Veigar and why his rework was hypocritical
"Of all the champions that were primary customers of the late Deathfire Grasp, none were more iconic than the Tiny Master of Evil himself. While we recognized and intended to preserve Veigar's role as a 100-to-0 burst mage, flatly increasing the power of a champion with such a powerful combination of crowd control and single-target damage didn't feel like the humane option (for everyone except Veigar).
Freeing up Baleful Strike to cover more range and doubly enable his AP-stacking minigame was a natural change to Veigar's kit and made his laning better. We quickly learned, however, that a strictly better Veigar left opponents with less and less options, especially with the immense power that is Event Horizon. While old Veigar needed to rely on Event Horizon's immediate stun to zone out potential threats, keeping its current iteration meant we either needed to reduce Veigar's damage (but you can't reduce a 100-0 burst mage to 100-20) or tackle his outright reliability. Ultimately we went with the latter.
The bottom line is this - characters with inflexible kits are often balanced on a knife's edge, and the slightest change to a range or damage value can be the difference between unplayable or overbearing (Hi Ryze!). While Veigar's reliability when it comes to "blowing fools up" has decreased, the added laning flexibility and higher late-game scaling should help make Veigar more than a one-trick pony. He has to work harder for his one-shots, but has the tools to earn them in a way that feels fair...ish for his opponents."
She is able to do the same job as Veigar did. Immediate stun a single target without anyway to avoid it unlike Event Horizon. And why does Veigar have work harder for his one-shots and make it fair...ish for his opponents.? Annie doesn't have to work for anything to get her one-shots when all she has to do is have her stun ready and even without her stun still does massive damage. Anytime I see an Annie, I am forced to build banshee, regardless who I am playing since you need specific items to counter her unlike other mid champions that you can build normally against or someone as equally hard in CC. Silence would be effective but you removed the silence off from the assassins and god forbid if she flashes in towards a team. The reasons you "reworked Veigar" are not justifiable when you still have a champion like this doing what he did and is a large threat And don't tell me, "Well Annie is weak because..." since all that counters her now would've worked on Veigar.
Give an actual good reason on the next champion you decide to break when it didn't need fixing.
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P.P.S Even if they were relevant, in the bottom 10 win rates there are 0 melee bruisers and the assassin is Evelynn. The others are Mages and Twitch.
in the higher elo.