Talk:Vi/@comment-26433263-20150803234855/@comment-24496127-20150820074023

Ok, built around it was the wrong thing to say there, my bad.

She has however, been balanced around it. Which means that it's basically mandatory for her to be effective at this point. Even if it wasn't the intention, the abilities inherent strength is so high that Riot had to gut a lot of her other power, thus currently her ultimate is her identity, and you can't really pick her if she doesn't have it.

It was lazy to just add an ultimate with no counterplay to make sure his champion is used, but what do you suggest they do that would keep Vi relatively the same without just making her unplayable? She would have to be entirely rebalanced, retuned, and quite possibly reworked. Sure you and I would be entirely fine with that, but what about those Vi players that love her as she currently is?

I can't really think of anything that would make her viable if you just nerfed the hell out of her ultimate, and replacing it with something would only work if she got some huge buffs, or some other way to get to the backline. As much as you hate her, I'm sure you know she dies horribly whenever there's a teamfight and she has no ultimate. She kinda just get cc'd by the frontline, and can't q past them since it collides with targets. She also lacks the tank stats to do much to the tanks.

If Riot really hates her ultimate like you say, and they had a good idea to preserve the core of playing Vi while changing her ult, I think they would've done it, but they put themselves in an extremely difficult position by releasing her like they did, and changing it significantly, or just hugely nerfing it, will result in tons of people calling riot anti-consumer and such. As a company, even one as big as Riot, that's a huge problem.

Kind of off topic, but in business the individual reflects his company. That Riot employee who's very clearly proud of giving Vi her ultimate, can and should be taken to be sharing the views of his company, considering he made it through them. Even if he said it alone, all of Riot has some responsibility for his words.