Exhaust is Broken (and how to fix it)

Ohana Means Rekt·2/21/2017, 11:37:43 PM·1 votes·1,468 views

We've all seen it cropping up slowly, but I think we've finally seen the issue come to a head: Exhaust is being over used. In more than 75% of my last 100 matches, exhaust has been used by 2 or more enemy summoners. In about 30%, it was used by 3, and in 2 games, it was used by 4. Exhaust has become such an overbearing and overpowering summoner spell, that you get punished hard for not running it.

It has gone from a "I'm the support and the damage reduction could be very useful for saving one of my carries in the late game" to "I'm unsure of this match up, I'm just gonna take exhaust and be impossible to kill since it'll be up every time they try to fight me."

Now I propose a few things that might make exhaust more balanced. These could be used by themselves, or as a few together:

  1. Give it the revive treatment.
  2. Increase the cooldown to 300 seconds.
  3. Allow qss to remove the current exhaust and negate the damage reduction from and consecutive exhausts after.
  4. Decrease the debuff on damage from 40% to 25%
  5. Remove the armor and mr debuff.
  6. Reduce duration from 2.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
  7. Change attack speed and movespeed debuff from flat to decreasing over the duration.

Let me know what you think.

-Ohana

19 Comments

Mizaya2/21/2017, 11:49:05 PM2 votes

Just nerf it until people have to be smarter about using it. I don't know why it reduces defensive stats, cause you can always just get value out of it by using it and then all in.

Halodjin Tyr2/21/2017, 11:51:31 PM2 votes

not going to lie, my kill rate goes up by about 10 kills a game when I take exhaust on eve.

CancerBasedGod2/21/2017, 11:59:20 PM1 votes

I'm not sure it is overpowered. It is a solid disengage, and people like defensive play. I think it is more the preference for defensive. Ignite can get you some good kills, teleport helps a ton in laning phase if you know how to leverage it, ghost can do amazing things on the right champion.

You have to consider the bias to easy to use spells as well. Cleanse is one of the best spells to save yourself with, but it is hard to use optimally. Cleanse isn't rare because it's necessarily worse.

Waffletimewarp2/22/2017, 2:19:10 AM1 votes

Maybe when we leave the lethality meta

Andorell2/22/2017, 12:52:59 PM1 votes

I think you are just another Assassin that got exhausted and got killed. So many Post in EU and NA Forums are here already to nerf Exhaust. Exhaust is my beloved Spell atm. This is the only way to stop the bustdamage from those lethality abusing Champs.

Zed comes to ult me ? Exhaust and im fine Kha jumps on me ? Exhaust and im fine

Really. Stop complaining about exhaust. Its the only spell atm with that we can survive this broken meta.

BLACK REALM GOD2/22/2017, 12:55:10 PM1 votes

nah. the other spells need to be buffed to exhausts level.

MaeDoSan2/21/2017, 11:46:44 PM1 votes

You have just nerfed every aspect of exhaust and put it down as a list . Riot knows that it can do all those things . What is more important is how to nerf it if it is required.

Shonjl2/24/2017, 4:23:18 PM1 votes

How to fix summoner 3 ? Remove a lot of the dumb damage creep in the game and it won't be taken all the time. That was like the dumb nerf to TP when it never changed and just became more useful during that time. Its fine as it is, its just one shots are so common due to how stupidly high damage is that its specifically counters it.

If you get one shot, heal and barrier won't save you, so why the hell not would you take the spell that weakens the enemy. And people need to stop saying it totally ruins you, it doesn't. The mr and armor reduction is not noticable even during laning phase, so people that mention it are just trying to attempt to have a better arguement when they don't have it, its there for the slow and damage reduction, it helps you escape or possibly take someone out that is trying to escape.

Also lmfao if you say its your fault if you get assassinated when EoN even when it got nerfed is still a dumb on demand get out of jail free card initiate. You can't stop an assassin from jumping on you now other than you simply being able to burst them faster than them you.

Moetaro2/21/2017, 11:55:06 PM1 votes

What's broken is not exhaust. Exhaust is fine.

What's broken is this stupid snowball meta.

I still remember the old guides: "use exhaust wisely, use it when the enemy is going to burn his cds so that you dont waste it". Now it is like, woooaaaaahuuuu! exhaust! BOOOOM!. Just stupid.