PBE grag nerf but not NID???

Angry Monster·Jul 22, 2014·2 votes·891 views

Riot hold on a minute, I think you just got nerf happy.

yes grag is strong. Does he need a nerf sure. not going to fight you on that. Though lets take a deep breath and think here. The only person that can stand up to Nid right now is grag. When i say stand up i mean survive. This week LCS the caster were talking about how Nid out shines Grag.

Lets be honest the last buff Nid got was not needed. You over reacted and buffed her numbers when she was not played in the LCS yet. Now you are jumping the gun and hitting grag over the head. Lets not go down olaf path in one swing. Just choose one for this patch and see what happens. I am pretty sure you are going to see a severely hinder grag or a Nid with out an stopers. So please choose the q or the w.

Barrel Roll ( Q ) now deals 70% damage to minions

Drunken Rage ( W ) mana cost increased to 30 from 0 Drunken Rage ( W ) damage reduction now lasts for 2.5 seconds down from 3 seconds Drunken Rage ( W ) cooldown changed to 8/7/6/5/4 from 8/7.5/7/6.5/6

Lets not forget that nid has half her kit manaless. So Riot how about you tone this one back a hair and make this a multi step thing. You do not want to have to pull another hecarim and say opps we over nerf 6 months ago and just now we are getting to it.

5 Comments

SilverclawJul 22, 20142 votes

Gragas in his current form has seen LCS play for a much longer time than Nidalee has. Give them some time.

Angry MonsterJul 22, 20141 votes

LOL they buffed NID while she was disabled from the client cause of her kit changes. They are doing random things cause they are not testing again.

Like i said in the post. Give grag a small nerf slowly work it in. But you can not leave nid in her current state. There will be nothing that can stop her.

Serpents EmbraceJul 22, 20141 votes

Nidalee's late game is kind of extremely underwhelming. She can split push, but that's a shaky strategy in most games. Her lack of CC is pretty damning when she goes AD and her fire-and-forget AP damage is not so crippling to the opponent.

Gragas' late game is extremely relevant and demolishes a lot of AoE team comps that attempt to group up and combo PBAoE abilities.

Angry MonsterJul 22, 20141 votes

I am sry but that is like saying jaxs is never a issue cause all he can do is split push and take towers.

Nids early game is beastly early on. There is almost no way to actually trade with her. She range AA and throws a spear til she hits you and all ins. If she wants to conserve mana she just changes form and quickly clears that way. Do not forget she has a 750 gap close on top of everything else.

Sure grag has to get an AOE clear that you have to max first to clear waves. Also it has to a charge attack that blocks some damage for 3 sec. But if you know how to play against grag you chase after he all ins cause he is spent.

Grags kit is already super binary. There is so little you can actually do. Its throw barrel turtle or all in and try to walk away/jungler finishes the job.

The total changes do not make him more interesting to play against. He will just turtle harder.