Evilynn no longer has a viable position in the game?

Halodjin Tyr·Nov 24, 2014·4 votes·1,485 views

so I've been reading the Forums, and I wanna know if this is just Smut talk or if people agree with this. I personally do so I'm looking for counter arguments and complaints. She can no longer skillfully clear her own jungle until around level 13 (lots of backing is involved, inability to clear both Jungle buffs) she was removed from the lane phase a long time ago, Easily killed by the New minion wave dmg buffs between level 1-3 anybody feel she has a redeeming quality or Way of building her so she's capable of jungeling ? I've personally tried a few item combinations/masteries/runes and the farthest I could get was (Blue/wolves/dead to red buff)

13 Comments

DrukyulNov 24, 20144 votes

She has stealth, but she can't assassinate anything so it's somewhat pointless. She can kinda build bruiser, but then she's just inferior to Shyvana in every way.

She needs CertainlyT to rework her.

WooBeeWooNov 24, 20143 votes

Shes not a ranged adc so riot doesn't care

WereScribNov 24, 20142 votes

I've not had problems with Eve's clear, she needs to take the AOE smite and monitor her smites on the red buff carefully to heal. But she starts clearing quickly and healthily pretty fast in my experience.

My issue with Eve is she lacks the power taken from her due to her synergy with Elder Lizard right now, she can get good, she can be powerful, but it just made her even more item reliant then she was.

ByerleyNov 24, 20142 votes

Maybe I'm just a plat scrub, but I think she's a really solid mid/top bruiser.

I don't understand why people build her the way they do; it's gross.

ThryaleNov 24, 20141 votes

because back when ap assassin eve was in her stride, riot gutted her with just one simple change: changed the dmg type on her E from mag to phys. This meant that her assassination potential took a nosedive. Combine that and her serious lack of getting to primary targets needing assassination and the only real alternative is to just build bruiser.

Fast forward to the new jungle, and we can now see that the bruiser build can't work anymore cuz she wasn't designed to be a bruiser. The jungle is just too tough for her squishy base stats.

Honestly, I think if riot reverted the change to her dmg type now, eve wouldn't be a problem anymore simply due to her needing to actually take a lane now instead of going jungle.

ByerleyNov 24, 20141 votes

because back when ap assassin eve was in her stride, riot gutted her with just one simple change: changed the dmg type on her E from mag to phys. This meant that her assassination potential took a nosedive. Combine that and her serious lack of getting to primary targets needing assassination and the only real alternative is to just build bruiser.

Fast forward to the new jungle, and we can now see that the bruiser build can't work anymore cuz she wasn't designed to be a bruiser. The jungle is just too tough for her squishy base stats.

Honestly, I think if riot reverted the change to her dmg type now, eve wouldn't be a problem anymore simply due to her needing to actually take a lane now instead of going jungle.

People still make the assassin build work; it wasn't actually nerfed all that badly. I never liked assassins anyway though so I jumped ship personally.

My gripe is actually with her common bruiser itemization. I think cdr/resists/ap/ad (in more or less that order) best compliment her kit so my core build is generally something like item 3158 item 3110 item 3146

I mainly see people build item 3117 item 3143 item 3078 , ect. on her and it strikes me as very sub-optimal.

SlaaneshineNov 24, 20141 votes

Honestly, you just have to back for the AOE smite upgrade as soon as possible, and even then she's incredibly squishy. Things have creeped far past what Evelynn is capable of, and honestly needs some boosts to get her back in playable shape.

ArsenalsNov 24, 20141 votes

Thank god. Fuck that toxic piece of trash. Most broken champion (historically) in LoL history.

AtheosisXNov 24, 20141 votes

Yeah I'd say she's kind of in Urgot territory right now. A champ without a home.

Champion SkinNov 24, 20141 votes

Well I don't think Evelynn is horrible but honestly I don't think there is much of a reason to pick her other then her passive

TengrichanNov 24, 20141 votes

I build her as a tank since the latest rework.I don't even bother building too much offensive items. My usual build was item 3111 item 3206 item 3075 item 3025 item 3071 item 3102 . This gave me everything i needed to peel,to tank,to deal dmg.Her ulti is an initiation tool at the moment and gives shield.Now if you go in with this build you will soak up so much dmg while being able to slow them quite hard. Though i am not sure what jungle item is a good replacement for item 3206

Ayame IsakiNov 24, 20141 votes

Evelynn can still jungle... sort of.

I run a hybrid mastery set for AD/AP 21/9/0. Runes I run 6 AD Marks, 3 Hybrid Penn Marks, 3 AP Quints, 9 Flat Armor Seals, 6 Scaling AP Glyphs, and 3 flat AP Glyphs.

I build her pure AD item wise and almost always shoot for BotRK over Maw as my first offensive item. She needs the lifesteal more than the MR to actually have a shot at trying to be competitive (i.e. sustain in the jungle).

To be fair, I only do this bots; she isn't good enough to actually jungle against a real jungle champion.