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On June 16 2013 05:32 Gahlo wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2013 05:32 Alaric wrote: Soraka can silence and Exhaust Poppy and heal you and it's already not that bad. You better run because Silence will never last long enough tho. I thought Poppy was immune to all forms of CC when ulting. No, she's only immune to everything from the people the ult isn't on. If you ult someone, that person can still use 100% of things against you to full effect.
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In terms of winrates, this month from lolking on EUW diamond, the lowest winrates are (from highest to lowest of the low) 10 heimer 9 olaf 8 alistar 7 syndra 6 karma 5 corki 4 lissandra 3 shyvana 2 diana 1 leblanc
syndra is probably really strong if you're good with her. Diana is good if you're fed but severely overrated if you aren't.
from lower to highest in tops of top winrates 10 nunu 9 fiddle 8 teemo 7 sejuani 6 twitch 5 naut 4 kassadin 3 draven 2 tf 1 janna
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Soraka terrible example I just named a random champ I dislike lol.
As someone who likes alistar that list makes me sad .
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On June 16 2013 05:32 cLutZ wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2013 05:30 Gahlo wrote:On June 16 2013 05:00 cLutZ wrote:On June 16 2013 04:44 Gahlo wrote:On June 16 2013 04:43 cLutZ wrote:On June 16 2013 04:28 Dark_Chill wrote:On June 16 2013 02:12 cLutZ wrote:On June 16 2013 00:53 Dark_Chill wrote: "Considering that the entire sustain problem is entirely based entirely on laning I fail to see how this matters. Someone sustaining in team fights is fine, it becomes a problem when one person has lane sustain and the other doesn't, so the non sustainer could never hope to win a fight or both sustain and it just turns into a boring farm fest." I don't know if I agree that life sustain in teamfights is always alright. Seems to me like too much sustain on someone who's really hard to take down is really bad in teamfights, unless they don't do all that much in teamfights. I don't even agree with too much sustain is a problem in lane. Since it's not burst healing, ganking won't allow sustain to play much of a factor. It's like saying that champs with good laning phases are bad because the champs with bad laning phases can't win, so it either turns into a farmfest or aggression on the part of the good laner. Who even said that? It was a guy from the thread about how Irelia was badly designed but Aatrox isn't. Ahh. The fact is that Aatrox is much more poorly designed than Irelia, so IDK what that guy is talking about. Try telling that to Morello. I did. He told me manaless melle champs are fine. Then I asked which manaless melle champs were fine, cited Rengar, Zed, Shen, on one end, and Garen/Kat on the other, and got no response. Actually he did. He went on about manaless champions that aren't strictly melee being an issue. There is no champion in the game that is "strictly melle". And all the modern melle manaless champs are also not. Zed, Zac, and Aatrox all have gapclosers and spells that go further than melle range. I'm just reporting what he said. I think Aatrox is dumb.
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aatrox one of the worst champs in the game statisically so far from experience he doesnt seem that hot either
i think he has the potential to be strong but he can't really chase well enough imo like if the enemy team has janna good luck doing anything
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Remember you said this when 2 weeks from now he's permaban status.
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hes already perma ban but i havent won a game with him on my team or lost a game against him so far i think people just like the ban the new champs
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On June 16 2013 05:42 Slayer91 wrote: aatrox one of the worst champs in the game statisically so far from experience he doesnt seem that hot either
i think he has the potential to be strong but he can't really chase well enough imo like if the enemy team has janna good luck doing anything
Even Jax is gonna have trouble against anything with Janna or Lux tho.
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jax is also a weak chaser but he has 2 insanely strong tank steriods (e counts as 1 lategame because ads do so much) and a 5 second gap closer is considered a weak chaser these days lol
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On June 16 2013 05:42 Slayer91 wrote: aatrox one of the worst champs in the game statisically so far from experience he doesnt seem that hot either
i think he has the potential to be strong but he can't really chase well enough imo like if the enemy team has janna good luck doing anything
That is not the point. Where a champ falls on the balance scale is irrelevant to his badness of design. You can make any character strong or weak just with numbers. The tough part is making a kit that is resilient so that the champ remains a good, but not required, pick for multiple patch cycles.
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why is his design bad?
the idea is a lifesteal tank what irelia was supposed to be but riot had no idea how to make a viable not cc based melee to be effective at the top level so they gave her everything
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I cant handle the influx of school children.
Jesus. SO much rage, so much trolling.
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On June 16 2013 05:50 Slayer91 wrote: why is his design bad?
the idea is a lifesteal tank what irelia was supposed to be but riot had no idea how to make a viable not cc based melee to be effective at the top level so they gave her everything
A freaking revive mechanic. What the hell are they doing putting on a revive mechanic that is so binary and bland.
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Czech Republic11293 Posts
Shen has been an early pick/ban material for a looong ass time now, but he has not been the super dominating force that FotM imba champions were (release Zac and Thresh for example) for the longest time. He would actually be one of the first examples of champions who are strong but not super dominant for an extremely long period of time
Even after the nerfs Katarina was used somewhat sparsely by people who used to main her IIRC, namely xpeke and I think? there was at least one more, though I cant remember who. She fell out of favour due to being overnerfed though, but the concept is obviously not at all overpowering as Kha'zix is just fine and very similiar in design
Zed is in the region of strong but not overpowering RIGHT NOW, so I don't really know what that is about. Strong splitpusher, weak in teamfights, possibly powerful laning phase, overall a solid champion with unique strenghts and weaknesses even among the splitpushing class.
