Yuumi's nerf hit her too hard for the sake of pro play

IShowerWithUrDad·10/13/2019, 12:18:49 AM·4 votes·2,075 views

In soloq, she went from almost 50% wr to a <41% wr (op.gg). The nerf on her q makes it so her allies can't chase down enemies as they they could before. I do understand that she was too powerful before, as she just became an endlessly snowball effect. However, now, she just can't achieve anything. Maybe instead of having her slow go from 20% - 80% ---> 20% (i think these were the numbers), her slow could slow go up to at least 50%, which wouldn't make it an enemy-crippling ability in teamfights, which is what her ult is supposed to be. She isn't the most fun champ to play against, but she statistically needs a bit a love.

7 Comments

Zero Shingetsu10/13/2019, 12:39:26 AM1 votes

Her problem wasn't her Q, it was the scaling on her heal. Why would they mess with her Q? The thing that makes Yuumi so dangerous is a two-charge heal scaling heavily with missing health that can be administered without any risk to Yuumi. Leave it to Riot to miss the actual issue...

Metal Janna10/13/2019, 2:29:58 AM1 votes

I think her Q should be a two form ability like the shapeshifters have. One form for unattached and one form for attached. Unattached form (lets call it Cat's Meow) would be faster moving, non-controllable, refund some of its mana cost, and do slightly more damage. Attached form (Prowling Projectile) would do less damage, not refund mana, and slow less, in exchange for being safer and easier to use.

This one change would create more skill expression for the Yuumi player, more counterplay for the opponent, and make Yuumi's kit more finely tune-able for the balance team.

Akali is SO HOT10/13/2019, 7:20:19 PM1 votes

It's funny because she's still overpowered in pro play. She'll probably get nerfed again because of it.

JackMcCarry10/13/2019, 7:30:17 PM1 votes

Disagree, when i play with a duo, Yuumi is absolutely disgusting, and that's her problem. You cant balance her around the soloQ mentality because even with just a duo communicating her power skyrockets, she's very team reliant, she's in the same ball park as Rek'sai (because of her passive), or Ryze/Shen