Can the next MF rework be focused around her ult and lanephase?
I feel like many ADCs right now have got a clear buildpath and clear strenghts/weaknesses while MF is clearly lacking on this aspect.
Let's take
for example: her kit clearly suggests a classic heavy crit-AD-AS build, she's clearly a carry built around utility and she feels like one.
..now many people don't like Vayne but let it go for a second and look at her kit objectively: it makes sense, she's an assassin-hypercarry who focuses on duels and outplays, and her buildpath does make sense while being different at the same time from the classic crit build (
being the core)
: same story, he can even go funky with
and
, it is a very different and fun buildpath that does not feel like the classic crit build at all.
: everything about her kit makes sense (except maybe spellshield but i find it to be a quite cool spell), can build an early
and abuse her waveclear-push to gain advantage, then she builds quite like Ashe.
Now....
just doesn't have a clear buildpath, and it's even more sad because it used to be a really particular buildpath focusing heavy AD and heavy armor pen, something like this
to abuse her ult scalings; it was a very cool build that no other AD carry used and it felt very different because she worked like no other ADC worked, applying AOE armor shred and being very useful to AD-centered teams, while now her buildpath is the same as Ashe's or Sivir's (minus early avarice), and her niche is gone. (you can still apply BC stacks but her ult still deals no damage and doesn't benefit from the armor pen)
Her kit screams "AD Caster" except for her W, but the scalings are messed up so the most optimal build is a classic crit/AD/AS one (
is decent but it's very risky).
This is the core problem about MF: it's not her lack of escape, it's not her passive and not even her bad lategame scaling, her problem is that she has no identity and a buildpath that does not fit her preferred playstyle.
is a jack of all trades, but damn he makes sense at least and he doesn't feel like you're just mashing autos randomly.