"Just CC him" is as retarded as "just kill him"

JohnnyNeverSins··102 votes·18,957 views

CC should not be the only counter to a champion..if thats the case make every skill shot point aand click so that every champion must get CCed in order for it to die,not some champions only like Jax Tryndamere MasterYi

Dodge,CC,play with their minds Velkoz Xerath

"jUsT cC hIm" Tryndamere Jax MasterYi

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420 grams65 votes

That's better than lanes that are "have your jungler gank them". Like gee, I never thought of that. Let me just move my second character I'm playing with this game

NaturesMayhem32 votes

"have your jungler gank them", in other words, you need two players to kill one person, that's not okay.

GayFluffyUnicorn27 votes

Welcome to toplane where every balance issue is treated by riot saying "well technically you got a jungler so go fuck yourself"-

DeusVult9 votes

Some cases of "just have your jungler gank them" are balanced cases

For instance, Top lane morde has some matchups where the other player cannot fight him, he gets a big early push and you cannot fight him inside the minion wave. There are also some matchups that morde loses 1v1. But in the matchups that he wins, morde is always extended. So your own jungler can look to constantly gank any time that morde extends past the middle of the lane, since he has 0 escapes.

Fiora wins almost all 1v1s. But she is garbage in large teamfights. Darius and Illaoi have dominant laning phases, and can 1v1 most champs with their high base damages, but they have low mobility and a gank against them generally means a kill which puts them behind. (unless your jungler is dumb and waits to gank post 6 where they can turn around a 2v1 if played well

Verxint2 votes

What I never get is when I see "They have a weak early game" and "Have your jungler gank them" in the description for how to handle a champion. If they're weak early, why do I need to gank them...?

Tegash2 votes

Because that closes them out of the game and delays their scaling. They can't fight back early so you shut them down, and then they're useless late.

Does ganking a Draven before 6 make sense?

Strawberry Milk43 votes

I like these post because I can picture so vividly how your last game went with like a 22/1/7 Tryndamere and I've been there. Just cc him.

Death by Glamour30 votes

or the other favourite

"just kite him"

Moody P9 votes

implying that kiting isn't one of the biggest counterplays in the game

Death by Glamour8 votes

you try kiting an insta gib from rengar/lb/talon

Moody P10 votes

you know full well nobody tells you to kite those champions lol

agac42342 votes

wtf u mean lmao if u dont kite its ur fault. kiting isnt hard and it counters alot of champions. if u cant even kite its ur own fault

Hethalean28 votes

Yeah, I agree. The counter to literally every champion shouldn't be a particular champions only counter. Just bad design imo.

Noor Sakata22 votes

I mean , isn't one of the main reasons for MasterYi Q is to dodge cc?

PopcornBunni2 votes

On reaction no less. Any cc that isn't absolutely instant he can Q on reaction. And even then the way the server-side data updates makes cc effects have a delay until the next packet updates, so he can Q on reaction to like, Ryze root after it lands.

3TWarrior1 votes

not sure of that. He might be able to Q during the animation that casts ryze's root, but otherwise, that's likely a bug

PopcornBunni1 votes

Not a bug. Just a consequence of how the game data is sent between the server and the players. It's the same reason why players can dash a split second AFTER walking onto Soraka's silence or Cassiopoeia's Grounding, or why it takes an extra few frames going through Poppy's barrier before being knocked down.

The alternative would be attacks literally going through targets because the opponent moved past it on their side but not when the client updated, resulting in a huge amount of frustrating skillshots missing when they should hit, and worse, point-and-click abilities causing complete desyncs until the client sorts it out.

3TWarrior1 votes

I dunno, as i've timed things to a champion's animation before, but if the attack is already registered, it's likely a bug

there are some odd things that can happen with latency though

drash7915 votes

"JuSt cC tHeM."- Challenger chad

"But my elo trash team😭😭😭😫👌"- bronze virgin

BestPudgeNA2 votes

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"JuSt cC tHeM."- Challenger chad

"But my elo trash team😭😭😭😫👌"- bronze virgin

">Chads sit inside all day playing 1000s of games of LOL to become good enough to hit Challenger"

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Tahminatrix 10 votes

Well tryndamere jax and yi all have ways to negate slows via their gap closers....( + yi ult)

so there goes most of the cc in the game.

