Would you rather play a champion that has a damaging ultimate ability or a more utility based one?
Utility based ultimate, q, w, e have more damage loaded into them.
Damage based ultimate less damage in normal abilities but high overall damage.
What are some other pros and cons to said ultimate types?
Depends on the role of my champ.
Depends on what it actually does. A champ isn't made by the type of its ultimate
I prefer utility ults for one main reason; Cooldowns. The main champ I play is Kha'zix and although his ult is good IMO, I don't have to count on it to get kills. I also play rek'sai or elise, etc. I don't like having to count on my ult to confirm a kill. Now not all champs with a damage ult need it for kills but it defintely helps them get most of said kills.
I like utility better because I main Tristana. While it does have both damage and utility (making it have 10085/70 cooldown, 60/51/42 under 40% CDR or 55/41.25/38.5 under 45%), its versatility is what makes it so great on her. You can use it as an escape (not as effective as her W though), to launch them under your tower for easy damage (risky if you need to W behind them to pull it off if they have a ready Support/Jungle already there), to deal huge amounts of damage with your E for the "Buddy Bomb" technique (this was made easier when her max charges on her E got reduced, but it's still really hard in normal gameplay unless you really know what you're doing), to push enemies into your allies (like pushing a mobile Champ into someone like Darius or Xin Zhao), and also simply to kill low-health targets. While it doesn't scale up with AD, it has 100% scaling with AP if you want to go Hybrid or AP. Point is, its utility-based versatility is what makes it so nice an Ult, and these are the kinds of Ults I prefer: Ults that have high utility and fit with the Champion's kit so well that it's like a higher-cooldown main ability.
