"league of legends was launched in october 2009. this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
I liked yuumi before they did the whole rework. I liked being able to jump from ally to ally and decided who needed to be healed. But then they made it so that you HAVE to stay on one champ and that made her feel so boring.
"Yuumi and Garen together create a skillful, interactive and engaging combo" had me rolling on the floor and crying at the same time
The first seconds gave me guide for hitchhiker vibes like “In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry, and been widely regarded as a bad move”
Literally just make it worthwhile to detach. Nerf some of her sustain, and in return make her detached q into some minor cc. That was yuumi is insentivised to detach during trades, and can be punished for messing up
I never understood why they forced Yuumi to stay on one champ. Literally just make it so that she only buffs her attached-to ally for a given time after attaching. Then she's forced to at least switch allies or detach to keep the buffs going.
Yuumi is absolutely fixable. Dawngate (another Moba, now deleted) had a fantastic character that worked in the same way. Mina. But she was incentivized to jump out into a pile of enemies to fear them, and she took a % of the damage the host took. Thus making it so that she couldn't just stay attached constantly without taking any risks.
10:05 Designers have fault but I always ask myself..don't they have checks and balances in play? Don't they have a PBE? Don't they have someone saying, "I think this is a bit broken." ?
5:30 i know a friend who set up a bot in a way where he could access both league clients on one pc all the time. he than bound yummis abilities to his own mouse extra buttons and would play his own support while grinding out adc games. Edit: i inquired how he did it and apparently he attached custom click buttons to the side of the mouse. Those fed into a raspberry pi that ran a Windows VM that would autoselect Yuumi every game. His mouse inputs where recorded and send to the raspberry pi that was connected to his main PC. That would mirror the mouse movements 1:1 in the virtual machine. So he could play the regular adc with his mouse and keyboard while having the sidebuttons on his mouse controller yuumi‘s abilities. By mirroring the mousemovents he could even ensure the ult and i belief q is the „skill“ shot would also hit more optimally.
The entire “she was made as a tutorial champion for new players”point makes absolutely no sense, given how playing Yuumi teaches you an entire different skillset that you can’t apply to any other champion. You will not learn to play League by playing Yuumi.
To fix yuumi everyone needs a morde ult tbh.
i hadn't played since i quit like 8-9 years ago and completely blocked out league from my mind, i remember seeing yuumi for the first time, seeing her attach to her laner and went "huh, that's interesting, wonder how long that lasts until she gets booted off her laner" oh boy was i disappointed
riot should just actually make tutorial modes that focus on training different specific fundamental skills in the game like what is a player going to learn and improve at the game by playing yummi? literally nothing.
Abathur in Heroes of the Storm had an ability called Symbiote which created a Yuumi instantly on any player, minion or structure within range, but didn't ruin the game. This is because it's body doesn't become the Symbiote, and becomes stationary and unable to move while the Symbiote is active. They could fix Yuumi easy, but refuse to because it would be copying another MOBA. Abathur also had global mines it could spam across map between Symbiotes. It could also double lane for xp by sticking it's body near towers in one lane and symbiote on minions in another lane. For Yuumi you could stop making her attach and just have her have an instant long range set of abilities. You would have the choice of fighting through her buffs, or try to find where she's hiding and take her out, potentially getting ganked before you reach her, or succeeding and getting a 2v1 for a while.
Riot comparing yuumi to akali and qiyana will never not be funny. A few cherrypicked graphs is the definition of lying with statistics. Truly a 300 years of collective experience moment.
I love how he keeps cutting to clips of Kadeem when talking about new players, when in reality Kadeem has been playing league way longer than most players 😂 truly built different
The fact they won't remove yumi from the game, or completely rework. Her kit is absolutely insane to this day. I don't know why they're so scared to delete a champion and say, here's your blue essence
That honesty around 10:00 was very soothing. Big respect for the guy.
The one simple change to make Yuumi less hated is too make her targetable
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