(Rek'sai thread)Remember When Kha'zix Was Nerfed for LCS?

on patch 4:18 What riot said: "To us, when someone becomes popular in high level / competitive play, we see them as exhibiting symptoms of certain attributes that competitive players value: strength, overall effectiveness, and reliability. As such, we do keep an eye out for popular competitive champions, but our first goal is to understand if they're just powerful strategic picks in the current meta or if they're actually objectively better (or more reliable) than their peers"

......(long talk about kha'zix design)

"We're fine with players opting for a W-first Kha'Zix, but this means he's gotta make some meaningful tradeoffs, like losing some offensive threat while gaining utility / poke. Unfortunately, this hasn't really been the case as we're still seeing Kha'Zix being very effective as an assassin while also getting all of the extra utility of evolved W"

"Tunnel (Burrowed E) cooldown increased to 26/24/22/20/18 from 20/19.5/19/18.5/18"

i'm sorry, but i can't understand how the E cooldown is what makes Rek'sai a threat in competition. She is one of the best jungler in the game (in competition) due to her innert sustain+manaless and safety since her tremor sens is so useful in the entire game. She does almost no damage and her CC is for real underwhelming. You aren't trying to understand what powerful strategy is behind rek'sai, you are just touching random numbers because you are lazy (at least that's how i see this change).

4.18 kha made sens because his W gave him a strong poke and massive utility, the poke was so high and it had no trade off because he still had massive damage on Q. Nerfing his W damage from 235 to 200 was a good change. but this rek'sai change is garbage honestly.