Boring champions who should be reworked (TL,DR)

MarcReady·7/14/2017, 1:22:19 AM·1 votes·382 views

DISCLAIMER: I don't think these champs are weak or strong, I'd like to discuss only about the entertainment they can provide.

Sometimes when I want to chill in normal and I don't know what to pick, I find myself playing champions I rarely see picked. More often than not, as the game goes on, I quickly understand why they are never picked: they are boring when you are winning and frustrating to play as if you're behind.

These are just my opinions, feel free to comment if you think there are ways to enjoy these champs (funny builds or whatever)

Here's a list: 1 place: Volibear: really, really boring. I mean, you get to play an armored bear and what does he do? Nothing more than empowered attacks. His passive has no thematic sense, his q is binary: you're either an unstoppable beast or you're kited as always (if not worse: you feel useless). There's no skill expression in this champ, just a flat playing style. Chase and/or be kited.

2 place: xin zhao: similar to volibear in a certain sense: if ahead you're unstoppable, if the enemy team has a decent comp, not even a good comp, just decent, which means at least a support who can peel, you are useless and hopeless. Are there supports who can't peel? No and this is why you will usually feel worthless while playing xin.

3 place: Evelynn: damn, I almost forget her. Despite being a stealth character, a trait which should scream "fun", where's the fun in spamming q while chasing with right click? I mean, there's nothing interesting she can do.

Honorable mention: twitch. I must confess I don't really like the adcs playstyle, but I think that, among all the adcs I rarely try to play, twitch is the most boring: if it weren't for his stealth, he would be a common adc: just raw dps, reposition and auto from afar.

In conclusion, excluding twitch, I think there's an ultimate reason on why these champions are really boring to play as: I think there's really no decision making involved in their playstyles beside deciding if to join the fight or not. You either get to join the fight and do what you are supposed to do with your boring kit, or you hopelessly wait for an opportunity to go in while getting poked/kited if not bursted altogheter. You don't get to decide if to use a skill to zone an enemy, to scout an area etc... I think Riot should consider this aspect if they want to make successful reworks. A player should be awarded for decision making in using their champion's skills too.

TL,DR: voli, xin and eve are boring champions. They offer no skill expression in their kits, they require no decision making besides the decision if to join a fight or not. They should be reworked to award players who can decide if to use an ability or not.

3 Comments

MrHaZeYo7/14/2017, 1:24:51 AM1 votes

Well, Eve is next.

Doctor Jarvis7/14/2017, 1:25:47 AM1 votes

I know they said Voli's on their radar

MarcReady7/14/2017, 1:29:58 AM1 votes

Yes I read about the upcoming eve's rework, but I think it will not be very soon. It will require at least another 6 months I think, considering how much time the other reworks took