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Kai'Sa was a failure

Elohaven·Apr 2, 2018·3 votes·312 views

Clickbaited - or not.

She was a huge success in many ways in my opinion, but I can never say she's a "highly-mechanical" champion. Her mechanics only require a basic level of MOBA/League knowledge to play. (53% winrate and 13% pickrate do indicate her lack of mechanics for someone Riot claimed to be difficult)

Riot stated they're basing her off Vayne but Vayne, funnily, actually takes more skill to shred teams/tanks. Kai'Sa has the benefit of multi-target damage and late-game exceeds Vayne by a mile simply because her passive is magic damage while her autoattacks are physical. Basically, she will shred you no matter what. Even though Vayne does the same, at least it's not multi-target. TL;DR - She's too easy.

Now - don't misinterpret me and look at this as a complaint on Kai'Sa. Her gameplay is fine to me. However, I believe Vayne takes so much more skill to play effectively than Kai'Sa while Kai'Sa is wait and farm. I was disappointed on how mechanically intensive her kit was because high mechanics requires abilities that can be used quickly and efficiently.

I would compare Kai'Sa to old Jinx with Vayne's burst. Even the new Irelia is more mechanically intensive than Kai'Sa in my opinion.

I hope next time I see a highly-mechanical champion in the works, Riot stays true to it.

Suggestions? Well, not much since her kit is already completed so I can't make it mechanically intensive but here's what I would do while trying to keep her mechanically intensive.

Note: AGAIN, THESE ARE SUGGESTIONS. NOT TESTED and I feel her champion is already complete so. This is if she was still being developed.

Revert range to 500 (no compensation buffs) Keep AP ratio buffs Decrease E CD to 12/10/8/6/5 and AS steroid to 20/25/30/40/50% for 5 to 2 seconds

Makes her reliant on always risking being right next to the enemy but mechanically intensive with her E to constantly reposition. (No point in low mana costs when her E doesn't go off as frequently even late-game compared to Vayne) AP ratios help execute and keep her on equal teams with other ADC damage and as an assassin, her R let's her access and shred the backline.

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Sp33d Zer0Apr 2, 20181 votes

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Clickbaited - or not.

She was a huge success in many ways in my opinion, but I can never say she's a "highly-mechanical" champion. Her mechanics only require a basic level of MOBA/League knowledge to play. (53% winrate and 13% pickrate do indicate her lack of mechanics for someone Riot claimed to be difficult)

They over buffed her.

Riot stated they're basing her off Vayne but Vayne, funnily, actually takes more skill to shred teams/tanks. Kai'Sa has the benefit of multi-target damage and late-game exceeds Vayne by a mile simply because her passive is magic damage while her autoattacks are physical. Basically, she will shred you no matter what. Even though Vayne does the same, at least it's not multi-target. TL;DR - She's too easy.

False. % missing hp magic is always worse than % max go true. It's just how math works. She can't get past the MR of the enemy because of mixed damage, vayne negates it all.

Kaisa isn't multi target at all. You COULD build runaans, but youd be an idiot if you did it because of her short range meaning you can't abuse it properly. The only semi reasonable time would be against a super melee heavy dive comp.

Now - don't misinterpret me and look at this as a complaint on Kai'Sa. Her gameplay is fine to me. However, I believe Vayne takes so much more skill to play effectively than Kai'Sa while Kai'Sa is wait and farm.

Vayne is the OG "let me farm for 40 minutes, I scale" champion.

I was disappointed on how mechanically intensive her kit was because high mechanics requires abilities that can be used quickly and efficiently.

Agreed. Her mechanical aspects comes down to using E to invis juke and isolating a q target.

I would compare Kai'Sa to old Jinx with Vayne's burst. Even the new Irelia is more mechanically intensive than Kai'Sa in my opinion.

You can have differing levels of mechanical Intensity. That's perfectly acceptable.

I hope next time I see a highly-mechanical champion in the works, Riot stays true to it.

She is a more mechanical Adc. I think when they said she was similar to Vayne they meant with her % health passive, ability to dive, and invisibility. Not her mechanics. I could be mistaken though.

Her mechanics are honestly on par with Xayah though who is a somewhat demanding ADC mechanically to maximize.

Suggestions? Well, not much since her kit is already completed so I can't make it mechanically intensive but here's what I would do while trying to keep her mechanically intensive.

Note: AGAIN, THESE ARE SUGGESTIONS. NOT TESTED and I feel her champion is already complete so. This is if she was still being developed.

Revert range to 500 (no compensation buffs) Keep AP ratio buffs Decrease E CD to 12/10/8/6/5 and AS steroid to 20/25/30/40/50% for 5 to 2 seconds

Makes her reliant on always risking being right next to the enemy but mechanically intensive with her E to constantly reposition. (No point in low mana costs when her E doesn't go off as frequently even late-game compared to Vayne) AP ratios help execute and keep her on equal teams with other ADC damage and as an assassin, her R let's her access and shred the backline.

That e change sounds cool, but I would still like for her to gain A bit more attack speed because of the fact that she cannot attack during E at all whereas Vayne can cancel out of the invis early.

StaconaApr 2, 20181 votes

Her AD ratios are probably too high, which nerfing those may mean more AP ratio buffs to compensate, I rather see AP Kai'Sa because then that makes her kit unique where as AD just makes her a reskinned typical marksman.

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