Do champions still "fall off" in this game?

52409615_DEL··50 votes·4,332 views

Honestly, i remember there was such a thing as early game, mid, late, and certain champions that were considered lane bullies like cait or luc use to fall off super hard. Am i the only one who does not see that happening as much anymore? i play mostly late game carries and i'm not saying they don't scale, but it's interesting that now with much more experience in the game than before, i will often get out traded late game by cait or Jhin, and all they do really is auto and miss skill shots, but they somehow win the trade? (my 1 million mastery on Vayne serves me of nothing) happening kind of often, lane winners don't seem to fall off because there is rarely ever a late game anymore to begin with, and when there is, they seem just as strong. and if they actually do fall off like the theory states, could you explain to me what it is exactly? cause the dmg output is not it.

Just in case no one belives me that the pain is real: http://i.imgur.com/6eMF1NP.jpg This much experience has served me of nothing this season, i am "worse" than before...no, some champs just got forgotten and aren't that good late anymore

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A Liberal90 votes

If you damage Taliyah during her ult she falls off pretty hard.

notmarked5 votes

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If you damage Taliyah during her ult she falls off pretty hard.

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GarthBrooksIV33 votes

I'm pretty sure cait is a disgustingly good late game champ atm.

Qiy4na17 votes

yeah she does have a weird fall off sort of midgame

sir d wreck6 votes

Exactly this I think. Caitlyn is super good early because of her range, but her mid game isn't good unless she's ahead. But once late game hits if a Caitlyn is full items she is a huge long range DPS machine still with a lot of safety.

doombotMECHA3 votes

iirc trist also does this, but a lil less so now since her e nerf a while ago. gotta watch that l6 all-in tho!

Gary B Enkelis2 votes

I think it's to do with the scaling of her passive or something, bringing her back late game.

Pale Pirate2 votes

Yes, that's how caitlyn has always been.

IRyzeForNidalee22 votes

There are early game champions, mid game champions, late game champions, and then there's Riot's favorite all-game champions that are good at every point in the game and get spammed constantly so you get to play against them over and over and over again.

doombotMECHA8 votes

of note: azir the literal nonsense mage who shows that the best way to counter mobile assassins is to mobility creep them. lee sin the earlygame murder machine who turns into a great disruption tank late yasuo the "I finished 2 items I'm fed now" melee hypermobile utility carry graves the cowboy trashlord like red dead redeption but no redemption if you play this guy you're straight to hell gosh a tanky adc what a good idea and darius the lane bully who will take over the game if you let him.

DISCLAIMER: I overexaggerated my saltiness about these champs for humor value. do not take this seriously.

Elwe The Jungler8 votes

Tanks do fall off. Like, really hard. You gotta build some damage items to stay relevant late game, otherwise you'll get blown up as fast as your carrys and won't do enough DPS to be effective.

GULAG 4 U7 votes

Pantheon does, but really in bot lane no one fucking falls off. Lucian doesn't and neither does cait. This shit needs to be fixed.

10101010102861 votes

Lucian falls off, please. His black cleaver youmuus build is complete trash post 30 minutes

GULAG 4 U2 votes

Not if he builds crit

10101010102861 votes

Yeah he still does, he has 500 range and needs to get 2 passive uses in to reset his dash and by then an enemy vayne will have 3 shotted you and lucian doesn't do much damage because of his 60% damage passive.

GULAG 4 U2 votes

Vayne is meant to be a lategame god so it's not really fair to compare lucian vs vyane.

Also lucian can literally just spam all of his shit other than r and he'll delete anything under ~100 armor with a crit build.

10101010102861 votes

Pretty sure he's outscaled by literally every adc dude. sivir beats him, ez beats him, cait beats him, twitch pounds him to the ground, mf can 2 shot him. I'm a hardcore lucian lover and I've tried him in every build. You're legit unable to leave your backline unlike most other adcs without a ga and with a ga you sacrifice like 20% of damage because he's so reliant on 100% crit from what I've experimented with. Any shot without a crit will be ballsack damage because he has no extra steroids aside from his passive

Handy Sandy 6 votes

Assassins are supposed to "fall off" But guess what? They're still as strong as they were mid game and late early game and meanwhile other champions have bad early games but way better late games..and their late game is weaker if not the same amount of strength as those assassins that are also somehow lane bullies. I just don't get it.

