Why does RIOT keep making healers if they clearly dont want heals to be any good?

Raoul·5/3/2019, 5:13:30 AM·51 votes·16,449 views

Yummi is just another example of this, her heal is laughable, even when it get the max bonus from missing health, honestly, a 130 Heal at a basically 14 second Cooldown, and to get that 130, you have to wait until your target is at 20% HP...

Even if you use both Stacks, you will end up with like 200 healing, on a 28 second cooldown, (and this isnt like Taric, where the low heal is balanced out by being AoE, double aoe and spammable as long as you stay in combat)in a game where even tanks do at least 200 dmg with each hit and 300+ with their 3s or lower CD spam attack...

I get it, healing isnt fun to watch, it doesnt kill people, but why waste a champions spell slot with a heal when you want to make it trash anyway? They could have given Yummi something usefull instead...

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Saianna5/3/2019, 1:21:43 PM18 votes

Main issue with healers and one of the biggest issues in LOL is lifesteal powercreep. How can healing supports be ever good if all AD-related champions have an option to get Mundo-R level of 'regen' by just getting few lifesteal items?

Lifesteal should be dialed back and limited to hard-10% per game or something and with that healers get plenty of room for buffs.

Just look at HOTS: close to no lifesteal perks -> supports heal like gods

OtterlyLost5/3/2019, 1:47:11 PM13 votes

Yuumi in general is rather underwhelming... I feel like she's just going to be another champ that riot releases weak, does a few preliminary buffs on, and then just forgets about as a failed design. They've done that with nearly every support champion that they've released recently. Look at Tahm Kench, Rakaan… The only exception is Pyke and honestly, one I wish they'd done it with.

In all honesty, Yuumi is just a worse Sona. She's squishier than Sona while doing less damage and having less utility. She needs either more utility or more damage to compensate her abysmal squishiness. Make her shield bigger to reward her for being more interactive or give her Q splash damage so that if it gets hit on minions, it'll still have a chance to do damage to someone.

Done255/3/2019, 5:15:17 AM11 votes

Yuumi is hilariously weak atm. Hopefully they give her some damn strong buffs before release. Also, Soraka lost more damage this patch. Again.

Lystrates5/3/2019, 11:50:28 AM5 votes

Here are the current numbers: https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Yuumi

Oh wow, her scaling with AP is terrible and her base abilities are not strong. It means that she drops off late game to trash tier.

Unless she gets some buffs to her numbers, she looks more like a champion you would play for fun but not to seriously win.

With that said, her ultimate might be a game changer (like attach to a diving tank and ult the enemy team), but personally, at least, I hate champions that are basically ult cooldowns.

ModAcademy Kayn5/3/2019, 8:26:35 AM4 votes

Because Yuumi isn't a healer. She's an enchanter, and her heal isn't "just a heal". It's tied along with the MS Boost that she can keep going twice as long when tied in with someone. She's not meant to be the healer that Soraka and Nami tend to be, she's meant to help enable allies and supporting them from within. Granted, a lot of power seems hoisted into her ability to hide in allies, and that can be fixed with number changes, but the healing is a side-aspect. Not the core.

UpDownLeftRightAB5/3/2019, 7:57:13 PM4 votes

They want it to be "clutch" because that is "visually exciting" Same reason why damage just goes higher, the chunk of damage you see is visually appealing for spectators. The game is made for spectators, not players. How else can you make advertisement revenue?

x Wyvern x5/4/2019, 8:16:07 AM3 votes

That and dying from an autoattack because lowest health among any other class by far is what made me stop playing peel supports, and i have over 400k with Nami...

At some point you even have less health than melee minions, and i'm not even joking.

It just feels totally unfair that the champion looks mega nerfed, and then you look at champions like pyke that heal himself more than the damage you can do to him and is way more useful than you...

Imo, enchanters have to be changed drastically... Riot dont want them? Then at least say it and remove them from the game... There are other games with enchanters way more balanced.

Meteora7075/3/2019, 10:25:10 AM2 votes

champions usually don't have both a shield and a heal on their kit and when they do one of em is usually shit, this is also true for yuumi and I don't see anything wrong with it.

xRoadToWood5/3/2019, 2:00:00 PM2 votes

So long as people continue to feed the machine they'll keep giving us nothing. Once enough jump ship in all markets they just might actually listen to their community for once. Doubtful but who knows ... Folks don't get that these companies can care less unless it hits them in the pocket book big time.

PaffWasTaken5/3/2019, 2:00:46 PM2 votes

Remember Bard 's heal on release? yeah... Still not that great but still...

FullmuteAll play5/3/2019, 5:16:12 AM1 votes

wait is it on PBE already ?

LetMeAfkPlss5/4/2019, 6:04:52 PM1 votes

because let's not make a second fucking soraka