To the guy compesating Veigar

Gorzke·2/15/2015, 9:57:01 PM·1 votes·938 views

You didn't play Veigar until they said you to buff him, right?

"By amping up the AP farming mini-game on his Q, we're creating a new path for Veigar players to achieve their dream of pressing a single button and watching an enemy disappear. As it turns out though, this worked a bit too well, and pretty early in playtesting, we found that Veigar was reliably deleting people a bit too early in the game, so we had to make some small adjustments to his ult."

I mean, the only way he could deal more damage now than before was before Deathfire Grasp, and with the so many math posts about Veigar's burst show that this change doesn't make up with the loss of Deathfire Grasp.

"While 0.2 is a sizeable hit to his Ult's ratio, I want to stress that Veigar is getting quite a bit more AP from his Q in this version than on live and reassure any worried Veigar players out there that we're still seeing those beefy 2K+ Primordial Bursts in the late game with this version."

Again, the math shows that he will deal less damage than with Deathfire Grasp even without the AP Nerf, so this has no reason to happen if they were intending to compensate Veigar.

The other change, Event Horizon, nerfs one ability and makes the other one useless, so this doesn't help with the "compensation" neither.

Btw, the guy leading the Veigar changes, SmashGizmo, hasn't played a single Veigar Ranked Game in 5 seanons. http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/477045#ranked-stats

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SouL1ess2/15/2015, 10:53:22 PM1 votes

"By amping up the AP farming mini-game on his Q, we're creating a new path for Veigar players to achieve their dream of pressing a single button and watching an enemy disappear. As it turns out though, this worked a bit too well, and pretty early in playtesting, we found that Veigar was reliably deleting people a bit too early in the game, so we had to make some small adjustments to his ult."

"While 0.2 is a sizeable hit to his Ult's ratio, I want to stress that Veigar is getting quite a bit more AP from his Q in this version than on live and reassure any worried Veigar players out there that we're still seeing those beefy 2K+ Primordial Bursts in the late game with this version."

The size of the minion wave didn't increase by 100%. How is it increasing Veigar's ability to stack AP?