[Discussion]: Mini-Updates

Agent Corgi·May 3, 2019·2 votes·1,232 views

5/3 PBE Update: Tentative Balance Changes

As of today (5/3), a miniature-update to Malphite has been sent to PBE for testing (similar to Blitzcrank's Update).

How do you guys feel about these Mini-updates/QoL Changes? Personally I like the fact that Blitzcrank's [R: Static Field] Passive isn't RNG-Based anymore & the fact that Malphite's Size now scales with Armor is just hilarious to me (It completely makes sense thematically & It'll probably make his Ulti even more terrifying in teamfights)

Are there any other champions you guys would like to see get this kind of work done?

4 Comments

Moody PMay 3, 20192 votes

Karma

hehe oh wait ;)

GaliöMay 3, 20191 votes

Ashe Elise Kled Taliyah Velkoz

These are all people whon i dont really think need VU or disruptive GU that I think would be qualified for these types of changes

A step above that would be xin zhao level changes

Above that is Ezrael level changes

Then people who get rework-reworks.. but I dont think those are needed anymore and are disruptive to fanbases and balance.

XElite109May 3, 20191 votes

why they got rid of his bonus armor though...its literally what made malphite well malphite

Agent CorgiMay 3, 20191 votes

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why they got rid of his bonus armor though...its literally what made malphite well malphite

"Brutal Strikes wasn’t fun to use, and its power was hard to appreciate. The AA reset creates some room for optimization without requiring too much mind share, and the cleave gives Malphite something to do after unloading his wombo. Conveniently, it also helps Malphite farm under tower in bad lane matchups (which are most of them.)

To balance out all this new power, we had to remove Malphite’s 3x armor multiplier. While it was fun to see huge armor numbers, this passive component wasn’t practical enough to justify keeping. Since a lot of Malphite’s damage scales with armor, it was also inadvertently increasing his burst potential when building full tank. However, these changes are designed to be burst-NEUTRAL, as Thunderclap’s initial hit will make up for the highly situational damage that was lost." -Riot Lutzberg