The blitzcrank irrelia and swain changes are terrible

Rozair·Jun 15, 2016·3 votes·401 views

This is not how to reduce their power at all. It will only make them clunky. Also kindred needs their heal in the jungle otherwise they are an adc. Wtf riot.

4 Comments

EMetaJun 15, 20161 votes

The Swain change is weird. But Blitz & Irelia get to hang on to all their engage power with just slightly fewer opportunities to go all-in. The numbers seem a bit long on Irelia for me, but it's probably in the right direction.

Most decent Kindred players don't take much jungle damage because they kite away from it. This hurts low mechanics Kindreds a lot (like me, when I try to play her), but won't really harm experienced players that much.

RozairJun 15, 20161 votes

It's huge blitzcrank buff late game and a give early game nerf. With cdr late game he will be able to ult every 12 seconds. Down from 18. That's huge. Thats a second silence in a team fight. Also irrelia has much bigger issues than her ult. I think if they were going to do anything they would lower her damage of her q or w. Also this is a huge nerf to kindred. No matter what you are going to take Damage in the jungle and they just buffed his healing a few patches ago. Now they are going to remove it and i think that this really takes away from his kit.

blfUvZ8YbuJun 15, 20161 votes

Irelia nerf isn't enough.She needs damage nerf.Swain nerf is brutal.Blitz change is fine.

doubleguacJun 15, 20161 votes

This might be true of swain, but how does increasing Irelia's ult cooldown make her clunky? It's not the centerpiece of her kit, in the way that Swain's ult is. She can function in lane without it.

Increasing cooldowns doesn't inherently make a kit more "clunky." In this case, it just makes Irelia less snowbally in lane, by giving her opponent windows to fight her when her ult is down.