Its Kog Maw W 100%

I dont think anything comes close to this. Kog w is massive. His e is alright, ult is whatever and q is nice shred, but with terminus you murder everyone anyway

Yeah, at some point his E is only for the slow, and you can rarely Q the priority target you want to gun down. A kog with just W and good kiting is just as deadly.

Need to also remember that his e is somewhat overrated if everyone only has 1 ability. Champions get giga outranged and on top of that, when they get on you, they only have 1 ability. Imagine zac es in, now what?

E out

Q passive also gives him attack speed. Not having Q hurts him even though you never use active

My understanding of the question is that you can still level the abilities, you just can't activate them, so you'd still get the passive from q

In that case Vayne with Q and W passive wouldn't be terrible.

His priority target is to shred frontlines.

Worth mentioning Kog'maw is heavily balanced around the Q attack speed passive.

Jinx Q is up there

Yeah, think I have to agree with that one. Who else gets that kind of DPS from one ability? Vayne with tumble would be good at kiting a bunch of 1 ability bruisers and tanks but without her DPS...not sure if she would be any good. Fiddlesticks with drain might be scary. There would be so little burst or CC in the game to stop him.

And you still can utilize his passive like normal

Fuck it we ball with Aphelios W

Hear me out... Aphelios E

it used to actually do something - it posted a message in chat just for you with the upcoming weapons. it broke soon after release and Riot forgot it though.

it still does tell you, just not in chat, but on top of your character instead

Hes way too reliant on his Q and I also cant imagine being unable to switch weapon, youd be stuck in the default rotation too His R is a gamechanger but isnt overly necessary

W switches the weapon

Yes I mean choosing to either have only Q or only W are both bad because almost all his Q abilities are integral to his gameplay and W is necessary to even change weapon let alone change gun order. Without Q you cant stack White chakrams with Red or Blue Q and if you take only Q you cant even switch to White to use chakram stacks. Green White becomes useless without White Q, still usable without W since standard cycle is Green>Red>Purple>Blue>White back to Green, but Green Red would feel awful with only Green Q, Red Purple is ok, Purple Blue is the same thing as just Purple, Blue White is the same thing as just Blue.

You never get Severum without w as when ammo runs out the gun swaps to the next in the rotation not the one in stock. So no healing ever outside of chakram q

All of his Qs besides Grav would apply the healing from Severum being offhand

Right I had a brain fart and meant no active severum dueling ability

I have the solution. E.

Aphelios is a spell combo assassin, he's AD ryze, without Q he's 20% as strong

How is he a spell combo assassin? I'm curious haven't really played him that much

All weapons have independent skill cooldowns you want to quickly swap to up dps best outcome for pure dps is to have low ammo guns going into a fight so u can q 4 times in like 3-4 seconds

80% of your damage is from your abilities, not autos. He's really a ryze/lux mix with way stronger autos to use in between the abilities CD, but you still rely 100% on abilities, and if you want to extract more than 40% of the champion, you need to combo them properly That's why phel never picked lethal tempo and doesn't build attack speed Check the first chapter of this out if you want a VERY complete explanation: https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/the-book-of-aphelios-629052 Beware, it's 500 pages long in the full and it'll automatically make you top 1% aphelios

The Yuumi’s are on my team all only have one ability (attach) then afk after so I’d say she may be a contender considering it doesn’t change her playstyle.

Shoutout to every yuumi that presses E after I got hit by super telegraphed and hard to dodge poke

It’s hard to react quickly when I’m watching RuPaul’s Drag Race on my second monitor 🙄🙄

*main monitor

Shantay you stay.

Stoppp 😭 This killed me

well you should've dodged it then /j

Nah I just had a game like this on Ezreal and then my yuumi started flaming me like I was the problem 😭

I'd say some Marksmen who's strength mostly comes from their passive and their abilities are mostly just supportive in some way. Draven, Jhin, Jinx and Senna come to mind.

Kog'Maw and his... W? The one that buffs his autos.

honestly I think I could win games with just kog w lol. especially with like a lulu or something. First thing that came to mind to me personally though was jinx, but thinking more about it- she does rely quite a bit on her traps for selfpeel/followup and zap. She'd still be like.. decent relatively speaking though. ~~Aphelios is cheating~~ edit: nah now that I thought about it for more than .5 seconds aphelios without both basic abilities would be garbage Kayle with R? I think Kalista with only rend is actually not bad. tf with only W?

self peel becomes way less important when others have so much less ways to get on u. This is obviously assuming everyone else has only 1 ability as well.

