dear balance team, wtf are these VI "buffs"?

FridgeD·4/17/2018, 9:35:43 PM·2 votes·2,044 views
Patch 8.8 Notes

Hi, in the last PBE cycle Vi recieved some "buffs", aiming at her general power and maybe bringing her back to toplane. the first rotation included a nerf to her W and her base armor. later that day i saw at surrender@20, that you gave her the old base att speed back. later in the PBE cycle you reverted the base armor nerf and all W changes, keeping the base attackspeed buff. I was pretty happy with the buffs, helping Vi in the jungle where she cant keep up with the meta junglers. And i liked the idea of Vi toplane, too. Everything fine?

Hell no! I just read the 8.8 patch notes. And what in there?!

Base Stats BASE ARMOR 35 ⇒ 30 ARMOR GROWTH 3.5 ⇒ 4 BASE HEALTH REGEN 9 ⇒ 10 HEALTH REGEN GROWTH 0.9 ⇒ 1

Passive - Blast Shield COOLDOWN 16-8 seconds (at levels 1-9) ⇒ 12-8 seconds (at levels 1-9)

Q - Vault Breaker COOLDOWN 16/14/12/10/8 seconds ⇒ 12/11/10/9/8 seconds

E - Excessive Force COST 40/45/50/55/60 mana ⇒ 26/32/38/44/50 mana

So you just shipped the base armor nerfs, but not the att speed buff? GUYS, WTF?! 5 armor less level 1 will result in way MORE dmg taken in jgl AND top. And why did you dumb even more of her power budget into health reg per lvl? She already has too much of this nearly useless stat! A diver needs power during a fight! not after the fight! She goes even in armor at lvl 9, making the other buffs nearly pointless.

Toplane is already a stat battle and in the jungle Vi competes with base stat lords like WW, Trundle and Skarner. I know, you dont want to overbuff her, but this isnt really helping. Even RiotAugust s twitter post includes base att speed buffs:

(https://twitter.com/RiotAugust/status/981340320322404352)

So please, give us atleast the attack speed buff.

Sincerely, a desperate Vi main.

22 Comments

lolipopevelynn4/17/2018, 9:48:08 PM2 votes

You guys forget how stupid broken vi is in the jungle when she is strong and overbuffed...

Devilreaper XIII5/5/2018, 2:20:53 PM2 votes

all of these shouldve been nerfs... vi is broken and still will be -.- why for gods sake buff her?

HalcyonDweller4/17/2018, 9:43:03 PM1 votes

The reduced cooldowns on her abilities are absolutely a buff to laning phase, having her mobility and spell rotations up more often will make her stronger in lane. I'm looking forwards to it it should be a lot of fun to use.

And she's not having her attack speed reduced anymore so it's not a nerf to her jungling at all.

IMO these changes are good. She was already good in the jungle, and now she's going to be slightly better there and way better top.

Commander White4/18/2018, 4:59:51 PM1 votes

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fckinshrimp5/5/2018, 1:38:42 PM1 votes

I just played to her and she needs fuckin nerf.

ModPeriscope5/14/2018, 3:00:31 PM1 votes

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