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Why are we nerfing Kled?

Latex Choker·10/19/2016, 1:03:21 PM·57 votes·23,817 views

Tucked away in the PBE patch was something very alarming to me. It was a nerf. A nerf to our beloved Cantankerous Cavalier. Now this confused me, I've heard literally nothing about Kled being too strong or overbearing in the slightest, if anything it's the opposite with his winrate erring around a decent 48%. For those wondering said nerf is:

Violent Tendencies 4th hit bonus damage lowered to 3/3.5/4/4.5/5% max HP from 4/5/6/7/8% max HP.

So a rank 5 W is now the strength of a rank 2 W.

To make matters worse Fervor of Battle is getting the nerf it has long since deserved, but Kled happens to rely quite heavily on Fervor due to his ability to quickly stack it up and rack up AAs while waiting for his next rotation, meaning that Kled will be in quite an awkward position if these changes go through.

TL;DR: People complained about ranged champions being cancer to lane against as melee so Riot decided to nerf Kled.

157 Comments

Astôlfo10/19/2016, 1:15:43 PM42 votes

The fuck? Why? Kled is perfectly fine.

RiotRiot Scruffy10/19/2016, 5:09:49 PM33 votes

The full changelist below:

-Remount delay reduced from 1.25 -> .5s (this is insanely big) -Damage down on 4th hit W (what you noted above) -We're fiddling around with increasing the amount of courage he gets from minions/last hits (nothing set in stone yet)

Overall these changes shouldn't be a nerf and we hope to get him remounting significantly more often.

DunkinNoobs10/19/2016, 2:31:37 PM9 votes

http://imgur.com/a/43Dqz

FantasySniper10/19/2016, 11:52:29 PM3 votes

Because his passive is bulllshit and instead of fixing that, they're going to nerf everything else first, like they always do.