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My experience with the new buff as a Kled main (2Mil Mastery)

Hamuza·7/22/2019, 8:15:51 PM·3 votes·2,711 views

This patch riot gave Kled a buff, which in my opinion was desperately needed. Seeing as his last buff was in patch 7.24. I'm grateful for the buff but I honestly think it was unnecessary in the sense that kled falls off in the late game, IMO, the buff helps him trade and snowball better in the early to mid game. But late game he falls off, preferably I'd have something that helps him scale like better dmg on skills or attk growth, idk. But all in all I'm grateful, his win and play rates have skyrocketed, and now people are claiming he is broken, honestly I don't feel this way as his counters (IMO)are as follows: Fiora, Jax , Poppy, Karma and Tahm Kench. Riot will attempt to 'fix' him next patch, the suggestions I'd like to make are: Lower the healing reduction from 60 to 40%. Or reduce the grievous wounds time from 5 to 3 seconds.

This champ is near to my heart I started playing him in 2017 and he pulled me out of bronze and silver. I understand he is hard to balance because of the lack of data on him so I just felt like I'd share my views.

5 Comments

Stray Kat7/22/2019, 10:07:35 PM5 votes

Honestly I think this was actually meant in the manner you're viewing it. I feel they wanted him to have that strong early, but fall off later. Buffing his late scaling would remove his weakest phase of the game, which they typically don't want to do. If Kled gets 'hold of you in lane early, your lane is pretty much over - If he didn't fall off eventually, he'd be a free win if he gets a lead.

Note I'm not saying Kled is in any way OP/OT/IMBA/Amazing. I don't much play him, so I can't say from experience how he performs. I CAN say from the other side that lane is absolute hell if he gets a lead, though. I'd hate to have to deal with that lane AND better lategame scaling.

VarusQdJFK7/22/2019, 9:19:57 PM2 votes

I'm nowhere near as experienced kled player. If you fall behind as Kled I feel its super hard to come back too

wolvius7/22/2019, 10:47:34 PM2 votes

Why you put skaarl on the no, mushroom juic>tacos. Honestly he needed some buff conqueror reworked screwed him he doesnt even get a second stack for the pull and %max up is always a pain.

Honestly if they get pulled they should be heavily punished so maybe just reduce it to 40% like normal grievous. I don't want mundo to have 120% hp from ult because of constant arms race.

His lategame should be weak like hypercarries should be weak early.

jocomotion7/23/2019, 4:04:43 PM2 votes

Yes and no, I see Kled as a mid game powerhouse, and I kinda like that. I don’t think every champion should scale into the late game, especially him given his mounting mechanic. If he scaled it’d be near impossible to kill him, since the main things keeping him from scaling into the late game is his lack of AOE damage and him getting busted once dismounted. But if Kled has either of those two weaknesses easily covered he’d be broken.

However I do agree that the grevious wounds buff wasn’t the BEST option for him. Sure it’s a nice buff, a solid 6/10, but he could’ve used SOMETHING different. Maybe more MS when dismounted, or the ability to get courage back on hitting large monsters. Idk, I don’t main him like you, just play him for fun.