Can you hold your Yi nerfs until 6.9 when you rework devourer/guinsoos?

Maikal·4/10/2016, 6:00:12 PM·9 votes·1,648 views

Yi is super frustrating to play against because he snowballs very hard with a lead because of cheap cost efficient broken on-hit and semi-tank items, which hurts his counterplay because he deals a lot of damage while being fairly tanky. Hence his ban rate.

Nerfing his kit does absolutely nothing to fix those problems because those problems are from itemization.

Why are you nerfing his kit, which was stable for 3 seasons, the patch before you're nerfing/reworking all the problem items in this game? That ult nerf won't lower his ban rate because he'll still snowball just as hard and abuse sated/guinsoos/semi-tank items until they're replaced in 6.9.

All it serves to do is hurt his identity as an assassin that hunts people down and catches them. 7 seconds is still a long ulti duration, but not if you use 3 - 4 of those seconds getting to your target which Yi very often does. This nerfs squishy full damage Yi, which is already in a pretty bad spot since everyone else is abusing broken itemization, just as much as it does bruiser Yi if not more. Please don't give Yi the "Sejuani" treatment.

4 Comments

Pentarina Only4/10/2016, 6:22:53 PM2 votes

Yi isn't even overpowered I have no idea why they're even nerfing him.

MunchCrunchLunch4/10/2016, 6:08:55 PM1 votes

last time i checked riot nerfs champs to reduce their reliability thus decrease winrate and not fix the actual problem that causes the fraustration. hmm yi is op. well its because of items. and second. his ult that makes him immune to kiting. lets nerf his damage instead

the only time is where they fixed the actual problem is when they made ryze only have 5 casts. that was a good fix. whether it gutted him or not they actually fixed the issue there