"Tanks Haven't Been Feeling So Hot, So We're...Putting More Durability in Their Kits"

The Yetii Rider·8/15/2018, 4:19:24 PM·7 votes·1,798 views
Patch 8.16 Notes

Tahm Kench

Q slow duration and cooldown decreased. W duration decreased at later ranks. W cooldown significantly increased. W mana cost decreased. W cooldown now halved on enemy Devour.

Q - Tongue Lash SLOW DURATION 2 seconds ⇒ 1.5 seconds COOLDOWN 6 seconds ⇒ 5 seconds

W - Devour/Regurgitate DEVOUR DURATION 4/4.5/5/5.5/6 seconds ⇒ 4 seconds ENEMY CHAMPION DURATION Half ally duration (unchanged) COOLDOWN 14/13/12/11/10 seconds ⇒ 28/25/22/19/16 seconds newYUMMY Cooldown is halved on enemy cast COST 90 mana ⇒ 60 mana

None of this improves his durability. This was just poor formatting. You should have put this somewhere else and explained why the nerf was happening. Zero reason to stick this in the tank buff section, come on Riot.

23 Comments

rtbf2216514128/15/2018, 4:47:23 PM7 votes

They already explained why they nerfed him in a forum post. Just because you can't research doesn't mean they contradicted themselves.

Hexs Fortune8/15/2018, 4:33:41 PM3 votes

Looks like nerfs for Pro Play

Kench had a 48 percent win rate top and 47 percent as support in solo queue

RIP

AirKingNeo8/15/2018, 4:45:33 PM1 votes

Tahm Kench is an abomination of design and shouldn't be viable until that design is fixed.

You should be complaining about the lack of explanation in their patch notes. Random micro nerfs without reasons is pretty fucking stupid and allows for 0 responsibility for changes (as if they took criticism in the first place). Then you gotta remember that people who write the patch notes and people who do balance changes are two different groups of people.

Fizz was nerfed despite seeing only 1 pick in competitive play (being EU) and wasn't even rocking the high elo charts, and all of the runes he used got nerfed. Same shit for Wukong, but he's being blamed for Duskblade being stupid.