Quick Gameplay Thoughts: February 8

When will you nerf Riven?

Hey Meddler

How are Akali mains expected to play a 38% winrate champ without changes for over a month? Is it not possible to hotfix the champion for the time being so she can be at least playable?

Shouldn't ranged attacks not give full stack for the new conqueror? The only reason the old fervor worked was because ranged attacks stacked it slower than melee. Otherwise, it will be too strong on marksmen.

@Meddler • Thoughts on Aatrox in 9.3 • upcoming changes on Aatrox expectable?

Thoughts on wukong state? i mean thoughts on losing almost all match ups by default? Its depressing (any balance change on him pre mini rework? ) Downvotes no replys and hate incoming i already know :D @Meddler ?

I personally think that Conqueror does not need the healing on top of also giving stacking adaptive damage and true damage once stacked. This iteration is similar to Fervor (except it's now adaptive and gives more damage). Fervor didn't need healing for its users to deal sustained damage.

Do you have any updates on Karma update? Are works going well, or there are some problems gameplay-wise and direction has been changed (mainly CD reduction on allied abilities and bringing back tether mechanics).

Hey Meddler!

Any info about the junglers? Especially level 6 spike junglers (). She could use a +5 base MS owo imo without breaking her.

Hey Meddler!

Any plans for eve? You said she is being monitored for being too weak after the jg changes. Any potential buffs to her? Dont think she needs more damage or lower cooldowns but she is too slow... maybe give her some base MS or while she is in stealth get more speed? Champions who do similar job simply outrun her in high and low elo as far as my experience goes.

How about taking a similar approach to Yasuo like u did with Akali ? For example remove(/weaken) some defensive features like his passive shield? Doubling crit rate is a strong enough standalone passive. He also has other defensive options : Windwall (W) and hyper-mobility through multiple targets with E and benefitting early on from lifesteal. Alternative nerf : Make it also proc through minion damage (similar to MF W) Another thing that should/could be removed (alternatively) is R automatically placing him outside of turret range when diving. How is the existance of this mechanic justified? On top of that he also gets full passive stacks for the shield. For me this falls under the same catergory as Akalis now-removed under-tower-stealth.

Any news/ideas for ? Skins ? Almost 1000days since he got his last skin , Changes ? Buffs /nerfs ? What do you think of his current state ?

Hi Meddler! Any thoughts on Wit's End? It's only built in some on-hit builds, and even then it's not a priority. Any plans for a buff/adjustment? Also do you intend to rework some of the old/outdated passives like wu/kog/shyvana?

how did evelynn land with the jungle exp changes as a level 6 reliant champion?

Any info on Kayn after his passive changes, also the jungle changes? Feel like vs a 4 melee or 4 ranged enemy comp he actually gets his desired form slower (beacuse of the increased orbs 400->500, wich is a ~25% increase in time)

Meddler, do you have any thoughts on Taliyah? Her satisfaction level has remained low since the latest nerfs and the balancing team has yet to make a comment on her current state.

About Yasuo: a good way to nerf him is to take away his last buffs (Q damage and Base AD). That would put him back where he was before the previous crit item changes I believe.

About Conqueror: It seems that you guys nailed it. This ramping/stacks mechanic is way better than the current one and shoud have been in its place since the beginning. Now some caster bruisers (like Rhaast) will be able to use it better.

Hey Meddler can i ask for your thoughts on how well Irelia landed after recent set of changes

Any thoughts on karthus jg?

Hello Meddler!

Will nerfs for LeBlanc ? Given that most of the mage are now in a state of suspense, her snowball becomes too dominant. At least you can not touch her damage. But to reduce her sustain on lane fase (et. basic movement speed and HP regen per level), in particular, she has rather low death rates in games.

And nerfs for Kha and Lee? Given their great popularity and big pickrate, it is already possible to reduce their pace.

Hey Meddler! I had two questions:

1. It’s been a while since Shurelya’s Reverie was introduce. How has it performed? Any core users you’ve seen? (Personally love it, but rarely see anyone else using it, so I was curious).

2. I’ve noticed a bit more support for niche builds recently, something I’m personally excited about. Is this a goal for Riot or just a case-by-case situation?

Thoughts on Shen ? I hate being his buffs being tied to a specific item . Nerf his ult range and make the rest of his kit viable.

I like how they just skips the important questions lol. Seriously?

Hello Meddler!

Have you ever considered adding the "monster hunter experience" to Ivern's passive or making a special jungle item just for him? Ivern players never finish the jungle item and only buy Hunter's Talisman for the experience. It also feels like such a noob trap for new Ivern players, wasting their money on a completed jungle item when they could be getting their support items earlier.

Thank you for the answer!

Have you considered just reworking Yasuo to not have the double crit passive? Is the benefit of "he doesn't build like other AD midlaners" really worth the constant balance headaches?