MissingKayo22 votes

You completely missed the point and definition. Assassins fall off late game because they excel at picking off single targets or low-health targets. Assassins are also incredibly squishy and vulnerable to CC.

Come mid/late game, most players will stick together with the rest of the team, meaning trying to assassinate anyone is guaranteed suicide for them if the enemy team isn't completely blindingly stupid. Also most assassins have an absolutely horrible laning phase. What are you smoking?

BakedLotion10 votes

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You completely missed the point and definition. Assassins fall off late game because they excel at picking off single targets or low-health targets. Assassins are also incredibly squishy and vulnerable to CC.

Come mid/late game, most players will stick together with the rest of the team, meaning trying to assassinate anyone is guaranteed suicide for them if the enemy team isn't completely blindingly stupid. Also most assassins have an absolutely horrible laning phase. What are you smoking?

Was boutta throw a Zed picture in ur face and then i saw "most"

PermabannedGaren2 votes

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Was boutta throw a Zed picture in ur face and then i saw "most"

Zed falls off late game harder than most assassins. The only ones who might fall off harder are Kha'Zix and Shaco, who also have very good early games (especially Shaco).

52409615_DEL5 votes

Ya i just don't see Zed falling off after qss nerf, as an adc everything already 1 shots me now zed is problem latter in the game to, cause qss wount work

PermabannedGaren6 votes

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Ya i just don't see Zed falling off after qss nerf, as an adc everything already 1 shots me now zed is problem latter in the game to, cause qss wount work

First of all, later in the game you should be able to 1v1 Zed as Vayne, especially if you build some extra durability like I suggested.

Second of all, sure, Zed can generally kill ADCs 1v1. He'd be a shit assassin if he couldn't.

But his burst is the most delayed of any assassin. Provided your team actually peels for you you should be able to survive it and kill him.

Zed's ability to kill a target is mitigated heavily by grouping, because a good team won't let him kill their ADC. Compare this to Talon, who will kill your ADC so fast you won't have time to press exhaust.

BakedLotion3 votes

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Zed falls off late game harder than most assassins. The only ones who might fall off harder are Kha'Zix and Shaco, who also have very good early games (especially Shaco).

Falls off my ass. Bitch has mad poke and extremely safe assassination.

Jofeyy3 votes

Try to all in a squishy as Zed when they're surrounded by their team 30 minutes into the game.

And unless you have 40% CDR Your W combo will take a very long time before you can use it again.

BakedLotion7 votes

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Try to all in a squishy as Zed when they're surrounded by their team 30 minutes into the game.

And unless you have 40% CDR Your W combo will take a very long time before you can use it again.

item 3071 item 3142 is already 30%. You can easily get 10% from masteries or runes. Or a item 3812 .

PermabannedGaren1 votes

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Falls off my ass. Bitch has mad poke and extremely safe assassination.

No, Xerath has mad poke.

Zed has poke that is, at best, okay. Actually compared to many or most mids it's fairly bad since a single shuriken doesn't do much damage at all, compared to a single Xerath Q or Lux E.

So do you live in a fantasy world where it takes more than 0.5 seconds to hit Zed with crowd control much longer in duration than that and then kill him?

BakedLotion5 votes

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No, Xerath has mad poke.

Zed has poke that is, at best, okay. Actually compared to many or most mids it's fairly bad since a single shuriken doesn't do much damage at all, compared to a single Xerath Q or Lux E.

So do you live in a fantasy world where it takes more than 0.5 seconds to hit Zed with crowd control much longer in duration than that and then kill him?

You're comparing an assassin to a poke mage. ok. In case u haven't noticed, I replied to a post about assassins. Take off that Zed main shirt for a minute

PermabannedGaren4 votes

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You're comparing an assassin to a poke mage. ok.

Yeah, the poke mage is the one who actually is relevant late game because of their poke. Weird, right?

In case u haven't noticed, I replied to a post about assassins.

Does Mundo have mad poke because he has the most poke among juggernauts?

Your argument is extremely stupid.

