I wanted to write about why ADs are much weaker than they were before since the Season 3 changes, but I would much rather outline which champions I feel are much too strong at the moment. Riot will at some point direct nerfs at them, but I don’t think it will happen anytime soon. I am talking specifically at the highest levels of competitive play that these champions are much too strong.
Nunu is simply an omnisupport alongside Lulu. While Lulu has no weaknesses at any point in the game, Nunu has a few notable weaknesses. Long-range ADs such as Kog’maw and Caitlyn can outrange his snowball in lane, and his natural lane counters are high-burst supports such as Lulu and Sona. However, outside of lane, he is by far the most reliably impactful support in the game. I don’t want to go into what each support can do, and I’m fully aware that Blitzcrank and Leona can very easily change a game. However, Nunu has no skillshots and ensures that if the AD gets to 30 minutes, the game is over.
Kha’zix is obviously overpowered and the recent nerfs that I’ve seen have not targeted what is actually broken about him. There is something really wrong with the game when assassins are given poke. Katarina, Akali, Talon, and Evelynn don’t have poke. They have to go all in and their movement is very predictable as such. When you see one of these assassins on the enemy team, you are priming a pink ward and an Exhaust in an attempt to outplay them. When you’re up against Kha’zix, he never has to move forward to do ridiculous damage. The fact that his E has insane range alongside a reset is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen them give a champion.
Trundle is the sleeper OP at the moment. He’s the counter to tanky bruisers, insane early skirmish, and amazing synergy with almost every champion in the game. He is nearly unkillable at a certain point in the game when his CC reduction and mobility coupled with how ridiculously overpowered his Pillar is will never allow him to die. He gets way too many stats for free, scaling off of purely tank/support items such as Warmog’s, Shurelia’s, and FH extremely well. Pillar can be taken to a 6.6 second cooldown with a 6.5 second duration. You can essentially shut down the enemy team’s back line completely if you play Trundle correctly.
Lastly, Twitch needs to be nerfed before we see him become the new Ezreal. He will be picked and banned in almost every game in NA. He is broken. He is a bully in lane, he has stealth, movement speed increase, attack speed steroid, AoE slow, true damage, burst, the highest range in the game, and the highest scaling in the game of any AD. There is never a downside in picking Twitch. You don’t need high mobility like Vayne or Ezreal has when you have so much range raw damage. You will see protect-the-Twitch comps with mass AoE CC, and essentially any team that gets Nunu and Twitch in the same game should win at 30 minutes.
I have the problem of typing too much because I think about this game all day and it’s hard to articulate through text for me. The next blog I hope will be much more concise.
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