Why do people play _____? (Apart from being good at playing them, of course)

SlippySloop··3 votes·1,232 views

Obviously, for certain people there are certain champions in League whose designs and personalities are as dull as a bag of rocks. There's just nothing remotely unique or interesting about them to make you want to pick them up. For me, the champion that fits this most is Fiora . She's a girl with a sword. That's it. That's her entire deal. Yeah, she likes honor. So does every other champion of Demacia, that's just par for the course. Oh, she's rich, but her family fortunes were slightly disturbed at one point, that is not even remotely close to being on the same level as escaping from a gladiatorial arena with the help of a king who you then befriend and serve as an advisor toXinZhao JarvanIV . And where another Demacian heroine Lux manipulates light itself to blast enemies away and shield her allies, Fiora just has a sword. And the sword itself isn't even anything special. Like, how did she past the drawing board? Who looked at this champ and said "That is just as valid a character in our game as a floating tentacle eyeball that vaporizes living creatures as part of it's learning process." Velkoz ? I don't get it, not at all.

Now that I'm done with my rant, what champion bores YOU out of your skull? (Please keep it to just one champion, or give shorter explanations if you can't hold back from naming more. I will not harass anyone for naming a champ that I find interesting, I will only give a short counter argument and leave it at that if that's what you want.)

29 Comments

Julanus9 votes

No powers. Rich. Still has a mass fanbase.

So... Essentially, Fiora is the Batman of League of Legends.

Sona Ping4 votes

Yes, she just has a sword. She is a woman that fights a giant, floating, tentacle, eyeball, squid monster from beyond space and time that vaporizes living creatures as part of it's learning process and kills it with just a regular sword!!! That's badass!

SlippySloop1 votes

Sounds like you've seen a lot of bad...KOZ-players.

I know, I'm a monster.

AlwaysByMySide4 votes

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Obviously, for certain people there are certain champions in League whose designs and personalities are as dull as a bag of rocks. There's just nothing remotely unique or interesting about them to make you want to pick them up. For me, the champion that fits this most is Fiora . She's a girl with a sword. That's it. That's her entire deal. Yeah, she likes honor. So does every other champion of Demacia, that's just par for the course. Oh, she's rich, but her family fortunes were slightly disturbed at one point, that is not even remotely close to being on the same level as escaping from a gladiatorial arena with the help of a king who you then befriend and serve as an advisor toXinZhao JarvanIV . And where another Demacian heroine Lux manipulates light itself to blast enemies away and shield her allies, Fiora just has a sword. And the sword itself isn't even anything special. Like, how did she past the drawing board? Who looked at this champ and said "That is just as valid a character in our game as a floating tentacle eyeball that vaporizes living creatures as part of it's learning process." Velkoz ? I don't get it, not at all.

Now that I'm done with my rant, what champion bores YOU out of your skull? (Please keep it to just one champion, or give shorter explanations if you can't hold back from naming more. I will not harass anyone for naming a champ that I find interesting, I will only give a short counter argument and leave it at that if that's what you want.)

Funnily enough I find J4 and especially Xin Zhao extremely boring in character and concept. Fiora is objectively a much more nuanced character than either (not that that's saying much) going by her background, if not her current voice work.

SlippySloop3 votes

But...you didn't state any of what makes her objectively better, you just said she was objectively better but you didn't explain what makes her objectively betterbutyouclaimedshe'sobjectivelybetterbu-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

mogonk3 votes

None of them. Champions are just tools for winning games, I don't find any of them inherently interesting or notably boring.

Edit: Apparently this post is offensive to some people. Sorry folks, I just don't feel the way you do about champions.

SlippySloop1 votes

I don't have a problem with that, I didn't make the game, you get as involved in it as you care to.

FrickendaChicken3 votes

I do want to say something, as someone who has studied character and story design, it's all about perspective. Fiora doesn't seem special, which then makes characters like the Eight Foot Tall Titan Sion more in perspective of his strength. It makes Vel'Koz seem more odd. Making J4's ability to crack the earth seem even more spectacular.

Fiora and some others are the basis of "these people are amazing! Look at them then just look at Fiora!"

But then you realize, Fiora has worked her way into the same ranks as them, is killing them.

She isn't particularly amazing, but then you see her in action.

She weaves her blade beautifully, stabbing and dancing around her opponent's weakpoints, measuring them up and analyzing them in seconds. She strikes your front, then your back in the blink of an eye. She's one step ahead. She's destroying you in every angle. You fight back, you swing at her but she avoids it. You try again. Fiora pulls herself back, placing her sword between your weapon and her, displacing your weapon. Fiora has one the fight, and you didn't think anything of her to begin with. She has outdone you, outsmarted you, and never let her guard down.

resumed2 votes

Jhin is just so done and unoriginal in every aspect. they didnt even add their own original twist

SlippySloop2 votes

The bit with Shen , Zed and their master investigating the murders, and the fact that people thought an animal was behind it all, was pretty neat to me. Also adds some development to those champs, so even if you've seen that kind of story before it still gives Jhin a fitting place in the lore. I don't care for his splash art, though, they should have had several corpses behind him or made it a child to emphasize how callous he is, not just some fat rich dude.

laksjhdflkjah2 votes

Zyra "Fan art"

Swerzz2 votes

Malphite Just is so mind numbing to play for me. Ult into the enemy team to initiate a fight, slam the ground, be a damage sponge the rest of the fight basically. Maybe peel for the back lines if they need it, or harass their carries. Rinse and repeat in about a minute. Plus, he's suppose to be be some giant mountain or something, but he look's so small compared to others.

