Ever have that feeling that you physically can't play a champion not because if they're hard but...

Violet Fields··1 votes·252 views

They're too damn easy to play.

I've been playing this game since season 4 and I think I can call myself a mid laner main, however, throughout the years I've been playing, in season 5 I mained Veigar and I came across a Malzahar and when I interacted with that ultimate for the first time, back when he had to "set it up" the first thing I did after I lost that game was look up "how to cancel Malzahar ultimate." I literally did this with any kind of bullshit, that I thought at the time was bullshit, I found in lane, but especially with this, I found "Build Quick Silver Sash." So I did this on Veigar and when I approached another Malzahar and I rushed this item, it was hilarious.

I swear from that point onward I didn't lose lane once against this. Now here's the issue I'm having. I was asking myself, WHY DOES NOBODY BUILD IT. When I was maining top lane after I found Kennen as my main over a year ago and whenever I saw a Malzahar in lane, literally nobody built this, the Malzahar always got 3 kills, mid turret was always the first one down. And I still see people today complaining about how there's a lack of counterplay. I'm like, dude, 1300 gold isn't going to kill you. I know why people don't build it, it's because it's a waste to your expected build. But if you don't you're giving him free farm, a free objective, you're LOSING farm, and you have no magic resist to back yourself up. But as a Veigar main, it wouldn't hurt you if you just fit this in your build somewhere, instead of complaining every time you walk into an unwarded bush expecting to walk to your blue buff without any problems, you have unlimited AP anyway. This was around Low Silver Bronze Elo. I am now Gold. And I still don't see people building it, even people who are AD.

Now back to what I was going to talk about, my champion pool looks something like this:

Bard Veigar Azir Anivia Xerath Kennen

Some of these champions are either high skill floor, or high skill ceiling champions. I've naturally forced myself to be able to play hard champions and build them according to the situation, because I thought it was really practical. But I swear, every single time I play Malzahar , I have this thought in my head saying "why am I playing the easiest skill floor champion in the game while also knowing EXACTLY how the enemy can hard counter me as practically anyone." So I play according to guides posted on YouTube, but I just... can't... play this, I'm just a floating tank shredder who's only purpose is to use the most easily avoidable hard cc on the.... enemy.... ADC... I can never be in the right place at the right time, I hate safe champions, I love being aggressive, I can't play easy champions that don't an impressive skill cap, he is also very dull and completely uninteresting to play.

Do you have any champions where you feel the same way? I was gonna say Vladimir as my least favorite because his gameplay is so linear but this takes the cake.

3 Comments

AmazoX1 votes

Ryze Taliyah

CoIpsum1 votes

Dude I can't even play Garen right but I somehow managed 480K with Yasuo

RogueWill1 votes

Veigar gets free ap to offset having to buy item 3140 early on. Not a lot of champion can opt for that item without losing most of early and mid game because of it.

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