Did riot explain why they were buffing vayne?

Death by Glamour·Aug 14, 2017·2 votes·316 views

Yes we can all agree they were way overboard but I was wanting to know why they even thought she required such buffs

6 Comments

MizayaAug 14, 20174 votes

Their intention isn't to buff her, their intention is to turn her away from building crit (aka the 2 crit item burst build) into building sustained DPS.

GankedByWindowsAug 14, 20172 votes

Because she is weak and has strayed from her intended niche. She is supposed to be the ultimate tankbuster, yet even in the current tank meta where she should be at her strongest, she is rarely played. Right now she scales into a mini-assassin with Q crits+shiv. They want to push her back into the ultimate tank killer, which is why the proposed changes removed the Q crit, and increased W % true damage scaling.

Death by GlamourAug 14, 20171 votes

Oh so they now admit the q crit change was daft... hopefully they revert the stupid draven buffs which came after because of it

Mysticman89Aug 14, 20172 votes

It's probably important to note that Riot putting changes on PBE is not always the same as them actually buffing the champion or planning to put them on live, and it's not uncommon for them to put knowingly put unrealistic stuff on PBE for exploratory purposes just to get some quick data.

Still, the idea in vaynes case would be to shift power from squishy bursting to tank melting, not necessarily to buff.