Ability Draft

Ratbert·Jan 19, 2015·3 votes·1,765 views

Will there ever be something like this for league? If anyone doesn't know, ability draft is when you mix and match different moves (3 skills and an ult) out of the 10 champs picked for your own champ.

14 Comments

ValuedCustomerJan 27, 20153 votes

This has been brought up countless times, and no, it will never work or be implemented. Not in LoL anyways.

Way too many things don't work across champions, here is just a small sampler of them:

Champion-specific passives: Gnar, Sona, Udyr, Karma, etc.
Moves that depend on each other: Azir, Akali, Katarina, etc.
Moves that depend on things generated by a specific champion: Azir, Orianna, Syndra, Yorick, etc.
Moves that depend on a passive: Braum, Yasuo, Twitch, etc.
Transform abilities: Jayce, Elise, Quinn, etc.
Incompatible costs: Rumble, Renekton, Rengar, any of the ninjas + Lee Sin, etc.

And then there are the animations. What should Ahri in turtle stance, Gnar using distortion, or Zyra using stand-behind-me look like? There are way too many permutations, most of which don't make any sense.

Forget about this already.

RatbertJan 27, 20151 votes

You realize that dota has moves that depend on each other, technically, only karma requires her entire kit for her ult and passive to be completely effective, everyone else can still keep some aspect of it. Also. things generated doesn't really matter because denying other's skills is part of the fun and risk unless you get two picks in a row. If you don't have the passive, don't get the skill, easy peasy.

If we really had to, just make it so that if you don't have the resource, you can't use the skill, or give everyone every bar needed.

Animations aren't necessary, they aren't even in dota with those 5 second channels. You could simply have dashers walking really fast (i've seen lb do this during distortion) or ahri with a shield with no animation change.

Spooky SpookerMay 22, 20151 votes

this is league not, Dota. Twitch E needs his passive, and so do the other things listed by ValuedCustomer. This will never happen

RatbertMay 22, 20151 votes

So then if you grab twitch e and you're not twitch, it's useless. Is that so hard to understand?

Swood GrompetJan 20, 20152 votes

Hecarim Passive Rammus Q Kennen W Hecarim E Yi Ult Build Full AD/movespeed Take Ghost/Tele One shot everything

SexyTaylorSwiftJan 19, 20151 votes

I mean, everyone would just pick Lee Sin's overloaded kit anyway.

RatbertJan 19, 20151 votes

If everyone did, then they'd each only get 1 skill as people pick one at a time in order.

Shifu ArrrgghhJan 19, 20151 votes

I want!!

CrettJan 20, 20151 votes

Darius Passive Twitch Q Sion W Jax E

And at that point the R doesn't matter

MonikyJan 21, 20151 votes

Maybe make it to where you can only get 1 ability from a certain champion then can't use any of its other ability's

MonikyJan 21, 20151 votes

Or maybe it would give you a choice between 5 champions for each ability, you choose the champ you want with the corresponding ability, then it gives you a choice of 5 other random champions for the next abilities, And maybe make it draft mode so you can ban certain champs from the rotation

Shifu ArrrgghhMar 22, 20151 votes

bump

timaayApr 18, 20151 votes

you guys all realize, that with ability draft, you get 20 random champs to pick abilities from, or maybe 15 you cant pick anyone, you may get good picks or not, also you would have to deny picks. etc. it would be fun, but if they dont want to do it i guess they just wont do it. i think it is a great idea though, the ability bar of all types is a good idea. or just make all ablities cost mana for the game type. i think it would be fu, granted alot of work to do. but it would make me play soo much more

KãtãrinãMay 22, 20151 votes

(since im sure youd be the champion with the passive u take, so resource/attack range/ETC) Passive: Katarina (Cooldowns reduced by 15 seconds on kill/assist) Q: Ahri (orb) W: Zed (mimics any spellcast/Escape) E: Fizz (Hop/Untargetable) or fiddle E (silence/AOE) R: Leblanc (Mimic an ability/Short CD)

Sure this combo would be insane honestly if anyone allowed you to get it (The E is debatable but idk what else id have chosen over it.)