When you nerf champions that you've already pushed into a nerf by accident (Evelynn)

Joetri10·10/17/2018, 9:49:31 PM·2 votes·1,360 views

Sometime ago, Evelynn; and other mage assassins, got nerfed with the change of the item build for runic. Falling from her most balanced state into below 50%, she received some odd buffs to her auto attacks aswell as power to her whiplash overall and she was brought back into a stable situation. Overtime she maintained her presence as a very strong punishing carry into the lower half of the elo format however somewhat recently a situation arisen where a lot of her focal burst power came in the form of Electrocute, a rune that got nerfed. This had such a harsh impact that it forced players who constantly favoured the rune for the midgame powerspike, to instead switch to the early ganking pressure rune that is Dark Harvest. Situation: A bad one.

Though Elec was still a powerful option for Evelynn, DH was much more superior and leaned towards the high pressure early ganking power play that it provides, making Evelynn's ganking at the early stage 'Overpowered'. However, though painfully obvious that communication lacks within the balancing team, the most recent nerf to her Whiplash not only resulted in a loss of burst power for the Elec build, but also created a problem for DH users because that same rune ALSO got nerfed in the same patch. Causing her power to fall WAAY below what would appear in her patchnotes. A much harder and complicated problem has now arisen because her passives indicator for her ult has not been changed, her E is no longer bursty, ELEC also does not fill the void left by the Whiplash nerf and therfor her ultimate is not only misleading but feels waaay to low, as if you're playing Pyke at level 1 consistently.

This is a result of pure stacking of nerfs without communication and it needs to be addressed. The DH nerf was enough hurt Evelynn. Her own nerfs make Elec Eve useless and for no reason whatsoever. I ask, just revert the nerf back. She was seriously fine.

2 Comments

Chembaron Yamada10/18/2018, 12:12:42 AM1 votes

According to lolalytics, her winrate currently in Platinum+ is between 51 and 52% constantly. Seems fine in my opinion. Maybe it just takes some more time to get used to?

Valor Above All10/18/2018, 2:24:06 AM1 votes

Eve is good right now so I don't know what you're talking about stop defending a champ because you play it when they buffed my one-trick(Quinn) and it was pick or ban I was like "Just Make My Champion Shit So I Can Play Her Again" Still Have a 58% WR