Addressing the bullshit know as 'blinds'

UltraFireFX·7/16/2015, 10:37:47 AM·2 votes·1,697 views

Dear Rito, NA boards readers and whomever it may concern.

I believe that blinds are blatantly stupid, the only two champions that have 'blinds' (Teemo and Quinn) can be very devastating, especially to auto-attack reliant champions like Aatrox, Darius, Nasus, Garen and, lets be honest, every single AD carry that doesn't get the not-so-popular Mercurial Scimitar or exchange their Berserker Greaves for some Mercury Treads. Let alone be rather misleading as a name (it doesn't reduce your vision, but makes you miss auto-attacks (that obviously connect, too)).

I propose that Riot change blinds to either reduce vision (like Graves, Nocturne and TahmKench), reduce auto-attack damage but keep on-hit effects, add a chance to miss attacks (like Shaco), or change the name of blinds to auto-attack mitigation (or something along those lines)

EDIT: (from one of my replies)

If they changed it so that they could only see very close to them, they would either have to get very close (Almost melee range) to auto attack, but risk getting hit by ranged enemies and skill-shots ( Blitzcrank , anyone?) AND be rather disconnected from their own team, since they can't see where they are or if the other team is engaging or not, now that sounds VERY interesting indeed.

For an example: Blind enemy ad carry, Sejuani engages and their ad carry doesn't even know until half of their team is stunned or Sejuani is in up in their grill.

It would also hinder enemy junglers from being able to time objective steals safely, too.

Thanks for reading (or not reading), please up-vote if you agree!

  • UltraFireFX

20 Comments

Phil Fly7/16/2015, 10:47:30 AM2 votes

I personally think a chance to miss autos is fine. 50% i guess. It's just when you're Nasus and you dive Teemo and he blinds your ass for 10 years, there's little counterplay.

Critmaster Garen7/16/2015, 12:44:48 PM1 votes

meh. blinds affect adc more than champs like darius or garen. cant blind the spin. there was a time, when his q wasnt affected by them either. i kindof miss that. teemo isnt a pain in the ass for those champions because of his blind, but rather because of his shrooms and constant kiting.

otherwise we could actually use more blinds in the game to counter adc.

maybe attach one to a melee carry or to an assassin.

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I personally think a chance to miss autos is fine. 50% i guess. It's just when you're Nasus and you dive Teemo and he blinds your ass for 10 years, there's little counterplay.

nasus still has wither. i usually dump on teemos by maxing w. so basically teemo can buy a little time where nasus cant damage him, but when hes withered hes sufficiently slowed down to not do too much damage to nasus either. then nasus should be able to chunk him.

qss is also a good option in that matchup.

rockdalian7/16/2015, 12:57:52 PM1 votes

Blind doesn't cripple Nasus or garden blind doesn't affect Nasus q or garden abilities which is where his damage is unless I'm wrong feel free to correct me I think it's a good ability and more champs need it as a hard counter to adc

Angelofchaos16x7/16/2015, 1:02:07 PM1 votes

Its fine as it is. 2 champs have it, one is played by 12 year olds, but is useless and not viable, and the other is ok, but the only thing that makes her ok is the blind, because her passive is buggy, her E leaves her in a bad spot 90% of the time, and her ult is great 4 duels, but makes her a terrible team fighter.

Titanium707/16/2015, 1:07:21 PM1 votes

Well blinds and silences are types of CC wich do not interfere with your movement - still it´s CC. Sure we could remove them, but do you want to give teemo a stun instead? xD

I really like this unusual CC because they´re adding alot more diversity in Fights. Sad thing is especially blind which is only used by two rare champions can surprise even experienced players. Still it has alot more counterplay than a stun or a root will ever have.

(OFC in Teemos case it´s annoying because his CC is targeted and on a low CD - but thats another topic!)

Dusty Rodgers7/16/2015, 1:15:06 PM1 votes

I refuse to lane against teemo anymore. I voted for the RNG chance that blind makes you miss.

BeatzBoyFTW7/16/2015, 2:14:20 PM1 votes

Only 2 out of 126 champions have blinds, and you're still complaining? My good god.....

Plus, I really hope you didn't make this thread just because you got beaten by Teemo Quinn from your last game.