As I said, Garen is bland and meh, he stopped being played before I took interest in the competitive scene but whether he is impossible to balance properly I can not tell.
Rengar had his period of being used yet not dominant for some time after his nerfs, specifically when laneswapping was starting to be used he was one of the premier 1v2ers due to his ability to instakill waves at lvl5 and then ability to splitpush amazingly, partially because of his ultimate/1v1 strenght and partially because he was able to get an advantage from laneswapping. He did fell out of favour due to the change in how laneswaps started to be played I think, but to say that it's an inherent problem in his kit seems very close minded to me, he was just overnerfed and unusable outside his very narrow niche due to it.
Binary things aren't at all bad, they are in fact exceptionally exciting. Examples: kills, baron and dragon, executes and reset champions
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On June 15 2013 20:42 cascades wrote: It's kinda obvious why TPA gave up. Their new jungler is just as bad.
Would like to bring this up because it's worthy of discussion regarding TPA's state given they were the S2 champions. A pretty long post by their coach Retty was posted on their Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/tpaLoL
From what I can summarize, the team is having cohesion issues and the manager hinted that there will be players or role swaps coming in the near future. The role swaps they are doing now is for the players to get accustomed to their roles.
I don't think its surprising they would be slumping, (I believe a poster here already said CLG EU and TPA would have the most trouble adjusting to the S3 meta). At the same time, I fail to see how changing roles will solve any internal conflicts they currently have.
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On June 16 2013 05:50 Slayer91 wrote: why is his design bad?
the idea is a lifesteal tank what irelia was supposed to be but riot had no idea how to make a viable not cc based melee to be effective at the top level so they gave her everything
1. He doesn't have to use mana to sustain back his life. Thus, you can't push him out of lane unless you are strong enough to beat him in a a trade with your cooldowns down. This means his laning is dictated almost entirely by his stats vs. the stats of the opposing laner. You can only push him out of lane by making him fear an all-in. You can't outplay his resource bar. 2. He has an escape, so jungle ganks that would prevent him from doing this sustain back are rather ineffectual.
These 2 parts will make him consistently difficult to balance. Along with that, most of his kit has steroids and his passive is a GA. These will ensure the long-term binary-ness of Aatrox. In lane he either can sustain up or not. If not worthless, if can he becomes old toplane Nunu. In teamfights he either lives and kills you all, or doesn't and is AD Yi.
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except his trades are really weak so if you win the trade all you need to be able to do is auto him enough to take the edge off his sustain until cds are back
ive beat him easy with warwick and nasus, both happens to have good sustain as well except they trade better and are more useful
he just basically has free lifesteal its not even unique
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On June 16 2013 05:59 Scip wrote: Shen has been an early pick/ban material for a looong ass time now, but he has not been the super dominating force that FotM imba champions were (release Zac and Thresh for example) for the longest time. He would actually be one of the first examples of champions who are strong but not super dominant for an extremely long period of time
Even after the nerfs Katarina was used somewhat sparsely by people who used to main her IIRC, namely xpeke and I think? there was at least one more, though I cant remember who. She fell out of favour due to being overnerfed though, but the concept is obviously not at all overpowering as Kha'zix is just fine and very similiar in design
Zed is in the region of strong but not overpowering RIGHT NOW, so I don't really know what that is about. Strong splitpusher, weak in teamfights, possibly powerful laning phase, overall a solid champion with unique strenghts and weaknesses even among the splitpushing class.
As I said, Garen is bland and meh, he stopped being played before I took interest in the competitive scene but whether he is impossible to balance properly I can not tell.
Rengar had his period of being used yet not dominant for some time after his nerfs, specifically when laneswapping was starting to be used he was one of the premier 1v2ers due to his ability to instakill waves at lvl5 and then ability to splitpush amazingly, partially because of his ultimate/1v1 strenght and partially because he was able to get an advantage from laneswapping. He did fell out of favour due to the change in how laneswaps started to be played I think, but to say that it's an inherent problem in his kit seems very close minded to me, he was just overnerfed and unusable outside his very narrow niche due to it.
Binary things aren't at all bad, they are in fact exceptionally exciting. Examples: kills, baron and dragon, executes and reset champions
Binary things are fine. A champ that is like 30% pick/ban one patch, then 0% 2 patches later is not. Shen is a strange case because of his global + manaless + sustain. I disagree with your assessments of Current Zed, Past Kat, and Past Rengar though.
On June 16 2013 06:14 Slayer91 wrote: except his trades are really weak so if you win the trade all you need to be able to do is auto him enough to take the edge off his sustain until cds are back
ive beat him easy with warwick and nasus, both happens to have good sustain as well except they trade better and are more useful
he just basically has free lifesteal its not even unique
That is because he is weak, not because he is well designed. They are entirely separate.
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Bad design =/= strong or weak. Being strong or weak is a numbers issue. It doesn't change that he's a terribly designed champion.
Sustain should never be free. Revive passive should have counterplay. Depending on the balance patch and lane matchup he's either impossible to push out of lane, or lose every trade badly and be useless.
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Czech Republic11293 Posts
Or maybe there are particular timings when he is strong and impossible to push out of lane and others where he is vulnarable to an allin and is zoned in return? I don't really understand what is this hatred for resourceless champions, they are still restrained by range and cooldown, and they promote a very aggresive playstyle.
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