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Miss Fortune's current state of balance

A Miss Fortune·2/19/2016, 3:17:04 AM·11 votes·3,056 views
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MissFortune I have a lot of experience with Miss Fortune, having hundreds of games played with her and previously holding one of the most popular and well liked guides for Miss Fortune ever created. After playing Miss Fortune for many games after her rework I've come to notice (after her appropriate nerfs) that Miss Fortune began to feel weaker than she was when I played her in solo queue, which is odd because a large amount of the community considers Miss Fortune as overpowered and she's receiving significantly higher competitive play than what she was seeing previously.

In order to understand whether Miss Fortune truly was weaker or stronger before her rework I began comparing statistics of Miss Fortune in **high elo solo queue **a few patches before the Marksmen rework. It is important to note that Miss Fortune's statistics only changed very slightly over the course of a few patches prior to the Marksmen rework and nothing noteworthy changed. The few very minor changes were also almost all positive.

Comparing statistics from high elo solo queue performance before and after the Marksmen update:

https://i.gyazo.com/897d4df833b7218494840f9fec89bf38.png

Miss Fortune saw multiple nerfs in her solo queue performance in high elo after the rework in her current state, after her very overpowered state of release. Miss Fortune's winrate and damage have both gone down and her playrate has only slightly increased while the amount of times she dies per game has increased.

  • Winrate decreased by 0.94%
  • Playrate increased by 0.75%
  • Avg. damage per game decreased by 1,507
  • Avg. deaths per game increased by 1

The statistics provided importantly are also taken from the time before Darius received multiple major bugfixes and nerfs, Garen was one of the strongest top laners in the game, and Skarner broke the game with the highest winrate in League history. Miss Fortune even in one of League's worst states of balance in recent times (a state that particularly was harder on immobile ADCs) was statistically stronger than the current Miss Fortune in solo queue high elo performance.

Despite this Miss Fortune is frequently called out for being "overpowered" and "unfair" yet previously was even considered underpowered despite being clearly stronger in solo queue. Instead of taking an easy route and simply answer this by saying players are sheep and simply copy what people and pros say about the game I am going to analyze the differences between Miss Fortune's kits.

Pre-rework Miss Fortune: -Stronger auto attacks -Tankier -Higher sustained damage -Lower burst damage -Weaker ultimate

Post-rework Miss Fortune: -Weaker auto attacks -Squishier -Lower sustained damage -Higher burst -Stronger ultimate

There isn't much evidence that Miss Fortune is "overpowered" in these quick comparisons. It seems straightforward and nothing specifically makes her seem stronger or weaker as she received both buffs and nerfs in certain aspects of her kit. However one thing that definitely does draw attention is the significant buffs Miss Fortune received to her ultimate. Not only did Miss Fortune's ultimate have it's damage increased but it also can critically strike for even higher damage, being able to deal well over 4,000 damage in one go.

EXPLANATION ON MISS FORTUNE'S CURRENT STATE SKIP HERE IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE NUMBER STUFF

Riot attempted to give Miss Fortune a solid identity aside from an ADC who just had a little bit of everything in her kit. The previous Miss Fortune was really flexible and versatile but she didn't really have an identity and her kit felt all over the place. One part suggested a caster ADC like Lucian, while another suggested she was a mid game monster like Corki. Miss Fortune's identity was concluded to be a wombo-combo teamfighter in her rework and this is where the problem lies.

Miss Fortune had large amounts of her auto attack power traded for power into her ultimate. So much that Miss Fortune has by far the weakest auto attacks in the game without her passive, which only scales with bonus Attack Damage and not total. Miss Fortune is arguably broken because of how her ultimate can win a game in the press of a button if she simply has someone like Malphite, Orianna, or Amumu set up for it. People dislike how Miss Fortune can instantly win a game in 3.0 seconds and instantly get a pentakill without much to it. Miss Fortune wins in champion selection which is considered anti-fun and a massive negative factor in League of Legends because it removes the skill out of a skill-oriented game.

TL;DR Miss Fortune had so much power soaked out of her autos and replaced into her ultimate that her ultimate has become a balancing issue. Her ultimate alone is easy to avoid and can hurt Miss Fortune more than it helps her as it roots her for 3 seconds. However if she has a team to set up for her ultimate there isn't much hope to win and usually teamfights are always lost to the team. This lets Miss Fortune win in champion select.

                                   **IN CONCLUSION**

Miss Fortune's solo queue performance is weaker than her previous solo performance before her recent rework. Despite this she still sees numerous amounts of competitive play unlike before and is often called out for being considered overpowered. The reason behind this is because Miss Fortune when paired up with a strong team (Which is rare to occur in solo queue) allows Miss Fortune to win almost any game by making teamfighting simply not an option for the enemy team. Without a team built around Miss Fortune her ultimate ability, the primary focus of almost all of Miss Fortune's power, tends to be ineffective as it a 3 second channel that roots her in place for the full channel.

Sources: http://champion.gg/champion/MissFortune http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/missfortune too many MF games played by me

30 Comments

Earl Eulrich2/19/2016, 4:07:23 PM4 votes

or to repeat what i´ve said even before the rework:

before: fine champ, strong duelist/brawler with decent lategame now: press-r

Pika3102/19/2016, 4:07:30 PM3 votes

I've been saying from the start the changes to MF were poorly designed and an overall nerf. This is the 2nd time this week I get to say "I told you so." regarding champion changes.

Players are so desperate to believe Rito actually knows wtf they're doing and actually care about the game, they aren't willing to listen to reason or logical thoughts. They blindly believe that every change is for the game's betterment and refuse to take an objective look at champion nerfs.

