@Vars please read my comment about Ziggs Satchel Charge. It is a very power ability with so much versatility I consider it the best utility skill in the game.
Bard’s portal. You never force anyone to use it, both allies an enemies can use it. There’s always a warning before you portal into a lane while roaming
Or at least give it the Braum treatment where it isn't erased, just harshly reduce the damage of anything that goes trough it(and if you want to keep it broken but not that much, maybe any CC that passes trough it has it duration shortened too).
but then how much health would it have? if it can sustain 4s, nothing changed, if it gets deleted on 1s, it's useless. making it like braum's E would be the better way.
Here's a cool fact about Galio's ult Animation: When casting his ultimate normally you mostly see him smashing the ground with his fist. But that animation only plays if Galio isnt in his ult circle. If Galio is in his ult circle than he smashes the ground with his two feet. This was something I only realised when I started playing Galio on Wild Rift and was kinda shocked when I saw that it is also in League considering that even tho he wasnt my main he was still a champ I played a lot to counter mages........ Okay one more. Galio starts auto attacking the Enemy Champ he hits with his E no matter what if you dont cancel it with another thing like walking. It is useful too since after E'ing auto attacking the champ you hit to use your enhanced auto is mostly the best thing you can do after E'ing.
I gotta say I'm sad you didn't bring up rakans dash when you were talking about ally dashes, I think all the targeted ally dashes are so well designed for their individual Champs. Rakans is basically Lee sin but he also gets to cast it twice letting him play with the dash in dash out playstile
As a rakan nothing beats dashing into an advancing ally, knocking up the enemies, charming them with the ult, and fleeing back to the teams safety all in a matter of seconds
Rakan's in-and-out dash playstyle is the most frustrating part about him. Half the roster has no response to his extremely safe engage that is, in the video's words, something you do on autopilot. There is minimal expression here, and I think it was a mistake for Vars to even mention the ally targeting.
the spot where Draven's axe falls isn't just "somewhat" controlable, it's literally a calculation of where Draven will be in 2 seconds if he walks in a straight line, given he isn't standing still
the axes have a max distance they can travel, if you have too much move speed for some reason boots of swiftness you are gonna be to fast for the axes and will have to backstep or wait for them in place
I can never be mad if I die to Xerath's Rite of the Arcane. It's heavily telegraphed, reveals xerath on the map, and is comprised of 3-5 pinpoint skillshots. If I die to that, it's simply because i got outplayed, not because Xerath is an overtuned champion. And honestly, that makes it a lot easier to take mentally because it doesn't feel unfair.
Somehow it feels like, every time I face a Xerath, they hit me no matter what with this. I’m dodging around, nope I get hit at every turn. I walk straight, still hit. Dashes are the only escape. And fog is war doesn’t seem to exist either, they can see me hiding and dodging between towers
When you play a champion who only has skill shots, you get pretty good at predicting dodges. And a lot of shots into Fog of War are intuition. You just have a gut feeling that someone is going to be somewhere when you don't see them.
Kinda weird how a wall literally made out of air is somehow more effective than a giant door designed to be unbreakable. The latter of which is being carried by a champion who's entire thing is supposed to be keeping people safe, whereas Windwall is just on a samurai who's constantly in direct combat.
@@Yimit Yasuo windwall blocks every single ability from every direction that touches the windwall. Braum's door only blocks projectiles from 1 direction so abilities that comes from another direction are not blocked by the door
I find it both satisfying and sad that over half the abilities here are on wardens (counting thresh), probably the least popular and lowest champ count class which really just says a lot about what champs are popular.
Why play a fair champ that requires commitment and skill when you can play yasuo 2 and one shot people across the map? They are too unique that they are obsolete because the easy champs too rewarding
@@yellowishd2907 I'm so confused right now. By "yasuo 2" do you mean yone or yasuo? If you mean yasuo, then how does he oneshot you from across the map and how is he an easy champ? If it's yone then yes, fuck yone
I think Udyr’s e is a well designed ability. It shows you the importance of running fast which is very important if you’re part of your high school track team.
"...giving enemy champions plenty of time to sidestep or dash out of it provided they are not disabled..." So that's why all my teammates get rooted by it
@Poor Quality Gameplay after all he’s my favorite/highest mastery League Champion, i never get bored playing Jhin to the point where i barely ever play other ADCs xD
My 2 propositions are Ekko's W and Janna's Q Ekko's W is a giant ass 1,75sec stun AND a shield, but it's drawn back by the fact that it takes 3 seconds to set up, enemies don't see it, but can move unpredictably because once set the field is stationary, and before ekko enters it he can still be hit, giving it counterplay, but the player can predict where the enemies will be, or use it out of vision to surprise them, giving it skill expression as well. Even if he doesn't hit the enemy with the stun he can still get the shield to survive fights. Janna's Q is a tornado that can knock up a lot of enemies for a lot of time, but the knock up is long only when janna charges the Q, and it gives enemies time to react, but if player predicts the movement or blocks off the escape, then it can still hit. It can be used charged to set up a wombo combo in teamfights or uncharged to peel from something like a warwick chasing you or your teammate. The thing those 2 abilities have in common is that they aren't cheese, are fair to play agains and rewarding to hit
Meh, I don't know about Ekko's W, it's just way too big, like it covers half the lane, it has a ridiculous slow on it, and the shield Ekko gets from it is just a joke, he gets more shield from it than he has HP, now combine that with his R and you got a champion with "2000" HP that is actually like 5000. It could be a good ability, but with it's huge numbers and combined with his R, it's really not. It sounds like a balanced ability until you put it on Ekko
I love Talon"s Q. A target dash (that has damage) or a melee damaging ability that always crits with the auto-attack reset. It´s on the Talon player if he wants the mobility to get to targets, but dealing less damage, or if he wants the full damage (but no mobility)
@@dankmemes8254 The important thing about melee Q isn't the damage boost, although it's pretty significant, it's the auto attack reset and how fast it comes out. That's something i love about talon: he's a pretty simple assassin on the surface and his kit may seem underwhelming, but it's up to you to get the most out of his abilities, you have to use them at lightning speed and in the correct order, and the payoff is one of the highest burst damage in the game, this guy has OCD built into his kit and there's a million rotations you can pull off with him, which fits into his theme of having a shit ton of blades. With his ult he's very dangerous, but without it he's much less of a worry, and thanks to that and his E you're always thinking on how to get in and out, when can i delete someone? I love this guy
Honestly yeah, as an adc it's a little frustrating but actually it's not the q, it's the r that's shittily designed, the q is actually pleasantly refreshing after fighting a qiyanna or fizz or something along those lines.
While technically a passive, it still has ability like functions to it. Kindreds Mark of the Kindred is probably the best designed "infinite" scaling properties. It checks off all your boxes Has multipurpose use. You can use it to set up a gank, fear an enemy into thinking you're gonna gank, and her passive scales with her entire kit. I don't think you could GET more visual clarity with this passive. After activated, you have like 7 seconds before the mark ACTUALLY activates. Not only does the enemy with the mark know they're marked, but so does the ENTIRE enemy team along with your team. Next with wolf marking camps, you have to be in the enemy jungle, the entire enemy team KNOWS where said mark is, and once it's taken, after 15 seconds the mark vanishes which let's the enemies know Kindred just got her mark. I'm a Kindred main so obviously I'm biased but I don't think there's literally anything unfair about this passive. Yeah, if you have like 20 marks, you have a longer auto range than caitlyn, you get like 150% bonus attack speed on q, 20% current health magic damage on W, and like 50% missing health physical damage on E, but honestly to get that many marks takes a shit ton of skill. My highest mark game I've gotten has been 15 but most of my games end at 8-11 marks. Kindred passive should 100% be talked about if you do a part 3.
in fact i think it's a little too nice to the enemy team. removing the feature where the enemies know that you took a marked camp would be nice, they'd need to pay attention to their camps themselves.
I would call Kindred's ultimate a fine example of a good designed ability too. The deaths itself lets you, as lamb herself says, shine once more before a possible end. It affects both allies and enemies equally and so its a fair gamble of whoever gets to strike faster after it ends. Though it may be more efficient with assassins, it still doesnt affect anyone unfairly.
Mundo's reworked E is a godsend to have some way to poke over minions in the laning phase and I was so happy it became a thing, I would consider it a good designed ability, in contrast of his reworked W... You win some and lose some i guess...
