Is senna too strong, underwhelming, or just right?

overpoweredscrub·12/2/2019, 4:08:05 PM·1 votes·2,323 views

Eversince I watched the champ select, I thought senna was stupid. As a lucian main, senna is like a lucian with better utility. She loses lucian's double shot passive, dash, and ult for a piercing light that has incredible range, deals high damage, and also heals herself and allies in it. Then she has a snare that can snare multiple champs if they stay near it. She has a getaway invis that affects both her and her teammates. So she basically has high damage, high sustain and healing for teammates, and good escape tools for herself and allies. Why is she allowed to have such good healing, good escape, and good damage all at the same time? Well, do you think she is too strong, underwhelming, or fair to play against?

11 Comments

AccurateYeet12/2/2019, 4:10:46 PM2 votes

She's a little strong, but her sustain damage in fights is pretty down. She's a utility carry in the same style as Jhin.

iiGazeii12/2/2019, 4:18:11 PM2 votes

If anything, all she needs is to have the self-healing on Q reduced/removed. That's pretty much it.

Senna deals way less damage than Lucian. Each auto does a lot, but they're very slow due to the long windup. This not only reduces her sustained damage, but also makes her vulnerable to skillshots. Mages and hook supports on the enemy team can absolutely wreck her.

She doesn't have a good escape, she has a very poor one. Her only form of mobility is a small movement speed buff on a delay and requires her not to attack to keep the speed+camo. Her CC is a slow skillshot that is blocked by minions, and the actual root is on a delay. If somebody jumps on her, she can't create any space between her and them for ~2 seconds while her abilities activate. Due to her long attack frame, she also can't stutter step while running away. She'll just get caught.

Her snare is worse than other support's snare. The aforementioned delay gives enemies plenty of time to escape the radius, and even the target gets a moment to reevaluate their positioning before getting rooted, which often means the difference between them getting behind a minion or out of range. In most cases, it's a worse version of Lux's Q.

Her ult also doesn't have high damage. It does moderate damage. It has amazing range and awesome utility, but the damage on it is less than any other global ultimate with a much longer cooldown. People often compare it to Lux's ult, but Lux's ult deals more damage and the cooldown is half or less than Senna's.

Emperor Talquin12/2/2019, 5:37:03 PM1 votes

Only issues with her for me qre the stupidly long cc skillshot and the movement speed from e.

Smyrage12/2/2019, 5:39:48 PM1 votes

I think we can just simply say that other supports were overnerfed/too weak. Janna Sona Lulu Soraka Soraka just needs range improvements for example.

What I'm trying to say, that Senna is indeed a little stronger than them, but nerf her and people will just play Thresh Nautilus Pyke more again and you haven't solved anything, because Senna is still weaker than them. She just needs this amount of power to compete.

Chainman312/2/2019, 7:12:02 PM1 votes

You forgot her global ult that has a shield on it.

Mahoh12/2/2019, 7:35:52 PM1 votes

Makes Yas seem like an underpowered hero. Way too strong, maybe cut her damage to 1/4th what it is now.

NTrumpWeTrust12/2/2019, 11:02:40 PM1 votes

Support seems balanced as long as Leona/Naut are allowed in their current states. Everything else seems out of line, especially adc. Scales way too hard

Profirix12/2/2019, 11:11:42 PM1 votes

As a support I think she is fine. She doesn't get to scale with the crap income. As an ADC she is a menace. They need to find a way to balance her so she doesn't scale so hard.

TheFailingMonkey12/3/2019, 5:02:57 AM1 votes

From my personal experience, Senna ADC, doesn't really work what so ever (keyword being MY experience, i could just have some trashy players.) But when I see a Senna support It's really unfun to fight because that's a lot of damage for very little risk.