I beg of you Riot, please help melees if you intend on these mastery changes

Pyrithegethon·Oct 23, 2016·1 votes·278 views

If you dont look at the pbe they have added new masteries.

Double edged sword now makes you deal 5% more damage and take 2.5% whether you are ranged or melee.

A 6 second cooldown mastery that causes your auto to deal 10+1per level magic damage, no penalty on ranged.

A mastery that when you go into a brush your next auto does 3% of the targets current health as magic damage, no penalty for ranged.

And the supposed mastery to give tanks damage that increases your damage by 5% over 5 seconds while in combat favors ranged champions as they can damage you safely while melees have to run in danger to deal damage.

All of these masteries favor ranged so much. Ranged champions, especially in the top lane already have easy laning phases vs melees while being lane bullies and outscaling.

1 Comments

Zero Skill TankOct 23, 20161 votes

I can't imagine ranged tops being half-viable with extreme power CotC gives to hard-engage compositions, or with how much trading power it gives to ones like Irelia or Renekton. Fearless and Siegemaster, together with fervor nerf, should help melee tops too.

The only concerning mastery IMO is Greenfathers Gift(Fresh Blood is rather laughable), but even this one shouldn't outwieght CotC in its current shape.