Tooltip: "Deals magic damage equal to 40/75/110/145/180 plus 4% ([+.03 AP]%) of the target's current health. Maximum bonus against monsters: 75/100/125/150/175."]
No more poison, just a damage nerf.
Celeste Benal1 votesBecause she needs a nerf. Q already did far too little damage. It was merely reliably small vs all targets. Since the DoT was horribly broken, they decided to just nerf it flat out. Bad Riot, Bad.
JRobin311 votesYeah, I get RIOT is interested in making Elise more "thematic", but the reality is that Elise's kit is fine and her balance is in a good place right now.
Making a change like this to her Q has the potential to cause problems balance wise and game-play wise. Historically, RIOT has demonstrated a tendency to make changes to Elise when players haven't adapted yet to previous changes. So making a change like this to Elise's Q could very easily spawn a chain of patches from RIOT to re-balance her as it is almost certain that a change like this to her Q will take Elise out of balance.
This is the sort of change RIOT should've considered up front a couple months ago before making so many changes to balance Elise. Game play-wise the neurotoxin appears to be a poke mechanic that will give Elise a lot of consistent damage over time that she can spam onto enemies, so it would have the potential to shift Elise's game play away from the style of a spider hunting her prey to the style of a poke mage. So in the end, the change isn't even thematic.
