User blog comment:PrayforDawn/What is Difficulty?/@comment-10390686-20140112121633

I totally agree with your points of skillshots, game knowledge and micro, but i think you forgot to mention one point:

Having a champion without a mobility spell is very difficult too, due to the possibility of ganks and the fact that you have to be much more careful when engaging.

While it is hard to decide when to engage and when to disengage with your mobility spell, you dont even have the possibility to decide that way with a champion like f.e. Malzahar, who isn't pretty hard with his skillset, but is a easy target cause he is always pushing due to his dot and has no escape tool.

Maybe we should differentiate between escape tools and engage tools.

While most of the champions have both in one (Ahri, Nidalee), we have the ones with pure engage tools (Xin) or pure escape tools (Lee's W). (Both kinds can be used vice versa, for example fight behind a creepwave as xin and dash back to it to disengage) And what makes them really difficult is not the fact that they have a mobility tool, but how it can be used...

If you can only dash with strict conditions (like Yasoo) its hard, if you can just dash around like you want to (LeBlanc) its more easy (HEY WAIT you will say, Blanc is pretty hard; yes, but thats cause she is a weak target and needs to trick the enemy and still has to hit her full combo while doing that).

Can we agree that having mobility isn't what makes a champion harder? Having none or restricted skills is much more difficult.

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