Top Five Characters Riot should look at after Yorick

PhantomGG··2 votes·428 views

So if we Don't include the mage update, the next champion to get a major rework is yorick. That will some up the majority of this years reworks. However here is a list of champions I believe Riot should look at as they near summer.

**1-Galio ** Current job- A MR tank who pokes from afar to than force engages with a Flash ult Flaws- 100 percent reliant on having flash, or the team messing up allowing him to do a flank. Additional Flaws-He is a poke champion forced to build tanky which causes him to scale poorly in terms of damage, so while early game his damage is still noticeable, mid game and late game his damage is none existent. He simply only exists for his ult, which means he is a champion who is ult or bust, which is a bad design for any champion. To make this worse his ult is very reliant on flash meaning he is only scary once every 3 minutes. A very clevorly designed ultimate and passive, but a very awkward toolkit that scales poorly.

2-Akali Current Job-A assassin who becomes tanky due to her spell vamp passive but is also very sticky, once she locks onto a target she stays onto that target, she is a mistress of chaos Flaws-Terrible lane phase and has an over all very over loaded toolkit How is being overloaded bad? She is a champion who is currently in the same champion poppy use to be in. A champion riot is very scared to buff because Riot has seen what this champion can do when she is in a good place in the meta. For fact is, she has no "good place", she will always be over powered or useless. This is a bad design that discourages counter play. I would love for her theme to stay, but as is, she will never be buffed again with her current toolkit. I rather have a champion who can be buffed and nerfed who isn't op, vs a champion who is OP who will never be buffed or nerfed and left to rot.

3-Aatrox Current Job-Highly effective split pusher whom excels in flanks with his Q knock up and aoe burst ult issues? Honestly the exact same story as Akali, I won't go into detail here for it is honestly the exact same story as Akali. What I will say though is, his toolkit does not match his Lore at all. His lore defines him as this angelic war like being whom inspires soldiers to fight to the very end and win wars. His toolkit demonstrates nothing of his character. He is a melee version of Vladimir, which is just weird, it somewhat makes sense for it gives Aatrox this immortal feeling, but despite that, his toolkit does not suite his lore.

4-illaoi Current Job-A juggernaut whom thrives in chaotic teamfights, she feels a lot like Galio in his the sense that she wants people to focus her with her ultimate Issues? her toolkit is literally luck reliant, it relies on a AI Pet system where the tentacles fight for you, sure you somewhat direct who they hit, but over all it feels super luck reliant. Hoping the AI actually hits your opponents. Frankly I love the idea of her toolkit but I one hundred percent hate how it is done. I am relying one hundred percent on AI? Not me? That's terrible! That is like joining a teamfight at dragonpit/baron pit and hoping the camp focuses the enemy team and not you. Like why riot? Why would you create a champion who is all luck and punishment and has very little to do with actual skill? Honestly riot, you really did fail with this champion and it reflects in her pick rate, her sales rate and her opinions with the pros. The fact a new champion needs a rework this early is frankly disgraceful.

5-Teemo Current Job- Invisibility Flank assassin who controls the map with well placed bombs. Issues? He is a AP Invisibility assassin who utilizes a poison mechanic. The issue with this, He is super squishy, so squishy that even tanks can one shot him in the current meta. Sure he might kill one guy, but the majority of the time he is going to just get insta killed in reply. You have the other strat where you build runans and nashors tooth and play as a Ap marksman who stacks poisons onto the enemy team. However his attack range is very short so if you attempt this strat you are more than likely gonna get gap closed on by lets say a ekko or a zed, and just be insta killed. The major problem with Teemo is the following, he either wants to kite and poison everybody, or he wants to assasinate a carry and get out. The problem with that is not the concept but with his current toolkit, it is very hard to execute these two strats without being blown up for Teemo simply does not have the toolkit or the stats to allow him to execute it how he wants. Frankly Riot needs to chose which Teemo strat they like the most and rework him to do one of these strats reliably while keeping the poison theme.

Just my thoughts of the next five champions Riot should look at since they are about to finish this years set of goals.

6 Comments

ArlanKels1 votes

Illaoi's getting changes soon. Her E is going to have decreased Vessel time but the spawn rate of the tentacles will be faster paced, and the proximity tentacles can spawn via Vessel debuff will be closer. So faster spawning, more clustered tentacles.

Buff?

PhantomGG1 votes

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Illaoi's getting changes soon. Her E is going to have decreased Vessel time but the spawn rate of the tentacles will be faster paced, and the proximity tentacles can spawn via Vessel debuff will be closer. So faster spawning, more clustered tentacles.

Buff?

But you are still reliant on AI, not your skill, but AI not being stupid. You are reliant on the enemy team being stupid and walking into AI

Weathered1 votes

Disagree with 4 and 5. Amumu and Jax would fit a lot better, seeing that Riot mostly reworks champions in order to make them unique, fit their theme, and have a better represented role and more options. Not saying that they succeed with those 100% of the time, but they try the best.

PhantomGG1 votes

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Disagree with 4 and 5. Amumu and Jax would fit a lot better, seeing that Riot mostly reworks champions in order to make them unique, fit their theme, and have a better represented role and more options. Not saying that they succeed with those 100% of the time, but they try the best.

Honestly I feel Amumu just needs a stats buff, hes a pretty strong champion.

As for Jax, I do agree he could use some looking at.

Aso for Ill I can understand why people disagree with me on her, but I don't get why you would disagree on teemo. He has literally been nothing but a troll pick since release, I would really like to see him get a rework so people can actually take him seriously.

EndlessSorcerer1 votes

I'd honestly rather Warwick be reworked next. While I do like his basic concept (an AA-oriented drain-tank who hunts down weakened targets), the implementation could be signficantly better.

As it is, his current kit doesn't really have much versatility or appeal. His passive and his ultimate are rather strong, but his actually gameplay is quite boring and too straight-forward.

I'll admit that Galio probably needs it more, but I'm a jungler.

Let me be biased.

PhantomGG1 votes

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I'd honestly rather Warwick be reworked next. While I do like his basic concept (an AA-oriented drain-tank who hunts down weakened targets), the implementation could be signficantly better.

As it is, his current kit doesn't really have much versatility or appeal. His passive and his ultimate are rather strong, but his actually gameplay is quite boring and too straight-forward.

I'll admit that Galio probably needs it more, but I'm a jungler.

Let me be biased.

Actually Warwick could easily make level two on my list and bump everyone else down. He fits what I said about Gal.

"ult or bust"

Ult or Bust=Bad design on any champ, no champion should be 100 percent reliant on ult in my opinion

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