OK so they said in the patch notes they are buffing Nautilus. But All I am seeing is that he is losing 215 base shield power at level 5, and have his ratio's crippled until level 5. My math skills are horrendous, can someone explain to me how this is a buff? How much health would Nautilus need to simply get back to where he was in terms of pre-"buff" shield strength?
It's not a buff until he has a lot of hp, which is kind of dumb because he struggles the most during early game, and now he'll be struggling even more.
If you have additional health from runes/masteries, it is technically a buff. I was a bit miffed at first too, but then a friend and I went over the numbers. It's an almost unnoticeable buff to his early game (I think with my current set-up I only gained 1.26 points on the shield at level 1), but a big one to his late-game.
The only problem is that -as you said- his early game is when he is weakest. He needs more of a buff for that period, rather than late-game. This is a nerf to the shield's base, but a pretty big buff to its ratios/scaling. It used to go off of bonus health. Now it goes off of max health, and it scales higher as you put points into it.
I will agree, this is an odd direction for Nautilus buffs, but I do like that Riot actually recognises that he needs help. More could definitely be done though, like working with his insane mana issues.
go defensive masteries its TOTAL health now not BONUS health at lvl 1 the old shield did 105-106 new shield does 109 the higher level you get it and the more hp you get the more your return small buff early big buff lategame
it goes from 7% TOTAL to 17% TOTAL vs 10% BONUS across all levels.
lets say you have 3000 HP end game new shield will give you a shield of 595 OLD would give you 387
i really dont get the complaints they practically doubled the shield as is it gets obscene if you stack 6 warmogs so at lvl 18 with 6 warmogs you have 7.1 K hp with the new shield thats 1303 HP shield old shield would be 789.
cmon guys wtf how can you complain about this.
Is there anyone who thinks this is a buff?
it's a late game buff because of the 2% higher scaling on his bonus hp (if you consider his level 18 base health apart, which is like 120 more shield than the previous version) so his rank 5 shield is weaker a bit, but at level 18 is significantly stronger
