Evelynn's Role in Season 5?

Yvaelle·11/22/2014, 12:29:31 AM·15 votes·22,094 views

Evelynn Evelynn seems too squishy to jungle effectively in S5, she falls behind hard in the early jungle - and so either gets counter-jungled, or can't gank because her HP is too low. She doesn't fit into the mid or top meta, either.

Would it be possible to give her either a base stats buff, or some bonus for fighting monsters (ie. on Ravage?), or % health regen while stealthed (allowing her to regen while lurking for ganks)?

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37 Comments

chumbler11/22/2014, 3:33:30 AM7 votes

Her role in season 5 is benchwarmer. Riot is not going to buff her jungling, and they're not going to buff her to be useable anywhere else. Sorry Evelynn, you're not one of the Chosen. Better luck next time.

Mirage Night12/2/2014, 3:29:06 AM3 votes

I dont think they will be doing anything for until her thematic rework.

DynamiteGazelle11/22/2014, 10:29:25 AM3 votes

I'm curious how much everyone commenting has used Evelynn in the new jungle. I've tried her a bunch and she's doing just as good as she was before for me. I go AD offtank build and with my build and 2 pots I can go bot buff (because i can get a better leash) -> wolves -> top buff and have enough health for a lvl 3 gank. The health on red smite is super helpful. Also, they buffed Eve's armor value so she is on par with hecarim base stats-wise and actually has more base armor than LeeSin . Plus she has a super quick clear time with her q.

Extra regen in stealth would be a nice change though.

I love her kit and she is my main, so I hope Riot doesn't look at all these naysayers and do a sion level hard rework on her! The thing is, because of her stealth she needs to have lower than average stats to balance out. Playing Evelynn is a matter of capitalizing on advantages, not 1-on-1 facerolling.

Also, don't build her AP..lol. Not that it isn't viable, but it's the weaker build path option for her atm

Rebonack12/2/2014, 4:30:39 AM3 votes

What?

No.

They remade her Innate once and gave her a full remake once.

Originally her Innate made it so her attacks didn't send calls for help to Towers and Minions and they changed that to the half damage from minions Innate.

Then they turned her into the abomination she is right now.

Taric has gone through a tone of Remakes. Eve? Not so much.

Rebonack11/22/2014, 4:36:01 AM3 votes

Eve is in dire need of another remake.

  1. Bring back her OLD kit.
  2. Passive now applies to damage from monsters as well as minions.
  3. Q now prioritizes your last auto-attacked target.
  4. W is now a Charm/nuke (she's supposed to be a succubus, right?) and no longer grants stealth.
  5. R now grants several seconds of stealth on activation along with the IAS and Movespeed buffs.

This would address the two biggest problems OLD Eve had, stealth roaming to gather information and CRAZY early game pressure. Her ganks wouldn't be that great pre-six depending on how her Charms works, but her passive and heavy damage output would allow her to survive just fine in the present day jungle.

Done and done.

ٵst12/2/2014, 3:26:32 AM2 votes

Apparently Evelynn getting the ultimate skin for this year. In my opinion the way she is right now doesn't fit well enough to be in jungle but her kit doesn't fit any other roles and is made specifically for jungle. I find it hard to jungle with her now and to be honest unless they fix her there's no point on buying that skin.

Gafugarion11/22/2014, 4:12:36 AM2 votes

Clear buff and one mini group. Go back for 5 pots, clear other buff assuming the other jungle is an idiot and didn't steal it from you because you are Eve, use 3 pots to gank lane where enemy should be even or higher level than you and snowball from there. If you fail at the gank, rush hatchet magus and try to farm as best you can, gl if they counter lol.

Pump Me Harder12/23/2014, 5:11:31 PM1 votes

please help her jungle effectively i would like to see more of this champ

Potato KehPeh1/9/2015, 4:56:08 PM1 votes

Actually, if they gave Evelynn a buff, I'm sure things will get out of hand. When I play her even now, she's stupidly strong. I've been playing her back to back in normal for about 2 1/2 weeks now, and I've played 19 games with Evelynn. Out of those 19 games, I've carried about 15 games with her, and I went negative only twice. There was one game where I was completely neutral with a score of 9/9/9. Usually, my score is something like 18/6/16, or 20/7/12. See my attachments for screenies of my recent games with Eve. The only reason why I even got a negative score in the two games that I mentioned was mainly because in the first game that I went negative in, all 3 lanes lost dramatically. I had a great start and was 2/0 for a while, but somehow top, mid, and bot lane all snowballed and so the entire enemy team out-scaled me. In the second game which was last night, I ganked top quite a bit since bot lane fed about 5 kills early game which made Ezreal and Leona untouchable, but somehow top still ended up losing, and our Katarina wasn't doing that great against Lux. Their team ended up out-scaling me as well. Other than that, playing jungle Evelynn is all about constant ganks and tricking your enemy team. One of the funnest things to do is to surprise an enemy and get them so low that they get spooked and flash. Then you can act like you're leaving lane, and if they're stupid enough to stay, you can sneak right back up on them and either get your team first blood, or land first blood.