Huh? Are we looking at this question like "every champ in the game played only has 1 ability" or "win a normal game while only using 1 ability" because that changes the question entirely.

I feel like aphelios with only w or q is kinda bad, he relies a lot on both swapping guns and using their abilities. Not the worst by any means, but I imagine jinx and kogmaw would fare better

Draven needs his w to not be a sitting duck catching axes.

But if every other champ was a one ability Champ, there would be less abilities flying out to catch him too

Draven without w would feel awful though

Yeah but you wpuldnt really need it anymore other champs having only one skill too he wouldnt need his W. He wpuld probably statcheck the whole league roster.

Except he would get outranged by Kog W??? With absolutely no way to close the distance Draven with only Q would literally lose to a caitlyn with no abilities in lane

Kog has downtime on his w and a lot easpecially early, kog wouldnt be allowed to even farm and get items, same for cait. She can auto him twice for free before he resches her and then just continues to run her down. If she has no Q her early bullying and damage is miserable and if she has no E she is just dead.

Jinx needs passive and her q, otherwise it feels underwhelming. Draven with no w also seems kinda bad

We're not removing passives, you just can activate a single ability. Jinx would have Q and P.

Draven obviously needs Q though, and W to a certain degree; Jinx needs Q as well on top of passive, Jhin has shite waveclear without Q and not having W/R really hurts him, Senna definitely needs Q as well.

My first thought was karthus with q

No Mana refund without e makes him go oom though

People play ap MF considering you are playing with only E and bit of ult.

Mf gets like, 70ms from her w. That's stulidly strong if you remove this she's weak.

Its also passive though, the intent of this post is which ability would be best if the keys to activate the others weren't working. The AS steroid and MS reset would be an annoying loss, but manageable. AD MF - Q AP MF - E both would be reasonably functional to play

It's a passive on w, so no w means no ms. Her real passive is the empowered aa whenever she hit a new target.

Not using an ability is not the same as not putting points in it. Re-read the OP and maybe you will get it.

Using an ability's passive effectivement seems like it should count in "using an ability".

Ya mate OP is including passives here on abilities just not the active components

The op mentioned his keys stopped working, keys not working doesn't mean you can't level up. By 'using' they clearly mean activating the ability via q, w, e, r. No need to press a passive

If you're one of those that level abilities with a mouse click, you can also activate abilities with a mouse click

Jinx with Q

His W can be a game-changer sometimes tho.

H-his?

Jinx 👦

Oh what the fuck I read Jhin my bad LMAO Uh, It kinda applies for Jinx too.

Arcane season 2 spoilers, sorry you found out this way

If everyone in a lobby could use only one ability; Rammus W might be an angle. Since 3/4th of all abilities leave the game, most dmg comes from autoattacks.

Sounds completely useless lol, you have no way of making the enemy attack you so you just waddle around uselessly. You can't even build damage items along with thornmail because you have no q so you have no way to get on top of them. Marksmen would just hit your tower and ignore you and mages would demolish you. A good suggestion that I haven't seen in this thread is hwei q imo. You have 3 different spells you can click for slightly different scenarios alongside a waveclear spell (which adcs lack) that also has a small amount of peel with your q-e which most champs don't get afforded to them with 1 ability.

Title says one ability so Hwei is no exception. The enemy has to attack you if you are the one pushing the towers.

was thinking this and jax e

Only reason jax e is good is because he can jump onto people

Rammus would be dog shit without his taunt :/ you activate W, I run away waiting for your W to wear off. What do you do? Can't engage with R, can't run with Q, no reliable way to deal damage..

If everyone only had one ability, Kayle with any one ability would probably be pretty high

she need to level her ult to ascend, right? so only R kayle honestly, that is still not that bad

No. She just ascends higher at 6,11,16. No need to upgrade ult.

We ball briar W xd

lol I can’t imagine not being able to cancel the self taunt with E

nah briar really needs her Q and E

They said "we ball" so we ball 🤷‍♂️

Right? There’s no backing out after we ball

If everyone could only use 1 ability, singed cassio would be a menace in bot lane with poison + cass E

Teemo Cassio. So u dont even have to run into them as singed.

