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Guess what the Kog'Maw revert without restoring Living Artillery will do...

Daetnas·9/10/2016, 10:23:29 AM·2 votes·774 views

Here's how they nerfed the hell out of this ability when they wanted to put a whole champion's kit into his W:

R - Living Artillery COST 40 mana ⇒ 50 mana DAMAGE 80/120/160 ⇒ 70/110/150 ABILITY POWER RATIO 0.3 ⇒ 0.25 BONUS ATTACK DAMAGE RATIO 0.5 ⇒ 0.65 VISION DURATION 4 seconds ⇒ 2 seconds MANA DEBUFF DURATION 6 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds REMOVEDDON'T TOUCH THAT No longer deals 100% increased base damage to champions NEWSMELLS LIKE FEAR Now deals double damage to enemies between 25% and 50% health NEWSMELLS LIKE DESPERATION Now deals triple to enemies between 0% and 25% health

Now that they realized having a champion that stands in one place and right clicks to either melt you or die isn't the healthiest kit, they want to restore his kit to the old state, but leave this mess of an ult as it is.

Here's what's going to happen: If they restore his W and Q to the exact values they were before the rework, he's going to be the lowest winrate marksman in the game and borderline unplayable, because his ult will be an objectively much weaker ability than his old one. Then they'll have to buff him somehow, and as they seem to hate the idea of an artillery marksman, they will probably put more damage into his W/more attack speed into his Q. The result is the same stat-checky one-dimensional basic attack champion we have now except he'll be able to attack move.

Because that's a fun champion design guys. An ADC that only does things all the other marksmens can do as well, except he scales better with items. God forbid we get a fun to play artillery ADC, it would be way too hard to just remove the AP scalings on his old ult or add an ammo system to make it easier to balance.

7 Comments

Daetnas9/22/2016, 9:29:33 AM2 votes

So Kog'Maw's winrate dropped to 46.35% in the last day according to op.gg .

It's time for phase 2, Riot buffing Kog Maw the wrong way, and he becoming an autoattack bot again.

Rebonack9/10/2016, 1:04:05 PM2 votes

If Riot adds a bonus AD ratio to Kog's W after they revert it, then I can see Kog favoring AD heavy builds and blowing things up with his Ult.

If they just reduce the stack counter from 10 seconds back to 6 I'll be very happy. That would make it a lot easier for Kog to spam his way to a full Muramana.

Paroe9/25/2016, 10:41:08 PM1 votes

thing is kogmaw jungle is even better now than it was.

Kokiri Star9/10/2016, 10:44:58 AM1 votes

I'm honestly fine with it, nothing is more unfun, than to work your ass off all game ust to have a guardian angel, on hit kogmaw mow everyone down in half a second.

abbbez9/22/2016, 9:37:31 AM1 votes

I Wouldn't mind if they just made him an poke mage instead.

Daetnas9/25/2016, 10:37:23 PM1 votes

http://www.op.gg/champion/kogmaw/statistics/adc

http://i.imgur.com/SIAD1nt.jpg?noredirect

Coballz9/10/2016, 11:41:33 AM1 votes

His ult is, if you were to take the time to look at it properly, far stronger than it ever was before. Not only is that bAD ratio slightly higher, but as soon as anyone on the enemy team dips below half health, that ult becomes not only stronger in base damage, but almost three times as strong in bAD ratio than it was before. A crit Kog'Maw with, say, IE/ER/Runaans/BoRK not only shreds teams, but also has a far easier time picking off stragglers with an ult that deals more damage the lower you are.