Buff Knigths already

Thilmer·Sep 7, 2019·2 votes·877 views

A team composition as legit as any other shuldn't be a noobtrap like it is currently.

3 Comments

IllabetheSep 7, 20191 votes

The problems with this theory:

Knights in their paired synergies already do well. Noble and Glacial Knights both do their jobs in Noble/Glacial Comps. Poppy does her job in Yordle.

So buffing the champions themselves would also buff those comps.

On the flip side, if you just buffed the synergy; They already do their jobs as a Synergy in other champs than their main. In Noble, Knights allow you to survive until round 5+ with just a (2) buff. In Glacials, Knights allow you to survive until the last round.

So the question isn't going to be, "what do you buff?"

The right question: What new Knight units do we need, that have offensive power, but don't synergize with other teams?

That's the only way you could correctly buff knights as a standalone.

Sire HippingtonSep 8, 20191 votes

All those comps only get knights 2, in rare cases knights 4. What knights need is another rework on their perk, the current one is good early anf falls of hard, and if it's strong later on, it just removes any dot/high-AS comps form the game. Just recently had a game with Kennen as my carry and a Garen aswell, 3 others went knight comps and i did nothing. I managed to swap into a sorc comp with aurelion, and he just nuled them off the earth...sadly at that point i was so low that getting matched vs the void assasin dude with a 3star ghostblade kassa once was already the end.

Imo knights could use something similar to elementalists/sorc: an inate passive. Give them 20 flat damage block baseline and think of a new perk that helps them more at funktioning as their own instead of just beeing meatshields that trigger origin perks. Another issue for knights is that they have 3 tier 1 units, which really doesn't help 4-6 knights to be any viable later on...

IllabetheSep 8, 20191 votes

That's my point. 2 Knights alone is enough to make a difference on those comps. If you run Noble, but do not have a secondary Knight, you will almost NEVER get to the part of the game where you can pick up Kayle. Hence, people pick up Poppy or Darius, because that - 15 damage is enough with their kits. But without it, they barely lose.

(4) Knight as a primary comp is weak, but (6) actually is competitive.