Riot, Your Champions Are Flawed. (Please Read)
Before I continue, read all of this easy to follow post, it's not one big QQ post, it's me explaining how I feel how the game is currently. Yes there are caps for some sentences, yes you should read it all. One single sentence will not give you a gist of what I mean.
Also, everything below (except the champion abilities) is my opinion, take it with a grain of salt.
No one needs to deal half their opponents health in 1 fucking combo before 3m, NO SINGLE CHAMPION NEEDS TO DEAL THAT MUCH FUCKING DAMAGE.
Lets look at the recently released / reworked champions:
- Akali
- Aatrox
- Pyke
- Kai'sa
- Zoe
- Evelynn
- Ornn
- Kayn
- Xayah / Rakan
- Galio
Lets see here, hmmmm we got an assassin, a bruiser, an assassin, an assassin, an assassin, an assassin, a tank that was nerfed because it did too much damage, an assassin, an assassin + support and a tank / mage, and a Bruiser
We got 7 assassins, 2 Bruisers, 2 supports and 2 tanks that can build damage and deal as much damage as a mage.
IT'S BEEN 2 YEARS SINCE SOMEONE WHO WASN'T SPECIFICALLY MADE TO DEAL DAMAGE WAS MADE, AND THAT WAS IVERN.
Lets see how mobile all these champions are:
- Akali has her dash + reactivate dash and her R1 + R2
- Aatrox has that tiny dash + movement speed on his ultimate
- Pyke has a dash / stun, stealth + movement speed and an execute that makes him dash
- Kai'sa has a short movement speed boost / stealth and her long range dash shield
- Zoe has her Movement speed W and her Blink R
- Evelynn has her Stealth and Blink ultimate
- Ornn has a dash + stun
- Kayn has a "fuck walls" and a dash on Q
- Xayah has her ultimate (Which i'm counting because she doesn't take damage during it
- Rakan has his dash + knockup, his 2 shield dashes and his R movement speed
- Galio has a dash CC and his ultimate "teleport" aoe knockup
Literally every single one of them has a dash / movement speed boost, Riot you know how fucking hard it is to land a skillshot on Mobile champions? Oh wait no you don't because you don't play your own game..
And before Ivern was made:
- Kled has his dash + reactivate dash and his ultimate movement speed boost for his entire team + shield
- Taliyah has her ultimate
- Aurelion Sol has his fly
- Jhin's passive makes him gain movement speed on crits
- Illaoi has that short dash of hers
- Kindred has her Q "dash" that lets her jump walls
- Tahm Kench has his ultimate teleport + 1 teammate can come w/ him
- Ekko has his dash + slow and his ultimate
- Bard has his Chime movement speed + his Portals
- Rek'sai has her burrow and her ultimate dash
- Kalista's passive dashes and her Q dash
- Sion has his ultimate "charge"
- Azir has a dash with his soldiers
- Gnar has his hop / double hop
- Braum has his Armor Boost Dash
FINALLY WE GET TO VEL'KOZ, WHO HAS NO MOVEMENT SPEED OF ANY KIND IN HIS KIT, HE WAS RELEASED 4 YEARS AGO!!! It's been 4 fucking years since Riot has released a champion with NO DASH OR MOVEMENT SPEED BOOST.
We get it, dashing around like a ninja and moving around the map is fun but holy shit wtf is the point of a skillshot if YOU CAN'T EVEN HIT IT??? Like come on Riot, not every single champion needs a fucking dash or a movement speed boost.
If I go further we got
- Yasuo has his dash and his ultimate blink
- Jinx has her passive movement speed boost
- Lucian has his dash
- (Aatrox got reworked)
- Lissandra has a "blink"
- Quinn has her E dash and her ultimate movement speed boost
That's as far as it goes, in the last 5 years literally 1 champion was released with no mobility spells of any kind. Even the older champions like Udyr and Pantheon have dashes / movement speed boosts. Please Riot, either reduce mobility in general or improve skillshots. It's not fun to play champions like Xerath or Ezreal because everyone is so mobile and hitting skillshots is possible but the harder hitting ones will always be dodged because almost every single of on the champions listed above have non-ultimate dashes.
It makes it un-fun to play immobile champions because everyone is zipping around the map in like 10s while you're still back in bot lane because you're an immobile mage. Not to mention, the harder hitting skillshots generally have smaller hitboxes, which makes dodging them a hell of a lot easier when you have stealth / 3-4 dashes.
This game is devolving into "What flashy champion can I play to get the most hits on Twitch or get it in a montage?"
Remember yall, this is MY OPINION, not the fact about the game, it's my view on the game. Shouting at me that I'm wrong won't make me agree with you in any way.
