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Cait/Jayce buffs, Leblanc/Kat nerfs! :O

DJ Di0··1 votes·1,390 views
6/1 PBE Update

**Caitlyn Headshot **(Passive) Now ignores 50% of the targets bonus armor (Champion only) Ace in the Hole (R) Now gives vision at the start of cast (when you press the button) instead of at the start of channel [Note: Context tweet from ricklessabandon]

Jayce Transform: Mercury Cannon / Hammer (R) now levels passively at 6/11/16 rather than having to spend points to level it up. With these 3 extra ability points, Jayce can now rank up his abilities SIX times. While some of the ability scalings have been tweaked, largely the rank 6 numbers are higher than rank 5 values on live. To the Skies ( Hammer Q) ** damage is now 20/60/100/140/180/220 from 20/65/110/155/200 cooldown is now 16/14/12/10/8/6 from 16/14/12/10/8 Slow is now 30/35/40/45/50/55 from 30/40/45/50/55 Shock Blast (Gun Q) ** damage is now 60/100/160/210/260/310 from 60/115/170/225/280 Lightning Field (Hammer W) damage now 100/160/220/280/340/400 from 100/170/240/310/380 Hyper Charge (Gun W) % bonus damage now 75/80/85/90/95/100 from 70/80/90/100/110 cooldown now 14/12/10/8/6/4 from 13/11/9/7/5 Thundering Blow (Hammer E) Damage now 8/10.4/12.8/15.2/17.6/20% from** 8/11/14/17/20%** Cooldown now** 14/13/12/11/10/9** from** 14/3/12/11/10** Acceleration Gate (Gun E) Movespeed bonus now 30/35/40/45/50/55% from 30/35/40/45/50%

Katarina Shunpo (E) damage reduced to 40/70/100/130/160 from** 60/85/110/135/160**

LeBlanc Ethereal Chains (E) width reduced to 55 from 70 ** Malphite Brutal Strikes (W): Passive Changed:** Malphite gains 10/15/20/25/30% additional armor from [Basic Attacks gain 30/38/46/54/62% splash damage] **Active Changed: **Basic attacks deal an addional 25/40/55/70/85 (+15%AP) physical damamge to the target and nearby units from [Malphite gains additional armor and attack damage] [CLARITY] Brutal strikes now displays a visual effect that indicates the effective area [CLARITY] Basic attaks made while under the effects of Brutal Strikes will no use Malphite's critical strike animation [Note: Context tweet from ricklessabandon]

**Shyvana Burnout (W) **new effect: "25% of the damage is applied again when Shyvana basic attacks an enemy with Burnout Active."

17 Comments

Terff5 votes

YES JAYCE MY BABY

Only Play Darius2 votes

I'm pissed about the Kat nerf, it's bad enough that I can never get her in draft, now they have to nerf her over and over again.

I miss the good old days of early S5 where I could actually play her and she wasn't ridiculously squishy early game (the good old Riven treatment).

DJ Di02 votes

[{quoted}](name=Jelly Mac,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=vIoGibTa,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2015-06-01T20:34:38.477+0000)

I'm pissed about the Kat nerf, it's bad enough that I can never get her in draft, now they have to nerf her over and over again.

I miss the good old days of early S5 where I could actually play her.

I mean, these changes are pretty slight so I doubt she'll be unplayable or anything.

Meep Man2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Jelly Mac,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=vIoGibTa,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2015-06-01T20:34:38.477+0000)

I'm pissed about the Kat nerf, it's bad enough that I can never get her in draft, now they have to nerf her over and over again.

I miss the good old days of early S5 where I could actually play her.

You just went against yourself. If they nerf her, she wont be banned and you can play her in Draft.

Only Play Darius2 votes

That's what everyone said about the Akali changes. Now Akali is trash tier.

