The Nautilus buffs significantly hurt Nautilus top and mid, Riot please read
These buffs are going to help
jungle more effectively but they create a new problem.
Titan's Wrath (W): damage while shielded decreased to 15/30/45/60/75 from 40/55/70/85/100 Riptide (E): Cooldown lowered to 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 from 10 at all ranks Mana cost lowered to 40/50/60/70/80 from 60/70/80/90/100 AP ratio lowered to .3 from .5 Slow duration lowered to 1.25 from 2 seconds
Nautilus top is going to suffer greatly from these changes. The w damage reduction was made so naut doesn't get too strong with the new cinderhulk enchantment Naut only gets that while jungling. This makes w an unattractive choice; 15 damage over 2 seconds is complete useless plus the shield pops is 2 autos and is on an 18 second cooldown with 80 mana cost. The other option you have is to max Riptide first. Unfortuantly there are problems with that as well. The cooldown and mana was lowered but he will still run out of mana extremely quickly before he gets his
/
. It also does less damage per cast so this will hurt him a lot.
Now lets talk about full AP Nautilus mid, which indeed is a thing and actually performs well against melee mids. The first problem here is a straight up nerf to his w dueling power. This doesn't matter that much because I max E first on Naut mid. Then the huge setback comes in. .5>.3 is a lot of damage lost, and is going to make it very hard for him to wave clear, especially with the damage nerf to his w. Naut is also going to have to use the ability more to do damage, which will drain him of mana very quickly. Before he gets his mana items or blue buff he is going to be significantly weaker in lane and overall weaker in the entire game.
I hope Riot can do something about the jungle buffs that doesn't make nautilus mid or top weaker. Some ideas for buffs are: Riptide AP ratio: .3>.4 Jungle nautilus doesn't usually doesn't get any ap so this will help him top and mid a tiny bit. Dredge Line: Passive: On hitting terrain 50% of dredge line's mana cost is refunded. OR Dredge Line: COOLDOWN: 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 > 15/ 14 / 13/ 12/ 10 Mana cost: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 > 50/ 60/ 70/ 80/ 90
I am not a balancing expert and i'm sure there will be many comments on how to help naut better. I really hope you guys can alter the buffs so Naut mid and top are still playable. Thank you.
