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URGOT - Why Riot is wrong about his design.

Korica Riftaxe··3 votes·1,263 views

They said his design was a mistake, and they claim his ugly appearance is directly responsible for his unpopularity.

Meanwhile, Pudge is the most popular hero in all of Dota 2 and has been for a long-ass time.

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Kikirino2 votes

His kit makes no sense. That is why he is bad. He was built as an anti-adc but has bad range, a shitty shield and an ult that puts him in the middle of the team fight and likely to die immediately unless he built tanky and a tanky Urgot is even more useless than damage Urgot.

Korica Riftaxe1 votes

Who said anything about him being bad? I'm not commenting on his kit at all. I'm bring up the fact that Riot said "Urgot's design was a mistake, he's ugly, and people don't like to play ugly characters, so that's why he's unpopular" and I'm bringing up Pudge from Dota 2 to prove them wrong. People don't mind playing ugly characters. Riot was wrong about Urgot and their policy behind character design is wrong.

Kikirino1 votes

I was agreeing and stating why he is actually unpopular. His design has nothing to do with it. It's all in his kit.

Slaaneshine1 votes

His kit is just so strange. It doesn't seem together at all, and his ultimate counteracts what he seems to want to do, which is seige, but his auto range is poor. At the end of whatever discrepancies exist with his character though, he is one hell of a lane bully, and brutally good at his job. His passive is probably one of the best in the game, it just exists on a character that has, persay, little use for it in what most people want him to do. I still feel as if he wants to become a bruiser, which would be really awesome if he had the stats for it.

At the end of the day though, whatever people say, I've almost always had really good success with Urgot, as hit kit basically makes him excellent for living between bruiser and marksman. That gives him some of the best dueling in the game. I mean, 15% reduced damage? How do you lose a 1v1 with that power constantly applied, with a slow, armor pen., and a spammable projectile? All he really needs is slight stat increases, but then I'd think he'd be too good at that point.

Jamaree1 votes

Pudge has ugly cute going on, or a so ugly that it is cute kind of thing. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UglyCute

Urgot doesn't.

Korica Riftaxe1 votes

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Pudge has ugly cute going on, or a so ugly that it is cute kind of thing. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UglyCute

Urgot doesn't.

They are virtually same - big, fat, ugly, and covered in stitches. If anything, Pudge is uglier because he actually has guts spilling out where Urgot has mechanical body parts. The only thing cute about Pudge is his personality and voice.

Jamaree1 votes

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They are virtually same - big, fat, ugly, and covered in stitches. If anything, Pudge is uglier because he actually has guts spilling out where Urgot has mechanical body parts. The only thing cute about Pudge is his personality and voice.

Exactly, read the trope. Urgot is ugly and his voice and lines are just boring, his personality is just whining of sadness.Pudge has his voice and personality to carry him to the pugly status, Urgot does not.

Korica Riftaxe1 votes

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Exactly, read the trope. Urgot is ugly and his voice and lines are just boring, his personality is just whining of sadness.Pudge has his voice and personality to carry him to the pugly status, Urgot does not.

I disagree because I personally like Urgot's voicework. It's not cute, but it's cool, and definitely unique. A robotic grumble with a hacking cough who goes on and on about suffering and pain? I dig it. He does not need to be changed in that department.

But it's not as if Riot really seems to grasp the concept of a good voice. They changed Nasus, those idiots.

Saruyan1 votes

his design is horrible and has no direction, its only slightly more cohesive than some of the original 40.

Barry Zukercorn1 votes

There used to be a day when Urgot was insanely strong. At one point Gambit said that Urgot Soraka was an unbeatable bottom lane. Then because his play was so overwhelming he got hit with the nerf bat so hard that he hasn't recovered since season 1. If you watch people who do 1v1's regularly he's a popular pick because he is an amazing duelist if played properly. His Q has spamable long range with high base damage and decent scaling. His W works great with resistances which are gained through his ult as well as keeping people within his medium range and his E not only has a massive armor shred and decent dot but guarantees q's landing. The issues with his kit is that a lot of it is currently outdated and hasn't been given any love in those years. The reason Riot might accuse his lack of strength on popularity is because they honestly fix the champions that are popular to play and Urgot hasn't been popular in quite a long time.

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