User blog comment:Emptylord/Red Posts/Xelnath's Yorick Rework/@comment-25784305-20141130025147/@comment-5955640-20141130031921

Where do I start?

First off. Because it drives me up the wall. URF will probably return this coming April First. All the other game modes are being rolled out at certain times for brief windows and URF certainly should be one of them. So stop asking for that.

I mean holy crap. You want a game where you just faceroll entire mobs just play a Beat Em up which also has a MMO sub genre. A diversion is not a real game mode.

Secondly. It's not all the same people working on the same thing. I don't know how many times this has to be said. A properly run Business has people hired to specifically do a job. A group of them work in one facet of the company while another group works in another. So the people who decide the game modes are probably not the people who decide who gets to get reworked and even then. One person works on a rework. It isn't actually tying up many hands.

At some point an artist, a programmer, and a illustrator might touch up the new art and model and in game mechanics but it's not all at once and one person can feasibly do all those jobs for a single champion if talented enough.

Thirdly. Most important of all the notes. This is expired information. Yorick's rework was in noticeable development roughly a year ago and was completely shelved as it changed hands to another designer and we haven't heard from them about Yorick as far as I know so it's a been of a misnomer to comment on how unnecessary this is when it's been shelved.

FOURTHLY. His damage isn't the only problem with him. It's his lack of interactivity in lane that leads up to an irrelevant presence in the post laning phase. He bullies you all night long and then drops off the map when team fights break out. His relevance is completely tied to another champion carrying in late game.

He doesn't really execute the ghoul commander trait in an interesting way. Technically the rework is still underway but it might be further back than Poppy's rework if one can believe that.