Infinite Scaling: A Useless Mechanic? | League of Legends

About 10% of League of Legends' roster features champions who have a mechanic or ability that grows stronger or more efficient over time, external from natural scaling sources like levels, items and such. Today we're gonna talk about Infinite Scaling: Is it a really scary thing? Or a useless mechanic?

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[HVtux]

One thing a lot of new players don't get about these type of mechanics is that they aren't a bonus, they're a hindrance. It's not some thing the champ *can* do to get ahead, it's something they *have* to do to keep up.

[damp]

You forgot Yasuo infinitely scaling deaths

[goldengolem]

"its not like senna turns into xerath and can snipe you from 2 screens away"

*I beg to differ*

[maguc]

Everybody gangsta till Nasus starts farming champions with his Q

[charliepea]

My Nasus ally farmed for 30 minutes straight and managed to oneshot all enemy towers and gave us the victory screen while we dealt with the 5 enemies invading our base. I love that Nasus.

[GaebolIg]

Useless until that 1000 stacks Nasus disappears from his lane.

[jpuc]

Not useless when the 0/20 nasus one shots you.

[kromtastic]

Just go Trundle and Subjugate the enemy Sion, his scaling is now your scaling for your ultimate lol

[shino]

"Rework idea for Nasus, his W can root"
Me, an assassin player: *what*

[shanecoffing]

I like these champions because they are very good at teaching you fundamentals of the game. They teach you to farm well, too learn how to play passive, learn what powers spikes are and how to take advantage of them, and most importantly how to play from behind (most people can't comprehend nowadays)

[Worldwave]

It's hugely important to talk about Vayne and Fiora in this video as their % max health true damage abilities, in effect, scale infinitely with champion health.

[Nuclearburrit]

There was this one game that I'll never forget where our support left the game early on while I was playing Senna ADC.

Thing is, I had dark harvest and gathering storm, and the rest of my team was competent enough to stall. The game went on for like well over a full hour to the point where everyone was full build and I have so many stacks that I could auto towers from outside of their range and could quickly take down even their tanks. Thanks to that insane scaling I was able to successfully win the 4v5

It was just me fulfilling my ultimate late game scaling fantasy and no other game ever came even close to it.

[katamas]

Sion's passive is pretty good actually, since his shield is based on health, and with Titanic, he's basically a lesser Senna, where her abilities and attacks get slowly stronger. Getting 60+ AD bonus from Titanic on Sion always feels monsterous. Basically makes him scale with durability and damage at the same time

[hosser]

infinite scaling isn't necessarily useless, it adds a separate goal in a match aside from hitting item and level spikes. However, this gameplay element of stacks only adds to your pure stats and doesn't actually change the gameplay or dynamic of the champ when compared to a kayle or kha. sure it can be scary to deal with, but a smart team can easily shut down scaling champs with enough effort. a side note as well, contrary to popular belief, I think that scaling champs such as Nasus and viegar are actually midgame because once other champs start finishing off their builds, they can win any fight just as easily as an infinite scaling champ can. TLDR not useless, just kinda boring

[dagdamor]

*PTSD flashbacks to Shyvana roaring out of the jungle with a ramped-up Feral Flare*

[treaxnekketsu]

"If there was a champion whose entire kit scaled infinitely they'd be broken."

This didn't age well. We need a video for new A-Sol. This had me in tears

[dillonschneider]

Titanic Hydra on Sion gives infinite AD, technically.

[LeoC]

Veigar's stacks also reduce the CD of his W, a 100% ap ratio ability. The limit is 0s CD

[LeUnoriginal]

The reason Nasus and Veigar have the easiest time benefitting from their stacks is due to items. Veigar's strongest attribute is the ability to build cheap AP items and still hit as hard as another mage who's going for the expensive stuff. Nasus builds whatever is the best Sheen item and then full tank, because he can get the flat damage he needs from stacking Q.

If there were more (and better) items that let you stack resistances, Sion and Cho'Gath would be a lot stronger since they're already getting max health from their kit.

Then we have Kindred and Senna, who can't really build around their stacking. Kindred still needs marksman items even if their stacks give them similar stats because marksmen cannot function without getting those stats as fast as possible.

[BrayBray]

No idea how this channel isn’t bigger, it’s been my absolute favorite league channel for the past couple months and I’ve learned so much, keep up the good work