I don't like playing galio, but his r is one of the most satisfying abilities to use in league, the zoom out and then fast dash the the area makes it soooo satisfying
I'm going to be contrarian here, but Soraka Q. Soraka *can* just sit back and heal from relative safety (barring assassins), but if she wants to heal them well, and for an extended period, she must hit her Q, which is slower, the further away the enemy is. It's an inherently "The more you risk your life, the better a battery you can be." Meanwhile, if you do manage to land it, it gives you the tools to walk away from the position you've put yourself in. (Again, barring assassins.) And that's before we even start to compare to Yuumi's utterly toxic "gameplay."
@@Tarik. The question was for abilities, not entire kits. Although the kit's still incredibly fair (especially by today's standards, what with having a grand total of 0 dashes). Instant AoE Silence, but that's relatively short range, with virtually no damage, that can be walked out of.
@@The_White You could. And it's not a bad option. Even if people constantly fucking ping you when you build it. (Definitely not speaking from experience.) But you innately will have less powerful heals by simply spending money on Warmogs instead of heal power, and increases the cost per individual heal. In addition to giving you the impression that hitting Q is suddenly less important, because you already have self sustain. (But that's just psychological, and not actually gameplay... well, we say that, but psychology of a player base does determine how they perform.)
@@SangoProductions213 You saying Soraka Warmog isn't an everyday occurence for you? Every Soraka I see buys Moonstone and immideately starts Warmog's. There was even a guy who started Warmog's and bought the upgraded ruby crystal (don't remember the name of it) so Warmog's works. At that point, you damaged the ADC and 2 seconds later they are full HP, it's a won lane at that point.
Some of my favourites are Vel’Koz Q, Viktor R, and Jinx Q. I want to say Sivir’s W but it’s better in theory than implementation (we’ll see how the rework changes that)
@@santumi2298 cant describe how many times Yone did his R, i stepped out of the rectangle and still got treated like i was in, got swooped for his wombo combo.
I like to suggest that Kaisa R is also very well-designed. It can be used offensively, defensively, to gap close, and to gain a small shield. However, as an adc, u don't usually prefer to get in closer range with ur enemies or else u could easily get oneshot. So using it can be very risky if there's assassins or hard cc on the enemy team. Lastly, u can't just use it whenever u want, u need to hit autos/ability from urself or a cc from ur allies. So it's pretty balanced
My favorite play to do with lantern is to throw it behind you as if a teammate is going to take it to countergank, sometimes they get afraid at the bluff and you escape safely, only happens with enemies with certain braincells tho, not too little but not too much.
GP's powder keg its pretty well desing imo, not memeing , its the hardest part about GP with a ton of skill if the player wants to, and gives counterplay since the enemys can target the barrels.
I'd give design props to any ability with a "sweet spot". For example Soraka's Q, or Leona's R both have additional utility for hitting an enemy right in the centre. Landing the ability is fine, but having that "sweet spot" allows for nice skill expression.
I want to give Anivia's ult a spotlight. It's a zoning tool that becomes bigger over time and becomes stronger at full size, also empowering her E. It can be channeled shortly for burst, channeled longer for sustained damage and channeled at chokepoints preemptively to zone enemies.
Love how people are trying to push their boring ass champion in a good light by overdescribing these lame abilities. like anyone would think of anivia ult when thinking about good game design. Its just an easy to use waveclear tool that prolongs games unnecessarily by clogging up midlane
One thing i like about thresh Lantern it is that reminded me an ability from WoW priests called "Leap of Faith" that lets you pull a friedly player on your group to your location, its a really fun mechanic and i think we should have more things that interacts with allies that just with enemies
If we count passives, then I'd nominate Ornn's passive(s). Being capable of building your items on the go is, in my opinion, an ability that, in almost any other champion, would be completely broken, but that is perfectly balanced on him. More importantly though, the part of his passive that makes it possible for him and his teammates to get Masterwork Mythics is my favorite, as it ensures that a good Ornn that plays well will reach it quickly and provide his team with more snowball potential. It even has some skill expression, since you're the one who decides who gets the upgrades, prioritizing whoever would benefit from it the most. Giving these Masterworks is even incentivised by the other part of his passive, that makes him get 10% more value from any items Health, Armor or Magic Resist stats, since he gets an extra 4% for each teammate he's given a Masterwork to, ensuring that he has a good reason to give his upgrades as well as making sure he scales well into late game. Although a bit smaller, even Brittle is, in my opinion, a well designed passive. You can only apply it with you W or your R, and, when consumed, it slightly knocks back your opponent on top of dealing a percentage of the target's maximum health as bonus magic damage. On top of that, it also improves any immobilizing spells by 30%, meaning that you don't need to use it yourself and can, instead, allow a Twisted Fate to Yellow Card them for a longer stun or let a Morgana Q them for a longer root. While Ornn has 4 passives and a lot of passives are usually seen as a sign of an overloaded kit, these are all a balancing act and are why I think that his Passive(s) are part of League's Best Designed Abilities (I had to work it in somewhere).
I love Braum! Such a selfless support character/champion, "stand behind Braum!" Putting yourself in the line of danger, absorbing punishment meant for your carries. Targeted abilities used on those behind the wall will damage Braum instead, and unlike Samira and Yasuo's W, Braum only negates the first spell/attack completely.
Neeko’s W is a unique escape ability that feels balanced to me. She gains bonus movement speed and summons a clone where she can position it. The neeko player has to think in advance where to place the clone and can’t use any other abilities to keep the disguise as well as the movement speed being easy to catch up. There are also some very creative things you can do with this ability such as hiding her E, camouflaging her Ult, and there is even an input to make the clone stay leaving a lot of skill expression.
I always thought about galio's ult less like a shen ult and more like an Anti Nocturne Ult. Its essentially the same. Functionally, noy as much, but essentially the same The are 3 uses between the two.
IMO, hot take but Pyke Q is one of the most balanced hooks, highly telegraphed, and very easy to punish is miss used as you become slower. And it's a set distance, not changed based on range.
It's also relatively slow, unlike some other hook *cough* blitz.. *cough* Yet all my friends complain about it being the easiest hook to land and the most broken hook, even though exactly NONE of them can land a single Pyke hook.
U forget that thresh’s W can also be placed in between tower and the edge of the map so that enemy’s can’t go through it which is very useful if used correctly
One of the few ultimate I think it's quite Well Designed. It had a multitude of uses. Escape, Engage, Follow-up, Cc, And also being Quick essentially. Tho as it says the quickness. You don't need to use your Ult always as an engage. As Rakan's Gimick as he is supposed to be the distraction, eye candy, to the point you can have your team thank you for giving them time to reposition, or an escape if necessary.
An ability id add to this list is taliyah E. It has multiple uses from using it to prevent engages by the enemy, to zoning, to its intended purpose of stunning off W. It has skill expression through how and when you can use it, to chain stun an over aggressive assassin that dodges into it, then restunning them with W into another part of the E.
Rakan's R, simple and clear, game changer but counterable, can be used in many ways, good interaction with all his basic abilities and gain more potential the more players are near him.
I see thresh's lantern in here and as an ex-thresh main I have to say that Thresh has a ridiculously overloaded kit solely because of that one ability.
I mean it's simple but the numbers are there, even his hook, it's not just a pull, it's a stun, a pull, and potentially a dash. His w is a shield, a long range soul collector, and a VOLUNTARY ally pull. his E is an auto enhancer, an airborne/displacement, and a push/pull. The only like mediocre ability is his ult which is just a dashable veigar cage with damage.
@@santumi2298 Just learned that today, first timed support and holy shit the role is easy. Either way though I feel the sheer impact of every thresh ability.
Idk, but i kinda think the new Taliyah’s Q is very good designed. You can now choose for a volley or a burst rock without one clearly being better in every situation. On top of that it is a very unique skill shot.
A question for thought: can draven be considered an infinite scaller? He technicly can oneshot anyone given he has enough stacks, its just harder to mantain those stacks
@@alex2005z Being permanent is in fact a requirement to be a perma stacking champ. Senna, veigar, nasus, swain... all these have it permanently, meaning until the end of the game. Draven loses an amount after dying.
