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Was Pyke's Nerf on R a little too much?

AngelRo74·6/6/2018, 5:45:23 AM·1 votes·1,726 views

I know what people are gonna say, "You're crazy, Pyke's R increasing to AD was too much, so of course it had to be nerfed down to 60% increase from 120% increase or somewhere near there," but I believe it was too much. When I play Pyke now, his R is much harder to hit now due to how low the true damage bar is now. Like the bar to where you hit R now only comes up to a quarter of their health to early and late game. Like my R is completely useless early to mid game that I can't do anything usefull with it. Pyke's R is like Darius's R but only a baby version compared to Darius's R. Pyke's R is so useless now since it's also at a high cooldown and nothing close to Darius R. They should at least make Pyke's R Damage similar to Darius's R Damage since it's literaly the same thing (almost). Idk, what do you guys think? I feel like after that small patch, people have stopped playing him completely because of this huge nerf to Pyke which I'm sure Riot doesn't want, I hope they buff his R a little bit because I think it was too much. [sg-janna]

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Woodakoodashooda6/6/2018, 5:51:25 AM5 votes

A support's ultimate that can execute enemy champions in quick succession, granting said support kill gold as well as the same kill gold to anyone who assisted them?

HOW DARE THEY NERF IT!

EarthyMadness6/6/2018, 6:01:41 AM4 votes

The thing is, assuming you're building Pyke like an assassin, his ult does more damage than Darius's at almost every stage of the game. Pyke ult at rank 1 has a higher base damage at level 7 than Darius's ult has at rank 2, the difference is that Darius gets 75% bAD and Pyke only gets 60%bAD. As long as Pyke is building some kind of AD, he will almost always outscale Darius ult for ult.

The key difference is that Darius has his Noxian Rage passive, which gives comical amounts of AD, and Darius ult does true damage to Pyke's physical.

If they both hit a target with 0 armor and full health, Pyke's ult should do more.

I think the big issue a lot of people feel is they're trying to treat Pyke like he can fight his way to that low hp threshhold for the execute and he can't very easily. Darius can, and has the sustain and dueling to get his target to that point with relative ease.

A sidenote, because Pyke's execute base damage scales with his level, and not with ult rank, I don't see what leveling it up does. Does it increase the timer between ults after successful execute? Cause it's already 20s at rank 1. Someone enlighten me?

Astorine6/6/2018, 7:35:32 AM1 votes

R E M O V E P Y K E S U L T. It still is silly as hell if pyke snowballs.