ValiantKiller4 votes

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Well tryndamere jax and yi all have ways to negate slows via their gap closers....( + yi ult)

so there goes most of the cc in the game.

And his ult make him immune to slow too and attack speed slow as well.

Tahminatrix 2 votes

That's what I said...(+ yi ult)

ValiantKiller3 votes

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That's what I said...(+ yi ult)

Yes but i mean not many notice that his ult make him ignore the attack speed slow from item 3075 item 3110 etc

SwiftKitten889 votes

.... as a player who mains a champ with zero ccNidalee and who secondary role mains a champ with incredible CC Morgana

there are plenty of champs that are WAY more effected by CC than others

tanky champs obviously care less about CC

while squishies care more

when champs like Riven which normally have decent mobility with a large shield, shecan be easily stopped do to the fact that her shield is tied to her dash... she she cant shield herself while in CC like a root, silence, or grounded

champs like MasterYi or Katarina can because almost unstoppable if they are fed and played properly unless u can actually hit them with a form of hard CC, and because they have very low cooldown abilties they can use to dodge most CC throw at them... if if they do actaulyl get hit by a hard CC it is extremly effective at giving you an opportunity to stop them

where CC vs Garen is laughably useless unless you can constantly refresh it. with something like item 3116 and spammable spells or a item 3022 or your just playing Ashe

when people say "just CC them" it literally means.. THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO TAKE THEM DOWN

if u hit a riven with a morg Q and she is stuck there for three second.. she cant do jack shit. even if your a a melee champ coming to go into melee range of her after your allied support CCed them

where even as champs like Darius who you can stop from chasing you... he can still do many thing to attack you back even while rooted.. most notably if your a melee champ and an ally rooted him, or you just managed to root him right before he was in AA range

saying "just CC them" means a hell of a lot more when u say it to a "Katarina MasterYi Riven than it does if u say it to Garen Chogath DrMundo Morgana "

your point that "just CC them is equal in any way to "just kill them" is ludicroius

BEK Makadur1 votes

Finally someonewith reasonable arguments.

BaldBritney8 votes

the cc arguement is especially invalid in cases where champions such has Tryndamere MasterYi have morgana, who stops cc

Andevar1 votes

That’s only if people are stupid enough to CC her shield.

3TWarrior5 votes

it lasts long enough for a yi or tryndamere to engage...

it's also a shield that is only destroyed by magic damage, so if your crowd control is physical, it wiill only deal damage

Andevar1 votes

So fire a spell to get rid of the spell shield before attempting to CC them?????

3TWarrior1 votes

"fire a spell" sure thing, would you do that as Jax with his Q or W ?

would you do that as chogath with his Q or W ?

with ryze, would you do that with his Q, W or E ?

there are very few champions that would be guaranteed a hit and if the morganna is spec'd for AP, even fewer that could pierce the shield in one spell

Andevar1 votes

There’s 4 other people on your team you know.

3TWarrior1 votes

that's why I was mentioning several sources with easily available crowd control that WILL NOT break morgana's shield...

leblanc's chain, brand has to land two spells for CC, morgana(which can't happen in ranked) might be able to break her own spell shield but it's unlikely unless she played mid-lane, Ekko's crowd control would not apply first because he has to get in range for it to take effect, blitzcrank has only one ranged engage

how many people have to engage one target just to break a shield?

crippler382 votes

If your crowd control is magical it won't even do that though, it'll just pop the shield.

Breaking the shield then crowd controlling them is annoying, but doable.

PopcornBunni5 votes

Especially when you have hard carries that are immune to various ccs in the first place MasterYi Olaf Gangplank

Andevar4 votes

Yi is immune how? You get a hard CC on him and he’s basically screwed.

