why did they touch Vel'koz
First I was really excited about the vel'Koz changes. I main him since he was released and I have played thousands of games with him. i understand that the goal was to make him a bit more powerful late game to shred tanks . However, THIS IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING with this update.
- Vel'Koz is a squishy immobile champ. His previous build with athene's liandry's gave him survivability. Now everybody can just ult kill him because he has to build AP scaling items.
- The changes to his abilities give him a VERY WEAK laning phase. He has no kill potential unless your jungler gives you a great gank. Which makes it even harder to snowball or build his new costly ap items
- The new ult mechanics are really clunky. Before, you could layer weq+ ult for 2 passive procs in 1 second and an amazing burst. Now You have to perfectly weave eqw and then R to be able to do the same damage. in reality any smart champ will dodge at least one of your skillshots, which delays the ult until the second w proc. This delay means no surprise burst and everybody walks out just fine from your ult. ALSO, YOU'RE IMMOBILE AND SQUISHY during ult, which means everybody can stop you during all these delays.
No main vel'koz player even asked for a rework. Just give us back our old slightly underpowered yet fun to play squid.
