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Originally Posted by kirant
Honestly, the Q reminds me a bit more of Cho'Gath's stun. I haven't seen any video of her yet, but the way it reads makes me think you have a second or two to read it before anything happens.
Ultimate wreaks of overpowered at the moment, being able to completely turn around a fight if set up well. I think the duration of the slow will drop as they attempt to correct that.
I think Riot intentionally releases OP new champions. It's been a pretty consistent pattern for a while from what I've seen...it entices people into buying them, just so they can nerf them right ahead of their free week. This gives them a larger base to test their real balancing with (and a little more money  ). |
There is a vid up on ROG. Cho's knock up would be a good way of putting it, that is how it works for the caster, but it doesn't do work quite like that for the opponent - there is no "dodge me" circle.
It is harder to dodge because it comes at you like a projectile (Lux's singularity), but can be launched overtop of minions.
See I don't know if Riot releases OP champs so much as opposed to Riot not really testing to see how the champs function in the roles they are given.
See Diana, Zyra (lesser extent), Elise, Jayce.
Diana functioned fine as a Jungler on release. Maybe a tweak here or there was needed, but it seemed as if Riot completely forgot that her kit could be used for laning. Or figured she'd get bullied in lane.
That was when Diana was completely OP. She became this Leblanc like lane bully post-6, able to jump and stick to any target she desired until they died.
Zyra is now used as a support (and a rather good one at that) with great zoning ability and a good snare. But you are right, she was OP as hell when she was released in mid and is still somewhat OP now.
Elise was not meant to function as a top laner. But she does. Amazingly well. She is a very good anti-brusier with high base stats - the AP version of Jayce.
She doesn't scale well late game, but can snowball a lane out of control. She is really hard to deal with for a lot of top laners. Nothing too special mid or Jungle - but those were the positions they thought she would do originally.
Jayce of course was thought to function in the Jungle (LOL NO), and possibly bottom lane. He actually is underrated as a bottom lane counter (kind of like Urgot was), but he wasn't really thought of as the terror in top lane when he was released.
I think Riot doesn't do enough testing to where these champions really fit in the meta, nor how OP they can be when some people who actually know what they are doing decide to build them.
Riot Logic - "Diana's AP ratios are so good, people will build only a bit of AP and then spec into tank items afterwards"...
Instead they build her as a glass cannon and wreck everything (shield OP).