She already gets massive attack speed from her build. Going from +80% to +60% AS on her E at max rank (for an ability that's not even maxed first) is going to do next to nothing. I guarantee this will do literally nothing to her presence in pro play
It's sizable.
Considering most of her damage comes from onhits (plasma, muramana, nashors) it's a decent hit.
well at least banning kaisa doesn't mean the enemy adc will auto default to xayah, because xayah was significantly nerfed
It's 800 gold in stats.
It's vital to stacking up rageblade. If you don't think 20% AS is a lot you've clearly never played a basic attack champion. This nerf hit exactly where it needs to.
Her E's Attack Speed increase is incredibly useful before you get your primary attack speed items. The average Kai'sa Build now is Muramana, Guinsoo's rageblade and nashor's Tooth. She'll get Guinsoo's second which only gives 25% attack speed(not counting the stacks because she often couldn't stack it before fights anyway.) this means that she's stuck at only getting at max 60% attack speed at level 11+ meaning that she can't stack her passive as easily even with Guinsoo's rageblade. After getting Nashor's it still won't let her reach her peak of 2.0 attack speed with no Guinsoo's stacks with her E, it's a HUGE nerf.
Especially in lane where she'll often only have Berserker's Grieves and her E to rely on for attack speed.
Meanwhile look at the way they nerfed Xayah. Kai'sa is a terror at all skill levels, Xayah was pretty middle of the pack bordering on underpowered, but in pro play she was good so they completely gutted her. Kai'sa, the golden god of League of Legends and ultra popular champion with more skins on the way who is ruining the game everywhere else? Ehh, 20% attack speed reduction on her second or third max spell at a point in the game she has already snowballed into her items should do the trick.
I honestly hate pro play. My only hope is that immediately after worlds they buff back all the champions they completely annihilated so that 0.0001% of the playerbase can have "fair" matches. It's bullshit that the actual people who play the game have to deal with terrible balance that multiplies the closer it gets to Worlds for the benefit of a couple hundred people at best, they should just put Worlds on a different special patch.
It is just so easy to nerf kaisa, extremely easy to be excact. Make her passive, have a cooldown on each target which gets lowered from each auto attack, for example, on a champion after she procs passive, it goes on a 15 seconds cooldown on that champion which gets lowered for 1 to 0,5 seconds (based on level) for every auto on that marked champion. That would give her a early weakness while not being a nerf at her late game. The numbers may not be well thought out but such a fix would certainly make her healthier
