My fears towards new MF seem to be justified.
EDIT: WARNING! GIANT WALL OF TEXT INCOMING!
Riot, as a longtime MF main, these new changes make me really uncomfortable. You talk about removing her grievous wounds as a way to shave off "hidden power" in favor of "clarity" but the issue here is that grievous wounds wasn't just hidden power, it was her only power. Miss Fortune currently isn't in a "healthy" state. Her grievous wounds is the only thing keeping her in the "niche pick" status right now. I can't find any recorded games for her outside Silver, and considering the fact that Varus is still played as an ADC all the way up to at least Platinum, while still being considered trash as a designated ADC, that's a major red flag.
Miss Fortune's unique niche was her ability to just make healers and drain tanks cry. That's what I pick her for. I seriously recommend you buff her heavily on release because these new changes that you're proposing, they aren't up to snuff.
I'll bet all of my skins (all of them except secret agent and captain) that these new changes will drop her below a 45% win rate. That's how certain I am that you're gimping her. In all honestly, from what I can tell from what little you've shown for her abilities and what I've scrounged from lolwiki, I wouldn't be shocked in the slightest if she becomes the newest member of the "39%" club.
You're seriously underestimating how powerful grievous wounds were for her. It was how she was able to outduel every other carry besides Vayne and Twitch. If these changes go through, Sivir will be able to outduel her. Graves will be able to outduel her. Freaking Corki, will be able to outduel her. Honestly, the only thing that I can think of off of the top of my head that would ever convince me that she'll be able to not be the worst champion in the game (yes, she's going to be worse than Elise if her passive is still knocked off by minion aggro) is if she gets a magic penetration ratio based off of her armor penetration.
From what I can tell from lolwiki, that's not the end to her woes. From what I can tell, her W active lasts for only 3 shots. I'm sorry, WHAT? That's an ungodly nerf. I don't care that you doubled her attack speed bonus off of that, 3 shots is just ridiculous. Tristana's AS boost lasts for much, much longer and scales almost twice as hard. You're trying to reformat her into a burst AD caster, but she has a passive that deals on hit magic damage on auto attacks. Explain to me how that's supposed to help her? I get that 50% attack speed is huge, but at the very least keep a timed duration. Halve it if necessary. But going from a 6 second 20 - 60% attack speed boost and grievous wound launcher to a 50 - 70% attack speed boost for only 3 AAs and removing the grievous wounds? That's not a stealth nerf, that's a stealth GUTTING. That's Blitzcrank levels of "we hate this ability and want to see it as useless as possible."
And the sad part is, I'd be ok with all of it, ALL OF IT, if only you fixed her goddamn passive. Right now the most infuriating thing to deal with is how effortlessly her passive gets knocked off (especially right now with how bad the minions are). That "buff" to her W where you give her strut back? Yeah, it's getting knocked off as soon as you activate it again because the pervy caster minion decided to randomly aggro you.
I'm writing this because you're going to get backlash on level with that of Zilean or Cass. You're literally destroying Miss Fortune right now, regardless of the trivial buffs you've given to her Q, W, and E. Here's the only way that you can salvage this:
- Give her minion and monster damage immunity (like Garen) starting at level 11.
- Give her W active a shield. If what I'm reading correctly from her new passive is that shields block passive knockoff. That's the only way you're going to salvage her W active. It'll keep her from being completely reliant on shield based supports, and doesn't lower her effectiveness with kill lane supports unecessarily. And the only way that you're going to make that shield not compltetly useless is if you give it an AD scaling. Hmm... why does that sound so problematic?
Yasuo can only cast his ultimate when he knocks someone airborne, but he still has a knockup in his kit. What you're doing is on par with removing Yasuo's knockup in his kit. - Increase the AD scaling (not the stack amount) on Impure Shots per level of Bullet Time. Instead of 5-8 stacks, up the AD ratio from 6-9%. Same damage, greater DPS. I mean, really, how often in a 1v1 trade vs two ADCs do you ever get 8 AAs off before someone dies? Let's be realistic here.
- Let Wit's End steal MR from all magic damge, not just auto attacks. Kinda weird thing to suggest, I know, but hear me out. The most viable build I had for Miss Fortune prior to the recent changes to Black Cleaver was either the "hypercarry" build (
) or the "utility" build ( 
). The hypercarry build I built on more squishy teams, and the utility build I built on tank heavy teams. Both worked pretty damn effectively (replaced Triforce with Statik Shiv on the utility build post 5.11). But now that grievous wounds are out, the utility build just took a major hit. One of the problems was that Wit's End only applies to AAs, while Black Cleaver gets the any physical damage treatement. So all I'd have to do is ult and the entire enemy team's armor and regeneration would just get shredded. Giving Wit's End the Black Cleaver and Spirit Visage treatment will help. - Put grievous wounds back on her kit, but apply it at full stacks of Impure Shots. I know that you guys kinda have a hard-on for getting GW out of the game as evidenced with Fizz, but like I said, it's the only way that Miss Fortune doesn't turn into complete shit. I'm sorry, if I knew another option, I'd suggest it, but there literally is no option. If MF doesn't have GW in her kit, she's going to be bad unless you buff her numbers to disgusting levels not the whole "play it safe" method you're going with right now. Until you nerf Vlad, Mundo, Volibear, and Akali's sustain, grievous wounds are going to be a necessary evil.
Edit 2: To all you butthurt babies that I thrashed in arguments for my case, downvoting me doesn't make me any less right. If Miss Fortune turns out to be OP after this, you can downvote and give me shit, but until then, you're going to have to give me some real objective proof that MF will be than she is now.
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