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Little fix to Miss Fortune's skill set to make her laning less oppressive and her versatility higher

Mood in blue·6/10/2016, 12:03:04 PM·2 votes·1,765 views

DISCLAIMER: i am aware MF is not a weak champion at the moment and this post is not asking for net buffs, i am just asking to make her kit less oppressive/more versatile.

I feel like Miss Fortune's power is way too tied to her Q-R (check the ratios and you'll see they are a little ridiculous), this make her an extremely unreliable one trick (bully lane, press R and hope you don't get cc'ed).

I think most of you have already seen those 2 videos where a single Q powered by crit literally oneshots people:

http://plays.tv/video/5754be61980fa827b3/literal-one-with-mf-on-katarina-probably-most-satisfying-thing-ive-ever-done- http://plays.tv/video/575420b6939257b679/mf-angrysloth-oneshot?from=user

As much as i find this hilarious/fun/satisfying, this means that an insane amount of power is tied to her Q, and this prevents other areas of her kit from being buffed, namely her E.

Now, I don't want a buff to her E damage because we all saw what happened when her E used to have a high base damage (spam E+ TL, win lane), i just want a buff to the base slow on her E and a reduction on her Q base damage. You may say that MF is not a utility carry so she shouldn't have a strong AOE slow, but then i will bring you 2 examples of utility carries who had their damage hard buffed so they could be viable, simply because their utility wasn't enough to compensate for their lack of damage: Sivir and Ashe.

Sivir was in a bad spot during preseason, and what did Riot do?

They straight up doubled her damage on her W; many people were saying that this was an error...."she shouldn't do high damage, they should buff her ult", well...turns out they were right and Sivir is now in a very healthy spot, aka not OP but still top tier.

The same thing happened with Ashe: they didn't buff her slow, her E or her arrow stun duration: they buffed her Q aka her damage...and she's now top tier but not OP.

I'm asking to do the same thing to MF, but reversed: basically she's doing way too much damage but that damage is unreliable and she has too low utility to make up for that, so i think her Q damage should be reduced, but her E base slow should be higher, this way you will get:

  • Less oppressive/cheesy lane phase (no more Q one shots);

  • More utility/versatility (you are still useful if you don't manage to land your one trick ult);

  • More synergy with her ult (E slow higher = stronger self-setup for her ult).

Basically: less frustration for her opponents, more versatility for her player.

So my proposed changes would be like this:

Double Up (Q)

FIRST TARGET PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 10 / 25 / 40 / 55 / 80 from 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80

SECOND TARGET PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 30 / 50 / 700 / 100 / 130 from 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160

Make it rain (E)

SLOW: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% from 28 / 36 / 44 / 52 / 60%

The numbers might be off, but that's the idea.

TL;DR: MF is too one-dimensional and relies on cheesy Qs to win lane/snowball while having too low utilty, i suggest a reduction on her early game Q damage on top of a higher base slow on E.

1 Comments

Dianna Leveret6/10/2016, 11:33:46 PM1 votes

MF is a sleeper OP/broken-ish champ atm. I don't think its only from her kit, its also because this new armor pen rush meta nowadays. Putting aside the fact she can 1 shot or deal 2/3rd of HP on squishies early game with Q, I have lost to MFs , who lost their lane, died several times but still managed to get triple kills , quadras etc mid game just pressing R button on stacked up enemies. Its gross and disgusting and only counterplay to that is either burn a flash or try to dash to her to stun her. But if her team is protecting her or CCing you its free kills for MF. She is the new Katarina atm i feel, where she just needs to have a working R button and get ATLEAST 1 free kill in teamfights. She is even more disgusting with a morgana/zyra support because morgana can black shield her while she ults, so that she doesnt get interrupted or zyra with her roots and AOE knockup just sets the perfect penta kill for a MF. She feels like Rengar with her numbers and design - tweak some number and she is either usless or borderline broken. Total soloq stomper, where teams arent coordinated enough to avoid her ulty and avoid her overall. Or atleast send 1 reliable person to her face to stop her from ultying. She is very squishy vs assassins so i guess thats hew only downside and main reason she isn't getting nerfed. Fizz/Zed/Rengar and friends can just delete her if she doesnt have flash. But if 0 assassins its a free win for MF, her ult can melt trough tanks dealing around 4k Hp if channeled fully with stacked black cleaver...