What Overloaded currently means, and what it should mean.

GULAG 4 U·9/15/2016, 9:18:58 PM·7 votes·503 views

Overloaded is a term that is commonly used to refer as "having a lot of things in your kit". Well I think people should use it as "Being able to do a lot of things" because, if you have a lot of things in your kit, and the only thing these things allow you to do is to kll people, so what?

Example, a mildly overloaded champion (yasuo) vs a heavily overloaded one (ekko) versus a non overloaded one, master Yi.

Functions in Yasuo's kit: Passive: shield and crit. 2 things here. Q: Linear skillshot that is an auto and after 3rd stack gets a knockup. 2 functions. W: Windwall: Only one here. 1. E: 2, the dashes and the EQ mechanic. 2. Ult: The suspension damage, the penetration. 2 things.

So by the traditional overloaded, Yasuo has 9 things. Now what do thse 9 things allow yasuo do to?

Well kill people (no shit...) Have some defensive power with W and passive And follow up on knockups with his ult. (Pretty much his only teamfight presence really)

So he's mildly overloaded in this sense, as a traditional champ should only be able to do 2.

Now ekko. Passive: Damage, slow, speed boost. 3. Q: Damage, slow, return (zone control) So either 2 or 3. W: % missing health damage, slow/stun, and a shield, so 3 or 4. E: Dash, blink, damage. 3 things. Ult: Massive AOE damage, rewind, and heal. 3.

So ekko has between 14 to 16 things in his kit.

What does it allow him to do? -Cleanup: % health damage, huge mobility -Kill people (No shiet) -Cc -Zone people -Engage -Disengage

So yeah, ekko can do much more with his kit than Yasuo's.

Another example, master yi. Passive: One function. Q: Gapcloser, Aoe damage, untargetable thingy: 3. W: Damage tanking, Auto reset, heal: 3. E: Ad steroid, true damage: 2. R: Attackspeed, ms, ability to ignore slows, resets. 4.

Total is 13. More than Yasuo, less than ekko.

Now what does master yi do? ...

Well he kills people... that's it.

TLDR: So what if you have 13 functions in your kit (yi) but they only allow you to do one thing? This is why I think overloaded should be used as "You can do a lot" and not "You have a lot of things in your kit". And yes overloaded champions tend to be in the traditional category too.

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