Can we revert the Sejuani Rework please?
As a long time Sejuani
player I was very excited at first to see Sejuani getting reworked. Riot promised Sejuani players a more skill expressive champ and a higher skill ceiling (and a kit beyond just being an R bot). First of all, the rework is not all bad! I like that her normal W and E abilities have become a lot more interesting, adding the stacking mechanic and a stun instead of the hard slow from before and making w a skillshot was a nice idea! I can see the vision that her designers had for her here, but I personally feel that instead of adding more variety to her kit, you forced people into 1 playstyle, and that is being the support tank. With old sejuani, you had the option to become the teams frontline carry, dishing out tons of dmg if you chose to go for a risky ap build or you could CHOOSE to become a tank in a traditional manner. I LOVED playing AP sejuani, it was high risk high reward and felt great to play. With the current kit, you have one linear boring playstyle and no option to go damage whatsoever. Thats the reason people have started dubbing her the AUTOFILL jungle champ, youve made her easy to learn and pickup and just way too forgiving.... and after playing her for quite a while now, I feel that shes become boring and mundane. And the worst part about all of this is her Ult...... Its strong dont get me wrong... but... the way its being used just makes me sad.
The way I usually use the ultimate now is to either engage in the traditional manner, lockdown a high priority target and eliminate it or the most common case, to reset my passives dmg. (E-stun-->R---> Autoattack). Not only does this feel horrible to play against, it feels boring to play as well. Her old ultimate was objectively one of the strongest abilities in the game, if not the strongest ultimate. That of course came with a cost, the rest of her kit was .. simple. But, thats what I loved so much about the old Sejuani: her ULTIMATE. It felt so satisfying to land a 5 man stun with the explosion sound that comes with it. I didnt care about my base kit too much as long as I could play around my ultimate. It also gave opponents a window to play against Sejuani, if she misses the Ult, you get punished for it hard. We Sejuani OTPs liked it that way.
The reason im writing this post is because I saw Riot does indeed have the option to revert reworks or rework again. (hehe xd ryze) For example Rengar has been reverted and tweaked so that he feels like Rengar again and hes doing quite well now. LeBlanc and Ahri are also due for a revert soon as far as ive seen on the PBE. This is why I beg Riot to at least try to bring back the old Sejuani (maybe with some tweaks as well?), because the current one is not Sejuani anymore, just a husk of herself.
Thank you for your time if you read this. Love- Alex
PS: Ive added a poll to see what your thoughts are.