“Do you think Garen and Master Yi go too far in being “beginner friendly”? You may view them as good for new players to learn the game, but from where I’m standing, they just terrorize low level players. Garen’s too tanky to deal with for players learning to kite (and even harder for melee champions to deal with), and Master Yi requires team coordination to prevent his resets. Basically, they require so little skill to use at the base level while simultaneously requiring many skills to counter.”

This is my opinion. I didn’t bounce it off of the champion team.

In my opinion, yes both of those champions could use a higher skill ceiling. It’s fine if they are good champions for beginners, but it’s a bad feeling if you pick one of those champs and then try to rise through the ranks only to find out that you probably picked a tough champion for higher ranked tiers.

I think you could also argue they may lack sufficient counterplay for a typical Normal or Bronze skillset.

But in both cases, I think the risk of removing them as viable beginner champions has to be considered very heavily. Messing them up for newer players is probably worse than not touching them at all.

10/23/2018

