WTF is going on in pbe???

Jofeyy·May 17, 2016·3 votes·706 views

Azir Arise (W) [NOTE: Tower damage bits removed from tooltip but seems to still function in-game at the moment.]

Emperor's Divide (R): Wall duration lowered to 2 seconds from 5/6/7 No longer grants 20% movement speed for 1 second when passing through wall for Azir and Allies.

Why are they still gutting such a hard champion to play?

Trinity Force -Now Builds out of Stinger instead of Zeal. -Total price reduced to 3600 from 3800 -Attack speed increased to 40% from 15% -Cooldown reduction increased to 20% from 10% -Critical Strike Chance reduced to 0 from 20%

Removing crit chance is a **massive **nerf to limiting his build path to only

I really hope these changes don't go through....

Edit: Downvote me if you want but im allowed to speak my mind.

12 Comments

SwizzleMay 17, 20163 votes

For those wondering this information is from http://www.surrenderat20.net/2016/05/517-pbe-update.html but you have to remember

Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These are not official notes. - Surrender @20

These changes are not 100% going to go through without being tested over the next couple weeks. If they are producing the results intended with the changes they will be reverted.

JofeyyMay 17, 20161 votes

Agreed im just sharing the news to others.

Upvoting you for putting the link :D

Critmaster GarenMay 17, 20163 votes

i dont see the issue with yasuo really. he has plenty crit options.

and i.e. was always kinda part of his builds. the thing is. nothing prevents you from still bruilsing triforce on him as second or third item.

and azir. i dont know. fuck that champion, he needs a rework to work around destructable and displacable soldiers. heimer and zyra have destructable units for a reason. its so they cant take complete control over an area without giving you the ability to do anything against it. ill never understand why azir wasnt designed around a similar concept from day 1.

stealthfox94May 17, 20162 votes

Yup I'm with you on the tri-force chances. I've never been so mad over a balance change.

Sire HippingtonMay 17, 20162 votes

so was i and most other bruiser players when it was turned into a stupid crit item at preseason, and i'm really happy it finally treturns to it's rightfull place as a glorious bruiser item.

stealthfox94May 17, 20161 votes

Yeah except that I legit just found this new Ez build path I like item 3078 item 3508 item 3031 and this item completely destroys it.

GGXJ9May 17, 20161 votes

good none of you should be playing yasuo anyways. Ps if you think its a "massive nerf" to him you dont know whats going on inside the game lmao

JofeyyMay 17, 20161 votes

"none of you should be playing yasuo anyways"

What a joke

BoulderoxMay 17, 20161 votes

notice the patch notes, all 100% nerfs... Azir still can't catch a break... Maokai nerfed due to popularity and strength for being a living peeler... Ekko they actually are nerfing some trouble areas more. sucks as now i feel they will be making tank ekko a must play or be awful... Ryze still to broken but heres something to hold out until his next rework... AGAIN Kindred go figure when you give her a new jg item that makes her more viable that she would jump the rungs.... Lucian korea..... Nidalee it's gutting season.

Wînter FoxMay 17, 20161 votes

Nerfs to Azir & Yasuo ??

Good job Rito, keep up the good work

ZeroleraMay 17, 20161 votes

Azir takes a few games to pick up just because he's different than other champions - however the consistent damage he deals while remaining completely safe late game is ridiculous. Honestly the ultimate nerf isn't even that huge of a deal for him considering it was more of an afterthought unless you got a really good opportunity to go in and do the push back.

Trinity Force used to give quite a bit more attack speed however it was nerfed hard for favor of crit chance back in season 5. This actually affected certain build paths quite drastically and made those champs quite a bit weaker. It's too bad for Yasuo but at least he has different build paths to use and TF was never his primary go to item.

Gnart Even CloseMay 17, 20161 votes

azir was doing too well with experienced players, same reason for aurelion sol nerfs. that ult duration nerf looks a bit excessive though, it will probably be increased to something like 4 seconds

i don't think the trinity force changes are aimed at yasuo; they're general changes they've been wanting to do for a while. if you recall, back at the beginning of the season, they said they wanted to get rid of crit on trinity force but couldn't make a build path work. they've finally made changes necessary for it to work that they've been wanting to do since then, although it's unclear why they would bring them now.