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I'm curious, Riot, what's your reasoning behind Janna's nerfs?

Colgate Gator·4/18/2018, 3:00:09 PM·1 votes·604 views

Let's not play dumb here, it's extremely obvious that you don't use the same procedure when some Champions need to be nerfed as with others. you guys are more than happy to deliver a quick gut punch to a Champion should he ever step out of line (god forbid if it's a tank), but with some of them you are....well...

I merely have to point out at Janna's 5 MS and 5 W damage nerfs in this current patch, and I suppose by contrast we can point at Irelia's day one hotfix nerf, yes, I know you're going to say that she was too strong, but Janna has been too strong for a WHILE, and yet, all she receives are wrist slaps.

I'd understand if this is some "hidden power" nerf that us plebs can't understand, but even high level players are mocking this "nerf", so at least we're on the same page here.

So, yeah. I'm curious.

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Cynikul4/18/2018, 3:18:46 PM2 votes

Comparing a fighters damager nerfs to a supports nerfs... Well... proportially 2 doesn't equal 2 here. In a lot of cases numbers need to be a lot bigger to be an impactful nerf on a strong fighter.

Whereas, pretty consistently history shows that even the lightest tweaks to a supports numbers does some magic/wonders. Back when Sona was nerfed for example. Think those were all relatively small, but ended up being huuuuuuuuge.

Now, will this put her in line? Probably not, I still think she needs a little more- but the point remains. It's probably more than you think.