SlippySloop2 votes

I think it's just that he lived on a giant mountain with other rock creatures, but yeah, it'd be nice if his armor passive made him as big as Nasus orRenekton in their ults. And when it broke, THEN make him look small and frail compared to them.

FrickendaChicken1 votes

Literally? He's as big as a planet. He's part of the Monolith which is HUGE! Cho'Gath is the only other thing that can be bigger than Malphite in the game, if Cho'Gath spent the time to literally eat Malphite or a planet of equal size.

Ik it doesn't make sense, but that's how he's described. He and Cho are the most unproportional characters in the whole game.

DorkunedAuras1 votes

Malphite is not the size of a planet, lore wise. He's about the size of a good size mountain. BIG difference.

TurquoiseYoshi2 votes

Everyone from the Shuriman Empire who is not named Xerath, Renekton, Nasus, or Azir. So people like Skarner, Amumu, Sivir, Rammus, Cassio, and other assholes I forgot with basically no lore and usually just a lot of BS about not knowing anything about them.

"Skarner is a dude who guards a thing and kills people who come near. Why does he guard a thing? What is the thing? Why are you asking so many questions?" -Literally Skarner's lore.

3ofGot40ve1 votes

I love to play LeeSin because he has fun combos and can make some cool plays. He allows you to be creative, and I rarely get bored of him.

For some odd reason, After playing one game of Riven I just don't want to play her again for weeks, IDK if its just her repetitive kit or what but even if I do exceptionally well she bores the crap out of me after a single game. Same goes for Zed

TekkenPlayer1 votes

Those are like the triad of try hard champerinos excluding vayne because she's judas

Frightfactory1 votes

I think Cassiopeia is equally boring for me. Her lore is as shallow as the splash garden, and her abilities are equally dumb. Most of all her visual effects just are super stupid. Hey I'm a snake. I'm going to poison you and bite you. Oh you expected that? Ok cool. Btw I'm a snake. Her ultimate is slightly more exciting but the turning people to stone thing is a bit overdone. All that said, I love to player her because people have no idea how to lane against her and generally I can faceroll on her.

SlippySloop2 votes

Ah, crap, I forgot about her. I HATE that stupid towel thing on her head, looks like she just got out of the shower or something. And the bit where she's from Noxia, but got turned into a snake lady in some other location altogether seems like a weirdly unnecessary leap in logic. If she had just been a snake lady from the get-go, it really wouldn't have changed anything.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

People only care about taking shortcuts to climb, 1% champ thematic/lore and maybe 5% playstyle.

If people truly cared then there would be Lulu/Nami support mains. Both have a pretty decent thematic and really fun playstyle. /opinion

SlippySloop1 votes

Yeah, that's why I added the parenthesized bit. I understand not caring all that much for story elements or character design in a super competitive game like League. Which is why I'll be staying out of Ranked. :D

Aeolian Melodies1 votes

You mean kit-wise or thematically? Thematically, and lore-wise, many recent champions got the short end of the stick with 2 sentences and less storylines.

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If people truly cared then there would be Lulu/Nami support mains. Both have a pretty decent thematic and really fun playstyle. /opinion

This is assuming people share your opinion or what is fun and what isn't. I find Sona extremely fun but she's boring and bland to many players.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

I mean to say both as both Nami and Lulu require and rewards people for using their brains and tactics, while at the same time their character/abilities/etc are also interesting enough to stand out from those of other champs. Though sort of archetypal, but still stands out from everyone else.

Heck, even Sona encourages and rewards for thinking, which is why she is among one of the only things I play.

Sometimes people take opinions as fact, especially when it's on unpopular ones.

KillerKell1 votes

If I want to play a Support... give me Braum or Leona, or Thresh.

They do what I want a Support to do mechanically AND have Lore I enjoy and can get behind.

Thresh being a reaper of Souls... love it. Leona being basically a Paladin for a Sun God. Braum just being a good nature defender of those who can't defend themselves.

I don't need no Lulu or Nami squish-squash, no thank you.

ModJikker1 votes

Why do people play _____? Well in your case of Fiora it's probably because she's a super strong pick atm

Most people don't care about lore or thematics and just want what will get them that shiny Diamond border or sparkly victorious skin the fastest

FrickendaChicken1 votes

When Fiora finally finds her little niche in the game, and she isn't a fringe case of power, watch how many people discover that they themselves have grown to love this champion, and that her kit and play style is incredibly fun. I know that when that happens, I will still play Fiora, possibly more than now. She's fun above all else, and people who play a champ just because they are strong just haven't found a champion that they can definitely say is incredibly fun for them to consistently play.

SithesisLord1 votes

Yasuo Q. Dash. Dash. Dash. Dash. Poke with Q. Dash. Dash. Dash. Dash. Dash+Q.

[Yawn]

Weathered1 votes

I used to play Fiora.

But then I took a rework to the knee.

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