Ultimates are getting weaker with each new champion release, does pantheon need an update?
morello says yes, RiotFpMcgee says no, and we've got some interesting stats from the
LCS, find out which champion is being banned out of 97% of professional games.
All that and a riot point giveaway right here right now on the league update.
A forum goer with a name that I won't even attempt to pronounce made a very interesting
post, suggesting that new champion's ult's have been getting weaker since league's release
back in 2009.
He supported his argument with a graph that illustrated the game warping potential of
champions ultimates.
The peaks in the graph represent ultimates that can be used to initiate or completely
turn the tide of a team fight.
While low points on the other hand represent ultimates that are barely noticeable and don't
persuade players to behave differently in an engagment.
While champions like Zac, Zyra and Lissandra illustrate good examples of game changing
ult's in newer champions the ultimates of champions like aatrox, quinn, diana and khazix
are becoming increasingly more common.
These kinds of ults while certainly not weak tend to be geared more toward single targets
and ganking than teamfights.
Zileas the design director at riot responded to the article "Interesting thought.
We certainly have evolved how we design over time.
and it's true, we lean on the 'big AE CC ult' a lot less these days.
I'm all for awesome playmaking abilities like Ashe's ult... but as for bursty large AE ults,
we think there's plenty of this already, and while some characters need exactly this, a
lot of characters don't."
What do you think?
Do ultimates need to be large AOE abilities, or do ultimates like elise, jayce and udyr
make the player feel powerful in a different kind of way.
I think that I like seeing unique mechanics more than large CC ults, and if the champion
needs to forgo a "gamechanger" in his ult slot to make his kit really unique I'm fine
with that.
But let me know what you think in the comments and you could win 20$ worth of riot points.
Speaking of controversial ultimates let's talk about pantheon whose ult has been long
considered one the most controversial.
I mean even riot employee's can't decide if they like it or not.
After a heartfelt post about reworking Pantheon both morello and riotfpmcgee responded with
two very different opinions.
Morello was first to respond with the comment "Agreed Panth needs work,"
To which coworker RiotFPmcgee rebutted confessing that he was a pantheon enthusiast with over
100 games played at a 60% win rate.
He thinks that pantheon is simply misunderstood and that with the exception of a few unfavorable
matchups pantheon simply owns toplane due to his ability to gank more than one lane
with his ult, his ability to gap close with his stun and his ability to take early punishment
with his passive.
But that doesn't excuse the fact that a LARGE portion of the league community sees his ult
as anything but useful.
Again I will defer to my resource, the viewers.
Tell me what you think about pantheon's ultimate and you could win 20$ of riot points again.
Finally here are some LCS champion stats that will hopefully serve as food for thought.
Twisted Fate is the most contested champion being picked or banned across NA and Europe
128 out of 140 possible times.
North America values 3 champions above Twisted Fate this split.
Elise(picked or banned in 97.1% of games), Thresh (95.6%), and Jayce (92.6%)
Of those top 5 champion picks in North America, only Jayce has a winning percentage above
50%, coming in a staggering 20-8 record (71.4%).
That's the best winning percentage of any champion played at least 10 times in North
America.
North America's top champions in terms of winning besides Jayce?
Well that would be Riven, Ashe, Kha'Zix, Zyra and Zac who all win at least 2/3rds of the
games in which they were played.
And in terms of losing champions Renekton comes in first with a staggering one win and
sixe loses, while Nami, Varus, Twitch, Vladimir and Kog'maw have all lost at least two thirds
of their matches.
Oh and as promised the most banned champion is elise who gets either picked or banne din
97% of NA LCS matches.
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