Understanding Kai'Sa's Nerf
Someone else recently shared this because they were confused by this, and I'll admit it is kind of confusing in the way that it is worded on Surrenderat20
I think I explained it in a way that made sense to them so they decided to delete their post, which is unfortunate because it would have been good for others to see if they were also confused.
Basically, her passive is no longer an execute in the sense that the total damage dealt is no longer equal to a percentage target's missing health. Instead, detonating 4 stacks of plasma now deals a flat amount of damage, regardless of the enemy's total health, that increases significantly based on the percentage of the target's missing health.
So it is weaker against tanks.
I think this is a good nerf.


and
. The lesser tank busters are
and
. Other than those the only decent option for tank busting is an ADC who has good kiting that can slot in
or
. These last ones aren't as strong as
as a tank buster isn't bad in premise, the main issue lies in how easy it is for her to stack up her passive on targets, yes it is a 5 stack passive vs Vayne's 3 but with
she can stack it on 3 targets at once, and her teammates can also stack it with their CC, leading to high CC comps having massive amounts of damage through
before they do something like this. Basically I think it might be a good idea to make it so that ally immobilizing effects will only stack plasma on targets if
+
or a good engage by
or
won't prime the enemy team with 3-4 stacks of plasma for
and nerfs to % penetration too.
(hope it gets ad back even if it has to lose cdr)
(no way this pen is balanced unless this item only has 40 ap and no other penetration effects work. though id rather see this at a 20% Mr shread with stronger Magic resist defensive items not hybrid.)