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URGOT NERFS

sssaucyboi·3/3/2019, 6:41:51 AM·14 votes·9,370 views

Being an urgot main, the last few patches have been brutal on me.

Riot nerfed Urgot twice since season 9 started. And I'm REALLY feeling it especially in laning phase.

Increasing mana costs for both Q and W now means I'm out of mana after literally one EWQ engage or two and I have to back, reducing the already crappy sustain Urgot has.

I'm sick of having to run Manaflow band or buying a mana crystal just so I'm not backing every 2 seconds.

Now I know they are quite subtle nerfs and didn't change any base stats, but Urgot has gone from a S+ tier to F tier, literally dead last. Just look at OP.gg

Honestly I do think Urgot needed a nerf as well: hes unique as a ranged juggernaut able to cut through tanks. But these nerfs are causing me to lose first tower almost every game, and I dont even bring Teleport (I use ignite with unsealed spellbook)

Thoughts? Answers? Any other urgot mains out there?

This is sort of a long post, so thanks for reading.

31 Comments

Daddy Ants3/3/2019, 11:27:07 AM5 votes

Now all we need is Riven nerfed and Top lane will have some diversity.

PB4UAME3/3/2019, 2:47:22 PM4 votes

They fucking destoryed him. In two patches he went from top 5 in top lane to one of the literal worst champions in the game period. His winrate is now below 45% in plat plus, his winrate falls off so fucking hard after 40 minutes, and it takes nearly 20 minutes for his winrate to even get out of the 30%s. Essentially he has one spike between 20-40 minutes, and if you don't win then, you're wasting your and your own team's time and LP as you're shooting yourself in the foot by picking him.

He's down to the bottom 101 champions for damage as supposedly a ranged juggernaut. He's in the bottom 102 champions for gold earned per game, because he's now so fucking easy to shut down as he has no mana, his abilities cost far more than comparable ones for other champions, his defenses are gone now that they were cut in half, with increased cooldown leaving less than 50% of the power his W had before this last patch. That change was the single hardest nerf any defesnive ability in the history of League of Legends has ever been hit in a single patch, and it was his only defensive tool, while he has literally no sustain to speak of, and who cannot itemize for item 3053 or item 3046 or item 3748 or item 3074 or item 3022 and who doesn't have the defensive tools, base stats, low CD abilites, or base AD to effectively make use of a item 3025 or item 3078.

In fact, his mana sustain has been gutted and his ability to itemize effectively is dumpstered with the loss of 15% bonus HP -> shield ratio, to the point where Urgot mains are now finding item 3042 to be his best item. That should go to show you how fucking badly RIOT fucked up Urgot in as little as two fucking patches. They seriously need to pull their collective heads out of each other's ass and get their fucking shit together, instead of just eating it. This isn't how you balance shit, let alone the largest and most widely played video game in history.

MrGerund3/3/2019, 1:46:44 PM3 votes

yup, urgot was strong, played him with aftershock.

first nerfs already felt hard to get used to but now he literally got dumpstered. riot doesn't like bulky champs in general imo.

solutions...? don't play urgot in ranked.

Baval3/3/2019, 2:07:32 PM3 votes

urgot needed a weak phase in the game. He becomes extremely strong mid and late, he was also extremely strong in lane. Now he isnt.

Yets42403/3/2019, 2:31:06 PM3 votes

The worst part is they fucking gutted his defense when he's already fucked over harder than any other champion for itemization, given that most of the items and runes he wants to use are melee only, or have huge drawbacks for ranged champions. Now, in addition to not being able to itemize item 3053 effectively, with his W coded to make items like item 3087 item 3046 terrible, with his range and W designed so he cannot make much of any use out of item 3094, he literally gets the worst of both worlds where he cannot build like a ranged AD, cannot build like a juggernaut or melee bruiser, and who then has shit for items that he scraps the bottom of the barrel for.

At least he used to have somewhat decent synergy with flat HP, given the 30% ratio his shield had, this almost made up for him not being able to purchase Sterak's (albeit the fact that he self slows himself and cannot aim during said shield, and it costs mana of which he barely has any, and has a massive cooldown so there were certainly trade offs, and you could only use it once per fight) until it got its base and ratio both gutted and cut in fucking half, its cooldown increased, more mana costs added, and literally nothing in trade off or compensation.

No he has fuckall for items, no defensive steroid to speak of, as his paltry less than 100 shield for most of the game is destroyed by the first auto attack he takes while self CCing himself, and the slow he puts on himself to use the shield is often more of a penalty then the boon the shield provides.

If anything, they should have lowered Urgots fucking damage. Not his sustain, not his mana costs, not his cooldowns, and fucking certainly not his only defensive ability as a juggernaut who cannot build juggernaut item. Now he's not even a juggernaut any fucking more. Far too squishy, no defense, no sustain, cannot build their items, use their runes (conqueror, grasp, etc). I mean, seriously, what about him is still remotely close to a juggernaut?

oortoomeebreesuu3/3/2019, 4:07:11 PM3 votes

I don't like the mana hits they made to Urgot and Galio. Their lane contemporaries have NONE of the issues they have while being just as oppressive. Galio was overbuffed in the damage department, but he's a melee mid laner, he needs his spells, let him cast them even if they are weaker. Urgot's Q could have been hit in other ways, it's such an easy spell to dodge even no boots. Shorten it's range, reduce it's cooldown scaling and base damage, anything. I just hate when they make it so you can't even use a champions kit. Let me play the game, just let me play. I don't care if it's half the damage, no damage is worse.

Stand Alone Wolf3/3/2019, 8:20:43 PM3 votes

I put the game down for a hot minute and I'm finding out that: Riot nerfed Urgot?

where the cat tiddies are their fucking priorities!? Why are some of these other champions roaming free with their power-sticks??

5050BS3/3/2019, 1:43:21 PM2 votes

Meanwhile Yorick and his perma Ult

Psi213/3/2019, 4:45:16 PM1 votes

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Honestly I do think Urgot needed a nerf as well: hes unique as a ranged juggernaut able to cut through tanks. But these nerfs are causing me to lose first tower almost every game, and I dont even bring Teleport (I use ignite with unsealed spellbook)

Thoughts? Answers? Any other urgot mains out there?

This is sort of a long post, so thanks for reading.

Lets not sugar coat this he was both Juggernaut and tank. He had shielding and damage reduction and great damage and CC. He had too much.

Bisaknosp3/3/2019, 7:15:13 PM1 votes

it was 100% needed he was giga cancer?XD and something like a ranged juggernaut will never work without being broken

SolarisCorvus3/7/2019, 2:41:14 PM1 votes

Oh boy just wait till you see these new changes riot has for Urgot now. My god if riot hates a champ so much they should just delete him instead of toying with my emotions like this.