Volibear Mains are joining a suicide pact.

Grizzlpaw·2/12/2018, 6:32:14 PM·2 votes·557 views

We go ignored and are allowed to rot in a gutter for the entire season. Both our winrate and our playrates fall to an all time low, until even Mordekaiser mains take pity on us. Many of us give up and assume that Riot doesn't care about Voli anymore.

...Finally, we see a light at the end of the tunnel, we're promised buffs... buffs which hinted and then delayed for several months, but finally, we get something quantifiable on PBE, one thing in particular which has potential to make him playable at last.

Rolling Thunder (Q) [Q reverted to scaling with spell rank] Movement Speed bonus reverted from [scaling with level] to 15/17.5/20/22.5/25% Enhanced movement speed bonus changed from [scaling with level] to 30/37.5/45/52.5/60% Vs Live: from 30/35/40/45/50% to 30/37.5/45/52.5/60%

Nevermind it got reverted.

Riot gave us hope, only to dash it away.

But hey, we may be the worst of an already bad class, have the entirety of our innate tankiness countered by grevious wounds, have the worst base stats of any juggernaut, have our one relevant damage ability counted by cloth armor, AND lack any usable AD scalings in our kit despite being auto attack based, to the point where 4 item ADCs with lifesteal can kill us in melee range without kiting and survive at 50% hp. ( 2 item adcs if they have a support to heal/shield his W damage. )

...At least we have our bootleg poppy W to make up for it.

Please Riot. Save a bear in need. Make Q scale with ranks again so at least we can max E 2nd and do something.

9 Comments

InTheory2/12/2018, 6:41:43 PM2 votes

Only because Riot reverted something doesn't mean that's all Voli gets. It means that Riot wasn't thinking that the change would help this way and only released that part of their changes of what they think will help. And it doesn't mean that they stopped working on buffs for him.

AbiwonKenabi2/12/2018, 6:44:52 PM2 votes

A lot of times they will revert right before a patch goes live if they aren't confident on the changes. But yeah, it does suck. I can't believe poor Volibear has become the butt of the jokes these days. Hang in there.

Escheton2/12/2018, 6:54:03 PM1 votes

Join the club. Singed mains were given hope for a single day before they got hotfixed. (he's in a decent spot finally again now tho)

Khristophoros2/12/2018, 6:55:21 PM1 votes

I think his passive should be immune to GW. Which other defensive ability on a long cooldown is countered so hard by a trivial purchase? The actual effect is usually worse than just "50% weaker" because the rate of healing drops to the point that you can much more easily die during it. Like over 6s you get 15% of your health instead of 30%. So that's 2.5% per sec instead of 5% per sec and you can just die after 3s and you only got 7.5% out of it...

They should just remake this passive or make it immune to GW.

Potchikir2/12/2018, 7:12:43 PM1 votes

The buffs back with other buffs too Check it out here

Referent Power2/13/2018, 10:11:36 AM1 votes

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