Please Revert The Shield Changes

Breezey Boy·7/21/2018, 8:06:52 PM·7 votes·2,520 views

Ever since this nerf, Enchanters have significantly fallen in win rate, with many of them, not counting Sona, having the lowest win rates they've ever had. In this damage meta, it was nice to play somebody that wasn't damage focused, but now I feel like I have to build damage when I'm playing Janna or any other shield support because are shields have lost all reliability. The nerfs to heal and shield items might have been okay, but I feel the shield changes was taking it to far.

Please, either revert the shields back to normal, or revert the heal and shield items back to their original percentages, that's all I ask. Now more than ever Enchanters need strong shields with seemingly everybody taking ignite nowadays. Most bot lanes I see don't even take heal, or even exhaust, they just go dual ignite.

11 Comments

Attticus Finch7/21/2018, 11:36:04 PM4 votes

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Ever since this nerf, Enchanters have significantly fallen in win rate, with many of them, not counting Sona, having the lowest win rates they've ever had.

This is a good thing, not a bad thing. Enchanters are a blight on the game.

SugeMinPikk7/21/2018, 11:36:56 PM4 votes

Good. They deserve to be shit. After 2 years of never being bad, they're finally shit. Leave them there. Let them burn. Make support skillful again. Thresh

LatoyaFromTheBX7/22/2018, 2:16:35 AM4 votes

Because we totally want Lulu meta? No thank you. Karma shouldn't have been touched tho shes the only one that should get her shield reverted

Frosted Tips7/21/2018, 11:11:35 PM2 votes

If they change them back then Janna needs compensation nerfs because she is finally in a not OP state. But they can change them back just on the one condition. Honestly the game is so much better now that I don't have to ban her every game just to be able to play melee chanps.

ValiantKiller7/21/2018, 11:41:43 PM2 votes

No thank you, enough Kaisa and her stupid scaling shield on R.

Teridax687/22/2018, 4:03:34 AM2 votes

If 48% win rate for a 5% pick rate on Lulu, or 50.64% for a 4.28% pick rate on Janna are "the lowest win rates they've ever had," I'd say they're not doing all that awful. They're certainly far less popular than before, but considering how enchanters have been mainstays in bot lane since pretty much forever, often with ridiculously high win and pick rates for months or years on end, it's good that we're getting some change. In the long term, it might be worth sprucing up a few of them (I think Lulu in particular could do with some buffs), but even then, bringing them back to always-on shields is likely not the way to go. In fact, I think enchanters are probably the only class truly deserving of a shift towards more offense, as I think only some enchanters need to be purely defensive, whereas several others (e.g. Lulu or Nami) fully deserve to shine as more aggressive picks.