Let's face it. Certain champions became unpopular af because Yasuo, Riven, Lee Sin & etc exists.
Everyone wants to play that one champion who has incredible amounts of mobility.
Everyone wants to play that one champion who doesn't require a lot of resource to execute combos & abilities.
Everyone wants to play that one champion who has a strong early game steroid to rekt their opponents early.
And it's all because of this that made tons of resources to reworks like Sion such a big fat waste. Up til now, I'm still sadden by the fact that it took Riot about 5 years to properly give Yorick the best & healthy update he can have after all the waiting & questioning & complains they had to endure, only to ended up racking a pitiful +1% of playrate til today.
I'm not saying those reworks made them weaker or whatever, it's just that champions like himself, in the perspective of Yasuo/Rive/Lee Sin mains, were just too chore-ish, like why pick him when you can just pick someone like Riven to spam abilities without having to cost so much resources or needing crap like making graves before attacking & such? Yorick & Sion can have the potential to deal a ton of damage & possibly carry the game, but no one wants to explore that road when they can just do it easily on those 3 Musketeers instead.
I'm just saying these imo. Usually the one thing I would hope for is having those 3 champions & others related to have some tweaks or nerfs in order to not make them oppressive af, but I'd be afraid to trigger their mains in doing so. So instead, I'm looking forward to the Tank Update, where a Rioter said that the item & champion changes should impact the current meta, one mainly being Lee Sin himself, as said in this thread:
And a small reminder. This is NOT a thread about me QQ'ing for being rekt by them. I destroy them in some games, I get rekt by them in some games, but all these won't solve the unpopularity Yorick & others similar are facing right now.
without any idea how to animation cancel or play her mechanics well. Riven, Yasuo, Zed and Lee Sin are all strong 1v1 duelists without mana concerns. They don't have to do pesky things like conserve resources waiting for an opportunity to go in. They don't have to worry about being caught out. They are ALWAYS capable of just going ham on someone and hoping for the best. They're also all VERY mobile too, so escaping from bad spots (including ones they put themselves in) is far easier for them than most. It may take a lot of skill to master them... but it takes VERY LITTLE skill to play them against lower tier players and do well, thanks to how snowbally and aggressive they are, and how full of mobility and utility their kits are.
has an abysmal play rate because he is genuinely the least interesting concept riot has ever put out. old yorick was cooler and they threw all that shit away
