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My Eveylnn...

Killroywuzhere·6/22/2018, 12:11:49 AM·1 votes·565 views

Hey Guys Killroy here,

Just wanted to finally get on here and review a champion I have adored since the moment I picked up this game, and how sad I am about the rework that this character went through.

A long long time ago in a city far far away. I was introduced to a new game called League of Legends. I investigated and then started playing the game and realized how much fun the game actually was. However, I didn't quite enjoy the game until I came upon my first love... Evelynn. Since 2010 or there about I have been playing this game off an on. I love it and will continue playing it as a loyal fan of not only the game itself but the company that created it. However, I must say my heart has been broken since the death of my first love, and I hope her days of creeping the summoners rift will return. (TDLR Skip to Evelynn icon)

Pre vision updates

When I first heard Evelynn was being reworked I was both terrified and over joyed. I like many players knew her weaknesses and strengths, and while I didn't think she was in a perfect place. I felt she was very effective as I used her. Now, Eve was not always a performing champion. Long ago before the ward updates to the game occurred Evelynn was basically useless. Pink wards were invisible and could detect stealth champions. This made her primary tactic basically useless. Ultimately making her unplayable by most. During this period I resorted to playing other junglers (Nocturne was my main) as my primary love of stealth assassination was thwarted by the pesky pink demons that haunted my map. Keep in mind back then there was no limit to warding and they were purchasable only. This was changed eventually which made her the terror she once was.

The Announcement

I heard about her rework and waited in terrified anticipation. The goal in mind was to bring Eve back to the glory days of her AP assassin nuke build. I was intrigued at how they would accomplish this. However, I had a looming fear... that fear was they would play around with the one mechanic that defines Eve. Her stealth. I wanted to write a post on here regarding her rework and my concerns around it, however; due to events in my personal life. I was unable to make that happen. All I could do was sit and hope that they would keep all the elements of Eve that made her amazing, but change her kit to revert her AD sustain to a more aggressive all in AP nuke. Unfortunately this was not the case.

Heart Break

When the Evelynn rework was released my heart sank. They had taken the one thing essential to her kit away from her or in a manner of speaking they had. Her stealth ability was nerfed. Gone was the only perma-stealth champion in the game. What was left, was a AP burst nuke that lost all manner what made Evelynn, Evelynn. The biggest mistake her rework created was the removal of stealth until level 6. This not only completely diminished her core abilities, but it effectively made her worthless as a jungler over all. Why do I think this? It is simple.

The flaws of her design

Evelynn was in both her AP and AD variants an early game Assassin who survived on her ability to gank. While having a moderate jungle clear time, and a much more difficult time if not AD clearing the jungle. Evelynn depended on her ability to secure kills and gank the enemy jungler to keep her fed and relevant. Getting her fed before level 6 meant she had to be highly mobile and constantly pressuring enemy lanes and jungle. This was not a task for the faint of heart as it required a lot of map awareness and skill. If you were unable to secure this early game strength Evelynn would end up irrelevant later in the game. Her rework however completely destroyed any potential of this happening.

Her passive stealth was key to her ability to move around the map without any difficulty. It was how she avoided detection, and escaped danger. Her movement speed ability allowed her to stick to and disengage fights. With her stealth appearing at level 6 and her movement speed buff turning into a charm, AP steroid, mark... thing. All early game potential she once had was gone. Even then the charm ability fails to do its intended goal which is charm... As such I would love to see some changes to Evelynn... Here are some things that could be beneficial. I have two possible fixes.

Evelynn Return of Stealth

A simple fix to Eve is reverting her passive to a degree.

> DEMON SHADE

  • Remove: When Evelynn is out of combat she enters Demon shade. Demons shade heals her if she is low on health and at level 6 gives her camouflage.

  • (NEW) Demon Shade: When Evelynn is out of combat she enters Demon Shade. When in demon Shade, Eveylnn enters camouflage. At level 6 she gains a burst of movement speed when she enters Demon Shade.

HATE SPIKES

  • Remove: ** Dart: Evelynn flourishes her lashers, launching a dart in the target direction, dealing magic damage to the first enemy hit. Hitting a monster refunds 60% of the Cooldown reduction icon cooldown.~~ For the next 4 seconds the enemy hit takes bonus magic damage from her next 3 basic attacks or abilities.**~~

  • (NEW) Dart: Evelynn Flourishes her lashers, launching a dart in the target direction, dealing magic damage to the first enemy hit. Hitting a monster refunds 60% of the Cooldown reduction icon cooldown. For the next 4 seconds the enemy hit takes 12% more damage from her next 3 basic attacks or abilities.

**> ALLURE **

  • Remove: Evelynn curses the target champion or monster for 5 seconds. Her next attack or ability charms the enemy and reduces their magic resist.

  • (NEW) Allure: Evelynn curses the target champion or monster for 5 seconds. Her next attack or ability charms the enemy and heals Evelynn. If the curse is at full power Eveylnn heals for 50% more. (It would be the same ability except it would heal instead of reduce MR. If the enemy gets a full curse bar and is hit they are charmed and she is healed.)

Everything else on her kit could stay the same or have damage tweaked I LOVE HER NEW ULTIMATE. Instead of the movement speed buff on Whiplash. She could lose that and instead gain bonus magic damage on her empowered whiplash. However, by tweaking these abilities / rearranging what is prioritized in her kit and where. You could effectively make Evelynn the AP terror while still keeping true to her stealth nature. I was sad to see her new rework, it lacked the sticking power, it is heavily reliant on a shotty charm ability, and her early game was completely destroyed. I believe these changes would fix her early game. Still allow her to clear the jungle and sustain this is my only assumption for the healing passive on Demon Shade and let her do what she does best. Remain the unseen threat.

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