The only time I even came close to hating a Jhin was when I had a bad laning phase and a parasite had attached itself to him so he could one shot the whole team while the cat shit talked like it actually useful. The Jhin played better than me, fair game but the Yuumi genuinely did not even use any ability other than e
Kennen W. Hear me out: Scales with skill --> 5th attack for an extra stack so while trading you can save your e for disengage after using q w wpassive combo, but it gives a visual indicator so your enemy can also spot it. Conditional --> needs to mark enemy with passive for you to actually be able to use the active, which makes it not just a gp q which is also point and click but something you actually need to put yourself in a sort of risk for to use it. Versatile --> can be used as an engage with stun (also again timing 5th auto) and as a somewhat safe poke tool and as a disengage option together with q and e --> q w e into them and away with movement speed. (I really like kennen if you didnt notice, been picking him up as a support) Feels really good when enemy doesnt fully understand the complexity and strength of this ability to just stun them and set up free kills with (again) passive w Same kinda with kennen e, need to choose whether you use it as an engage tool or disengage with it. Also decent energy cost, making it not just a brainless ability but you actually have to think about conserving energy to use this / if you have enough energy to combo after it with w and e I really like kennen (especially support with spellbook)
Kindred R: Similar to Bard ult, can either mess up or save a fight completely. Also, unlike most abilities, can be used by both ally and enemy, thus the real power of this ability (as well as whom it benefits) comes from skill, timing etc. from both teams Evelynn W: Powerful ability with a clear indicator, also an indicator pointing to Evelynn once it's charged up. Can be used as counter-engage tool and given the context of Evelynn's kit it also creates a choice of giving your enemy more time to react compensated by a potentially stronger burst or not to use the ability at all and take the enemy by surprise. Plus, the ability itself begins a mind game between Evelynn and her target, especially in the open, as both sides need to predict where the other will go. It can either give away Evelynn's position and waste her chance of getting a kill or completely obliterating her target.
I love the perspective you take on the videos, and i agree 💯 to this selection. I would actually say, thresh q and w are amazing abilities aswell, rewards u for not last hitting the minions in lane for your adcs, and u sre the one to decide if u engage or disengage.
Ekko W. Massive potential crowd control / slow and shielding, but is very slow to activate and gives opponents a warning if they spot you using the ability and the clone that spawns. You really have to try and predict your opponents movements and they have to predict yours. I never really see people complain about it but maybe cause it’s drowned out by other hated abilities, idk.
Kayle Q and Kogmaw Q. They're both hybrid damage hypercarries, they need some form of shred in their kit because their builds usually can't support taking it. Having it tied to a skillshot means if they hit it, they get to focus fire on something instead of just kiting. You have to decide between maxing q or their on hit ability first, and in some match ups the q is better. And, you get bonuses for leveling it (aside from just increased shred). WIth kog maw its more attack speed, with kayle its a bigger slow.
Yeah, I really thing one of the reasons that she's unpopular is that she's too honest of a champion in a bullshit competition, and the only period she got popular was when the change that she could proc electrocute with her E(and I don't know what happened afterwards).
Darius Q is one of the best designed abilities in league of legends. Wind up gives the opponent time to recognize and counterplay it while also providing Darius outplay potential with Q-flash. Q also requires precision to hit for the fatty 2-3 man heals, so it makes Darius's tankiness conditional on his positioning and timing. My favorite part tho is that you can counterplay Q by getting closer to him. Let's say you are fighting him and he's about to heal and win the fight off that heal. You can dash, flash, or even walk into his inner Q hitbox, dodge the heal and bleed stack, and still be in range to finish him off and win the fight. Honestly makes me feel so big brain when I do that
Saw a comment about Pyke Q. I honestly believe Pyke E is even more fair as an ability. It's got a multitude of uses, it synergizes really well with his kit, while at the same time acts as the greatest bait to his safety. Due to the squishiness of Pyke, miss-use of E can lead to hilarious deaths, but a good Pyke can get so much value out of E, and it synergizes well with Flash/Prowlers and stuff aswell...
Eh I disagree, I think it’s lacking counterplay-wise. While it’s true that a bad Pyke will E in and die that’s 100% dependent on Pyke’s skill level, not the enemy’s. It’s an instant free target dash with cc and can be borderline undodgeable if the Pyke plays well, plus it’s a crazy free escape tool.
the sheer meme of blocking Garen's R with Braum E. i have only seen it happen a single time(as usually the spin damage tick will eat Braum's single Block hit). but man it felt good.
Three abilities I think are well designed: Veigar ult - yes, it's kind of a feel bad when it gets turned against you and you're just deleted but the thing is, his entire kit is skillshots and the damage scaling mostly comes from how low you are. I think it's like a good 'reward' for managing to hit all your skillshots and it gives the enemy player the ability to, well, dodge them, ya know? Tahm Kench ult - there's so much utility in the ult, especially combined with his little dash-leap-thingy. Stealing an enemy and taking them under your turret or into your team, removing the enemy carry from a fight for a few seconds, saving one of your teammates...it's super neat. Nidalee's human Q - it's a super high damage projectile but it's got a really thin hit box and can't do any aoe damage. It's really reliant on the jungler's ability to use walls and fog of war to aim well but still dodgeable, plus the damage scaling over distance rewards riskier throws.
Death sentence, it honestly feels overpowered sometimes. Perfect amount of mind game, perfect range and enough bullshit in it of itself to make it Thresh's signature ability.
I'd say the whole Gragas kit is dope. Abilities quite simple on its own, yet when you start combing more and more... it quickly escalates in difficulty, up to his full combo, where you'll need some degree in trigonometry many of Vel'koz mains don't have and precision not many of Camille mains can show off.
Janna's tornado prebuff is one of the best abilities in the game. Really rewarding aoe cc to land but with the caviat that is delayed or with the bonus it is delayed. Bard's E is really good design. Fiora W (unfortunately not applicable to the rest of the kit). Gnar kit as a whole but especially his e and w. Jhin R, nami's W.
I suggested Fiora's current W when she was going to get reworked! (I don't think I would've suggested it today. Even though I still think the old one was problematic, the suggestion I made was very heavily influenced by my experience with League at the time.)
@@pebblebrowser I make double the enemies by both offending those who dislike it by informing them it's my fault, and also offending those who like it by saying that I wouldn't suggest it now.
I know this is biased beyond belief, but I think Kai’sa’s E is well designed. You can get like 50% bonus attack speed, along with a burst of move speed, but that comes at the expense of effectively Teemo darting yourself for a second or so. Yes, it can be evolved to give invisibility during the charge up, but you have to build specifically to get it, reducing your ability to get other stats. Also, it has ways to be used incorrectly. If you charge in preemptively, you can find yourself vulnerable to attacks. If you use it to create distance, you risk letting your target escape given you already used your ult. But if you correctly move around with it, you get rewarded by getting a ton of attack speed to gun down the enemy team. Speaking of her ult, that also has a lot of uses along with potential for misplays. If used at the right time, it’s an excellent gap closer that also gives a shield. It can also be used to quickly reverse direction by ulting behind your chaser and moving the other way. Or you can just use it for the shield, giving you a short term combat advantage at the cost of using on of your best forms of mobility. And, of course, any Kai’sa main knows how it feels to ult after someone only the dash into the other four members of their team. Again, I know I’m very biased, but I hope some of you agree with me on my points. Thank you for listening to my TED talk.
About Kai'sa's ult: I really like the mobility it offers, and that you (or an ally) need to hit an enemy (with CC if it's an ally) before you're allowed to use it.
I dissagree on the grounds that gaining movement speed is not a downside, especially on a unlocked camera. Is more combat mobility that alows you to dodge more, and using it poorly this bringing yourself to a worse situation is more of a lack of judgement that all of the champs are bound to have. On the invis thing, you have to build towards it yes, BUT you still want the items, it would be a valid downside if it required armor or lethality even, sience kaisa is a marksman and by default she wants attack speed making it a requirement doesnt act as a downside. The same as k6 evolutions sience yes, you have to spend one skillpoint on the ult to unlock the evolution but, you were gonna do that anyways.
@@YanYanicantbelievethistakenffs Well, locking yourself out of attacking while the E charges up is a very skill expressive ability, that also doesn't feel like bs to play against, and you have ample time to react to the fact that Kai'sa is about to deal a burst of damage. I'd say this makes it a well designed ability.
