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You Know What, Riot?

Tribbles Foxfolk··1 votes·574 views

I'm currently in high school (I think 2nd year) and Algebra is the single most boring subject I've had to take so far. "X-Squared + BY = C if the moon is aligned in the right way, but if there is an Ursa Minor constellation tonight, the formula is now 'the square root of X-Cubed - the volume of a 66.523% full cup of water...'"

I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO DO ALGEBRA TO PLAY A CHAMPION.

As much as I love him (favorite next to Koggles, whom I've always loved), Jhin is the most egregious offender of this currently in League of Legends.

When a champion's passive requires a mathematical formula that requires a good understanding of YOUR fake mathematical stats to even assemble, let alone complete, YOU. HAVE. FAILED.

I don't think I'm being unfair in saying that it's damn near impossible for most players to complete Whisper's formula during a game under the stress of laning, farming, warding, taking objectives, trading, etc etc. Even between games, you'd need to sit down alone with a lot of scratch paper and time to calculate Jhin's AD after each item.

Please...Just do NOT over-complicate this new champion, for the love of all that is good. Sometimes, less is a LOT more. I just don't want to have another Jhin, because despite how cool he is, he has way too much information to reasonably process without needing to grossly simplify it to near-layman's terms.

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FacerollKatarina2 votes

"I'm currently in high school (I think 2nd year)" can u do algebra to figure out what year ur in pls

Tribbles Foxfolk1 votes

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"I'm currently in high school (I think 2nd year)" can u do algebra to figure out what year ur in pls

I don't think it really matters because Algebra never changes. Polynomials, Probability, the volume of someone's asscheeks during the stomach-flu outbreak. Y'know, the usual.

buneter1 votes

Well there is geometry that uses Algebra, Algebra 2, triginomitry, calculas, statitstics they all use Algrebra and they all change it so it does change

ModWulf Helhammer1 votes

You don't have to know the calculations of his passive in game -- all you need to know is that AS and crit increase his damage

Sightless661 votes

Even between games, you'd need to sit down alone with a lot of scratch paper and time to calculate Jhin's AD after each item.

Or you can just check any of the dozens of dps calculations people have done for him and just see that a standard ADC build works best for him. With just the knowledge of "a standard build works fine", you have all you need to be successful. I don't need to calculate out what item is best in game. I just do it off of a heuristic, just like for every other champion in the game.

If you really want build optimization you have to do calculations for any given champion anyway. Jhin isn't special in that regard, particularly since his ideal optimization for DPS matches the standard AD carry item profile so strictly anyway. You can get by just fine building normal items, and since that's true in every game, this really isn't a significant problem for him.

I don't think I'm being unfair in saying that it's damn near impossible for most players to complete Whisper's formula during a game

Sure. You're totally right. That's why it's a good thing you don't actually need to.

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