I'm Genuinely Curious

Toyota_2015

I'm making this post because I legitimately want to know what people value more in a champion.

Would you rather have a champion with great damage but bad utility, or a champion with great utility but bad damage?

Comments

SpideyFunko

a bit of both.

Yodabolt21

Obviously balanced is preferred, but it does depend on where you are. Pre Act 5, damage is mostly more valuable, where post act 5, utility is mostly more valuable.

Terra

Damage can end fights quicker, sure.
But champions need a balance of both.
Damage, no Utility, you're looking at someone like Domino.
Utility, No Damage, you're looking at.... maybe Iceman?
I'd say a great example of both Damage and Utility is Stealthy.
I'd personally prefer Utility over Damage.

solmyrair

Utility, no damage - IMIW

Terra

Utility, no damage - IMIW

I dunno man. In the longer fights, that plasma damage is quite something.

SkyLord7000

What would be a champ you would consider “all damage no utility”

If I had a champ that had zero description of how to play him. No special abilities at all. But hit 30,000-40,000 basic hits as a six star rank 1 I’d easily take that champ.

It really depends more on the individual.

Hera1d_of_Ga1actus

Someone as basic as Star-Lord is better than a M.O.D.O.K., just my opinion though

TheInfinty

Damage can end fights quicker, sure.
But champions need a balance of both.
Damage, no Utility, you're looking at someone like Domino.
Utility, No Damage, you're looking at.... maybe Iceman?
I'd say a great example of both Damage and Utility is Stealthy.
I'd personally prefer Utility over Damage.

Playing devils advocate here
No utility but great damage you get cull obsidian
No damage but decent utility you get maw or king groot

Terra

Damage can end fights quicker, sure.
But champions need a balance of both.
Damage, no Utility, you're looking at someone like Domino.
Utility, No Damage, you're looking at.... maybe Iceman?
I'd say a great example of both Damage and Utility is Stealthy.
I'd personally prefer Utility over Damage.
Playing devils advocate here
No utility but great damage you get cull obsidian
No damage but decent utility you get maw or king groot

I have a 6* KG. His damage in 3+ fury phase is quite nice. His sp2 poison hits quite hard aswell. But yeah, you're right

MarshMarlo

What would be a champ you would consider “all damage no utility”

If I had a champ that had zero description of how to play him. No special abilities at all. But hit 30,000-40,000 basic hits as a six star rank 1 I’d easily take that champ.

It really depends more on the individual.

Domino

Texas_11

Don’t believe this poll. Most people will say utility, but always always go for damage. Look at Stryfe vs jubilee , she is the better champ , but her arena wouldn’t go high. Because her damage is not flashy enough, although it’s great and her utility is great.

Moot4Life

damage is better in most scenarios for me. i just cant stand long fights.

Iron_Patriot_is_lit

Damage in it of itself is utility.

ẞlооd

I pretty much always pick utility first. Utility can get you through any fight in the game. Damage can't always clear it.

Lmao

Damage, who needs utility if you can literally one hit KO the opponent.

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StevieManWonder

Generally speaking utility, but if the damage just isn’t there I won’t bother using the champ. Case in point, Dorm is objectively the best power control champion in the game and he’s double immune. Awesome utility that shuts down a lot of the nodes in the game, but his damage is pathetic. It’s so bad that I’d rather use any other power control champ than him even though no one does it as easily as he does.

LeNoirFaineant

What would be a champ you would consider “all damage no utility”

If I had a champ that had zero description of how to play him. No special abilities at all. But hit 30,000-40,000 basic hits as a six star rank 1 I’d easily take that champ.

It really depends more on the individual.

Star Lord is all damage and no utility. I still like him tbh but he could definitely use a buff.

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Polygon

If we’re talking threshold, Quake is it for Utility, while CGR is it for practical damage

Rouger4

A balanced champ is always best but I would say utility would help me more and would clear more content but I would prefer damage for the fun factor and satisfaction.

KRoNX1

Many different factors comes into play. There r champs like CGR whose damage is so high that u wont need a utility to finish a fight. And there is also dormammu who have a lot of utility but still no one like him . And there is also voyant who have better damage but the same utility. So i think damage can work alone to finish a fight. In my opinion high damage itself is a utility. No one prefers a utility only champ but there r many champs everyone considers to be good just becuz of the damage. I actually thought abt it after voting utility. Now i want to go for damage.

Reference

Although I like to play those champs with high damage, the game design makes utility champs shine most of the time.

One simple thing, your team is limited by 3 (AQ/AW) or 5 (SQs,EQ). Only duel or arena allows you to ignore utility.

Raichu626

I prefer ending a fight in 30 seconds before any utility is needed, than take 5 minutes to do it properly.

Also, both. A champion with only one of the 2 is seriously disadvantaged in the current state of the game. Just damage is rarely enough anymore, and just utility was never enough to begin with

Raichu626

I prefer ending a fight in 30 seconds before any utility is needed, than take 5 minutes to do it properly.

Also, both. A champion with only one of the 2 is seriously disadvantaged in the current state of the game. Just damage is rarely enough anymore, and just utility was never enough to begin with

Also, important to note: Quake is the utility goddess of the game. Whatever fight a champion can do, quake can likely do it as well. So if that champ takes longer than quake, barely anybody's gonna use them, because they could just quake it. All utility champions need to have at least as much DPS as Quake, or they're gonna be close to irrelevant

(This is obviously a generalization, there may be a few exceptions. But it's generally true)

LibertyPrimeV1

Terra

What would be a champ you would consider “all damage no utility”

If I had a champ that had zero description of how to play him. No special abilities at all. But hit 30,000-40,000 basic hits as a six star rank 1 I’d easily take that champ.

It really depends more on the individual.
Star Lord is all damage and no utility. I still like him tbh but he could definitely use a buff.

He still has SOME utility. Not none.

Light7

Pure damage- longshot
Damage+ utilities- bwcv
Pure utility-falcon ( undupe)
Who do you prefer?
All are great every one have good users in different content

SpideyFunko

Pure damage- longshot
Damage+ utilities- bwcv
Pure utility-falcon ( undupe)
Who do you prefer?
All are great every one have good users in different content

eh, Falcons got decent damage without the dupe

Grean

Pure damage- longshot
Damage+ utilities- bwcv
Pure utility-falcon ( undupe)
Who do you prefer?
All are great every one have good users in different content

black widow Claire voyant any day of the year