I tend to start golems with her for its smite benefits, and go red, then wolves. From there depending on how much health you have left, you can either do an early gank, or recall then gank. Eve doesn't really need blue buff to be honest, but it's good to ward blue before going to gank just in case someone tries to counter-jungle. No point in taking red trinket since normal wards can't detect you. =) Also, on most of my junglers, I like taking Ghost instead of flash since it gives you more chase potential, where as flash just positions you closer, or is used for an escape over walls. Evelynn does not need this since she can outrun most champions and then go stealth. Also note that I rather take Skirmishers on Evelyn for the amplified damage + Warrior's Enchant. I then get Boots of Swiftness, and a sheen for Triforce. I also like maxing my E on her rather than spikes. Just be sneaky with Evelynn and you can snowball easily. Plus your Ghost + W + Boots of swiftness + Ult means no one is escaping you, and it makes for a great escape in the middle of the team fight, especially when you're tanky and pop Randuin's Active. If anyone wants advice on Evelynn, just add me.

Tentacle Love1/9/2015, 5:50:01 PM1 votes

She's the season 5 Cheerleader.

SmokingPuffin1/9/2015, 5:55:48 PM1 votes

Eve needs a rework. Again. Her stealth mechanic was designed at a time when infinite invisible pink wards were a thing. Now that they are one per player and visible, she essentially has permanent chickens buff.

That's just broken, and it's the reason why Riot is leaving her super undertuned.

Meep Man1/9/2015, 6:31:30 PM1 votes

I would put points into the Utility Tree to get a third pot as Evelynn for Jungle. I also would get the buff extension to get an extended duration on Red Buff for the regeneration.

She also has decent laning if you want to try her there.

iSoldMyWifeForRP1/9/2015, 6:46:01 PM1 votes

i just want to state i just used eve for the first time in the jungle and i went 12-4-12. Carried my team...she is a very viable jungler..you just have to know how to use her and kite with her q early levels

Drunk Rummate1/9/2015, 7:26:10 PM1 votes

evelynn's role in season 5 is to provide freelo for the enemy team.

8yVkmwxq0D1/9/2015, 7:35:26 PM1 votes

I usually play her top. I might try playing her mid too.

SchrodingersCake1/13/2015, 11:36:58 PM1 votes

Okay, call me crazy, and I'm not really sure what I'm talking about so don't take my word to heart- I don't play Evelynn all that much but I love her as a champion- But what about, if she got some flat damage on her ult as well as current % max health, I know it's mainly for shield and/or slow, but couldn't that make AP Eve more viable due to more damage? Again, I'm not too sure what would be helpful for her, just a suggestion, feel free to tell me I'm wrong.

supes the lost1/14/2015, 12:32:06 AM1 votes

she's a decent hybrid bruiser top lane if you don't mind going off meta a little.

KillerPenguins11/22/2014, 12:33:45 AM1 votes

Grab a few extra pots early is my advice. She still worked pretty effectively in the jungle the one game I've tried her so far.

UnopposedComet3/23/2015, 3:34:53 AM1 votes

See I have played Evelynn in season 5 a good deal and its funny that everyone bags on her performance when I see a very strong jungler here. Here passive hives her so much power for gank its ridiculous and her damage as a hybrid is great as well, her early clear is sort of bad I must say considering you have to back after your red but that's not uncommon for a lot of junglers i.e Khazix. she has no real cc and her ult as I can see isn't too useful aside from the big shield but her W allows her to keep up with fleeing laners and the Q helps secure kills just out of range which is great considering her E does wonderful amounts of damage especially to squishy bot laners. All pieced together I think Evelynn is actually really good and although her kit is nothing special its still effective which is good when you take in that a lot of the new champions have been focused around complicated advanced kits so really looking at her the only thing you could do with her is maybe a texture update so she doesn't look so outdated but even without it I still think shes a wonderful pick IF YOU CAN USE HER CORRECTLY, this is not a in meta jungler that everyone can pick up but if you can get a good uderstanding of how to play her then shes is not a bad asset to a team at all. My personal favorite part is that everyone thinks she is garbage so I can really get he jump on them and also that she is not recognized at all which in this case is actually a good thing because now there is a champion that I don't have to worry about my friends or other people picking plus because she really isn't on the same level as some of the more in meta junglers of season 5 there is no real worry of riot messing with her and changing things which is always a pretty big disappointment when I find a champion I like and they get nerfed to high heaven.

CaptnJakSparrow12/2/2014, 3:48:02 AM1 votes

THey've reworked her four times. They need to just leave her alone. As for "how to jungle teh eve" I will have your answer in a few hours. I'm going to go test that now.

ElkarShammel12/19/2014, 12:15:42 AM1 votes

Evelynn AP's my main in season 5 and she's still a pretty valid jungler. As long as you smite the frog before grabbing blue, you have enough strength to get you through red buff, and then you can gank

Bresn12/19/2014, 12:19:54 AM1 votes

Eve is dead as for as I cared.

Her stealth pathetic to the point where she is a glass cannon, get speed buff and spam buttons and then die.

Too squishy to be useful beside clean up or ambush carries or supports.

New jungle way too strong and Eve got +5 armor. Rito doesn't care becuase that lil buff is crap.

Skia Asteri12/19/2014, 12:30:15 AM1 votes

I find her to work better than last season. Just took a minor adjustment to my rune page (swapping an AP quint for a spell vamp quint).

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1667105764/218693738?tab=overview

Shro0mie12/19/2014, 12:33:12 AM1 votes

Don't worry mane, she's getting much overdued buff soon, it's already been released on the pbe

Eve The Ripper12/19/2014, 12:39:44 AM1 votes

I do alright with her in the jungle, but then I get to lane and the ganks just aren't there.