Popular champions of 2014 season [BOTLANE]

VDc0zCqe0w··3 votes·445 views

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Can you please bring Thresh back in line? It's horribly boring to play/see every match as/vs a Thresh

Why wasn't he nerfed in every single aspect of his kit after S4 worlds?

You know, because there was another champion who was played in many games as support @ S3 Worlds, and that champ was Zyra

This was the V3.13 patch:

Deadly Bloom range reduced to 800 from 825. Damage changed to 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+65% AP) from 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+60% AP). Rampant Growth Range increased to 850 from 825. Passive cooldown reduction reduced to 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10% from 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20%. Plant base damage changed to 23 (+6.5 per level) from 26 (+6 per level). Reduced the delay before seeds can be stepped on by enemies to 1.5 seconds from 3. Fixed a bug where spells would rarely not turn seeds into plants. Stranglethorns No longer stuns after the knockup ends. Bug Fix: Plants summoned in the thicket will now correctly receive the buff (currently only applies to plants already active).

Every single skill except the passive was straight out nerfed, and the compensation buffs were ridiculous (they WERE ridiculous, compare them to Annie compensation buffs, and even them didn't help her to be a good pick ever again)

The post S4 worlds patch brought NO Thresh nerf, even if he was THE prority pick/ban (NO, Janna wasn't the priority, it was Thresh, check the numbers)

What did post-Worlds patch bring?

A Janna nerf (even if a pretty small one, i got to be honest)

I know someone will come here and say "we nerfed Thresh in 12214 patches", but he is still crowding out other supports, this graphic basically shows that you need to release a broken shit support like release Braum to compete with Thresh

5 Comments

Knight Devout1 votes

Thresh is probably the lesser evil. Take a look at the other "popular picks".

Annie, AKA the one who charges her stun then proceeds to zone the enemy botlane just by existing. Need 200 cps to play that champion, for sure.

Leona, aka once Zenith Blade connects you are dead, unless you are Vayne or post-6 Tristana.

Morgana. Black Shield. Three seconds root.

Thresh has set the bar nowadays, he's the standard for "you need to be THIS useful to be a support".

VDc0zCqe0w3 votes

[{quoted}](name=Knight Devout,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=n8AohzTr,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2015-01-02T16:37:44.468+0000) Thresh has set the bar nowadays, he's the standard for "you need to be THIS useful to be a support".

that's the same thing Renekton did

except Renekton was actually nerfed meaningfully

Knight Devout2 votes

Actually they nerfed the whole tank class. Renekton is still good toplane, it's just that fighters , or tank-fighters suck.

Knight Devout1 votes

Oh, and Renek lategame was improved . Not by a small amount. Dominus rank 3 got a 33% increase of bonus health and a 20% increase of damage per second.

Rew7111 votes

Look at Zilean. He stole the 4.14 spot light just like it was nothing.

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