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