LoL Bans Controversial Magical Cat From Major Tournament MSI – Critics Shout “Delete Her Entirely!”

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In League of Legends, heroine Yuumi has been causing trouble for months. After reworking the heroine, Riot Games now bans her from the international tournament MSI. It is “not fine-tuned and disruptive”. A good excuse for some critics of the heroine to say: The heroine must disappear from LoL entirely.

This is the announcement from Riot Games: On May 2nd, the international tournament “MSI” starts with the best players in the world. Riot Games announced on April 19th that they were removing 2 heroes from the tournament:

  • Yuumi – Their midscope update doesn’t feel ripe for the pros yet, instead of risking having an “unmatched and disruptive” champion in the tournament, they’ll just shut them down
  • Milio – The new hero is not yet activated in the competitive game, so he will not be playable

    • While everyone expected Milio to remain disabled and there has been little comment on that decision, Yuumi’s ban sparks discussion. Just like Yuumi always sparks a discussion.

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    Why is Yuumi so controversial? Yuumi has been a bone of contention in the LoL community for months:

  • Yuumi is actually planned as a beginner hero, because the cat can attach itself to another champion. In this way, the beginner saves running, can concentrate fully on his skills and learn the game – that’s the theory
  • In practice, however, some of the best supports in the world used the cat to dominate the pro game. Because they are not vulnerable in this way and can extremely strengthen their botlane partner

    • Critics therefore said: The cat is so wrong from the basic concept that it is impossible to save and should be deleted from League of Legends.

    But Riot apparently believes that balance patches can tame the cat and mitigate the excitement by clipping its claws.

    “Riot has never called Yuumi so clearly unbalanced”

    This is the discussion now: Riot Games’ statement that Yuumi is “-not tuned and disruptive” is taken with relish by the critics as a template for railing against Yuumi:

  • “I don’t think Riot has ever called Yuumi so openly unbalanced”
  • “You’ll never be done with her until she can die if she’s attached to another player. It’s crazy that they don’t see that”

    • The general mood is: Yuumi is a permanent construction site for Riot Games, which is constantly being doctored, but where you never get a satisfactory result.

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    Others criticize that balancing the “pro game” separately with bans and exceptions is not good for a game because it takes the game too far away from normal players. The extreme example, if you separate professional and normal game too far, is Call of Duty. There is so much disabled with the pros that it feels like CS:GO.

    Some are even calling for Yuumi to either be banned from the Pros game entirely (via reddit) forever, or even to be erased from LoL altogether. This is the only way to solve the Yuumi problem – once and for all.

    The demand to delete Yuumi has been around for a number of years. Even the biggest names in LoL are calling for a deletion:

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