@@YanYanicantbelievethistakenffs the attack speed part makes sense. For the part about an unlocked camera, I actually play the Wild Rift version, so the camera is locked by default. The other principals still apply though.
Before they reworked Irelia, Flawless Duet (Irelia's E) was one of the most well designed and fun to use abilities Riot has ever made. It took a skill to use it. Sometimes it was really hard to hit it, but if you hit somebody with that it was so satisfying and rewarding. Now after her rework not only is Irelia completely braindead, but her E is also stupidly easy to use and it doesn't feel satisfying to hit it anymore.
you mean back when you were basically guaranteed to hit E by using it near you so its instant as opposed to now where its very hard to hit because the cast time is always the same? ok
Zeri q. Easily one of the best qs/main forms of damage from an adc. It’s like ezreal where it makes all of her damage a skill check on whether you can land it. But the damage output and scaling is amazing if you get consistent but you also have to account for the fact that your a squishy scaling adc so if you to trigger happy to chase down your opponent you might end up dead. I feel like the ability perfectly encapsulates her “ramp up” game philosophy while also being easily the most fun abilities to use in the game.
I always thought Ezreals old W was really cool. It was a skillshot that would buff your allies attack speed, and the only way you could benefit was if you E'd in its path right after shooting it. Gave you the option to burn your E to make yourself more dangerous. The problem with this ability was that intuitively it looked like another damaging skillshot. They coulda redid the graphics to more clearly communicate that it was a buff.
1.Shacos W, use it to stop ganks, to starts ganks, place on ally when chased so they can escape, place in front of enemy to catch them, place infront of you to escape 2.Aatrox E, its just perfect for his playstyle 3.Ammumu W, can't explain its just good 4.Nunus W, makes for perfect ganks but it's risky, unlike heca E 5.Azir E, it makes for high risk high reward plays and it flows good with his kit
i just wanna take a moment to appreciate the editing and the calming tone of your vids. I always watch them before bed and they help me wind down, even when u rightfully rant about yone. (fuck yone)
I think shen’s q deserves credit for best designed abilities, given the sword pull is not only the source of his damage but also his w to protect him and his allies. It’s possible to get the most value out of offense and defense with the sword put usually you are choosing between focusing on getting the empowered blade from the pull or timing the blade barrier. Aiming the sword pull to hit enemies is a minigame all it’s own and core to shen’s strength and his other abilities emphasize around the importance of his sword, E can be used to position for a sword pull and r does the same on a global scale for a r into w on arrival.
Thresh's abilities are very brilliant and simple, but not everyone knows how to get advantage of them, but I unlocked the full potential of Daddy Thresh in Wild Rift, even someone called me a hacker for how precise my hooks are XD
I HATE thrill of the hunt. Them being able to know about their imminent death doesn't help them. Rengar can come from any direction and kill any squishy target in a single hit. However, this might just be a problem with rengar's q.
I think Evelynns E is a very well designed ability. You basically give up the surprise factor of your passive to have more damage + cc, or you use it for a slow mid combo to keep your surprise factor, but in both cases you leave the enemy options. The skill expression is in figuring out what options are more in your favor. While it feels super fair to play against.
Not to mention how the empowered version is super useful for clearing camps and both the non-empowered and empowered versions will give her a burst of movement speed for both engaging more aggressively and disengaging.
Anivia's wall. Much like Bard's ult, it can be used for a variety of applications and has the potential to screw over your own team just as bad as your opponents. It's up to the the player's imagination and skill to make the best use of it, and it's one of the major differences between good and bad Anivia players.
Strawpoll for Part 3: strawpoll.com/polls/B2ZB378DLyJ
You forgot ivern's q for "ally pull" abilities, if you were talking about granting allies a dash that's not specifically to yourself
Could you please credit your music source?
Nice FETH ost
Can you tell your editor thanks for the fire emblem music in the videos?
@Vars please read my comment about Ziggs Satchel Charge. It is a very power ability with so much versatility I consider it the best utility skill in the game.
Bard’s portal. You never force anyone to use it, both allies an enemies can use it. There’s always a warning before you portal into a lane while roaming
The most fun ability in the game for both teams!
Absolutely
Bard's ult as well. Bard's entire kit is well designed tbh
@@alex2005z trueeee
all of Bard honestly
Vars. What you just said. Is the absolute truth. No one else can explain my Q better than that. 500 adoration stacks for Brother Vars.
I found you, after 10 years of searching through the comments.
Huh that's weird I didn't see any of Yones abilities in here, after all he is league best designed champ
Varus’ demencia kicked in lmao
So you choose death...
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I guess there’s no point in pointing out the obvious
He's saving all of them for the third episode.
Cassiopeia's Passive. She can't wear boots because of her snake tail. Unlike her poorly designed counterpart, NAMI
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One of the worse designs if u ask me like aleast 30 other champions shouldnt use boots too then
you're right, they should fix that.
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thank goodness, that super minion very nearly crushed that adorable little creature
lol how did you even spot that
* gets trampled by the minions behind the super minion
@@pubfriendthegreat1259 NOOOOOOOO
They should make wind wall have health like reinhardt shield, and be clickable, so i can focus the wind wall and stay safe
Or at least give it the Braum treatment where it isn't erased, just harshly reduce the damage of anything that goes trough it(and if you want to keep it broken but not that much, maybe any CC that passes trough it has it duration shortened too).
but then how much health would it have? if it can sustain 4s, nothing changed, if it gets deleted on 1s, it's useless.
making it like braum's E would be the better way.
@@alucard5841 1s is plenty in this day and age
@@jakesghost5267 If it's gonna be a Wind wall for 1s, why not make It Just a zhonya's instead.
@@alucard5841 because then it doesn't protect the whole enemy team and it would freeze you which if you didn't know wind wall doesn't do
Here's a cool fact about Galio's ult Animation: When casting his ultimate normally you mostly see him smashing the ground with his fist. But that animation only plays if Galio isnt in his ult circle. If Galio is in his ult circle than he smashes the ground with his two feet. This was something I only realised when I started playing Galio on Wild Rift and was kinda shocked when I saw that it is also in League considering that even tho he wasnt my main he was still a champ I played a lot to counter mages........ Okay one more. Galio starts auto attacking the Enemy Champ he hits with his E no matter what if you dont cancel it with another thing like walking. It is useful too since after E'ing auto attacking the champ you hit to use your enhanced auto is mostly the best thing you can do after E'ing.
I one tricked galio in season 8 and 9 and i found it out like 2 months ago. Man how did i miss this
What do you mean by “isn’t in his ult circle”? I thought he always lands in the middle of his ult circle.
@@asuhdude3510 he means the startup.
@@hamdepaf6686 you mean if he ulted on top of himself ?
@@akunpalsu3949 not himself but someone close enough so that Galio starts in the circle where he lands
I gotta say I'm sad you didn't bring up rakans dash when you were talking about ally dashes, I think all the targeted ally dashes are so well designed for their individual Champs. Rakans is basically Lee sin but he also gets to cast it twice letting him play with the dash in dash out playstile
As a rakan nothing beats dashing into an advancing ally, knocking up the enemies, charming them with the ult, and fleeing back to the teams safety all in a matter of seconds
It also funny when people are chasing you and you just dash behind your teammates twice
All ally dash is well design.
Yummis w: i am joke?
Rakan's in-and-out dash playstyle is the most frustrating part about him. Half the roster has no response to his extremely safe engage that is, in the video's words, something you do on autopilot. There is minimal expression here, and I think it was a mistake for Vars to even mention the ally targeting.
@@warudobaby5625 Unironically Yuumi's W as a dash is incredibly well designed. It's only the tether aspect that is broken af
the spot where Draven's axe falls isn't just "somewhat" controlable, it's literally a calculation of where Draven will be in 2 seconds if he walks in a straight line, given he isn't standing still
Yes good Draven can easily control it, but sometimes may appear a "wild card axe"
@@Pigraider268 Tends to happen when you're right clicking 1million/s during teamfights
@@Pigraider268 sometimes surely is a understatement and a half
the axes have a max distance they can travel, if you have too much move speed for some reason boots of swiftness you are gonna be to fast for the axes and will have to backstep or wait for them in place
I can never be mad if I die to Xerath's Rite of the Arcane.
It's heavily telegraphed, reveals xerath on the map, and is comprised of 3-5 pinpoint skillshots.
If I die to that, it's simply because i got outplayed, not because Xerath is an overtuned champion.
