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Riot - Before You Nerf

MercuryMaiden··6 votes·1,006 views

There is no real reason to nerf Xayah. She has no mobility, and shes a squishy ADC. Her damage output is to make up for that. She cant chase, because she is all about setting up her trap of feathers. Pretty easy to counter. If you call Xayah OP. Your mental. Fizz has the same dmg output and has more mobility then Xayah. Not trying to say anything bout Fizz though. he is counter-able (I think), not gonna get into all that though... Moving on! Now Rakan... Rakan is a amazing support, very mobile. Shields are spot on. But, his cool downs. Are LOOONG, meaning he can only use his combo probably only once a team fight (early on and mid game? unless you rush CDR like a weirdo). Except Gleaming Quill, thats on a nice low cooldown. So Overall, for two new champs. I feel as though they are the most balanced. People are saying they're broken. But really, everyone says that about new champions. Learn how to play against them. If you ban them all the time, you wont learn. Thing is. Early Game, if you dont stand infront of Xayahs feathers you can actually survive! :O gasp no way!? Yep. "Rakan heals blah blah OP!" HIS HEAL IS A FUCKING SKILL SHOT> Dodge the skill shot = no heals for him. :O!!! gasp WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!? Yep. Learn how to play against them and i swear you'll all be slicing through them like a knife through butter. Rakan might need some tweaks. but overall, for two new champs they're balanced pretty well. Guess it comes down to what the pros think though anyway. Our opinions dont matter all too much.

8 Comments

Kilanost2 votes

Havent played against her yet but all this post is telling me is that she needs a nerf lol.

I am F81 votes

It's funny how he is saying the exact opposite.

Eedat2 votes

Our how about we give it a few weeks and take it from there? Just because she's immobile doesn't mean she is or isn't OP

Heroquet1 votes

Immobile but has several invincibility frames in her ult, without disabling her ability to move - the kind of things that helps champions to get gutted hardcore (Malz, Kindred, maybe Kayle i haven't seen her since my last original dominion) or universaly hated (Trynd, Fizz).

She's an ad with an in-built zhonia. But we'll see with time, too early to say anything.

I am F81 votes

I am amazed to see someone with a brain, but we can't ignore Xayahs rank 1 ult 2 minute cool down, that means 2 minutes to abuse her cause she has no escape, and the root is 1 second which isn't that long plus that she has to angle the feathers before using Blade Blade caller for them to actually root. which also is on a decently sized cool down so I agree she is balanced and the only reason people think she is op is because shes new, when have you seen a new champ NOT get permabanned? never? yeah. Edit: Also Fizz's E has a smaller cool down than her ult so if you wanna complain about Xayah's ult look at other champions, and Master Yi is un-targetable In his Q so theres that too.

MissingKayo1 votes

There's no point in shitposting about new champions being broken and demanding nerfs or that they're balanced and don't need nerfs. There's no meaningful data at all.

Also, you don't seem to realize. Xayah's mana costs on her abilities in early is fairly high. Her feathers also shoot far back enough to go behind the wave of enemy minions. Meaning if someone wants to CS, they have to go in front of some feathers sooner or later. And a Q-auto-E is enough to root.

Rakan has fairly high cooldowns and delays on his Q (skillshot and heal both) and his W, but insanely high mobility and utility in return.

Again, there is no point in making a thread like this lmao.

Drizzit DoUrden1 votes

Just played ranked recently. Imagine Xayah being covered by like 3 tanks including Rakan. Not enough that she deals INSANE amout of damage, she has some annoying mobility aswell. Example? Well my lucian had 50k damage, she had 68k damage. The game was lasting 43 minutes, we won it thanks to my unlimited perfectional nidalee skills. Even Zed is struggling with killing her, since she can just deny his burst totally with R and wait for her team to get him, or just even kill him with one combo including this awesome totally balanced root :|. IMO she needs a slight damage nerf, yo she's like a freaking jinx but with mobility and kind of burst, that's too strong. Also laning phase is, as someone said before, really annoying to play against since feathers dont let u to farm if placed well.

I am F81 votes

I went to check to see what you mean but she still isn't op, she was just fed and people tend to pull the "op" card when someone gets fed, not to mention your team comp was almost all squishy except shen and braum so they ofc will take dmg.

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