ZephyrDrake3 votes

[{quoted}](name=Jelly Mac,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=vIoGibTa,comment-id=000000010000,timestamp=2015-06-01T21:20:18.497+0000)

That's what everyone said about the Akali changes. Now Akali is trash tier.

if you are using Kat's Shumpo for damage you are doing it horribly wrong

SgtCrispy2 votes

Caitlyn Headshot (Passive) Now ignores 50% of the targets bonus armor (Champion only) Ace in the Hole (R) Now gives vision at the start of cast (when you press the button) instead of at the start of channel [Note: Context tweet from ricklessabandon]

Jayce [Hold tight, several changes] R now only has 1 point in it - levels passively at 6/11/16 Jayce can now put SIX points in each ability.

GODDAMN PILTIES

DJ Di01 votes

{quoted}

Headshot (Passive) Now ignores 50% of the targets bonus armor (Champion only) Ace in the Hole (R) Now gives vision at the start of cast (when you press the button) instead of at the start of channel [Note: Context tweet from ricklessabandon]

Jayce [Hold tight, several changes] R now only has 1 point in it - levels passively at 6/11/16 Jayce can now put SIX points in each ability.

GODDAMN PILTIES

DOWN WITH NOXUS, ALL HAIL PILTOVER

Darth Pixy Misa2 votes

Again Riot with making hyper charge useless, Sure you get 3 shots in 1 sec but they all suck........ Jayce doesnt have a ult, and is severely gated by mana regen which was nerfed.

Phuc Dat Bich1 votes

Kat lost 20 early damage...which mean nothing....!! (her ulti is the problem that even with one item she can insta kill 3 people)

Lb nerf? really? the E width? lol that what riot call nerf for LB? or that she can insta kill someone at dragon and then go back to mid lane with W-R-W or that her ulti have 20 second cd? or that her W have the size of a turret so you cant even dodge it...but hey we nerf E width...riot balance boys...

And malphite lets remove 10% of his armor bonus for 80 physical damage at lvl 18 (because nobody max this skill before Q-E)

So yeah much balance...

DJ Di01 votes

[{quoted}](name=GG WP EZ GAME,realm=EUNE,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=vIoGibTa,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2015-06-01T20:58:16.399+0000)

Kat lost 20 early damage...which mean nothing....!! (her ulti is the problem that even with one item she can insta kill 3 people)

Lb nerf? really? the E width? lol that what riot call nerf for LB? or that she can insta kill someone at dragon and then go back to mid lane with W-R-W or that her ulti have 20 second cd? or that her W have the size of a turret so you cant even dodge it...but hey we nerf E width...riot balance boys...

And malphite lets remove 10% of his armor bonus for 80 physical damage at lvl 18 (because nobody max this skill before Q-E)

So yeah much balance...

They said they were trying out different ways to nerf leblanc, but not all at once. If she's still a problem later on they'll probably give her W the Zed treatment.

SgtCrispy2 votes

her ulti is the problem that even with one item she can insta kill 3 people)

Her ulti is not a problem, it's pretty easy to play around. The problem is her passive, which ensures that if one team fight goes sloppy at all she gets a pentakill, no matter how much she got dunked in lane.

Erockandroll1 votes

The changes feel a little awkward on Jayce. I wonder if it will end up being a net buff.

It would seem like his Early game is still good but less snowbally (because is abilities scale slower now). But making level 6/11/16 more important power spikes and obviously giving him a better late game.

Still I'm not sure how this will affect his win rate. (or build options)

DJ Di01 votes

{quoted}

The changes feel a little awkward on Jayce. I wonder if it will end up being a net buff.

It would seem like his Early game is still good but less snowbally (because is abilities scale slower now). But making level 6/11/16 more important power spikes and obviously giving him a better late game.

Still I'm not sure how this will affect his win rate. (or build options)

I think this was mostly to tackle how bad he scales into late game; making him less snowballing may just be an extra.

SgtCrispy1 votes

Jayce scales fine into late game, he's pretty much just a second ADC.

Mercury Knyght1 votes

if anything with the reduced w scaling he will scale worse into late game.

SpecterVonBaren1 votes

My AD Malphite... ;_;

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