Remember last weeks when people were considering new PBE conqueror as a "nerf" and a needed change?

PaffWasTaken··10 votes·6,376 views

Well, in not even half a week, the majority of conqueror's past users got their winrates skyrocketing even more than before and now, because of its new insane synergy with ranged bullies, an even bigger amount of champions can abuse it.

Funny, isn't it? A keystone considered to be too powerful and overpowered by the community got reworked into something that people were greeting with open arms simply because the only part they read about it was "less true damage" and "can only charge against champions", yet everything (oh surprise) just went worse.

Simply put, "less true damage" means basically nothing if you slap on it adaptive damage working with ability scalings for good mesure and adding sustain on it too (which, by the way, unlike almost every single damage-to-healing interactions this game ever had, is calculated BEFORE damage mitigation, aka armor, and isn't reduced by AOE abilities. In case you don't know this is very very discussable balance-wise). Also, the fact that you can't stack it on minions anymore has barely any effect, since every champion with decent engage and harassment (aka, almost every single old users and beyond) will just ignore this and stack it almost instantly, just to indefinitely keep it or reactivate it in mere seconds.

Call it overtuned if you want, but even with nerfs and future adjustments on it, the new conqueror is just way stronger and so versatile that it can almost be picked universally between champions and bring balance problems to the game. I'm not saying old conqueror was balanced, what I'm saying is that this change was almost the perfect opposite of the nerf a lot of people here and on reddit thought it would be and that sustained damage boost, resistance negation and healing should never ever be put all together on a single "ability", no matter the conditions.

7 Comments

Eedat12 votes

Remember last weeks when people were considering new PBE conqueror as a "nerf" and a needed change?

What? Like all 3 of them? People were already saying the adaptive stats were too high and it was going to be broken on the a bunch of classes

AjXtar2 votes

True, but Riven and Jax winrate skyrocketed. Jax is at 53% win rate and he is pretty much pick and ban in high elo. same with riven.

Wild Geese2 votes

Speak for yourself, I was warning this one would be a problem if it went live. I think a lot of people were.

Tahminatrix 1 votes

Can you still charge up off of minions or do you have to damage champions to get it....

ModWulf Helhammer5 votes

Only stacks up on champions

Frosted Tips1 votes

I mean the players on PBE are absolute trash. PBE is to help find game breaking bugs and that is pretty much it. I have never played against a competent play on PBE.

spirit cooking1 votes

To me this post has value.

Do some people see this as useless bitching?

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