And honestly, that makes it a lot easier to take mentally because it doesn't feel unfair.
League is the only game where when you die you say what a broken piece of shit Character instead of how I could have played this better
I won't say it's the only game that happens, but it's certainly pretty well known for it
Somehow it feels like, every time I face a Xerath, they hit me no matter what with this. I’m dodging around, nope I get hit at every turn. I walk straight, still hit. Dashes are the only escape. And fog is war doesn’t seem to exist either, they can see me hiding and dodging between towers
When you play a champion who only has skill shots, you get pretty good at predicting dodges.
And a lot of shots into Fog of War are intuition. You just have a gut feeling that someone is going to be somewhere when you don't see them.
@@siegfried1422 mhmm sure
Maybe you could do also a video about the balance of late and early game, how champions that peak on different stages of the game are balanced.
interesting topic hope he'll see it
Yone :)
Kinda weird how a wall literally made out of air is somehow more effective than a giant door designed to be unbreakable. The latter of which is being carried by a champion who's entire thing is supposed to be keeping people safe, whereas Windwall is just on a samurai who's constantly in direct combat.
Who wins? An elemental summoned by a smithing demigod who forges the best weapons, or a Wall made of wind
Yasuos wind wall is stationary braums moves
@@Yimit Yasuo windwall blocks every single ability from every direction that touches the windwall. Braum's door only blocks projectiles from 1 direction so abilities that comes from another direction are not blocked by the door
I find it both satisfying and sad that over half the abilities here are on wardens (counting thresh), probably the least popular and lowest champ count class which really just says a lot about what champs are popular.
Why play a fair champ that requires commitment and skill when you can play yasuo 2 and one shot people across the map? They are too unique that they are obsolete because the easy champs too rewarding
@@yellowishd2907 I'm so confused right now. By "yasuo 2" do you mean yone or yasuo? If you mean yasuo, then how does he oneshot you from across the map and how is he an easy champ? If it's yone then yes, fuck yone
thresh is the most popular support though isnt he?
@@jaygged6472 Most popular support is Lulu
I think Udyr’s e is a well designed ability. It shows you the importance of running fast which is very important if you’re part of your high school track team.
"...giving enemy champions plenty of time to sidestep or dash out of it provided they are not disabled..." So that's why all my teammates get rooted by it
I'm a Dota player, not a League player, but I absolutely adore Braum's design. Simple yet synergistic abilities, a rare combination in LoL.
What I like about Orianna's ultimate is aside from engaging, you can also disengage with it depending on where you put your ball
I would say the 5 best designed abilities in the game are, in this order: Jhin passive, Jhin W, Jhin R, Jhin Q and Jhin E. Thank you for listening
Shouldn't it be 4? Cause for me the passive isn't an ability since it is a passive so it doesn't count. And because it's Jhin, it should be 4!
I agree, Jhin is the best designed ADC, Riot has not topped him…. I’m obviously not biased :)
@Poor Quality Gameplay after all he’s my favorite/highest mastery League Champion, i never get bored playing Jhin to the point where i barely ever play other ADCs xD
you have to remove one of those, it's illegal to talk about jhin in fives
*Jhin in his way to remove his E so he can have true perfectiom*
There's no doubt that the best ability is Blitzcrank's W, which speeds him up then slows him down. Balanced, as all things should be.
My 2 propositions are Ekko's W and Janna's Q
Ekko's W is a giant ass 1,75sec stun AND a shield, but it's drawn back by the fact that it takes 3 seconds to set up, enemies don't see it, but can move unpredictably because once set the field is stationary, and before ekko enters it he can still be hit, giving it counterplay, but the player can predict where the enemies will be, or use it out of vision to surprise them, giving it skill expression as well. Even if he doesn't hit the enemy with the stun he can still get the shield to survive fights.
Janna's Q is a tornado that can knock up a lot of enemies for a lot of time, but the knock up is long only when janna charges the Q, and it gives enemies time to react, but if player predicts the movement or blocks off the escape, then it can still hit. It can be used charged to set up a wombo combo in teamfights or uncharged to peel from something like a warwick chasing you or your teammate.
The thing those 2 abilities have in common is that they aren't cheese, are fair to play agains and rewarding to hit
Meh, I don't know about Ekko's W, it's just way too big, like it covers half the lane, it has a ridiculous slow on it, and the shield Ekko gets from it is just a joke, he gets more shield from it than he has HP, now combine that with his R and you got a champion with "2000" HP that is actually like 5000. It could be a good ability, but with it's huge numbers and combined with his R, it's really not. It sounds like a balanced ability until you put it on Ekko
@@The_White nah it is rlly hard in practice
@@Jesus.christ.your.bro. assassin shouldn't have aoe stuns
@@lightningterror8931 why? It's ekkos only skill expression
@@Jesus.christ.your.bro. ult...?
I love Talon"s Q. A target dash (that has damage) or a melee damaging ability that always crits with the auto-attack reset. It´s on the Talon player if he wants the mobility to get to targets, but dealing less damage, or if he wants the full damage (but no mobility)
i love that type of ability that by design make your champ able to snowball or make u weak if behind because its designed by property and not number
If iam gonna be honest I used to 1 trick talon and dash q still deals a respectable damage
@@dankmemes8254 it does damage, but it rewards you if you can use melee Q since it does way more
@@dankmemes8254 The important thing about melee Q isn't the damage boost, although it's pretty significant, it's the auto attack reset and how fast it comes out. That's something i love about talon: he's a pretty simple assassin on the surface and his kit may seem underwhelming, but it's up to you to get the most out of his abilities, you have to use them at lightning speed and in the correct order, and the payoff is one of the highest burst damage in the game, this guy has OCD built into his kit and there's a million rotations you can pull off with him, which fits into his theme of having a shit ton of blades. With his ult he's very dangerous, but without it he's much less of a worry, and thanks to that and his E you're always thinking on how to get in and out, when can i delete someone? I love this guy
Honestly yeah, as an adc it's a little frustrating but actually it's not the q, it's the r that's shittily designed, the q is actually pleasantly refreshing after fighting a qiyanna or fizz or something along those lines.
While technically a passive, it still has ability like functions to it.
Kindreds Mark of the Kindred is probably the best designed "infinite" scaling properties. It checks off all your boxes
Has multipurpose use. You can use it to set up a gank, fear an enemy into thinking you're gonna gank, and her passive scales with her entire kit.
I don't think you could GET more visual clarity with this passive. After activated, you have like 7 seconds before the mark ACTUALLY activates. Not only does the enemy with the mark know they're marked, but so does the ENTIRE enemy team along with your team. Next with wolf marking camps, you have to be in the enemy jungle, the entire enemy team KNOWS where said mark is, and once it's taken, after 15 seconds the mark vanishes which let's the enemies know Kindred just got her mark.
I'm a Kindred main so obviously I'm biased but I don't think there's literally anything unfair about this passive. Yeah, if you have like 20 marks, you have a longer auto range than caitlyn, you get like 150% bonus attack speed on q, 20% current health magic damage on W, and like 50% missing health physical damage on E, but honestly to get that many marks takes a shit ton of skill. My highest mark game I've gotten has been 15 but most of my games end at 8-11 marks.
Kindred passive should 100% be talked about if you do a part 3.
in fact i think it's a little too nice to the enemy team.
removing the feature where the enemies know that you took a marked camp would be nice, they'd need to pay attention to their camps themselves.
@@cleenash i would say kindred would be perfectly designed if it weren t for her ultimate
I would call Kindred's ultimate a fine example of a good designed ability too. The deaths itself lets you, as lamb herself says, shine once more before a possible end. It affects both allies and enemies equally and so its a fair gamble of whoever gets to strike faster after it ends. Though it may be more efficient with assassins, it still doesnt affect anyone unfairly.
Mundo's reworked E is a godsend to have some way to poke over minions in the laning phase and I was so happy it became a thing, I would consider it a good designed ability, in contrast of his reworked W... You win some and lose some i guess...
11:03 Katarina has ally targeted mobility with her E, however it is a blink and not a dash. However I believe Yuumi would count?
yeah but those aren't ally pull abilities dark passage is the only ability that brings an ally to you unless you count kalista ult
@@Onefishygal Vars was talking about Lee sin W and Braum W, being a dash to allys
everyone is forgetting Rakan E....
