“Urgot has no good mythic to build” is the tl:dr of most mythic discussions for Urgot. But if you think a little bit out of the box it’s actually the other way around: Urgot is the only one that is acutally using the mythics as intended (or is very close to it):
- He doesn’t have a “always build this” mythic like other champions (e.g. there is almost no reason to buy anything besides DS on Jax).
- Need tankiness? Buy Jak’Sho
- Enemies to fast? Buy Stridebreaker
- Want to take half HP of an unassuming adc with a single knee? Buy Ghostblade
- Depending on what he builds, it slightly alters his playstyle
- Jak’Sho makes you more of a Teamfight Frontliner
- Ghostblade makes you a menace for every non-tank sidelaner
- etc.
Of course Urgot has been “bad” due to his missing access to a perfect mythic item , but in my opinion that actually means the system is working for as intended.
Another example could be adc mythics: If you are not already hovering Samira and deliberating if you want to go Collector or Shieldbow first, most adcs can decide which mythic they want to build based on basic threat assessment:
- Must-dodge-skillshot (like Morgana Q) ? Buy Galeforce
- Need extra survivability against a diver / assassin? Shieldbow
- Need that extra damage against the enemy frontline? Krakenslayer it is (kind of a legacy take as Krakenslayer is no longer a mythic, but rageblade is not necessary an adc mythic).
TL:DR: I think people have been looking at Urgot’s use of mythic items the wrong way, as he is probably the closest Riot has ever gotten with their original intention for mythics.
I still miss old urgot. I bet old urgot would be great with some of the current items. I used to main him bot.
Katarina
I’m pretty sure Udyr can build literally whatever he wants and he’ll still be useful
Must-dodge-skillshot (like Morgana Q) ? Buy Galeforce
funniest thing I’ve read all day
Too much power is into mythics, so many champions have a mythic that is just perfect for them. They can go other items, but rarely will.
GP for example, IE is actually stronger in terms of damage than Navori, but Navori CD reduction and also applying to ult, while also reducing RNG on barrels (IE does more damage if it crits, Navori scales linearly with crit chance, increasing barrel damage even if you don’t crit) which makes it a more staple choice.
couldn’t of said it better myself apart from urgot isn’t bad
the perspective on urgot is that he’s bad because every high mmr player says so, which is true, he’s exclusively bad in high mmr, urgot is one of the best champions to climb through low and mid mmr with, onetricking is exclusively rewarded on urgot
mythic diversity on urgot is one of his biggest strengths the entire time the mythic system has been introduced too, people look at urgot from the wrong lens and want to build the autopilot jaksho build which can’t work every lobby but since urgot has access to youmous, radiant, jaksho etc he can decide what he needs to be for the lobby rather than vice versa
good post