Replace rework Nunu's snowball knockup

Hemulen Magi·Aug 25, 2018·8 votes·3,009 views

Others have posted this already but it has yet to get a response that I have seen. Replace Nunu's snowball knockup with some other CC. There is no reason that a knockup is more visually fitting than other cc in this case. If you are run over by a steamroller, you will be crushed downwards or pushed forward, not knocked upwards. There is also no expectation of having non-tenacity-reduced cc as a core strength for the new Nunu when that has never been part of his identity before but is being tacked on now.

A regular stun or some sort of "chilled/shivering" (silence + 80% move+attack slow would be more fitting). If a stealth Yasuo buff is mandatory, just give the snowball a 0.1 second knockback on impact, followed by the main CC.

4 Comments

Dat KatAug 25, 20188 votes

This is no different than sion's ult . . . it just is a way to immobilize a target in the most visible way possible.

a game like league never really was one to reason with logic to begin with, it just wouldn't make sense lol.

Hemulen MagiAug 25, 20181 votes

Sion's rework came before people were so wary about CC in the game being phased out into displacements. By now a lot of players have caught on and are sensitized to the new kits having knockups/displacements.

Knockups and displacements are the "true damage" of CC, which can't be reduced by item 3111 item 3009 tenacity or slow resistance. It's becoming impossible to counterbuild responsively. It used to be that if you were up against an AD autoattacker who was dominating your team, you could invest in item 3047 and armor to show respect for their damage output and make them more manageable, but sacrificing the option to invest as much into counterbuilding their teammates (unless their team lacked a variety of fighting styles; this incentivized varied team compositions). Likewise, if you were having trouble with CC, you could invest your limited resources/slots into tenacity. Now those options are being reduced or minimized by the prevalence of true damage item 3031 > item 3047 and "true cc" (knockups/displacements) > item 3111 .