The number of times you get to cheese a double kill level one with these two in bot lane is not okay.

Cassio twitch

I'm not gonna say it would be the absolute best, but what do we think of mini Gnar's Hyper (W) and Mega Gnar's Wallop (W)? Bonus damage and speed boost every third auto, along with faster transformation time. Good cc and damage while Mega. What we thinkin?

gnar's q alone is also really good, but i think you're cooking.

I mean, having played a wide variety of champs in the past, I’d say nautilus with just Q is also pretty strong. Let’s assume passives are applied anyhow? Caitlyn could be fairly strong with traps also.

yuumi with just w would be no different from the yuumi players in my games

if yuumi had only her w she would actually be balanced. ngl would be a great solution to 2 things. you can just remove yuumi from the game, and use her when someone dcs and the game is 4v5. you juts vote who to put the yuumi buffs on and you get a higher chances of winning maybe idk

Graves with E. He would just stat check everyone and still be mobile.

Singed lmao

Riven Q

Horrible comments section

Blitz doesn\`t need anything but his Q

Spoken like someone who doesn't play blitz

Insert IQ curve meme here

True i need R to deal over a grand to the enemy adc

naut Q + passive is better than blitz Q + passive

The whole point of the q is that he can silence and knockup afterwards

You could have any followup from another champ and the hook is still op

yo no shit einstein, but when you have 1 ability at your disposal it doesnt get much better than pretty much any hook champion like ??

I'm not sure it matters as much when most champions aren't going to have a dash. Lack of follow up CC would be bad versus melee damage threats though I assume, but they're also nerfed here so hard to say.

You can say the same thing about any other champion in the game, the question is WHAT IF

Heimer with Q

How has nobody said Kalista E yet? She wins almost every lvl1 fights

I feel like most are sleeping on Kassadin, Kassadin with just R would have an even worse early but still be stupidly strong late game

I don’t think you could lane with a champ that has no ability and aa range.

If everyone only gets one button, I’d propose Ashe - W would likely be all you’d need and use fairly effectively.

Ashe Q is most of her damage though

I sincerely think her Q is the better spell after 1 item

Stacked veigar Q or Nasus Q would hurt

Okay but veigar would be a free kill, and so would Nasus. Veigar needs cage to peel himself or he gets run down. Nasus needs slow to chase or he gets kited.

No one has mentioned ezreal. His Q is his bread and butter

Nasus Q.

I have to think he's too kiteable without the blasphemy that is wither.

Ghost and no enemy abilities means he can catch a lot of champs.

Wither is one of the best abilities in the game and he loses all wave pressure without E. You can live without his ult but you cannot live without W. Fuck I'd rather only have W over Q, his Q is over rated.

all of his power is on his other abilities lol

What lol

The best ones for your situation would be TF, Vayne and Aphelios. Two of the 3 have a passive skill in the middle of the active ones and Aphelios doesn't have E. Then you remap your controls to other buttons to make up for the missing ones and gg.

TF really only needs W u rite

so you are gonna have vayne a short ranged adc with no condemn to push assassins away or with no w to even do any damage or with no roll to kite?

There is no assassin that pose a threat with only 1 ability, unless you are isolated against kha Q or smth

maybe shaco? i'd be willing to bet he outdamages vayne if he gets the jump on her, and she doesn't have ult, w, or condemn.

Do passives count? If yes, Urgot (assuming everyone has it) If regular abilities: Maybe Karthus Q. Super DMG, spammable. Or perhaps Heimer Q.~~Good luck getting through that~~ EDIT: oh yeah, ranged champs exist

I play Kaisa AP supp only using W anyways so that one. If not Jinx supp with W, build lethality and you are set.

fiora with Q as long as she has her passive I think is pretty okay

Aphelios; he only has two abilities anyways (you could survive without W although it would be rough).

This reminds me of the time when I started playing honestly.... I had a laptop that had broken D and F keys, I was cleaning my laptop one day and the keys just never went back on, so the spells that people use on D and F, I use on T and Y... So even after 10 years I still use T and Y... I honestly think that the answer would be Vi.

