The latest patch rundown made me lose a ton on what remaining faith i had
In Riots balance team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZwl0ctPUg4&feature=youtu.be
They start off talking about Sivir, and how she is a balanced champ, which she is. But some of what they said made no sense, like they barely knew what they were talking about, and they were trying to grasp at ideas which someone else had kinda explained to them, but hadn't elaborated fully to them. Ok, w/e, maybe the balance team doesn't have a 100% grasp on everything in the game, there is a ton of stuff to know, hopefully they have some insight on the other stuff in the patch
But no, it went downhill from there
talking about
they try to cover up the crippling nerf with talks of exponential mana and how it can be sustained with W, (lol, they didn't even seem to know what his W is. at 5 minutes in, they say that he can blink onto someone, hit him with a W and then blink again and sustain the cost. Most
will max his W last, so before lvl 14-18, he only gets 20% of his missing mana if he hits a champ with W. So, during mid game when Kass is trying to get a ton of kills and he's at his strongest, he only gets 20% of his missing mana from a not even close to stacked
and
. So maybe 300 mana. Yet a 4 stack rift walk costs 960 mana. And he needs 2 now to go the distance of his old ult.)
They also talk about how he was oppressive, that he blocked picks like
and other squishy immobile mids. How is this different from
who does the same thing but doesn't need mana and forces you to go
as a first item or he will kill you every time?
At 5:44, they talk about
. Smashgizmo says "he ganks incredibly well pre-6, he ganks incredibly well post-6, he's clearing the jungle fast, he's clearing the jungle safe, he just does it all." This was true for
but it sounds exactly like
too. Where are the nerfs for him?
is in nearly every game, solo queue, LCS, he does exactly the same thing as J4, but is Rito's golden child is somehow exempt for nerfs? For year?
At 8:11, they talk about
and Riot Jag says "He would pop up and 1 shot you, not every champ can do that but that is Veigar's true fantasy. He has to be able to burst you effectively, but then the tools he got to do that were 2 click on you skillshots and a very reliable long range stun."
Other than the stun, how does this differ from the likes of
or
or even
? They all have point and click nukes (3 for
) are are safer than veigar. Yet Veigar gets nerfed to his stun, so that any competent player will never get hit by it. The Q change is nice, but your reasoning is poor at best.
And then we get to morde. Gets DFG removed, and then gets nerfed. And to try and even disguise this straight nerf, they give him 75 more range on Q and a weird speed boost on W. Still have no idea why they did they that, and they gave no reasons for it. They basically said "we don't really know what we want to do with him, so we did this, and were gonna see what this does." Maybe?
. Removing those definitely sounds like a consistently applied design principle and not an excuse.