First Impressions of Urgot

shardrunner··5 votes·883 views

So this is just my own experience playing him in my relatively low elo (silver2). I haven't seen any threads just on peoples experiences and overall thoughts on urgot so please share your own opinion on how the rework has affected him. So overall I feel like he's balanced though on the strong side. He has waveclear that's not the best but is overall about equal to most top lanes though with positioning you can make him slightly above average. Where he really shines is once he hits six your ganks are unreal. I would just push out my wave as fast as i could which isn't as punishing with the passive as you dont blow too much mana, then roam mid. If they are low and haven't backed as is common in my elo just ult from fog of war and get an easy execute, or if there's too high create a engage opportunity for your own midlaner. Once laning phase ends though he seems to fall off power as he's easily kited without using his ult as engage instead of execute. If your team has engage he does well, if not he struggles to perform as his engage is exetremely telegraphed. His dps is good though IMO not quite up to 1v1 trading against anyone other than tanks who have low damage where he gets the most from his percent hp damage. TL;DR he's balanced. Average lane, great ganks, not good for engage but good follow-up, performs best in mid game. Please share your own experiences and thoughts on the urgot rework, if no one else i want to hear them.

22 Comments

Jaghatai4 votes

Best counter strategy ... simply walk away from Urgot in a straight line. His knees can't work, his W keeps him from keeping up with you, his E has a hitch and telegraph and can't really catch someone running away.

BobaFlautist1 votes

Sounds like a juggernaut.

Zero Drive2 votes

Played a game where Maokai effectively dumpstered Urgot. Kept killing him, had double his CS. Urgot got two items and immediately got a triple on us. They won the game off it. If he can perform that well from behind it's only a matter of time before people learn how to use his kit and then he will truly be the Urgod, permabanned until nerf, of summoners rift.

Slythion4 votes

I'd really love to see the replay of that triple kill, I have a strong suspicion that you guys simply played it terribly

Eternal7911 votes

In the few games that I've played with him so far, I've seen a similar thing happen. Don't do to well in lane only to come up later and get a triple.

Slythion1 votes

I haven't really seen him much, but that's because I haven't really been online much. You could be right, but I generally lean towards the "you probably screwed up" until experience or actual evidence tells me otherwise

I might update this comment later once I get more experience with/against him tho

Eternal7911 votes

I mean, we could both be right too.

Slythion1 votes

you're very right there, still waiting for that replay from Ekkô

Acheron161 votes

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Played a game where Maokai effectively dumpstered Urgot. Kept killing him, had double his CS. Urgot got two items and immediately got a triple on us. They won the game off it. If he can perform that well from behind it's only a matter of time before people learn how to use his kit and then he will truly be the Urgod, permabanned until nerf, of summoners rift.

It think it's due to his passive. Early game his passive has a huge cooldown per leg, while mid, and especially lategame his passive is up every scrap.

AmetDeCrypt2 votes

dude doesn't even need crit, his autos hit minions so hard with tank items it's so fun. finally a tank for the adc role.

shardrunner1 votes

I've only played him top lane myself, how does he compare to others in the adc role? What kind of build would you use?

Ben Sharpio2 votes

WHY would anyone torture their whole team into playing with urgot adc when twitch/cait/xayah (literally ANY adc) exists?

LemonsIsGood1 votes

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Eternal7911 votes

Yeah, I played a round of adc Urgot. It wasn't the best but I still destroyed mid and late game.

AmetDeCrypt1 votes

if my team is going nothing but squishies, I want to at least have the option of someone who COULD engage and take a bit of damage, not a tank tank but someone who's tanky, and they killed adc malphite back in season 4.

AmetDeCrypt1 votes

I usually get a cleaver, guide recommends a mallet but it's quite useless for the slow because you already have phage and 2 other slows and a dash so you're just getting it for making w a bit better and the mix of hp and ad. sterak's is nice, dunno if his base ad really warrents it. definitely at least one true tank item if not sterak's and a death's dance into infinity edge if I wanna be cheeky. swifty boots I dunno about his w because it says "speed removed" not "slows self" so maybe mobi boots for roam power (of which he's already pretty ok with) or some tank boots. don't even bother with attack speed meself because his w is all the attack speed he needs if you can land your skills and aren't countered by GODDAM WARDS but on hits can be pretty nice. really he's very similar to fiora in that he likes to dance around his enemies and prefers stacking flat ad over crit or any other stats.

rtbf2145528141 votes

darius is good into him since he wants to fight you also the only thing that needs to be nerfed or changed is his shield strengh or cdr

Kloqdq1 votes

His pretty okay. He isn't broken but strong. Still can be crushed by some champions. I like him and that ult is hella fun to pull off.

Eternal7911 votes

I've found Urgot actually gets really strong mid to late game (assuming he didn't feed early). Though hard cc screws him over severely since he often needs to move around his opponent.

lolipopevelynn1 votes

My initial impressions on him was that he was insanely strong and oppressive when ahead, then i realized he has a gamebreaking weakness that is shared by all top laners. If enemy adc gets fed he is litteraly useless and is at the complete mercy of the adc competence to actually carry.

rework trundle1 votes

He has no range but destroys anyone in melee. His ult is soooooooooooooo satisfying to pull off! I would sometimes KS my allies to meat-grind someone.

Ellis Dee1 votes

feels like laning against teemo.

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