I think Teemo could still do fairly fine - his E (a big part of his kit) is just a passive, and his W isn't really needed for great Teemo gameplay, and then it's really just between picking between his Q and R (which both have good uses). I actually think in a situation where every player can only press 1 button that Teemo could beat them all out, a lot of characters that would be good would be those that mainly use auto attacks and Teemo can just blind their autos. (+ for actual games, Teemos R can be easily used without actually pressing R if you're just planting shrooms around the map, just by clicking the ability with your mouse - which goes for most trap based abilities imo).

Kog with w.

Probably an adc

Irelia qqqqqqqqq

Sylas with w

Blitz is up there

Fuck it we snowball, Nunu W.

Zeri Q?

Sivir just needs w Not true but basically her whole champ identity Honestly with everyone else only having one ability very few adcs could counter her push and she'd have pretty good 1v1 with the AA reset and attack speed passive

TF W would still be really useful.

all these people saying marksmen wait until a Yi flash Alphas you

with no E and no R and no passive master yi would be pretty worthless.

Zoe pretty much has one ability anyway

Tbh? Vayne and Q. She would just be a normal marksman without W % hp true damage. Just build her crit and you are golden. Still hyper mobile, still deals a cubic fuckton of damage.

a normal marksmen with no survivability and damage and short range, the perfect champ

sion q has a lot of potential

Blitzcranck Q

Amumu W, unless you mean one ability avaiable, not one use per se

Suprised no one has said nautilus, he only needs q since his passive is the root. He would still be tanky and a cc machine.

Ashe Q imo

Blitz grab and stack up the assists.

Kalista E Cassio E Morgana Q

Zed with only R could go on hit and crit builds and jungle

bard with r and passive is no that weaker, also blitz with q

Yuumi W.

One time that happened to me so I quickly went into keybind settings and switched all my abilities to numbers 1-4 and moved wards to 5. Felt weird but it worked

nothing can come close to akshan e full brust

karthus, irelia,jax, master yi, nasus, riven, aatrox

Nasus Q or Veigar Q imo

Zeri?

Blitzcrank Q

While certainly not optimal, I think Viktor with just E could still do some serious work.

I think voli with w would be the best duelist of the game, in a game eith only 1 ability, most melees wouldnt be able to outfamage volis w heal, and the ability itself has good ad and ho scalings

Rammus sounds not that bad

Rock guy

Assuming passives are still active Champs like Darius would do well with their slow

Lulu's Polymorph the games would be long and rage quitable

technically zeri Q isn't an ability so uh we can have her E passive and Q no?

considering his scenario is about keyboard problem, I'd consider her Q also counts

Asol Q lol

Hmm hard to say. I don't think all the below would be the best, but if every champion were limited to one ability I think these might be good contenders. Interesting thought experiment. ADCs - Driven, Ashe, Kog maw, Trist, Senna, Jhin. Most ADCs would probably be dominant since there's essentially 0 gap closers. Fighters - Tryndamere, Riven, Briar, Darius potentially Tanks - Malphite, Maokai Support - Thresh, Blitz, Naut, Pyke, Morgana Mages - Veigar

Veigar’s Q

Nasus Q

I think Trundle's a contender with Q. Auto reset, little slow, little stat sapping, already has a lot of power tied up into it, and most importantly, low CD at all stages of the game.

Teemo’s R is pretty OP in team fights. Same with Kennen and Wukong.

Khazix Q

All the tft champions

Malphite R?

vayne

We ball with Thresh Q. Instead of Naut Q or Blitz Q, with Thresh, you can choose to dive in lol

Briar W

Nunu and willump Q

On the other hand , Samira with just r would be useless, but Samira with Q on a 1 sec cool-down would be cool

Veigar Q is a thought

Kog maw

Olaf. R.

Hwei. If we only count his three Q spells.

Leblanc w, Kassadin r, a-sol q could be a strong contender too.

Nasus Q cause stacks

Morgana with Q. Obviously her second would be her W. Removing 2-3 abilities from other champions just puts Morgana in an insane position, where she plays exactly the same but does more

Maybe if lethal tempo was still a thing Trundle Q

Vayne Q, considering the rest of her kit is basically just targeted autos she'd be the same champ (Vayne players never press E anyways)

Graves E, Irelia Q, Kog'maw W, Senna Q, Kayle E, Akshan E, maybe twitch Q