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Pyke support power creep

Crispy0Snake··2 votes·1,011 views

His stun was nerfed because tank pyke, and then they added lethality scaling so he stunned for a longer duration than before, but only if he buys lethality and takes sudden impact, now his ult scales on lethality, no Q stab but compensation buffs for support Pyke are plentiful, including double gold and W ms

Riot has powercreeped him to the point where buying tank items for resists and AD aren't viable at all by buffing his lethality scaling. They've funnelled him into the Domination tree with sudden impact and Lethality items, and now he just kills you in one combo for free ("Oh but Zyra Brand Lux Velkoz kill in one combo!" Immobile. Low base resists. No BS 60000 gold when they get a kill. Take item 3098 so they have to interact with the lane.)

Because Coin is uninteractive in lane, his W makes him uninteractive, his healing out of vision makes him uninteractive. Uninteractive, snowballs hard, kills your ADC in one combo. I ban it most games now, and the game is better without him in, for me

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9 Comments

ProExpertKing1 votes

Well this is both what they wanted and intented. Pyke was ALWAYS ment to be a squishy assassin support who was NOT allowed to be tanky. The way they went about this does make sense and is really good on accomplishing that goal. He is however still really unfun to play against but atleast they are trying to make it a point of "oh hey can blow you up in one shot but you can probably do the same cause we have pretty my gutted any way of him having defense"

Also Power Creep is more of when more stuff is added into the game that's objective more powerful than other items, making all previous items useless in comparison. A good example of this would be midlaners. Midlaners became obsolete because of how many of them have dashes. Syndra, Victor, Xerath all use to be really good but because of all the champions that have insanes amount of dashes and gap closers, playing them felt like ass and you just got shat all over on every game cause everyone always plays a champ with a gap closer, meaning that long range poking is pointless and stupid.

Crispy0Snake1 votes

But you can't blow pyke up. He goes invis, not camo, so abilies with cast times don't go off, he has his E dash, high base resists and 100hp/level, as well as his out of vision healing. He's more slippery than Ekko. This version of Pyke is much stronger than Pyke used to be because of the buffs to assassin Pyke, they could have just nerfed tank Pyke to make assassin the preferred route, so he's strong due to power creep

Power creep is "damage inflation" more buffs than nerfs is power creep. Something added to the game that increases damage with no compensation nerfs? Power creep

ProExpertKing1 votes

Um, no. It's still camo. Also he barely gains any hp, it's not like he gets his full health bar from sitting in a bush unlike garen

hrooza dota 1 votes

he was meant to be a lethality support, he wont be called the assassin support if he was not building like that, he would just be another tank support that cant build hp.

Crispy0Snake1 votes

Then why even have the hp->ad passive? Is it just for edge of night and the T3 Coin?

Either way my point was that they just buffed assassin pyke and didn't just nerf tank pyke. Pyke is much stronger than he used to be because of this power creep

ProExpertKing1 votes

Mostly for relic shield which is what you were supposed to get on him and if you get something like redemption to be an actual support

hrooza dota 1 votes

to stop him from building hp at all and build damage instant, if they removed it pyke players might build hp and resistance and become tank supports

Crispy0Snake1 votes

I meant only the hp to damage conversion part, not the hp cap

hrooza dota 1 votes

they are the same thing , they made it so he cant build hp but made sure the core support items [ which all build from a item 1028 in the end] would give him the full stat they give to any other supports.

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