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If League had less damage, Pyke would be stronger

AmenPerson·5/17/2018, 2:07:29 AM·1 votes·666 views

Playing him myself on the PBE and watching videos of him, quickly begins to show one of his major weakness as a Support Assassin. He's meant to not be able to 100-0 someone by himself, but instead, like most Support, assist teammates in getting people to that 100-0 range. Except with Pyke, he contributes with small amounts of hard CC, and pure damage. And he's got one of the best ults in the game for securing kills, second only to Cho'Gath.

The only problem with Pyke, is that people die too quickly once they dip under that already low health threshold. I understand that complaints about damage being too high have been around for a couple of years now, but in my opinion, they only become really obvious when it negatively effects how a champions kit is suppose to handled, aka Pyke, since he can't make use of his ult to double the gold value of a kill.

3 Comments

Khristophoros5/17/2018, 2:20:12 AM1 votes

You have to preemptively cast the ult by knowing how much damage they are going to take in the next half second or so. You just have to have a basic amount of awareness of what's happening in a fight.

And that shit is OP lmao. Even if you fuck up the timing and they die before you hit, you still get the refresh. It's an AoE that does massive fucking damage even if you don't get the execute. Like that shit is going to be nerfed so fast if they release it in its current state. It's hotfix worthy. But we all know they'll release that shit as-is.

Shatter the Sun5/17/2018, 2:49:19 AM1 votes

They should have the execute range scale with the amount of team mates that hit that enemy. This way, if you manage to ult someone who was attacked by you and your whole team then you could reliably reset.

OR

When an enemy dies that you managed to hit, you could ult at the location within a certain amount of time and it would act just like if you had killed someone with your ult.

nm10105/17/2018, 3:12:13 AM1 votes

I have a bruiser build I’m testing on pbe that hits 1k+ execute range (at full build of course). This champion is actually one of the most ludicrous releases in a while.