Holy crud; Rumble buffs?! has Riot sama finally relented on their anti Yordle stance?

Dominick Destine··2 votes·1,952 views

RUMBLE Q range and tick rate increased. Rumble's body is now smaller. Piloting a literal junkyard, you almost expect Rumble to feel clunky. Alas, you can have too much of a good thing, often leading Rumble to feel like he's better left for the scrap heap than in top lane. Adjusting Rumble's specs for maneuvering in minions while upping the consistency of Flamespitter means he can focus on the complexities that really matter, like not entirely missing his Equalizer. COLLISION RADIUS 50 ⇒ 35 FLAMESPITTER RANGE 550 ⇒ 600 TICK RATE 0.5 seconds ⇒ 0.25 seconds

Holy motherless goat, Riot has finally done something right, buffed an underpowered character into possible viability. Thank you Riot sama... now if only you weren't going to MASSIVELY buff Riven in the same patch, sigh...

Note: Rumble had 44% win rate with 1.5% pick rate in platinum/diamond ranked play. He was abysmal and he desperately needed this buff. Riot finally buffed the right character (I.e. rather than buffing Zed and Riven(WTF?) and nerfing Skarner, Swain, Anivia and Rammus (WTF?!?!?) they buffed Rumble)

12 Comments

Maximum Morde1 votes

Lol rumble is a common pick by pros because he's not viable.

Dominick Destine1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Maximum Morde,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=YdENmyxe,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2016-01-11T19:36:05.291+0000)

Lol rumble is a common pick by pros because he's not viable.

Rumble is an incredibly rare pick in Plat/Diamond... come on man, don't talk trash when you are bronze rated.

Mimy1 votes

Awesome I've been saving for him sense he's the last one I need to get to finish the yordle blade.

Earl Eulrich1 votes

as a rumble player i´m hesitant, as i don´t really think he needed buffs - that will just make his good matchups even worse for his opponents, while not doing much for him if he falls behind...i´d rather have seen them adding some sort of reset mechanic on kill to the e so he could farm from range to keep himself in the game if he falls behind.

Dominick Destine1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Don Eulrich,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=YdENmyxe,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2016-01-11T19:49:25.094+0000)

i don´t really think he needed buffs

How so? he was doing very poorly during pre-season. http://champion.gg/champion/Rumble 44% win rate with 1.5% pick rate.... that's horrendous. He desperately needed this buff, Riot finally buffed the right character rather than nerfing (I.e. nerfing Skarner, Swain, Anivia and Rammus instead of Lee , Yasuo, Riven, Zed and Thresh)

Earl Eulrich1 votes

sure, because current toplane-meta doesn´t really favour him - he´s having a pretty hard lane against most champs that are currently played there. his midgame-teamfighting is still gamechangingly potent though...if the toplane ever favours him again with easier matchups or they buff zonias again in the mage-update those buffs might really push him over the top. for now i don´t mind it, but i don´t think Riot will adjust to future changes...they have a history of (not) doing that.

Dominick Destine1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Don Eulrich,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=YdENmyxe,comment-id=000200000000,timestamp=2016-01-11T21:42:08.904+0000)

sure, because current toplane-meta

Irrelevant.

If he is severely underperforming, he needs buffs.

Earl Eulrich1 votes

it´s not...if you pick him into sth. like fiora and your team doesn´t use your midgame-spike and you get splitpushed to death later on that´s not really indicating that rumble is weak, just that it´s currently very hard to use him in SoloQ. If however tanks get popular again top and he can just easily farm up his spike and then everyone wants to fight anyway he´ll turn out to be a big bully soon... that´s like saying the Zed buffs had been alright because he struggled.

Erdamon1 votes

Except that he got way too much shit in the preseason (and 5.16 patch). Ult cd nerfs, ap itemization nerfs (all the items that actually got buffed aren't really all that good on Rumble), top lane meta favorizing pool made purely of Rumble counters, games focused much more on early game (that aspect of Rumble was nerfed quite a lot of times since his release mind you), the ever controversial creep block. I doubt that he'll get too crazy after those... literally QoL changes, at least not more than the current top picks.

Colgate Gator1 votes

Nooooo, I don't want to see that annoying rat in my games again.

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That being said, where did you find that? I can't seem to find the PBE patch or anything.

Dominick Destine1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Postal Badger,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=YdENmyxe,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2016-01-11T21:49:14.153+0000)

Nooooo, I don't want to see that annoying rat in my games again.

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That being said, where did you find that? I can't seem to find the PBE patch or anything.

It was shamelessly lifted from a reddit thread which got it from some kind of PBE leak (It seems).

Big Lincoln1 votes

i was pretty happy with him being garbage tbh

i find it funnier that bard is getting more nonsense buffs though

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