being viable in the jungle.

Tl;dr she's broken

LegitBusinessman3/19/2016, 8:17:29 PM2 votes

Quinn blind is just really unfun to play against.

Money Chant9/11/2017, 7:39:50 PM1 votes

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Immortal spax3/19/2016, 8:46:31 PM1 votes

Maybe Quinn ADC requires skills, but Quinn Top is just right clicking because the enemy will be for sure a melee champions, add this to her Blinding + Slow, so you cant even ingage/disengage, and to her Ultimate with the useless mana cost, she can go top lane even without TP, because of her ult, she can roam at full speed Sanik, the time that you ping SS, and she is already mid.

The only Top Laners that can do something are Olaf and Mundo, but just because of their Q that let them take a CS every 7 seconds, also even Yi that can take 4 cs every 15 seconds.

Pantheon at LvL 3 all-in with thunderlord can also do something, but if it fails, he will be useless for all the entire game.

Gangplank was a counter play, but now they nerfed him to the ground.

Also her poke with Thunderlord is massive, she can take 1/3 of your health at lvl 1, at lvl 2 with ignite its a easy first blood.

Her base stats are too high for a ranged toplaner.

IMHO riot need to change the mana cost of her ult, like Swain Ult for example, and remove the slow,

TL;DR Quinn top have no counterplay and takes no skill.

JayHog19923/19/2016, 7:26:07 PM1 votes

I just find her blind disorienting, that's all. But not even hate, just a "meh".