Hybrid Scalings On Evelynn's E Don't Go Through

The Eve of Night·11/6/2017, 10:48:43 PM·2 votes·345 views

Not really much to say other than you have officially shafted an entire player base of a champion. Katarina kept her ad scalings with her update. So did Akali and Shaco. Personally, I'm an ap Eve player. Even before the update, I went full ap assassin build. However, I always liked having the option to build ad. Not sure why Riot feels Evelynn is not allowed to have this aspect to her when several other assassins in the game, all of which were a part of a larger assassin update, get a free pass. I'm kinda bummed out to be honest. At least the (champion damage puts demon shade on a 1.4 sec cooldown) buff went through. Anybody else out there think Evelynn deserves to keep some part of the hybrid nature her last iteration had?

6 Comments

Anonagon11/7/2017, 12:01:11 AM2 votes

I'm pretty glad that they aren't going through with the E change. I think that hybrid scaling would have been unhealthy for the champion because of how it would have allowed her to build gunblade, which is an item that really warps the power curves and gameplay patterns of assassins who are allowed to build it. In a world without Gunblade, the E change would have been welcome, not for its surface-level appeal to old Eve players, but for its effective base damage increase to a rank 1 E, making it have a little more oomph even when not maxed early.

I think that, regardless of what hybrid and AD items do or do not exist at the moment, true off-build support for Evelynn would be a mistake. It would have made her more difficult to balance, and it would have muddied her gameplay fantasy.

Linna Excel11/6/2017, 10:49:09 PM1 votes

Reav3 said they might not do it.

LordGeovanni11/6/2017, 11:48:35 PM1 votes

q was hybrid too right?

Muzét11/6/2017, 11:50:39 PM1 votes

I'm still waiting for her R to get some reduced cooldown on kill.