Miss Fortune's ult has felt awful for over a year

Hassohappa··4 votes·698 views

MF's ult was terrible until it was changed to physical damage. After seeing play (perhaps too much play) for two years with a physical damage ult Riot hit her with several change that crippled her ult and her early game. Not only did her ult's damage get lowered, it also had all of its AD scaling removed in lieu of applying stacks of Impure Shots. This backloaded damage on her ult, making the most damaging part the part least likely to land or even come out if someone can force her out of it. It also made all of the scaling on her ult magic damage. That made her itemization incredibly awkward, as she previously focused on stacking AD and pen and now that pen was made far worse.

She is an immobile, average damage ADC with almost no crowd control. She has seen almost no play for over a year since the nerfs. Giving slightly more damage to perfectly lined up Double Ups and the ability to reactivate her passive in exchange for losing Grievous Wounds is not going to change that. Her niche as a lane bully has been largely overshadowed by other ADC at this point, but none of them can bring the sort of AoE damage to a teamfight that MF used to be able to. Tying her ult to Impure Shots feels like a failed experiment, and now that Riot is looking at tweaking MF it would be nice if they could tweak her in a way that gave her her niche back.

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Blastermine4 votes

Crippled her early game? . The weird scaling was riots way of buffing her without enabling the armor penetration build that caused her ult ratio to get nerfed in the first place. The only problem that her ult actually has is that it feels unsatisfying at rank 2 and 3.

"Pls buff my perfectly balanced champion because there is literally no reason to pick them!" - Miss Fortune, Aatrox, and Lux mains.

Hassohappa2 votes

Yeah, she's so perfectly balanced that in all of competitive play she was picked 8 times in 2014 and 0 times in 2015 (http://lol.gamepedia.com/Miss_Fortune_-_The_Bounty_Hunter). She is almost never picked in soloqueue, and the higher up the ranks you go the lower her pick rate and win rate go. When would you ever pick MF over someone like Jinx or Draven?

Changing her ult to be 1/3 magic damage was completely nonsensical. Her ulting being magic damage was the primary thing holding her back for two years. Changing it back shoved her back into obscurity. It would be like nerfing Yasuo by removing the scaling on his ult and making it apply a Sweeping Blade proc. It broke her build path when things like Bloodthirster were already being nerfed anyway.

CatSith2 votes

Lol just because she wasn't played a lot in pro play doesn't mean shes weak.

MF is a pretty balanced ADC.

A Miss Fortune1 votes

I don't think it would actually be balanced if they changed her entire ultimate to physical damage. Just rush Last Whisper and Black Cleaver and have your ult deal stupid damage. Since the base damage is pretty high, and it has a fair amount of AD scaling due to her W passive.

A Miss Fortune1 votes

You're like, the jesus of us Miss Fortune mains.

There's very little wrong with Miss Fortune, the community is just a bunch of sheep that want every ADC to be essentially overpowered whether they realize it or not, but the moment an ADC like Kalista or Jinx is released, they want it to be gutted and left to rot with a 0% winrate.

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