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It's extremely hard to balance her frustrating kit and she is either giga broken or completely useless. The coin flipped on broken side this worlds and you can see how most of the people absolutely don't enjoy watching her gameplay. Casters say how you essentially remove one player from the game and are left with 9 players and from someone who plays bot lane, watching a lane die in champ select is not something I look forward on worlds stage because Yuumi adds zero pressure and it just turns into farm festival most of the time.

I'm not making this post hoping that Riot deletes Yuumi (pls do) but there is a trend going on in the last 2 years of new champions where it's getting more and more frustrating to play against newly designed champions because either their kit is overloaded or intentionally made to be frustrating to play against.

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over 2 years ago - /u/PhreakRiot - Direct link

I don't despise Yuumi.

She exists. She does unique things. I think that's fine.

I think some portion of the collective community hate is just getting wrapped up in insider culture. We have a million of these. 0/10 Yasuo power spikes? Mid or feed? Calling anyone who does "inting"? We've got a million. "Yuumi is a mistake" is just one of them.

Not that no one dislikes Yuumi. Just that it's intentionally overwrought.

over 2 years ago - /u/PhreakRiot - Direct link

Originally posted by dialzza

The fact that worlds meta right now is full of assassins building goredrinker should tell you all you need to know about the absolute state of modern draintanking and damage creep.

Talon and Qiyana represent the 6th and 7th highest presence junglers at 31% and 22% presence respectively. That's like saying support is "full of" Braum and Rell.

Nah, it's actually Lee Sin and co. Buncha fighters. There are more Divine Sunderer users in jungle than assassins.

Not that Goredrinker isn't OP. It is. But your data is wrong.

over 2 years ago - /u/PhreakRiot - Direct link

Originally posted by dialzza

"Full of" isn't quite accurate

But they are very present (both in top 7 junglers at worlds), for a build that really shouldn't be working at pro level in the first place (unless y'all are trying to shift talon and qiyana into bruisers, but I don't think that's what's happening)

And the other super-prevalent champs are all using some form of draintank mythic. I'm definitely biased bc I don't like the playstyle, but the two draintank fighter mythics have completely crowded out stridebreaker and triforce.

Again, Goredrinker is OP. It's getting nerfed, especially for assassin types, in 11.21, so that's at least a decent push.

But even still, Talon and Qiyana were both buffed quite a bit heading into Worlds. Qiyana was specifically targeted for pro-focused buffs.

FWIW, Qiyana hasn't only seen Goredrinker builds. The last time she was played it was full Lethality. I don't remember how many more times that happened, but with only 8 games played, that's a sizable percentage.

over 2 years ago - /u/PhreakRiot - Direct link

Originally posted by Mahelas

Of all champions, Talon being played in Worlds, as a jungler, is kind of mental tho !

Hey, Zed jungle was a thing back in 2013ish!

over 2 years ago - /u/PhreakRiot - Direct link

Originally posted by MorphHu

This is a pretty roundabout, corporate way to use buzzwords to completely disregard all the criticism in the thread.

Ah yes, the corporate buzzwords of yasuo 0/10 power spike lmao.

I have opinions. I shared them. Deal with it lmao.