Placentas2/19/2016, 5:21:55 PM3 votes

Yeah she seems more situational in regards to a team comp now. Still my favorite adc though <3 That Laugh <3MissFortune

VictoryDance962/19/2016, 3:23:39 AM2 votes

Whenever I am support and have a Miss Fortune on my team, choosing a champion like Nautilus or Amumu can definitely maximize her damage and team fighting capabilities. Very in depth and informative!

Drehirth2/19/2016, 3:37:13 AM2 votes

Very nice post!

I wasn't aware people still considered her OP though. I do think her sustained damage is very much underrated, but at the same time I go fervor +q max which disagrees with champion.gg and what I hear other people going for... she hard carried me out of silver and I really like the current balance state. Her ultimate rework having such a huge impact once again is what made me come back to playing her often again, and the main reason I decided to switch to maining adc for season 6. (that and the teleport nerfs/annoying either play a "tank or play fiora" toplane meta)

Ratchet Fortune2/19/2016, 4:13:14 PM2 votes

Very nicely said, I too am a MissFortune main, (I don't play ranked however---but that doesn't mean I can't share my opinion).

I feel like she has become an "R bot".

Most MissFortune 's I see do not properly manage their Love Taps, does not understand what Double Up is meant for, takes Strut as a granted worthless additional passive, and they will absolutely never combo their E + R.

However, the problem is, despite them doing the above, if they have a certain CC monster like Amumu , Sejuani , Malphite , Leona , etc, they will simply press their ultimate when the whole enemy team is disabled to instantly win the teamfight.

Before her rework, I went on a rant about how "Love Tap sucks!!!!", and most importantly; "Wow?!? Why do I have to focus 2 targets back and forth?!?! Absolutely gross!!!!". But, however, I loved her ultimate change .

A month later I started to realize that I fell in love with Love Tap since I felt like it separated the new/bad MissFortune s from the good ones, which has been shown greatly. However, I much preferred her old ultimate, where as she actually benefited from ulting on a disabled team, (Impure shot ramp up), but not dealing an absurd amount of damage making her instantly win a team-fight. I felt like the ultimate bonus AD ratio, (+10%/17.5%/25% of her bonus attack damage if I'm correct?), before her rework was heading in the right direction.

Now when I play her, as I stated before, I feel like she is now made into a "R bot", which is not the reason why I first started playing her when I joined League of Legends near Lucian release.

Lugg2/19/2016, 5:12:56 PM2 votes

The reason she seems overpowered to a lot of players is the change to her ult. Before the rework, you could completely ignore her ult. A Fiddlesticks could tank a full volley of it since it was so weak. The current ult is devastating (as it should be since she's a sitting duck) if you don't get out of it immediately.

A lot of players just haven't figured this out yet.

Anu3isII2/19/2016, 6:38:12 PM2 votes

Didn't you post the opposite results of the changes her rework made in that list? (So higher Win Rate, lower Pick Rate, higher Damage and less deaths on Game Average).

Other than that, I really agree with you, her Ultimate is surprisingly powerful. For me, she works as fine as before in terms of DPS (or people still don't know how to catch/position against me...). But her Ultimate is just OUTRAGEOUS!

Fitz n The Fool2/19/2016, 7:36:41 PM2 votes

Personally I feel like she's worse now than before. Same thing with Tristana when they reworked her. They removed the Grevious Wounds debuff from both MF and Trist which made them a lot weaker than they were. the GW debuff gave a lot of trading power in lane which is now gone..

Abyssphere2/19/2016, 4:49:58 PM1 votes

I reckon MF is gonna be very dominant next patch with the incoming nerfs to Ez and Lucian.

Overlord Madge6/22/2016, 7:15:28 AM1 votes

She really needs to go back to being a Jack of all trades champ. This new ult reliant Miss Fortune is THE WORST. I have no fun with her cause all my builds have to focus on making her ult stronger (where as before i could build more versatile) and i have to rely on other team members way too much (where as before i could be more independent)

Her W attack speed active is IRRELEVANT since her auto attacks suck because of her new passive. It does not fit in with the rest of her kit anymore.

They gutted her E damage recently too, making AP Miss Fortune irrelevant now. With every change they make to her, they make her less versatile and more linear and that is what i don't like about the changes.

Her old kit wasn't broken, i don't see why they had to change her at all.

John Viande2/19/2016, 3:57:12 PM1 votes

Miss fortune is one of my main too and I really confirm everything you said. Miss fortune is pretty much the "Katarina" of bot lane. If you don't have anything to counter her she is overpowered, but otherwise she can quickly become useless. The little difference is that she is still a bit harder to counter than katarina so she is viable in lcs games depending on the comp.

Some champions that counter her really hard:

Yasuo (windwall) Braum (Shield + CC) Malphite (ult) Trundle (bump) Vi (ult) Gragas (Ult) Leona (ult)

Also, you cannot play Miss fortune efficiently without Peel and a bit of zone CC. Champions like Jax, irelia, xin zhao are good against her but a good position/peel can still make her efficient

Dominick Destine2/19/2016, 3:42:27 AM1 votes

I don't think her win rate and pick rate are ... precisely because of her changes.

Remember that during those times, major buffs were done to other ADCs and she somewhat got overshadowed... for example right now; Lucian, Ezreal and Kog are just so absurdly superior to her so as to make her "weak" and give her statistically worse performance.

I understand that balance is measured on alternatives but in this case, it's not that MF needs buffs, it's that Ezreal/Kog/Lucian need nerfs.

TekkenPlayer2/19/2016, 3:28:45 AM1 votes

You don't want to pick MF vs a Vi Braum Leona Malphite Nautilus Blitzcrank for sure.

but with any CC-oriented support its almost a guaranteed kill most of the time with E

Superior Current2/19/2016, 4:33:07 PM1 votes

Her passive scales with total AD: http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Miss_Fortune