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Nerfing Runic Echoes is silly. Tanks running RE is just a symptom.

Voluug13·3/22/2016, 10:05:00 PM·3 votes·321 views

A symptom of what?

First, that games are too short and snowbally. Tanks with Cinderhulk simply cant keep up and dont have the ganking power that RE Tanks do. But that was born from Riot's enforced snowbally meta.

Second, Cinderhulk isnt very good right now. Yeah its better stat at full build, but currently offensive scalings are so out of the wazoo compared to defensive scalings, that tanks prefer to snowball their teams with RE's early ganks, that giving up that chance for 1-2 seconds more thanks to Cinderhulk's %bonus HP.

Its even worse when we look at Sated junglers that scales much harder and often have better jungle clears. Why buy Cinderhulk, try to scale into lategame when Sated junglers can shred you in 5 seconds? When you can buy RE, have somewhat better ganks and mobility, and snowball your team into victory, instead of waiting for a futile lategame?

That is why THIS NERF:

BASE DAMAGE 80 ⇒ 60

Is downright silly.

2 Comments

JRobin313/22/2016, 11:28:22 PM2 votes

I agree that Cinderhulk is too weak to be an attractive buy for tank junglers. Especially since we are looking at the first complete item a jungler usually buys. The benefits of Cinderhulk hp come much later in the game and junglers need jungle clearing on their first buys. RIOT is nerfing the AP jungle item because tank junglers buy it instead of Cinderhulk. But it isn't as if Cinderhulk suddenly became a good buy. The first question a jungler usually asks about that first big item buy is: Will this help me clear my jungle?

Yes? OK, I'll buy it. No? HaHaHaHa - I'll buy something else ty very much.

Dominick Destine3/23/2016, 5:08:48 PM2 votes

Yes because nerfing Evelynn even more was a great idea.

Thanks a lot, Riot /sarcasm