How is a shield and possibly 2 blinks with a low cooldown no escapability? The pull can be used for juking as well, so she basically has 3 abilities to help her get out of a sticky situation.
The shield is only really good when used offensively due to needing to manage the balls to get the most out of the spell. And using her ultimate to escape is
tremendously inconsistent.
How is having 6 abilities, one of which deals excellent AoE damage and one of which boosts your whole team not good for teamfights?
a) It's a movement speed boost that
can boost your whole team. See Karma for why abilities that help your team can be ruined by making them difficult to pull off. See Sivir for how much more powerful it is to just make everyone faster without requiring them to do anything.
b) Saying his ball is good for team fights because it's AOE damage is like saying Twisted Fate has good team fight abilities because his Q is AOE. They're good poke, that's all.
c) On that note, Twisted Fate is a great example of how not having a team fight oriented ult has the drawback of requiring you to drastically change your playstyle to get the most out of the champion.
Didn't I mention that his passive gives movement speed? 5% doesn't sound much, but when your base movement speed is near 300, this means 15 extra MS which does help. Not to mention that his pull has deceptively enormous range, and the fact that he always rushes Phage, means that you can't really escape him all that easily. And build squishier? All Dariuses I see build Phage into TF and/or Frozen Mallet, and Maw of Malmortius. Those 3 items give plenty of durability and support the bruiser build.
Yeah, 5% movement speed that requires you to hit them already. Like I said, more kiteable than Udyr, who starts out with an unconditional 15% boost.
And I'm a little tired of people arguing about how Darius scales with AD super well and how he doesn't need to build AD. He does not have absurd bases
and absurd ratios. If you argue that then you're just wrong.
I have no fucking clue what you're talking about. His charge acts like a short duration stun, that is already hard CC. His ult also affects the whole fucking team. 5 guys that you can force to run back. How is that not crowd control? Tell me, please.
Because Irelia can stun someone for a longer duration than him, with one ability? A 0.25 second or so disable on his charge is not particularly impressive, and then his ult is 1 second (and seriously, stop with the hyperbole that AOE = entire team, because you're really only going to hit three people with a hec ult on a good day). Yes. It is AOE. That is good. But team fights are all about focusing down specific targets and 2 seconds of stunning the carry is typically going to be more valuable than 1 second spread across any number of people.
And before we get to AOE CC, Hecarim is nowhere near the scale of actual AOE CC champions like Amumu or Zyra. I can't find hard numbers on the radius of Hec's fear, but it looks like 200 at the most. If my estimate is correct, his fear has 11% of the AOE of Amumu's ultimate.
Oh come on, have you ever played against an Ahri? She throws her charm and if it hits, she uses her ult to dash in, lands her boomerang easily (charm says no dodging) and her spirit fires just fly at you. Maybe she uses her ult again on you to deal more damage, and if you aren't near dead, ult to get away. Easy to get away. And if she gets ganked, now she hasn't used her ult to initiate so she ahs 3 blinks and charm and most likely flash. So yeah, 4 blinks. Sure is hard to escape.
I wouldn't mind if she could use them to get in, but no, she can use them to get out just as easily, and both get in AND get out.
A ton of her damage and escapability completely hinges on her ult. In addition, she lacks the typical super long ranges on her skillshots (see: Morgana, Ezreal) which makes her
even more reliant on her ult for positioning.
I feel like a lot of discussion on Ahri confuses design with balance. Try this: imagine whatever your favorite designed champion is, and then make them OP. It's like their weaknesses don't matter anymore! Ahri used to not need to compensate for her weaknesses, yes, but now that she's in a better place balance-wise, they're showing through more. This does not mean she was a bad design.
As for skipping over some champions... Yeah, I was speaking of the new bruisers and assassins, not ranged DPS champs or tanks or supports or whatever. Assassins and bruisers. I looked fro mthe wiki to see the list of their appearance, and I never skipped any assassins or bruisers. Why should I list Draven when he isn't an assassin, or Zyra when she isn't a bruiser. Of course I skip those guys, I have no problem with them. I do have problem with the new assassins and bruisers howeverm which is why I listed them.
I apologize. I forgot about the categorization because I think of Hecarim as more of a tank and Ahri as more of a mage. Definitely shouldn't have attacked you on this.
I find this exactly the opposite. Darius' release was hell, and I did not enjoy seeing him at all in any game. Don't know if you remember it, but Xin's release was pretty much the same if not worse. Every game Xin was in, he won the game. If there were 2, the better Xin won. He basically came up to you and boom, you basically could just go take a dump because nothing else you could do other than see your health bar diminish.
I guess this is more of a matter of taste. Darius is nothing like Xin was, though, and is a far better design than original Xin. Ignoring balance, the lack hard CC, lack of sustain, and lack of a gap closer gives Darius' opponents far more counterplay.
Yes, eve sucks quite bad and the remake was a complete failure. No matter how much you want to see her work (I did) it just doesn't make her viable.
The goal of the remake was not to have a completely balanced Eve, it was to get Eve to a state where she can be balanced. Pretty much all your criticisms can be solved with numbers buffs, which means the remake was a complete success.
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