Take off that Zed main shirt for a minute

I don't even go mid kid, and I accept your concession. Zed falls off late game. =)

Teslium2 votes

Vunerable to CC is not an excuse. All champions are vunerable to it if you look at it that way.

Also saying assassins, assassins, have a horrible laning phase is like saying shooting yourself with a gun doesn't kill you. All assassins have a great laning phase. Look at Zed, Fizz Leblanc, Talon. They shit on the enemy laner level 2-3. To me, someone else is smoking that sweet 420 weed.

GULAG 4 U2 votes

the thing is you don't cc a rengar in his jump unless you're fucking madlife and got leeroy crack somewhere and you're palyng at 12 pings or some shit.

You can cc yasuo before he reaches anybody, but you aren't ccing rengar before he already damaged/killed your adc.

So yeah cc is not always effective vs burst but it's good against dps.

Tridem2 votes

Lmao, do you play Fizz? He's shit right now, he's sooo shit he'll lose lane in just 2 levels ok?

I'm Bronze so people don't know how to abuse his weakness during leves 1-2 and actually lets me all in them at 3 BUT people above gold will realize that after 3-if they survive the burst- they start winning the lane again until 6.

Only lane Fizz actually wins I can think of right now is the Talon one, just cause Talon's laning phase is shit. Zed and LB do have good lainng phases though.

Dolasaur1 votes

Vunerable to CC is not an excuse. All champions are vunerable to it if you look at it that way.

Morgana Olaf :D

Teslium1 votes

They have a certain cooldown and mana cost. You can't cast them freely at will.

SlntReaper1 votes

Talon's lining phase is okay if you are ahead. His w doesn't have that much range and has a high mana cost, and he has no other poke. On the other hand it has a huge cone and goes thru minions

Photos of Ghosts6 votes

Nasus falls off :D

Linna Excel1 votes

That's because he never leaves top lane for a team fight.

Prison AnaI5 votes

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That's because he never leaves top lane for a team fight.

Because if he does he gets kited to hell and back

Valknut2 votes

There is a huge disparity for some champs an how they work late game.

Take Shyvana Nasus and Gnar for all phases of the game.

Shyvana has a pretty weak first 3 levels of jungle/top. Then she is really damn fast an pretty safe tilll 6. From 6 to 16 she is great, but once the enemy team catches up to her in items or levels you fall off the biggest cliff. Shyv only seems to do well from an advantage, her abilities don't really allow you to out play someone, so its straight up her numbers vs their (Utility+Numbers) sometimes that works(Jhin) sometimes it never works (Vayne)

Nasus is weak as all hell from 1 - 12, if you come out of lane with 300 stacks you'll do alright, but the condition is always " Can the kite me, do they have too many dashes or was out of wither" If they do you better hope you are not the only threat coming at there back line because unlike Viegar your shit isn't easy to land.

Gnar is never weak, ever. One of the best lane phases any champ could possibly have, couplled with some on the strongest CC in the game. He has better kite potential then Teemo.

So who do you pick?

SlashStriker1 votes

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Nasus falls off :D

yep he falls off with 1000 stacks and full tank build and perma wither

Photos of Ghosts7 votes

That's the joke. He's designed as a hypercarry juggernaut and it doesn't work in the late lategame.

MissingKayo4 votes

It's not they by themselves fall off. It's that other champions might have either better bases (for a better early) or better scalings (for a better late) which is why they get outclassed by them, not that they themselves become any worse. With assassins for instance, or any other solely single-target character, they "fall off" because come mid/late game, teams will stick together making it a guaranteed suicide dive if they want to try and dive to get a kill.

ValyrianBlade4 votes

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Honestly, i remember there was such a thing as early game, mid, late, and certain champions that were considered lane bullies like cait or luc use to fall off super hard. Am i the only one who does not see that happening as much anymore? i play mostly late game carries and i'm not saying they don't scale, but it's interesting that now with much more experience in the game than before, i will often get out traded late game by cait or Jhin, and all they do really is auto and miss skill shots, but they somehow win the trade? happening kind of often, lane winners don't seem to fall off because there is rarely ever a late game anymore to begin with, and when there is, they seem just as strong. and if they actually do fall off like the theory states, could you explain to me what it is exactly? cause the dmg output is not it.

