Corki, a symptom of the overnerfing mentality

exigentomic·4/21/2017, 6:45:34 AM·4 votes·609 views

From 30% pick-rate to 1% pick-rate. More importantly, despite such a low pick-rate (probably Corki diehards), he has terrible winrates in all positions (44% ADC, 46% mid). Riot needs to stop buying into the hype train for FoTM champions. Corki needed MINOR nerfs. I even said that then. What he got was a gutting.

His burst was excellent and he had nice roams but that's basically his entire kit. Unlike most mids, he has no CC and falls off quite hard. It seems that whenever people see a high damage potential, they assume a champion must be OP. Not at all as Ivern even proves! Many times a bit of utility and CC can count for much more than the potential to burst hard.

9 Comments

Phelas4/21/2017, 8:15:55 AM2 votes

Tbf, it is impossible to balance hybrid damage champions without either gutting them completley or pushing them over the edge.

RoyalMachine4/22/2017, 10:50:13 AM2 votes

At the end of season 6 Corki was relatively balanced after receiving multiple buffs that compensated for triforce changes and his passive damage nerf . However, with season 7 changes he became slightly overpowered mostly because of the removal of locket.

The 7.4 rocket nerfs were too much and we can see the results in win rates and pick rates.

IMO riot should just have reverted one of the buffs corki received in late season 6. At this moment, with overnerfed corki there is no reason to pick him unless someone wants to lose LP badly.

If riot cannot find a way to balance Corki properly so at least his mains can play him, then they should REVERT the rework, because Season 5 Corki was much better than the current weak and nerfed version of Corki.

Xavanic4/21/2017, 7:05:12 AM1 votes

people are meta sheep, they only play whats broken at the time, and most will never even have an actual main, its just the unfortunate truth about society, so unless somethings legitimately broken its pick rate will always be low

Darkdemon6534/21/2017, 11:09:15 AM1 votes

Most of that was fine, but he does not fall off hard. He does not fall off at all. He is a RAD and scales like a RAD. It's just that his weakest point is still pretty good, unlike most RADs.

Lauchmelder4/22/2017, 11:02:01 AM1 votes

Good. Get this abomination out of midlane.

I have a question though. Why is it a problem when a champion has a 1% pickrate in a game with 130+ champions?