@@Cheasle2 sadly yes :(
yesss! i've been waiting for a part 2! great job on the video though
I don't like playing galio, but his r is one of the most satisfying abilities to use in league, the zoom out and then fast dash the the area makes it soooo satisfying
I'm going to be contrarian here, but Soraka Q. Soraka *can* just sit back and heal from relative safety (barring assassins), but if she wants to heal them well, and for an extended period, she must hit her Q, which is slower, the further away the enemy is. It's an inherently "The more you risk your life, the better a battery you can be." Meanwhile, if you do manage to land it, it gives you the tools to walk away from the position you've put yourself in. (Again, barring assassins.)
And that's before we even start to compare to Yuumi's utterly toxic "gameplay."
And on the contrary we have her E, insta cast cancer with aoe silence xd
@@Tarik. The question was for abilities, not entire kits. Although the kit's still incredibly fair (especially by today's standards, what with having a grand total of 0 dashes). Instant AoE Silence, but that's relatively short range, with virtually no damage, that can be walked out of.
Ooooor.... you could buy Warmog's. Same result, less effort. I still, to this day don't understand why Soraka's W doesn't stop Warmog's.
@@The_White You could. And it's not a bad option. Even if people constantly fucking ping you when you build it. (Definitely not speaking from experience.)
But you innately will have less powerful heals by simply spending money on Warmogs instead of heal power, and increases the cost per individual heal. In addition to giving you the impression that hitting Q is suddenly less important, because you already have self sustain. (But that's just psychological, and not actually gameplay... well, we say that, but psychology of a player base does determine how they perform.)
@@SangoProductions213 You saying Soraka Warmog isn't an everyday occurence for you? Every Soraka I see buys Moonstone and immideately starts Warmog's. There was even a guy who started Warmog's and bought the upgraded ruby crystal (don't remember the name of it) so Warmog's works. At that point, you damaged the ADC and 2 seconds later they are full HP, it's a won lane at that point.
Some of my favourites are Vel’Koz Q, Viktor R, and Jinx Q. I want to say Sivir’s W but it’s better in theory than implementation (we’ll see how the rework changes that)
Wheres draven draven's comment
It feels good to see your mains on a video of well designed abilities. Thresh, Jhin and Orianna. ✨
Ahh yes, my favourite League gamedesign ASMR
Man, can we agree that the hitbox of Yone's R is also missleading ?
Misleading? No, you know it hits you even when you are across the lame from it. The visual line is just your imagination playing tricks on you
what? Of all the complaints about Yone this is a new one, his ult hitbox feels great actually.
@@santumi2298 cant describe how many times Yone did his R, i stepped out of the rectangle and still got treated like i was in, got swooped for his wombo combo.
I like to suggest that Kaisa R is also very well-designed. It can be used offensively, defensively, to gap close, and to gain a small shield. However, as an adc, u don't usually prefer to get in closer range with ur enemies or else u could easily get oneshot. So using it can be very risky if there's assassins or hard cc on the enemy team. Lastly, u can't just use it whenever u want, u need to hit autos/ability from urself or a cc from ur allies. So it's pretty balanced
My favorite play to do with lantern is to throw it behind you as if a teammate is going to take it to countergank, sometimes they get afraid at the bluff and you escape safely, only happens with enemies with certain braincells tho, not too little but not too much.
GP's powder keg its pretty well desing imo, not memeing , its the hardest part about GP with a ton of skill if the player wants to, and gives counterplay since the enemys can target the barrels.
I agree, the design is good, but the damage…
I'd give design props to any ability with a "sweet spot". For example Soraka's Q, or Leona's R both have additional utility for hitting an enemy right in the centre. Landing the ability is fine, but having that "sweet spot" allows for nice skill expression.
I want to give Anivia's ult a spotlight. It's a zoning tool that becomes bigger over time and becomes stronger at full size, also empowering her E. It can be channeled shortly for burst, channeled longer for sustained damage and channeled at chokepoints preemptively to zone enemies.
No
Love how people are trying to push their boring ass champion in a good light by overdescribing these lame abilities. like anyone would think of anivia ult when thinking about good game design. Its just an easy to use waveclear tool that prolongs games unnecessarily by clogging up midlane
One thing i like about thresh Lantern it is that reminded me an ability from WoW priests called "Leap of Faith" that lets you pull a friedly player on your group to your location, its a really fun mechanic and i think we should have more things that interacts with allies that just with enemies
@Neko Rosaria tilted kench joins the chat
sounds like the ability a character in paragon had where she could tether you and yank you back to her
@Neko Rosaria Yeah, guess we can never have true supports or tanks because of trolls
@@alpro9904 I miss Paragon. It's coming back (sort of) as Overprime though, since Epic released all the assets for free.
If we count passives, then I'd nominate Ornn's passive(s). Being capable of building your items on the go is, in my opinion, an ability that, in almost any other champion, would be completely broken, but that is perfectly balanced on him.
More importantly though, the part of his passive that makes it possible for him and his teammates to get Masterwork Mythics is my favorite, as it ensures that a good Ornn that plays well will reach it quickly and provide his team with more snowball potential. It even has some skill expression, since you're the one who decides who gets the upgrades, prioritizing whoever would benefit from it the most. Giving these Masterworks is even incentivised by the other part of his passive, that makes him get 10% more value from any items Health, Armor or Magic Resist stats, since he gets an extra 4% for each teammate he's given a Masterwork to, ensuring that he has a good reason to give his upgrades as well as making sure he scales well into late game.
Although a bit smaller, even Brittle is, in my opinion, a well designed passive. You can only apply it with you W or your R, and, when consumed, it slightly knocks back your opponent on top of dealing a percentage of the target's maximum health as bonus magic damage. On top of that, it also improves any immobilizing spells by 30%, meaning that you don't need to use it yourself and can, instead, allow a Twisted Fate to Yellow Card them for a longer stun or let a Morgana Q them for a longer root.
While Ornn has 4 passives and a lot of passives are usually seen as a sign of an overloaded kit, these are all a balancing act and are why I think that his Passive(s) are part of League's Best Designed Abilities (I had to work it in somewhere).
I love Braum!
Such a selfless support character/champion, "stand behind Braum!"
Putting yourself in the line of danger, absorbing punishment meant for your carries. Targeted abilities used on those behind the wall will damage Braum instead, and unlike Samira and Yasuo's W, Braum only negates the first spell/attack completely.
Especially with frost gullet, gigantic Bram is my favourite when a head
Neeko’s W is a unique escape ability that feels balanced to me. She gains bonus movement speed and summons a clone where she can position it. The neeko player has to think in advance where to place the clone and can’t use any other abilities to keep the disguise as well as the movement speed being easy to catch up. There are also some very creative things you can do with this ability such as hiding her E, camouflaging her Ult, and there is even an input to make the clone stay leaving a lot of skill expression.
I always thought about galio's ult less like a shen ult and more like an Anti Nocturne Ult.
Its essentially the same. Functionally, noy as much, but essentially the same
The are 3 uses between the two.
Now we wait for part 3 where he shows us Thresh's E.
When I saw Thresh’s lantern in the thumbnail, I was instantly like ‘yeah that’s a perfect ability’. Just wish my allies knew that
for a newer champ i think that renata's Q is a really well designed ability
Kled's q is pretty good, it fits what he wants to do and his theme while also giving the enemy a way to negate most of the damage if played right.
IMO, hot take but Pyke Q is one of the most balanced hooks, highly telegraphed, and very easy to punish is miss used as you become slower. And it's a set distance, not changed based on range.
It's also relatively slow, unlike some other hook *cough* blitz.. *cough* Yet all my friends complain about it being the easiest hook to land and the most broken hook, even though exactly NONE of them can land a single Pyke hook.
The move itself isn't bad the issue is that you can cast it from invisibility.
@@happycamperds9917 You mean from brush, pyke leaves camouflage if he charges his Q
@@The_White probably think its easier since the cooldown is so low and you can basically spam it compared to a blitz hook
@@Vitusdex If they meant brush then uhh.... every ability can be cast from a bush so it's dumb
U forget that thresh’s W can also be placed in between tower and the edge of the map so that enemy’s can’t go through it which is very useful if used correctly
One of the few ultimate I think it's quite Well Designed. It had a multitude of uses. Escape, Engage, Follow-up, Cc, And also being Quick essentially. Tho as it says the quickness. You don't need to use your Ult always as an engage. As Rakan's Gimick as he is supposed to be the distraction, eye candy, to the point you can have your team thank you for giving them time to reposition, or an escape if necessary.
