Can we please get a word about possible Evelynn tweaking?
At the moment she has many, many issues at the moment that add up to making her simply unviable right now.
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Her early damage is weak. Making her AP/AD ratios scale with rank means her early game damage is too poor, and for a jungler with no hard CC this is terrible in a game where everyone has a form of gap closer/hard CC/flash.
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She has no health sustain and no bonuses against jungle creatures. This compounds with the first issue. She can't clear fast enough for the damage that she is sustaining, and due to being on the lower end of base health, means that she can't last in the jungle very long.
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She is extremely mana intensive. If you go in for a gank, you lose so much mana that you cannot go back into the jungle and farm, even if you are close to full health. Giving up half your mana for no return during a gank, and then being forced to back due to a lack of mana means she ends up far behind when other junglers simply go back into the jungle to finish some farming. It makes her much more at risk to be counter jungled, on top of being squishy and having a poor ganking game.
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She has absolutely no choice in jungle items. You MUST go with ranger's right. She is squishy and mana intensive, and with the nerf on the PBE this puts her in an even worse spot because her only form of sustain is going to be up even less. Chilling smite would be a nice option for her but she can't utilize it due to the above reasons.
if I might make a proposal? A damage bonus against jungle monsters would go a long way. It would help reduce the damage taken by jungle monsters, reduce the mana needed to clear a camp, and it would allow her better options with the jungle items.
The nerfs that were implemented on Evelynn were done in mind that she would be coming out of the jungle at level 3 and begin hyper ganking after every clear. With the new changes to the jungle, early jungle pressure isn't a problem, and perhaps her AP/AD ratios, or her base damage could be slightly adjusted so that her strength is stronger early on so that she can provide the same pressure at level 4-6 that other junglers can now provide.