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I consider myself a Kai'Sa main

Probs feeding·10/4/2019, 4:02:16 AM·6 votes·4,524 views

And I consider her very, very unhealthy. I think she's in an ok spot atm, balance wise, but the fact she can build any kind of damage, damage/defense hybrid item and lose nothing for it is extremely unfair and impossible to properly balance around. I think Riot actually missed a very good opportunity here to make leagues first adaptive champion. Like imagine a world where Kai'sa could build AP or AD, but not both.

But fear not, I came with a proposed solution, not just with the 10 millionth complaint about Kai'sa.

SECOND SKIN Living Weapon: Upon reaching either 100 AD or 100 AP, Kai'sa's scaling become adaptive.

Example: Kai'sa's w has a 150% AD scaling and a 60% AP scaling. Once reaching 100 AP, the AD scaling would drop to 0%.

ok, but what would this do?

Well, this would make it so Kai'sa can't have a phantom dancer, guardian angel, a Zhonyas AND STILL be able to out damage every other ADC. It'd make her have to think just a little harder about what she can/needs to buy, while keeping her identity as the flexible build ADC.

Ok, sorry for the word vomit, that's about all I got. Thank you for listening, friends.

4 Comments

Keiaga10/4/2019, 4:09:32 AM3 votes

I mean sure there's no hard limits or restrictions on what it means to main a champion, but I'd assume to main a champ you'd logically have to play more than 27 ranked games with her? Or at the very least a positive winrate so you can establish you have some sort of basic mastery? To give your relatively large-scale rework idea some weight?

Smyrage10/4/2019, 10:15:55 AM2 votes

I think she just needs her AA range reverted back to the original. She wasn't a problem before that change and after that she became problematic. I never had any particular issue with her building hybrid, a lot of other champions can do it. Her kit doesn't have good synergy with either AD or AP items in terms of their passive effects. She basically build items for stats only. She is a bit similar to Varus in terms of build flexibility, except Varus has far more viable strategies than Kai'sa, whose only freedom is that she can build either AD or AP without losing that much power. I would say she is even worse in terms of build flexibility than Kog'maw.

Sewer Side10/4/2019, 11:50:45 AM2 votes

glad you’re not on the balance team #1143

RedOpticToxin10/4/2019, 4:11:53 AM1 votes

I dont mind her being able to build these items it makes for a great variety in build paths. I think you should just completely remove or greatly reduce the shield she gets on her ult that is the only problem I see. Also make it so she cant ult backwards or side to side, like in football she has to make a forward pass because people are abusing it alot as a getaway evade even though she already has e.