Sivir seems a little too strong right now

Reksee··2 votes·1,694 views

She has the second highest playrate and winrate in bot lane.

Play rate: 7.59%

Win rate: 52.45%

The rest of this post is going to be my opinions based on how it feels to play against her.

.E is annoying, it costs no mana but refunds mana if she blocks a spell. A lot of support's spells travel slower than traditional mage's spells so it is very easy for Sivir to predict when an enemy support is going to hit them with a spell. I would like it if Sivir's e cost mana, but still refunded the same amount as it does now( basically it refunds more mana to make up for the cost). This would make it so that if Sivir makes a mistake and mistimes her e she could be punished for it.

. Q is also annoying, it deals a lot of damage in the early to mid game and has a lot of range. I feel like if it had less range I wouldn't mind because then back line enchanters wouldn't have to worry about taking 100+ damage from a Sivir q.

Another annoying thing about Sivir is that she has the following poke(q and w) escape(r) Defense(e)

If Sivir feels threatened, she can just press r and then walk away going mach 2, and if you send cc her way she'll just spellshield it off. This is why I feel Sivir should recieve a minor nerf.

Also please keep all discussion civil, thank you!

7 Comments

Kanzler3 votes

Sivir has extremely high mana costs for her abilities. She cant just poke you all day like Ezreal can. She also has a low AA range.

Personally, I pick her because I love having the mid-late game waveclear and clumped up teamfight strengths. At my low elo, wave clear stumps a lot of teams and teamfights are cluster...fudges so it all works out.

Heraimish2 votes

If she rushes ER she has no mana problem (ER was also buffed a bit). She can also use her spell shield to gain mana from enemy spells.

Kanzler2 votes

Most people build ER second or third, not first.

Yes, spell shield gains mana, but it's conditional on blocking a spell. There are 2 strategies I see against sivir. One, pick a lane that isn't reliable on spells. You can either use brute force of autos, like draven, to kill her or you can just shove her under tower. If you dont throw spells, she cant gain mana back to clear the wave quickly.

Two, you can overwhelm her with spells. Leona has so much CC that even if sivir blocks one, you can still keep her locked down and kill her.

Saezio1 votes

The lass only just got to positive winrates just a week or 2 ago. Let people get accustomed to dealing with her again and if in 2-3 patches she is still too dominant then nerf her a bit. I personally would like to see her E restore even more mana but also cost like 50 to distinguish the good sivirs from the bad ones a bit better

Reksee1 votes

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The lass only just got to positive winrates just a week or 2 ago. Let people get accustomed to dealing with her again and if in 2-3 patches she is still too dominant then nerf her a bit. I personally would like to see her E restore even more mana but also cost like 50 to distinguish the good sivirs from the bad ones a bit better

Exactly.

Sir Saltarin1 votes

Lucian had higher winrate and more than 3 times the pickrate that Sivir has and has lasted months and months without a nerf (until last patch)

Sivir wont be nerfed more (she got a bugfix nerf) soon.

Somebody Love Me1 votes

They bug fixed her w which was doing more damage than intended. See if that helps.

She honestly doesn't work well without a Frontline, and I'd definitely prefer her over Ezreal who can poke and burst you down at all stages in the game. She at least needs scaling

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