Remind me again why Pyke got buffed, and is getting another buff with lethality scaling on his ulti?

melior sum·Nov 2, 2018·6 votes·1,941 views

So you buff up the base damage on his ultimate, for I don't know what reason, even the mains were saying they didn't need it

Now on the PBE, you're going to give him lethality scaling so that when he gets ahead, he does even more damage on his ultimate

Cool, fun champ, "live design team", I wanna insult, but honestly it's to easy at this point

8 Comments

RalanrNov 2, 20187 votes

Probably to discourage full resistance builds.

melior sumNov 2, 20182 votes

I mean, if anything, this encourages a mix between the two, which is even more cancer

Build 1 or 2 lethality items then go full tank, GG EZ

People will still go resistance builds if need be, it's not like it got nerfed heavily

giannishannibalNov 2, 20181 votes

Well in my majority of the games vs pyke i see item 3142 and item 3147 followed by item 3401 and item 3117 . Then go goes for item 3110 or item 3026 or item 3065 . I mean for me this isnt any sort of discourage whatsoever. Just a way for pyke being more unkillable while dealing even more damage ( since the his ult has a scalling with flat Pen and the flat Pen deals more damage to targets with no resistances so its sort of double buff in my eyes, maybe I am wrong though).

AlzonNov 2, 20181 votes

Challenge:

Pyke item 3512

+330 armor +330 MR +750% HP regen

Vlada CutNov 2, 20181 votes

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Probably to discourage full resistance builds.

You can still go full tank with just one lethality item. How on eartu is THAT fair?!

iiGazeiiNov 2, 20181 votes

Because the fact that his other abilities no longer scale with rank and his maximum gray health scales directly with AD is a huge nerf to his early game. Pyke will need a lot more gold to scale. If he's behind, his abilities and health regen will be nowhere near as powerful as they are now.