Evelynn's W is actually pretty well designed but we still hate her
The ability even tells you where she is when the little heart is filled.
An ability id add to this list is taliyah E. It has multiple uses from using it to prevent engages by the enemy, to zoning, to its intended purpose of stunning off W. It has skill expression through how and when you can use it, to chain stun an over aggressive assassin that dodges into it, then restunning them with W into another part of the E.
Rakan's R, simple and clear, game changer but counterable, can be used in many ways, good interaction with all his basic abilities and gain more potential the more players are near him.
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I see thresh's lantern in here and as an ex-thresh main I have to say that Thresh has a ridiculously overloaded kit solely because of that one ability.
I mean it's simple but the numbers are there, even his hook, it's not just a pull, it's a stun, a pull, and potentially a dash.
His w is a shield, a long range soul collector, and a VOLUNTARY ally pull.
his E is an auto enhancer, an airborne/displacement, and a push/pull.
The only like mediocre ability is his ult which is just a dashable veigar cage with damage.
Which is balanced with the fact that you have to play the game with teanmates
@@azse8524 tbf thresh's cage can take about half the HP of an ADC if you hit 2 walls with it
@@santumi2298 Just learned that today, first timed support and holy shit the role is easy. Either way though I feel the sheer impact of every thresh ability.
@@ethanstyant9704 Balanced by luck based matchmaking
Idk, but i kinda think the new Taliyah’s Q is very good designed. You can now choose for a volley or a burst rock without one clearly being better in every situation. On top of that it is a very unique skill shot.
A question for thought: can draven be considered an infinite scaller? He technicly can oneshot anyone given he has enough stacks, its just harder to mantain those stacks
Infinite scaler implies that the stat they gained is permanent so in draven case, no.
@@deadrixhanon1776 its not permanent, but it does scale infinitely, so by definition it is. Being permanent isnt a requirement
@Nix Seth technicly yes is all I need
@@alex2005z Being permanent is in fact a requirement to be a perma stacking champ. Senna, veigar, nasus, swain... all these have it permanently, meaning until the end of the game. Draven loses an amount after dying.
it's crazy how well designed braums shield was only for them to put a less balanced version on pantheon, yas and samira
aight, I agree on the yas and samira, but don't you dare compare thiere bullshit waftwalls with pantheon Aegis assault or amma throw hands.
Tbh, the whole Jhin kit should be included
That champion is so well and beautifully designed
The only time I even came close to hating a Jhin was when I had a bad laning phase and a parasite had attached itself to him so he could one shot the whole team while the cat shit talked like it actually useful.
The Jhin played better than me, fair game but the Yuumi genuinely did not even use any ability other than e
Nah
There is no way you think Rengar's ultimate is one of the best abilities in the game.
Kennen W. Hear me out:
Scales with skill --> 5th attack for an extra stack so while trading you can save your e for disengage after using q w wpassive combo, but it gives a visual indicator so your enemy can also spot it.
Conditional --> needs to mark enemy with passive for you to actually be able to use the active, which makes it not just a gp q which is also point and click but something you actually need to put yourself in a sort of risk for to use it.
Versatile --> can be used as an engage with stun (also again timing 5th auto) and as a somewhat safe poke tool and as a disengage option together with q and e --> q w e into them and away with movement speed.
(I really like kennen if you didnt notice, been picking him up as a support)
Feels really good when enemy doesnt fully understand the complexity and strength of this ability to just stun them and set up free kills with (again) passive w
Same kinda with kennen e, need to choose whether you use it as an engage tool or disengage with it. Also decent energy cost, making it not just a brainless ability but you actually have to think about conserving energy to use this / if you have enough energy to combo after it with w and e
I really like kennen (especially support with spellbook)
dude your choice in music is sooooo good! was not expecting to here gravity rush 2 ost
“It’s more fun to complain than it is to talk about good stuff” is the perfect description of the League of Legends player base.
Kindred R: Similar to Bard ult, can either mess up or save a fight completely. Also, unlike most abilities, can be used by both ally and enemy, thus the real power of this ability (as well as whom it benefits) comes from skill, timing etc. from both teams
Evelynn W: Powerful ability with a clear indicator, also an indicator pointing to Evelynn once it's charged up. Can be used as counter-engage tool and given the context of Evelynn's kit it also creates a choice of giving your enemy more time to react compensated by a potentially stronger burst or not to use the ability at all and take the enemy by surprise. Plus, the ability itself begins a mind game between Evelynn and her target, especially in the open, as both sides need to predict where the other will go. It can either give away Evelynn's position and waste her chance of getting a kill or completely obliterating her target.
I love the perspective you take on the videos, and i agree 💯 to this selection.
I would actually say, thresh q and w are amazing abilities aswell, rewards u for not last hitting the minions in lane for your adcs, and u sre the one to decide if u engage or disengage.
Ekko W. Massive potential crowd control / slow and shielding, but is very slow to activate and gives opponents a warning if they spot you using the ability and the clone that spawns. You really have to try and predict your opponents movements and they have to predict yours.
I never really see people complain about it but maybe cause it’s drowned out by other hated abilities, idk.
Kayle Q and Kogmaw Q.
They're both hybrid damage hypercarries, they need some form of shred in their kit because their builds usually can't support taking it.
Having it tied to a skillshot means if they hit it, they get to focus fire on something instead of just kiting.
You have to decide between maxing q or their on hit ability first, and in some match ups the q is better.
And, you get bonuses for leveling it (aside from just increased shred). WIth kog maw its more attack speed, with kayle its a bigger slow.
I think Namis Ebb and Flow (her W) is one of the best abilities in the game its great I love nami lol
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Yeah, I really thing one of the reasons that she's unpopular is that she's too honest of a champion in a bullshit competition, and the only period she got popular was when the change that she could proc electrocute with her E(and I don't know what happened afterwards).
@@franconunez925 lucian nami became retardedly op lol
First Octopath and now Three Houses music. Great taste!
Darius Q is one of the best designed abilities in league of legends. Wind up gives the opponent time to recognize and counterplay it while also providing Darius outplay potential with Q-flash. Q also requires precision to hit for the fatty 2-3 man heals, so it makes Darius's tankiness conditional on his positioning and timing. My favorite part tho is that you can counterplay Q by getting closer to him. Let's say you are fighting him and he's about to heal and win the fight off that heal. You can dash, flash, or even walk into his inner Q hitbox, dodge the heal and bleed stack, and still be in range to finish him off and win the fight. Honestly makes me feel so big brain when I do that
Saw a comment about Pyke Q. I honestly believe Pyke E is even more fair as an ability. It's got a multitude of uses, it synergizes really well with his kit, while at the same time acts as the greatest bait to his safety. Due to the squishiness of Pyke, miss-use of E can lead to hilarious deaths, but a good Pyke can get so much value out of E, and it synergizes well with Flash/Prowlers and stuff aswell...
Eh I disagree, I think it’s lacking counterplay-wise. While it’s true that a bad Pyke will E in and die that’s 100% dependent on Pyke’s skill level, not the enemy’s. It’s an instant free target dash with cc and can be borderline undodgeable if the Pyke plays well, plus it’s a crazy free escape tool.
Riot should swap the dmg redux of yasuo wind wall an braum "unbreakable" ice block since his weapon is a shield, it makes for him to block more.
Blitzcranck's Q should be able to hook allies
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W shouldn’t slow himself too
No. I don't want him to troll my engage
"dark passage is the only ally pull type ability"
kalista: am i a joke to u?
the sheer meme of blocking Garen's R with Braum E.
i have only seen it happen a single time(as usually the spin damage tick will eat Braum's single Block hit). but man it felt good.
Velkoz q and pantheon q are two great abilities that share their skill expression
love the fire emblem ost in the background of so many of your videos
Three abilities I think are well designed:
Veigar ult - yes, it's kind of a feel bad when it gets turned against you and you're just deleted but the thing is, his entire kit is skillshots and the damage scaling mostly comes from how low you are. I think it's like a good 'reward' for managing to hit all your skillshots and it gives the enemy player the ability to, well, dodge them, ya know?
