Syndras at 40% health and i still couldnt kill her with a full combo. I would honestly never have picked this dog shit of a champion up if i knew this was how it was. literally any other assassin would have smacked her brains out and taken out the zoe too but not ekko lmao.
Genuinely, what does this champ even do? He's supposed to be an assassin, but he can't one-shot anybody. Every assasin can one shot a target after an item but ekko needs at least three items for that. He has a rather weak laning phase as well, and some champions actually bully him pretty badly. In terms scaling, people say that Ekko scales well, but statistically falls off after 20 minutes so He's not a scaler by definition. His snowballing is decent but nothing compared to Katarina, Talon, and Zed. He can't carry fights because you're so dependent on your teammates doing damage that if they fail doing that, you cannot proc your W passive and you’re literally useless.
Good job by the balancing team as always
Riot nerfed Vayne because they felt her top lane presence had become too oppressive. What makes this especially notable is that Vayne was already extremely weak in the bot lane, yet Riot still decided to nerf her anyway because of how strong she was performing in top lane
So, by that same logic, why isn’t Riot nerfing Viktor?
Viktor currently has a higher pick rate in bot lane, a higher win rate, and a higher ban rate than Vayne had in top lane. Statistically, that would suggest that Viktor’s bot lane is more problematic than Vayne’s top lane presence was. Yet despite this, Viktor hasn’t received any nerfs specifically addressing his bot lane strength, let alone nerfs remotely comparable to what Vayne received. Why is there this double standard and clear hypocrisy?
I’m not even asking for her to be some insane hypercarry or to outscale every other ADC. I just want her to be able to hold her own late game to actually feel like a champion in 5v5 team fights instead of a caster minion.
I’m so tired of watching 98% of ADCs completely outscale her and provide so much more value and utility in late-game team fights. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Draven or Caitlyn that couldn’t get a lead or it’s a jinx or twitch who went 0/10, as soon as the enemy adcs gets 3/4 items you’re a joke to them. They laugh at you while blowing up the enemy team from 2 screens away, it’s humiliating.
I understand kaisa feels like a strong mid game champion but she only peaks at 52%, which is lower than jinx, tristana and Ashe to name a few. How can riot call her a hyper carry while simultaneously seeing her win rate dwindle past 30 minutes?
I recently started playing mid lane because mages have completely taken over bot lane, and playing ADC just isn’t fun in this meta. My current permanent ban is Veigar not because he necessarily destroys me in lane, but because of how well he scales.
People always tell you to exploit Veigar’s weak early game, but I have a really hard time doing that. He has his cage, which can prevent a lot of damage and make it difficult to engage on him, and his abilities have enough range that I struggle to even get close to him in the first place. In my experience he simply farms and stacks under turret until I can’t deal with him anymore Because of that, I feel like he can get through the early game relatively safely and reach his strong mid and late game stages without being punished very much. However, I’m starting to feel like there are probably champions who are more worth a ban than Veigar. I just don’t know how to properly deal with him in lane. So what should my actual strategy be against Veigar? Should I be trying to kill him repeatedly and punish him as much as possible in lane, or should I focus on pushing the wave, taking plates, and roaming to impact the rest of the map? What is the most effective way to play against Veigar so that I can actually beat him over the course of the game rather than just trying to survive his scaling?
Setts w is already a super strong ability since it can pretty much one shot a target regardless of how much health the opponent has. However this ability was supposed to be balanced around sett needing to land the sweet spot of his w to do that kind of damage which can be argued as fair. But if sett combines his w with the E stun it almost guarantees the absurd true damage which is not fair at all.
Caitlyn is arguably one of the strongest lane bullies in the game. Her range, lane control, Headshots, traps, and ability to pressure waves make her incredibly oppressive in many matchups. She can often dominate lane without too much trouble
Normally, the trade-off for having that kind of early-game power is that if you fail to convert it into a lead, you should naturally become less impactful as the game goes on. The idea is that an early-game champion is rewarded for winning early, but punished if they don’t.
However, Caitlyn seems to be an exception. Even if she doesn’t get a massive lead in lane, she still scales into a very strong late-game ADC. While her mid game may be weaker compared to other marksmen, she still retains significant late-game power through her range, crit scaling, and Headshot damage.
Compare that to Kai’Sa. Kai’Sa has a notoriously weak early game and relies heavily on reaching her item and evolution spikes before she becomes a major threat. She has a strong mid-game window, but she often falls off compared to other late-game ADCs.
So my question is: why does Caitlyn, a champion with one of the strongest early-game identities among ADCs, get to remain a powerful late-game threat, while champions who sacrifice their early game, like Kai’Sa, don’t receive the same late-game payoff?
It feels like the intended trade-off between early-game strength and late-game scaling isn’t being applied consistently.