Will Season 7 Finally Address the issue with Slows?

Mira Arya Enthe·Oct 17, 2016·4 votes·512 views

Are we going to do something about "League of slowmotion"?

It is not just Rylai's. 94 champions have slows. 10 items have slows that anybody can buy. Red buff slows. Boots of Swiftness were nerfed.

Every chase, escape, team fight, skirmish, push, defense. The whole game constantly is in slow motion.

Which honestly makes it feel like there is less action. Which is dull, boring and tedious.

This isn't even counting all the other CC in the game. Just. Slows.

Oddly enough, it is usually the most mobile champions who have the most slows. The ones who have dashes and therefore can ignore slows for the most part. The sheer number of slows in this game is unfun and toxic to any champions without spammable dashes or tons of CC in their kit.

Can we speed up League again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w9PukG97oQ

4 Comments

1 800 MID LANEOct 17, 20162 votes

I feel like the items that have slows (Rylai's, Iceborn, etc.) were bandaids to keep the meta from being only champions that have too much CC in their kits.

The issue now is that some of these champions have been somewhat balanced around the assumption that those items are bought, or the items have been balanced around the assumption that only a select few champions use them.

I play almost exclusively mages, so this is what I know best - Nerfing/reworking Rylai's passive is a pretty harsh nerf to: Azir Cassiopeia Vladimir Brand Taliyah (?) Aurelion Sol Zyra Singed Karthus (?)

Pretty sure all of those abuse Rylai's pretty hard, and while I agree that a perma-slow is toxic as hell, these champions would need some looking at as it feels like they can't really do much without it.