Hi Meddler, First of all, thanks for always doing these gameplay thoughts. I really appreciate being able to understand what is going on behind the scenes and what is coming. As someone who plays a lot of Rek'sai and loves her thematic, I'm really happy that you guys are looking at doing some QOL buffs. If you are looking for a few more areas to touch up, I have three places she really feels bad, although these would be bigger buffs than the ones on the PBE right now.

1. Rek'sai's passive is really terrible, and while it feels barely necessary for early clears, late game it's completely useless since it doesn't scale on a champ that usually stacks health items. Maybe implementing a health or ad scaling would help with this?

2. It kind of sucks as Rek'sai to have to unburrow and then reburrow to be able to use any healing from your fury bar. I think this will be especially apparent with the new changes causing Q to give fury while burrowed.

3. I know this is the most contentious one, so I saved it for last, but Rek'sai's tremor sense is really unreliable, and this issue is only made more apparent with high latency. As someone who very recently struggled with maintaining a consistent connection, her Tremor sense became less of a tracking tool and more of a hidden notification that someone was near me that could also bait me into dying. At one point I dove into three people because they stood on top of each other at the exact moment my tremor sense went off and it didn't update again to show me them once they split up immediately.

If any of these changes could be implemented, I really think that Rek'sai will feel a lot better to play. Thanks for your time.

Thoughts on ?

Rek'Sai needs the sense of fear caused by Warwick. The feeling of being watched and pursued. Like the worms in the movie "Tremors".

Dot should proc conqueror. This is unfair for dot users, they haven't had a rune since deathfire touch. If ad bruisers need resources to deal with tanks why is that different for ap bruisers. Aery is half a rune because most dot users cant use the shielding effect. Also wont the conqueror change screw over ap bruisers or dot dmg dealers top lane since they are hard countered by healing over time.

As long as the goal is to get feeling better to play, how about giving her a passive instead of her current one that just explains how her W works?

Anything would be welcome. Bonus AD at max fury, extra fury generation vs champions, anything would do. Fury itself isn't a passive, otherwise there would be no need for 's crit or 's bonus generation at low health.

Hello Meddler and Riot, i was wondering if something is to be done soon about trundle. As a trundle main (you can check) im feeling simply left out. Since world's time period (where he got repeating nerfs for being a world's pick) he is a useless lump of low stats. His e is close to uselss (nerfed), his 1v1 ability is super low, which is supposed to be his strenght, to the point in which an amumu wins him 1v1 early. Current win rates by champion gg: 44.93% top, and his main role atm, jungle, has a 46.49% win rate, only 3 champs have lower win % and their main role isnt jungle (at least anymore): diana, camille and sylas, so hes the lowest real jungler atm. The thing is, trundle has no real opponnent flame-triggering gameplay, like akali's turret diving ability with shroud, or zyra's abnoxious plant damage, which both have been understandably banned to my opionion, so the question i cant find an answer to is- why keep him low? and not just low, because naturally some champs will be low, but- the lowest in his realm. This needs to be adressed to. Thank you in advance. Gh0stlol, sadly, a former Trundle jungle main.

Dear Meddler, in the same spirit of VI/Rek'Sai changes I wanted to know if there is some quality of life changes planned on Warwick ? Since his rework a lot of bugs has been reported by WW mains (check reddit or youtube). As a former Warwick main I won't say that he had bugs but I would say that playing this champ doesn't feel enjoyable anymore with the indirect nerfs,he's now clunky as hell ! In my opinion his 2 big issues right now are the ways his W and R work. The W is filled with bugs specially because it's supposed to work out of combat : It happened that Warwick suddenly stopped running just because there were minions in the surroundings without even an ennemy champion, or a W passive that doesn't even trigger even if I could see a low HP (less than 50%) target on the map forcing me to use the long CD active.Also, His R needs in my opinion a more generous hitbox. This ultimate alone used to put me in a lot of bad situations (range suddenly changing when casting ult etc) finding myself jumping through my target and in the middle of ennemy team. Aside from these gameplay changes/fixes that would make playing this champ more enjoyable I could also suggest some small buffs that could help him without making him overpowered : 1 - Small base MS increase (The 5ms you took from Irelia ,just give them to warwick) 2 - Small base attack speed buff : his first clear even if it's somewhat healthy thank to his Q and passive it's still very slow. 3 - HP growth buff : This is meant to fix the issue of Warwick players forcing to build cinderhulk/titanic then tank items on a champion that has a kit built on dealing damage (specially on hit damage) making bloodrazor (or even Warrior) based builds (that synergyze better with his kit) less viable options. 4 - Reduce Q's mana cost. Of course, he doesn't need all these changes but one or 2 of these should make him feel better (after bugfixses and QOL changes of course). I hope this won't get downvoted by people saying "Oh Warwick is a noob champ with a good winrate"...(In my opinion, the fact that he's not played that much and have a bad winrate in a competitive region like Korea is enough proof that he's not that strong even with his "decent" 52% winrate on champion.gg). Thank you for reading that long comment :) Cordially, Hedi Sama. EDIT : Nerfs to Yasuo are welcome (focus more on nerfing his defenses than his damage). Hope I see some nerfs to Riven as well.