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Riot seems to want to make Katarina and Evelynn into AD champions but is half assed about it

Kingsgrave··2 votes·243 views

Focusing on AD ratios and AD related gameplay patterns for both of them yet still keeping them mostly magic damage and mostly AP just so they can feel terrible to play as since there are no hybrid pen items

Evelynn

If her hate spike was also made to deal physical damage she would a lot smoother build path and a lot more options and generally be more manageable since AD is more expensive typically and she would end up having to be even more of a fighter or a bruiser than she is on live, which Riot seems to want

Katarina http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2szy4n/ricklessabandon_with_a_preview_of_tentative/

According to these changes you basically lose damage until you build AD on your W, but why not just make her Q and R also physical damage and primarily AD scaling? These changes seem to be forcing her to be more of a sustained damage dealer, which tends to fall into AD more than AP.

It seems like Riot favors the AD playstyle for Kat and Eve, so why not just make them actually AD instead of leaving them in this weird world of hybrid confusion?

I bet you that Akali is next on this hybrid confusion train

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Drukyul3 votes

blame Jax

Kingsgrave1 votes

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blame Jax

Yeah its odd with him considering his build is usually focused on AD anyway and the most AP he builds is maybe Trinity. I havent seen many Jax players at higher levels of play actually build Gunblade. Even recent changes to his Ultimate focused on his AD focused builds.

Kuroi861 votes

AD gives him some nice burst, but Bork/Triforce build gives you a ton of sustained damage, making you pretty much near unstoppable after you hit four items.

Drukyul1 votes

That's almost entirely because of BotRK being OP as hell. Still, hybrid pen would help his base damage quite a bit even without building much AP.

Kuroi861 votes

The three, Eve, Kat and Akali, are all already hybrid champs.

Eve's problem is her stealth. Stealth and burst is considered a pretty toxic issue, about the only champ that seems to be getting away with it is Rengar. Heck, even Akali has some pretty low damage for a stealth champion, the only thing that saves her is having low cooldowns.

The Kat rework looks like it is pushing her slightly more towards hybrid from full AP. This could potentially make her even more dangerous than before, but at the same time puts a gating on her. Hybrid champs tend to be powerful, but gated by the fact that hybrid pen doesn't exist in an item.

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