Tahm Kench ult - there's so much utility in the ult, especially combined with his little dash-leap-thingy. Stealing an enemy and taking them under your turret or into your team, removing the enemy carry from a fight for a few seconds, saving one of your teammates...it's super neat.
Nidalee's human Q - it's a super high damage projectile but it's got a really thin hit box and can't do any aoe damage. It's really reliant on the jungler's ability to use walls and fog of war to aim well but still dodgeable, plus the damage scaling over distance rewards riskier throws.
Death sentence, it honestly feels overpowered sometimes. Perfect amount of mind game, perfect range and enough bullshit in it of itself to make it Thresh's signature ability.
can we have a champion design tierlist?
“Global teleports are telegraphed” Meanwhile me playing A-Sol ganking other lane from knowhere every 3 seconds
@Vars, i think 11:00 you missed kalista's ultimate, it's also an allied targeted dash thing like thresh lantern.
I'd say the whole Gragas kit is dope.
Abilities quite simple on its own, yet when you start combing more and more... it quickly escalates in difficulty, up to his full combo, where you'll need some degree in trigonometry many of Vel'koz mains don't have and precision not many of Camille mains can show off.
Janna's tornado prebuff is one of the best abilities in the game. Really rewarding aoe cc to land but with the caviat that is delayed or with the bonus it is delayed. Bard's E is really good design. Fiora W (unfortunately not applicable to the rest of the kit). Gnar kit as a whole but especially his e and w. Jhin R, nami's W.
I suggested Fiora's current W when she was going to get reworked! (I don't think I would've suggested it today. Even though I still think the old one was problematic, the suggestion I made was very heavily influenced by my experience with League at the time.)
@@mawillix2018 You've just made a lot of enemies lmao
@@pebblebrowser I make double the enemies by both offending those who dislike it by informing them it's my fault, and also offending those who like it by saying that I wouldn't suggest it now.
6:34 am I the only one who rushed into the comment section searching for Draven Draven? :'D
I know this is biased beyond belief, but I think Kai’sa’s E is well designed. You can get like 50% bonus attack speed, along with a burst of move speed, but that comes at the expense of effectively Teemo darting yourself for a second or so. Yes, it can be evolved to give invisibility during the charge up, but you have to build specifically to get it, reducing your ability to get other stats. Also, it has ways to be used incorrectly. If you charge in preemptively, you can find yourself vulnerable to attacks. If you use it to create distance, you risk letting your target escape given you already used your ult. But if you correctly move around with it, you get rewarded by getting a ton of attack speed to gun down the enemy team.
Speaking of her ult, that also has a lot of uses along with potential for misplays. If used at the right time, it’s an excellent gap closer that also gives a shield. It can also be used to quickly reverse direction by ulting behind your chaser and moving the other way. Or you can just use it for the shield, giving you a short term combat advantage at the cost of using on of your best forms of mobility. And, of course, any Kai’sa main knows how it feels to ult after someone only the dash into the other four members of their team.
Again, I know I’m very biased, but I hope some of you agree with me on my points. Thank you for listening to my TED talk.
About Kai'sa's ult: I really like the mobility it offers, and that you (or an ally) need to hit an enemy (with CC if it's an ally) before you're allowed to use it.
I dissagree on the grounds that gaining movement speed is not a downside, especially on a unlocked camera.
Is more combat mobility that alows you to dodge more, and using it poorly this bringing yourself to a worse situation is more of a lack of judgement that all of the champs are bound to have.
On the invis thing, you have to build towards it yes, BUT you still want the items, it would be a valid downside if it required armor or lethality even, sience kaisa is a marksman and by default she wants attack speed making it a requirement doesnt act as a downside.
The same as k6 evolutions sience yes, you have to spend one skillpoint on the ult to unlock the evolution but, you were gonna do that anyways.
@@YanYanicantbelievethistakenffs Well, locking yourself out of attacking while the E charges up is a very skill expressive ability, that also doesn't feel like bs to play against, and you have ample time to react to the fact that Kai'sa is about to deal a burst of damage. I'd say this makes it a well designed ability.
@@YanYanicantbelievethistakenffs the attack speed part makes sense. For the part about an unlocked camera, I actually play the Wild Rift version, so the camera is locked by default. The other principals still apply though.
Before they reworked Irelia, Flawless Duet (Irelia's E) was one of the most well designed and fun to use abilities Riot has ever made.
It took a skill to use it.
Sometimes it was really hard to hit it, but if you hit somebody with that it was so satisfying and rewarding.
Now after her rework not only is Irelia completely braindead, but her E is also stupidly easy to use and it doesn't feel satisfying to hit it anymore.
you mean back when you were basically guaranteed to hit E by using it near you so its instant as opposed to now where its very hard to hit because the cast time is always the same?
ok
With current Irelia it's basically: If you hit E you are guaranteed a kill, If you don't then you are Guaranteed a kill.
@@The_White ahh you're feeling daring today with irelia jokes, next you'll say full build and vamp scepter and oneshot you with autos
@@sadkat9162 she literary builds blade of the ruined king and no matter how behind she is she can 1v3
@@dankmemes8254 good one too
Zeri q. Easily one of the best qs/main forms of damage from an adc. It’s like ezreal where it makes all of her damage a skill check on whether you can land it. But the damage output and scaling is amazing if you get consistent but you also have to account for the fact that your a squishy scaling adc so if you to trigger happy to chase down your opponent you might end up dead. I feel like the ability perfectly encapsulates her “ramp up” game philosophy while also being easily the most fun abilities to use in the game.
I always thought Ezreals old W was really cool. It was a skillshot that would buff your allies attack speed, and the only way you could benefit was if you E'd in its path right after shooting it. Gave you the option to burn your E to make yourself more dangerous. The problem with this ability was that intuitively it looked like another damaging skillshot. They coulda redid the graphics to more clearly communicate that it was a buff.
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As an Illaoi main, I don't know how those tentacles hit either, don't worry.
1.Shacos W, use it to stop ganks, to starts ganks, place on ally when chased so they can escape, place in front of enemy to catch them, place infront of you to escape
2.Aatrox E, its just perfect for his playstyle
3.Ammumu W, can't explain its just good
4.Nunus W, makes for perfect ganks but it's risky, unlike heca E
5.Azir E, it makes for high risk high reward plays and it flows good with his kit
i just wanna take a moment to appreciate the editing and the calming tone of your vids. I always watch them before bed and they help me wind down, even when u rightfully rant about yone. (fuck yone)
I think shen’s q deserves credit for best designed abilities, given the sword pull is not only the source of his damage but also his w to protect him and his allies. It’s possible to get the most value out of offense and defense with the sword put usually you are choosing between focusing on getting the empowered blade from the pull or timing the blade barrier. Aiming the sword pull to hit enemies is a minigame all it’s own and core to shen’s strength and his other abilities emphasize around the importance of his sword, E can be used to position for a sword pull and r does the same on a global scale for a r into w on arrival.
Thresh's abilities are very brilliant and simple, but not everyone knows how to get advantage of them, but I unlocked the full potential of Daddy Thresh in Wild Rift, even someone called me a hacker for how precise my hooks are XD
I love playing Thresh on Wild Rift his hooks are so satisfying to hit but I hate his base skin.
I HATE thrill of the hunt. Them being able to know about their imminent death doesn't help them. Rengar can come from any direction and kill any squishy target in a single hit. However, this might just be a problem with rengar's q.
whenever i see rengar ult as adc i go "aw shit here we go again"
Wind wall, blade whirl, sovereign’s domination, hallowed mist, twilight shroud 🙃
The amount of times I've had to yell "GRAB THE F**KIN LANTERN" in wild rift when i was low elo was absolutely ridiculous.
I think Evelynns E is a very well designed ability. You basically give up the surprise factor of your passive to have more damage + cc, or you use it for a slow mid combo to keep your surprise factor, but in both cases you leave the enemy options. The skill expression is in figuring out what options are more in your favor. While it feels super fair to play against.
Not to mention how the empowered version is super useful for clearing camps and both the non-empowered and empowered versions will give her a burst of movement speed for both engaging more aggressively and disengaging.
Anivia's wall. Much like Bard's ult, it can be used for a variety of applications and has the potential to screw over your own team just as bad as your opponents. It's up to the the player's imagination and skill to make the best use of it, and it's one of the major differences between good and bad Anivia players.