Riot has designed themselves into a corner

FancyKiwi·Jun 1, 2015·3 votes·355 views

They keep releasing champs with more and more stuff in their kits so with every champ after that they have to one up themselves. Let's look at Vel'Koz. He has a fairly simply kit. No passives on passives. No jumps or dashes. Outside of some visual updates he has not been touched since release. But look at him. You never see him because being immobile is such a strong weakness now. I don't think we will see another immobile champ to be released unless they are a support and even then they will probably have a bunch of passives.

4 Comments

SEKAIJun 1, 20151 votes

Because we had complained about Riot not being innovative enough in the past, so now they think mashing everything they can ever imagine into 1 single champ would be a great idea.

Shouldn't have complained, at least we only had to deal with some broken releases here and there which were easily solved by nerfing, now things are just getting too hella hard to deal with.

EleshakaiJun 1, 20151 votes

I don't know that immobility is the reason Vel isn't played. Look at some of the current top picks. Viktor, Ashe, Kog'Maw, Urgot, etc.

I think a few characters have kits with too many tools, but I don't think it's THAT big of a deal. But Riot ARE increasing the creativity on their champions, whatever the reason, which is a good thing.

kagepaladinJun 1, 20151 votes

everyone you just listed has a slow/stun aka means to walk away and "escape" even without having an ability that let's them move far away. This has also led to many champions getting a rework and giving said champions a speed up. Like mordekaiser's updated W i have escaped soo much due to casting w on an allied minion for the extra 40 movement speed.

EleshakaiJun 1, 20151 votes

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everyone you just listed has a slow/stun aka means to walk away and "escape" even without having an ability that let's them move far away. This has also led to many champions getting a rework and giving said champions a speed up. Like mordekaiser's updated W i have escaped soo much due to casting w on an allied minion for the extra 40 movement speed.

so does Vel. He has a knockup AND a slow.