Evelynn getting Sej'd

The Yetii Rider·Jan 16, 2016·1 votes·479 views

For those who don't know, the Sejuani factor refers to a champion who is nerfed specifically due to their interactions with an item, then left unchanged after the offending item is also nerfed or removed.

Evelynn had a mana cost attached to her W, Dark Frenzy, a few patches ago. The Balance team stated this was due to her access to Runeglaive, which, among other things, gave her an additional 250 mana early.

Runeglaive has been removed and is replaced with Runic Echoes. This item will give Evelynn a way to restore mana in the jungle, but it doesn't help at all in ganks and team fights where Eve is supposed to cast W multiple times (that IS why it has reset mechanics, right?)

Without the extra mana pool from Runeglaive, Eve doesn't need higher mana costs to keep her Q spam in check. Revert the W nerf.

3 Comments

Dominick DestineJan 16, 20161 votes

Diamond Evelynn player here.

Mana costs are not a problem for Evelynn with Runic Echoes, they were not a problem with Runeglaive either. It would be nice if people would stop pretending like Evelynn has mana problems to begin with.... the real problem is that Runic Echoes is a straight-up downgrade to Runeglaive, the clear speed got chunked massively and her assassination potential went down a huge amount.

The single proc of Runic Echoes against a champion does WAY less damage than a single proc of Runeglaive... now realize that Runeglaive will proc 2 or 3 times during a fight and Runic Echoes only once....

Alright returning to the mana; If you are running oom with Evelynn on a regular basis, you are playing her very wrong.

The Yetii RiderJan 16, 20161 votes

I don't play Eve. I just wanted to point it out because it's another example of Riot nerfing a champ for an item interaction and then nerfing the item.

If you think Eve doesn't have any mana issues then I guess the point is moot.