A few points here:

First, Caitlyn has a strong early - really weak mid - strong late game power curve. Just saying. I don't know Jhin as well, but it's possible he's the same.

More importantly though, the case you've given doesn't mean a champion hasn't "fallen off". If you're a squishy ADC and you take an auto attack from the enemy ADC without dealing one back (or trading 1 for 2, etc...) then you're going to lose that trade. An ADC can auto 1000+ damage in the late game, which is easily half of your health bar. Add on that the other guy may have lifesteal, and a one auto difference can easily result in one ADC being nearly full while the other is nearly dead, regardless of who each is. That doesn't mean they haven't fallen off though - ADCs aren't supposed to be attacking eachother in the late game. They're supposed to be trying to survive the assassins while they burn down the front line. A Vayne or a Kog'maw will still do that a whole lot better than a Sivir or a Lucian will.

That also said, it's pretty hard to compare ADCs in the late game from a "one game experience" perspective. All ADCs are supposed to have a strong late game to some extent, so in many cases it will come down to who's ahead, who has better peel, who has better positioning, etc... That doesn't mean it isn't a lot easier for a Kog'maw to clean up a teamfight when he has some peel compared to a Lucian though, just that it means a Lucian who is positioned better and a bit ahead can still beat the late-game Kog'maw consistently.

As much as bulk statistics can be misleading, I would say looking at ADCs win rates across game length is useful here. Sure enough, Lucian in <25min games but falls off hard after that. Kog'maw does much better in 30-35min games than he does in the short ones. Tristana is all over the place. Jinx falls off as the game goes on (very surprising, but likely due to her lack of mobility she gets caught out once and loses if it goes too late). Sivir actually does a lot better as the game goes on (I guess my analysis above is flawed? must be her ability to force a favorable fight when her team has the chance to win). Jhin falls off pretty hard. etc...

Overall though, I think the "strong-early weak-late" applies WAY more to top laners and junglers than it does anyone else. Basically because early game bullies are often not a great part of a teamfight comp. Not because the champion can't handle a 1v1 in the late game.

THE RlVER KlNG1 votes

I stopped reading when you said Jhin and Jinx fall off

crippler384 votes

I think the reason jhin does so much damage is because of how slow his autos are making him basically incredibly single target, so if you jump on him while he's reloading he SHOULD die.

Or ya know, play the shaco one hit build that's getting popular in korea and just oneshot the guy before his team even notices, I like that plan :D

Anags3 votes

Olaf falls of hard late game. Most actual tanks also fall off late game.

Guy Fox Teemo2 votes

No champion ever "Completely" falls off. That would be stupid and make for incredibly big turn arounds for no other reason then composition. Sure you should have an advantage but no champion ever just becomes shit.

This is a pretty dam stupid argument tbh.

PB4UAME8 votes

The thing is, League used to work that way. You had early game lane-bullies like original Garen, and Cassopeia, as well as champions like Renekton, and Pantheon. In contrast to them, you had original Kog and Trist, who were absolute garbage at lower levels, to the point where they would lose to supports 1 v 1 (which, sidenote, I still maintain should be the standard for ADCs. If you're going to have 1k+ damage auto attacks up to 2 times a second at range, and crazy lifesteal at full build, you should be utter shit until you have items) but then be unmatched gods of damage come full build.

Sightless661 votes

In contrast to them, you had original Kog and Trist, who were absolute garbage at lower levels

Old Trist weak early? Hell no. Trist was the original example of the U shaped power curve. Godlike early game with the huge burst from her ability damage and with her great escape, extremely shitty midgame when that ability damage starts falling off and her range and steroids aren't good enough to pick up the slack, godlike late game with the huge range.

PB4UAME1 votes

Actually, she was weak in lane when other ADCs had similar or greater strength in their leveling abilities (Corki was the best, bar-none, Ashe's Volley was hugely noticeable as it was great poke, Sivir's Boomerang Blade used to half health people, and at times I saw it get as far as 75 percenting other ADCs if the Sivir got an early BF).

It was only when those ADCs got nerfed and changed over time that the strength of Trist in early game rose. Also, keep in mind that people were divided on how to skill Trist. Sure, the consensus eventually emerged that 1-2 points into Q then E max was best, but for a long time in season one and before people would max Q first for the AS steroid.

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