The second Evelynn rework; How not to fail
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Evelynn has historically been one of the most "Problematic" (T R I G G E R E D) champions in the game, manifesting as both the legendary "Eve Tier" in S1 and part of S2 and later being god tier after her buff post-rework.
Being buried for a very long time, Evelynn resurfaced and changes were made after to level her out but Riot has now figured that the only way to "Fix" Eve-chan is to rework her, so here are a few things that I, as a multi season member of Diamond Pride and 7 year player believe should be considered when the time comes to rework Sexy Stealth Smurf;
- Increase her base stats [especially MS] but reduce her base damage and scaling; The reason for this is simple, Riot wants windows of opportunity for enemies to react to burst. That is normally not an issue but with Evelynn we run into the unique problem that her core premise is perma camo. Because of this the only way to prevent her from bursting someone at the same speed as Out-of-ult-Rengar when she's ahead is to lower her scalings. Now this is a controversial suggestion because she has been an assassin for so long.... but it is one of the only ways to prevent her from running into the exact same problem she's always had. She's just too binary.
- Give her a disable; This goes with the previous point. She is simply too binary so the idea of giving her a disable would provide her with some utility even when she's not insta-bursting enemies down from camo positions. Flanking is part of her core premise but it is meaningless if she does not have some bite to it and it certainly won't if she can't kill anyone, that is unless she is given a true disable or at the very least, a silence.
- Remove Ravage altogether. It has always been garbage even before it became a two-strike on-hit applying type ability. This is where the True Disable can be placed.
- Remove Dark Frenzy. It has been gutted so bad that it is only a shadow [Pun intended?] of what it used to be. Her mobility should be tied to Shadow Walk which leads me to....
- Remove Shadow Walk's mana regeneration; Because of the mana regen that was randomly added to Shadow Walk post-rework [which was nerfed multiple times by the way], they decided to gut her mana costs again and again, don't do this. Give her more reasonable mana costs even if it will assuredly mean the removal of Shadow Walk's bonus mana regen.
- GIVE HER A TANGO DANCE WITH TF ! This is so obvious.
Thank you for reading. This is your local Diamond Pride member and that is all.