NiceTryVi2 votes

various CCs

He didnt say hard CC. You can't slow an ulting Yi, either move or attack. and many champions don't have hard CC so slowing someone coming at them is their only defence

Andevar2 votes

He said various CC, which covers all forms of CC.

And there’s a good number of champs that have knock ups, stuns, roots, etc.

3TWarrior1 votes

technically, only knockup can not be cleansed. I'm not sure how the cleanse interactions occur with suppressions

Jerry SeinfeId5 votes

so vel and xerath are better design because you can dodge their kits. ok, so don't allow the other 3 to get in range then.

if vel koz gets cc'd he most likely lives because his frontline is still there to back him up or they're already dead so the fight is lost anyway. Yi gets cc'd and he's in the middle of your whole team.

if "just cc them" is bullshit then "just dodge their abilities" is bullshit too.

Nyarlathοtep5 votes

ok, so don't allow the other 3 to get in range then.

Something something. OH YEAH, they have gapclosers in their kit. Its not really easy to keep them away from you. It also doesnt help also the fact that only displacements stop dashes.

Jerry SeinfeId2 votes

Something something. OH YEAH, they have gapclosers in their kit.

which vel koz and xerath outrange. beating vel koz and xerath is piss easy right? while they play from a lane away. If these 2 champs wanted to they'd never interact with their lane opponent.

they have those gapclosers to even stand a chance against champs with range. it's called a tradeoff.

only displacements stop dashes.

straight up wrong. riot has added non knockback/up abilities that stop dashes. Including but not limited to Jinx' chompers, Poppy's steadfast presence and Singed's super mega adhesive.

But let's say that is true in your situation, idk about xerath but i'll assume his stun doesn't stop dashes from being completed. they're still stunned after that. it's not like your stun doesn't do anything to em. As a matter of fact i think in some situations it'd be beneficial as it could potentially put them in a very shitty spot.

so no you might not be beating em 1v1 but that's kinda what these guys are good at you know.

FCJAAAAGOOOO4 votes

It is when they're melee and their only way of significantly hurting you is with melee autoattacks Udyr Trundle Tryndamere .

Jax and Yi do cheat a bit.

CppL1 votes

And tryndamere with his no cd spinning,rng crits and 5s immortality is not cheating ?

FCJAAAAGOOOO1 votes

My boy, it doesn't get much more cheap for engaging as melee using abilities than instantly being untargetable or having an instant AoE stun, doing significant damage and teleporting directly on top of the target of your choice.

coreychichi3 votes

The issue is most cc is extremely telegraphed giving shit like yi easy counterplay options, especially when he’s moving at these enhanced speeds he can easily dodge that’s his counterplay opportunity.

Your counterplay opportunity is to just not fucking exist anywhere near him cause he will likely dodge your slow af telegraphed cc skillshot then proceed in to a showing of the champs own skill which involves right clicking and pressing q.

If cc is the only counter to this bs it needs to be point and click. Which is pretty much what he’s doing to you so it seems fair.

bottom line is if right click and faceroll braindead champs can exist then so should braindead point and click cc.

IainG101 votes

Which is why if I see BS champs like Yi or Jax I just go 'Screw whatever I wanted to play, I'm gonna be playing Annie /Lissandra /Lux /Morgana and max CDR as a priority'. Even Yi can't do anything to a Lux with her Snare up every 6s.....

Of course, that only really saves you, and those aren't prime 1v5 champs, so you're probably still fucked overall.....

Bretonnian2 votes

It is legitimately hard to play Yi or Trynd into a CC heavy comp. You can easily draft a team where everyone on your team has a form of cc. If you chain cc this champions THEY ARE useless. Sona ult a full hp yi, ahri charm, combo blam thats a dead guy.

5050BS5 votes

This is why you dont ever see them in High ELO/Worlds. High ELO will ALWAYS have a good amount of hard CC.

Low ELO you can have a team with NO CC.

gabetheguy2 votes

wrong. some champs are vastly more vulnerable to cc because of their squishyness. I wouldn't expect you to understand such a concept though.

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