Corki PBE Nerfs are too severe

Darth Pixy Misa·2/16/2017, 1:10:35 AM·3 votes·1,957 views

With the issues with Camille, Rengar, and leathality right now, why is Corki getting nerfed? While Corki is a AD caster, he doesnt use leathality. Mid he has a win rate of 53% and is 10th in win rate. Bot Corki is at 50% and is #10 in win rate. To me when i see corki's stats on champion.gg I see a mostly balanced champ.

IMO even a slight nerf will put corki into the 20s in win rate. Worst part is when i look at the context link on the PBE, and i go thru Medler's posts i do not see any reasoning for the Corki nerfs.

Here is the nerf in question:

Missile Barrage (R):
    Base damage lowered from 100/130/160 to 60/80/100.
    AP scaling on missiles lowered from 30% to 18%
    Total AD scaling on missiles lowered from 20/60/100% to 10/35/60%.
    Big One damage increased from 50% to 150% increased damage.

I mean why is Corki getting a 50% damage nerf on his Ult? Missile Barrage is a ultimate skill, these skills are suppose to be strong. This gutting makes Corki's ult just another useless skill that he uses repeatedly to clear waves. IMO Corki using R to clear waves is the behavior RIot should be trying to STOP. I can only guess this is the behavior issue Riot has, since i can not see any reason why Corki should be nerfed. For example I have never seen any LCS games where Corki snowballed into a overpowered state, and carried the game.

IMO if riot really wanted to fix the using R to wave clear behavior, they should just raise his mana costs on r. The fact they didnt first touch his mana costs shows who ever did this doesent really play Corki enough.

IMO this is a gutting and a reprisal. I bet some rioter fought a corki and got poked to hell because he never bought mr and decided "this is too stronk"..... Corki does mostly magic damage, thats why he is a ADC that wears sorc shoes.

10 Comments

SaltyKracka2/16/2017, 1:47:26 AM9 votes

They want

A: For him to do less poke with regular missiles B: For his Big Missiles to feel really big C: To nerf him

Seems this accomplishes all three to me.

Handy Sandy 2/16/2017, 1:28:42 AM2 votes

Winrate doesn't really show a champion's strength. I mean look at Ryze's winrate, why's he getting nerfs? Corki's ult doesn't even have a 60+ second cooldown like other ultimates. I really doubt nerfing a champion is up to one rioter after getting stomped by a corki.

LaughingStapler2/16/2017, 1:55:38 AM1 votes

Yeah they're pretty insane and hurt his off builds more than the primary TF-IE-RFC. He doesn't merit big nerfs... 10th best mid winrate, low banrate (even in competitive), no CC, mediocre late etc.

Those nerfs hurt his waveclear, reliability and just overall damage output (ratios got hit too so worse at all stages). Before his recent buff he was almost never played and had a bad winrate. I don't think this is good. He's obviously good but there are plenty of mids on par or better.

Dark Nephthys2/16/2017, 3:24:09 AM1 votes

What they should of done was to increase the mana cost of his ultimate a little bit, make his rockets take a little longer to recharge and maybe weaken the damage from his package...That won't destroy Corki, nerfs his damage a little bit and keeps his wave clear which isn't even that oppressive anyways. What they are doing with the big one is stupid.

4o4wRJ9eNS6/4/2017, 9:17:07 PM1 votes

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