@Riot, could you stop nerfing champions that aren't LCS-meta?

BeatzBoyFTW··2 votes·420 views

PBE right now:

Pantheon

Heartseeker Strike (E) Active damage over 3 strikes lowered to 80/130/180/230/280 (+3 bonus AD) from 80/140/220/260/320 (+3.6 bonus AD) [Tooltip has changed. It now lists damage over three strikes vs listing an damage of each strike. Also now lists damage to champions and mentions it does reduced damage to minion/monster rather than damage it does to monster/minion then double to champiions.] [NOTE: Damage to minions/monsters roughly the same.]

Grand Skyfall (R) Mana cost reduced to 100 at all ranks from 125. No longer refunds (85) mana if R is cancelled. Cooldown when cancelled increased to 30 seconds from 10 secon

I thought Riot didn't nerf Pantheon because they thought he was pretty balanced(-ish). After that, they had not give a shit about him anymore.

And then Pantheon was played once in the LCS, and all of the sudden Riot shat their pants & hurriedly made tons of urgent meeting calls for nerfs, since they were pissed that Darshan carried with Panth & went 6/3/3, instead of him picking the usual LC$BigPlay Sheep Poppy Fiora Malphite Quinn Graves Nautilus Gangplank .

Like, seriously Riot? Really?? Could you at least give us on context on why the changes doe? And while you're at it, please add the words "Because LCS plays matters more than public base" because this is literally what I'm seeing here.

5 Comments

Nahui2 votes

He has an unavoidable combo. Click stun, click spear, aoe nuke while stunned. Just max spear, no mana cost, easily poke down and own the lane the rest of the game.

"But muh late game"

No. There's no late game. There's just an early game kit with very little counterplay.

Sakura Mirage1 votes

Extremely oppressive and not a fun game design to play against. It's literally give up tons of cs or die trying to cs.

Itadaki Seieki1 votes

Not to mention you can tack on that new item ( item 3147 ) and add the damage to that if your combo didn't kill them before. :^)

Anu3isII1 votes

That nerf is on PBE, and we don't even get the full view of all the changes that were/are planned.

The Deckowner1 votes

weird, i had barely seen any pantheon lately in my own games.

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