Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-1876049-20150731182500/@comment-1876049-20150801171316

Feirund wrote: Personally, the wiki's objectivity has always been a source of personal pride to me (since I helped maintain it, in my own way). I could say with confidence that our is one of the closest wikis to the wikipedia.org project, which I think is the whole point.

A point was brought up that these are to help beginners get an understanding of a champion, but I ask - how is this giving them an understanding? If you said that somebody is "mobile", how would you get a grasp of that mobility just from that description? You will still need to read the skills, watch the spotlight and above all, try the champion - there is no avoiding it. There is no knowing a champion through a single man's subjective approximation. By that very definition, listing the skills is useless, because you have to watch the spotlight and try the champion, and watching the spotlight is useless because you have to try the champion.

This project isn't meant to be a stand-alone thing. It's precisely meant to work in-tandem with all the things you listed: first you read the description, giving you a short summary on what to expect from the champion, both in theme and gameplay. Let's take our hypothetical player, Timmy. Timmy wants to play Ahri, but knows nothing about her, so he goes onto the LoL wikia.

First, he sees the description, in which Ahri is described as an agile seductress that darts around her foes, forcing key targets out of safety to kill them. Finding this short summary to his liking, Timmy scrolls thown, reads Ahri's skills and goes "Ah, I see why they described Ahri as mobile, it's because her first ability gives her movement speed and her ultimate gives her three dashes". Then, he thinks "Hmmm, I wonder how this Ahri champion would look like in-game?" So he goes to see the champion spotlight, or perhaps some online gameplays, and goes "I see how the playstyle that was described to me does indeed fit with what I'm seeing. This Ahri is using her mobility to dance around foes and drawing that ADC out of safety to kill him!" Finally, Timmy thinks "Well, I guess I'll try this Ahri out for myself in a game!" And he does.

Can't you see the magic?