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I mained Evelynn for 6 years and thought the reworked skills looked great, one game later....

Dominick Destine·10/12/2017, 6:34:52 AM·8 votes·1,778 views

.... this is the worst rework, and possibly the worst character Riot has ever created.

Here's what happened

  • Removed her early game paranoia-threat (HUGE downgrade)
  • Removed her early game ganking strength when it actually happened (Her current "burst" is extremely poor compared to other assassins)
  • Her late game is a lot weaker than it used to be and her team-fight presence is nonexistent (WTF?!), she used to have a great team fight initiation tool in Agony's Embrace, now she has nothing.
  • Drastically lowered her overall ult damage (Ulted an ADC who had about 20% health, he survived, wtf? yeah I get that this is one game, but heavier targets could straight up ignore my ult even at 15 to 10% health.... before, using her ult when the enemy was max health was always a great chunk of their health plus a solid shield to give you an even greater edge)
  • Made Hate Spike very clunky to use, I get that it's meant to be combo'd with Lust Dust which brings me to my final and most important point
  • EVELYNN IS NO LONGER AN AMBUSH PREDATOR.

The entire core of her character was about catching people with their pants down; That is to say, get an enemy in a disadvantageous position/time for them.... when they're alone, weak, have their skills on cooldown, or just aren't paying attention.

This is no longer possible because the vast majority of her kit is now heavily frontloaded with a skill that gives the enemy a 2.5 second warning. Whether the current Evelynn is buffed into a healthy state or not, the core of her gameplay is now completely gone. She's more of a team fighter than a burst mage assassin .... "The Ultimate Predator" as Jax was once quoted as saying..... that is no longer true.

Well done Riot, you have truly killed Evelynn. For good. Forever. I am incredibly disappointed in you.

16 Comments

Lord Malpercio10/12/2017, 10:52:25 AM5 votes

Really? I've loved Eve since S1, and I think her core identity here remains. Her strongest feat is ambushing players attempting to roam, as lust dust has plenty of time to charge in the jungle. If you're ganking lane, just don't use lust dust for the charm, proc the huge ass slow instead.

But Eve is still amazing at ambushing. Perhaps you're using the wrong itemization? Runic Echoes and Lich Bane both proc instantly on her E, and I've flat out one-shot ADCs with it, let alone her E-R's almost instantaneous burst.

If anything, I've felt Eve's greatest problem was her squishy nature, rather than her assassination ability. She simply can't go toe-to-toe with other assassins due to her frailty, but I've had no problems at all getting the drop on people and tearing them apart. Her playstyle is a bit different for sure, namely that she can't go berserk and chase someone down for fucking miles on end, but that wasn't a sign of her being healthy as an ASSASSIN but rather a duelist.

Trust me, it took me a few goes with her to figure out exactly -when- I should pick my fights.

As for an interesting thing gained - She can now play psychological games with Lust Dust. People -really- back off when they see that charm overhead, even if you don't target the person. You can use it to scare people off from diving an ally, cause a team to group around a teammate too tightly, and a bunch of other nifty things that give the new Eve a utility she never had before.

Warwick Main10/12/2017, 7:29:09 AM2 votes

Eh I think you just need to adapt to her new playstyle. I do admit the loss of early game stealth is bullshit for how weak she is, but her scalings pretty good. I shut one down early and she was still able to reliably 100-0 my Lux without Lust dust.

Augustusx10/12/2017, 11:07:26 AM2 votes

yeah but old evelynn was just ResidentSleeper QQQQQQQQQQQ ResidentSleeper, no one wants to play that Xd

Muzét10/12/2017, 11:28:49 AM2 votes

one game later....

You said plenty enough. Play her more. One game is ont enough to get the "right" to act like you do.

The only thing I agree with is her W windup time that should scale down per level

OurLestrade10/12/2017, 9:12:41 AM1 votes

I hated the Taric rework at first. Gradually he became my main after I adjusted, to the point that I prefer the rework overall. Give it time.

Bionic Jellyfish10/12/2017, 6:55:45 AM1 votes

buuuut if she somehow lands said cc, and you're squishy, you're pretty much done for. have not been playing league for too long, first rework i've seen was warwick's. Evelynn's was god-awful. worse than urgot's, in my opinion.

Linna Excel10/12/2017, 3:56:45 PM1 votes

Sad to see an honest thread like this get downvoted. As I said in another thread yesterday, there's literally nothing I like about the rework. Yes they gave her technical visual improvements and gave her a backstory, however as far as I'm concerned this rework is a complete failure.

EVELYNN IS NO LONGER AN AMBUSH PREDATOR.

This is the worst thing about the rework. Whoever worked on her clearly had no idea what evelynn was or how or why her players like her. She had a very unique style of jungling and approaching situations and that got deleted. I think this is one of the worst crimes about her rework and why I believe these style of reworks have to stop.

Riot has no clue what they are doing in these things and just delete and remake champs on whatever whim comes to mind.

No one asked for this BS and the only people happy with it were the ones who barely played evelynn in the past and have no clue what they are talking about either.