How To Change Fervor Of Battle Without Killing Kayle / On-Hit Teemo

Fervor of Battle is getting a change in the Pre-Season. Currently, it gives you 7-112 physical on-hit damage at a maximum of 8 stacks. This is going to be changed to instead give you 10-60 AD at a maximum of 10 stacks.

So what does this mean? For champions who have high AD ratios and/or build crit it will definitely be even better than before. Just imagine Fiora with her dependance on bonus AD. Renekton who already takes fervor because he can stack it unbelievably fast with his W but does not actually even autohit that much, so the extra AD will be much better on him for his ability ratios. Or Yasuo who also stacks fervor really fast and does make a ton of use of the new Fervor because of his doubled crit chance and his Q AD ratio. Lastly we could place every Marksman but Kog'Maw on here but especially Vayne and Lucian will love the new Fervor, both can stack it really fast and have really high AD ratios, Vayne because of her crit build and Q and Lucian because of all his ability ratios.

But something else that has to be acknowledged and what made me write a furious ragepost the other day, is the fact that there are also a handful of champions who suffer from it a lot.

Shyvana scales much better with attack speed and on-hit than with AD, especially after her Q AD ratio got nerfed. For her, Fervor's damage will almost be halfed late game. She also can't take the next best option, Strength of the Ages, either because it is getting replaced by Courage of the Colossus, a mastery she can't use properly because her only hard CC is her ult.

Kog'Maw already is in a terrible spot right now and the Fervor of Battle changes will make it even harder for him because he also builds attack speed and on-hit and his AD ratios are really bad compared to most Marksmen, he only has one on his ult and his autohits.

But the two champions who are negatively affected by this change the most are Kayle in general and on-hit Teemo. Both have next to no AD ratios, they instead focus on on-hit and AP, so the new Fervor will deal half its damage for these two champions in the late game. And while it's not that much of a tragedy for Teemo since he still has his full AP build at his disposal, for Kayle this is just a disaster - she does not have a good alternative build to go to, AP On-HIt will always be the strongest on her no matter what and literally every other Keystone sucks on her.

So with all that in mind I'm proposing the following change: If your bonus AD is equal or higher than your AP, you will stack AD with Fervor as usual. But if your AP is higher than your bonus AD, instead of getting 1-6 AD per stack depending on your level, you will instead get 1.2-8 AP which is about the same as the AD fervor gives when you look at the gold values.

This would single-handedly fix the situation for Kayle and on-hit Teemo because of their AP ratios. Not only that, it might even encourage other champions who auto a lot and who have a lot of AP ratios to take it - maybe Fizz or maybe even some kind of Nashor's Kog'Maw build. This would safe the situation for Kayle and Teemo without hurting any of the champions who want to take Fervor for the AD.

This still leaves Shyvana who doesn't really scale as well with both AD and AP, as I already said. When it comes to her though we also have to look at the jungle changes - she has both AOE and single target clear, machete gets buffed and because the camps now give you more EXP, powerfarming rather than early ganking is encouraged more than it is right now. That alone might be buff enough to make her take the hit of the Fervor changes without much bruises.

Let me know what you guys think.