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@RiotRepertoir Do you think you could enlighten us on Evelynn a little?

Zerenza··1 votes·500 views

Evelynn is one of the very first assassins and from my knowledge used to be really broken strong so she got nerfed into the ground and her kit has remained unchanged ever since, it's pretty outdated. She can no longer be considered an assassin because she lacks the ability to kill her target's(not enough damage) and in many cases lacks a way to get to them or to get away from someone when she's in danger. I often just end up building her sustained mage instead myself because she feels rather useless at her job and is kind of a walking ward in a sense.

Do you guys have anyone working on her? Or have anything that your allowed to say in regards to her direction?

I thought it would be worth an ask just because we already know stealth is getting changed and that obviously will affect her especially if she get's untouched and it turns out to be a nerf to her only real strength.

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Kowe The Ewok1 votes

I would love to have an insight on Eve as well. Why on Earth is she getting nerfed on PBE?

As for your open post: AD Eve > AP Eve at "low elo". I'm jungling her on my way from Plat II upwards and currently am sitting at a 63% winrate @32 Eve games.

AD Eve is a LOT safer to jungle. While she does features worse burst for ganks, she offers better midgame duelling potential and better objective control.

The current PBE changes are a HUGE nerf for AD Eve. her ultimate used to allow her to battle tanks due to the % health damage and have a solid chance fighting different types of enemies.

**Eve's kit isn't designed to burst enemies, she's a DPS assassin. Nuking squishies can be done far better by other assassins. The current PBE change slightly improves her ability to kill DAMAGED squishies, while it significantly nerfs her ability to fight bruisers - Eve's one advantage over other assassins.

With the current PBE change Eve gets worsened in her nieche!**

Widder881 votes

Only AD Evelynn is a DPS Assassin. But her biggest strength is to burst enemys from stealth with AP builds.

Eve's kit is versatile, you can use her E attack speed buff and Q DPS, but you can use her ult along with her 150% AP scaling on her E if you have Lich bane as well, to nuke squishies instantly, and other Assassins can't do it better.

But her burst is item dependent and not available in the early game, a little bit like Kassadin. It seems like many players don't even know her damage potential and opt for tanky build because of this. These build are not good, but multi target ults for initiation are one reason why these build are not completely terrible.

With this change Riot reduces Evelynns power against secondary tanky targets in teamfights. But her snowball ability is increased because of the lower CD in the mid game. The thing I don't like is that the minimum damage is still really low. The R minimum damage should be higher or her Q should gain some damage against low targets to compensate it.

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