Twitch is dead and riot killed him (From the 18th highest mastery twitch player in league)

Sans Hama·11/10/2016, 10:32:30 AM·3 votes·1,076 views
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Hey guys!Twitch

Im HipsterCloud one of the highest mastery twitch mains, and a gold one trick pony. I love twitch and he's one of main reasons i play league so avidly. When i first figured i liked taking all the glory and kills and that adc was the role for me at a low level, i found twitch. He allowed me to play hyper aggressive, making up for bad positioning with crazy escapes, he gave me kills that seemed impossible with poison and ultimately changed my experience in league forever. Now he's completely butchered in honestly one of the worst reworks i have ever seen riot make. I love riot as a company, they listen and yet make changes that they think are right. I really hope you will listen to those who really love twitch. Lastly, without a doubt i am okay with a nerf, he has been top tier for way to long and I'm okay with a nerf. I just dont think this a nerf, this is a new champion. Okay lets get into it!

What twitch should be:

Twitch has the always been the ultimate hyper carry, a feast or famine champion who can solo carry or do absolutely nothing. Early game he is extremely weak, and relies on taking kills from his team and assassinating people by himself. He's a sneaky thieving rat at this point that the enemy team needs to shut down. For escapes and engages on his worthless early game we have "Ambush" twitches former Q. Ambush provides an entrance (counterable by pink wards) or an exit. However he can only use it once unless he gets the kill. Late game if twitch is ahead and ready he becomes a glass cannon. It completely changes him from an assassin to an adc and if he is doing well he carries at this point. He uses his stealth to reposition during teamfigts, set up with flanks, chase down targets and finally escape.

What re-worked twitch has become

The big changes that have come to him are his stealth, slow and build path changes. Firstly the nerf to his stealth which is by far the biggest. Stealth as mentioned above can be used as an engage, and escape or a chance to reposition. His stealth does none of those, its literally pointless. At this point twitch doesn't have a Q. This doesn't solve any of twitches problems, and ruins his character of being a sneaky deadly rat. Next his poision slow. Once again, from a twitch main this is another nerf. Twitch excels at high speed engages and extended AA trades, his potion sucks for both these. It was once a quick skillshot that once hit applied affects. Now you have to keep them on it to do anything and nobody in trying will stay. Once again its literally pointless at this point. Finally his entire build has been changed with the removal of attack speed from yommu's his core item. The resulting dusk blade build turns him into a one shot late game, exactly what riot deems unhealthy.

Solutions

Honestly at this point I'm fed up with the fact that my favourite champion is being removed, the result is not twitch, and its unhealthy. Here is my solution. Make is stealth into invisibility and shorten it drastically. Then nerf his movement speed and auto attack speed after invisibility. This will leave him in a worse place then before but his kit won't be completely gone. I will take an azir level nerf just to keep twitches kit.

TLDR:

Twitch is a unique and awesome champ, with a weak, sneaky early assassination game transitioning to a hyper carry late. This rework is three straight nerfs to him, It leaves his stealth pointless and onesided, a weaker kit and a forced build which turns him into a late game one shot champ, exactly what riot doesn't want.

9 Comments

TryMucinex11/10/2016, 12:08:16 PM2 votes

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Cosmo Memoria11/10/2016, 11:27:09 AM2 votes

Rito, im begging you to listen to OP. There is no reason to pick twitch over any other ADC except kalista. Other hypercarries like vayne and jinx can carry so much better but i love playing twitch. You can nerf him, keep his w whatever but please revert his Q. It is now a useless skill and the reason why he is non viable.

Dracocrash11/10/2016, 5:49:08 PM1 votes

p.s

THe sight you used is unreliable. use this-http://championmasterylookup.derpthemeus.com/champion/?champion=29

SwiftKitten8811/10/2016, 11:10:04 AM1 votes

on a side note.. I'm not sure how reliable that site is

it says i am the 8th highest mastery nidalee in NA. but it didn't even show me on the list until i looked up my own name. i mean i knew i was going to be in the top 100... but the top 10? that seems sketchy...

so I'm not sure it is even looking at people who haven't used the site

Meep Man11/10/2016, 12:25:43 PM1 votes

Why don't we actually make Twitch sneaky and up the sneak side of his kit?

Q- Ambush

  • Invisible Duration increased to 15/30/45/60/75 seconds from 10/11/12/13/14 seconds
  • Movement Speed Bonus increased to 30/35/40/45/50% while sneaking near someone

I mean why not right? Twitch is pretty devastated by the changes so why not make him absolutely insane with stealth and make him the Stealth Rat of the Rift?

Dracocrash11/10/2016, 5:28:37 PM1 votes

I like the new changes to twitches kit, but I dislike the itemization changes.

Spooky AP Kitty11/10/2016, 11:21:21 AM1 votes

I know how it feels man. I am a AP rengar main for some years already(also gold) I even made this acc to focus on rengar only. the rework they done to it was pretty awful. his ultimate stealth is just like Twitch stealth. he loses ferocity when out of combat(6 seconds). his W cannot be used for sustain in lane now, because it has no base heal. it has a 50% incoming dmg heal. If I am low health, my W won't do nothing now.

just like you, this rework changes the playstyle of Rengar. he used to be a combo/run away assassin. but with his new W and passive asking for you to stay in combat. it turns Rengar into a Irelia like champion. which sucks, remove the originality. you are supposed to hunt enemies with bad positioning, not focus on teamfight engages..

the way that I see people going to build rengar will be spirit visage tanky. and basically never die. and I hope they do it, so Riot can revert the champion Q.Q I made a similar post like yours talking about my opinions on rengar... http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/EiaGfqjl-my-opinions-on-new-rework-rengar Rengar item 3348 item 3151 item 3073 summoner 3