Gating mechanic for kalista
People agree that she is making half of the champion pool obsolete, especialy meele.
So in the end her passive is too strong in certain situations, but is the core of her identity, so we need to nerf it but leave her gameplay almoust intact.
So i think i have a good way of solving the problem. Rend ammo system ... its not an ammo for rend as the name suggest.
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It gives kalista a cap on her rend stacks, its harsh for her smite but she has loads of places you can put the lost power back
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The rend cap applies to all the targets meaning that switching targets does not grant you more rend stacks.
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The rend stack cap is kalistas ammo for her passive,
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When she activates rend (rips her spears from her foes and takes them back) she gets the rend ammo back, every auto consumes one rend ammo.
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Ofc rend goes on cooldown if kalista doesnt kill
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She loses the slow on rend (main reason for this change is to allow meeles to get to her, cc on top of her mobility makes that barely possible)
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Her spears (rend stacks) persist for a longer time.
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The number of remaiining jumps is displayed as spears floating near kalista for enemies to see and herself (its hard to click and look above your health bar, which makes the game easier for both players).
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If kalista kills a target without using rend she regenerates lost ammo with time but at quite low pace giving her some sort of vulnerability period.
Its a mechanic that allows meele champions to drain kalista out of jumps, while kalista can still jump infinitely if played right (resets), also gives kalista some downtimes that enemies can capitalize on, and space for buffs that will equalize her vs champs that arent countered by martial poise. ballance wise it seems a win win situation
Ofc its not a ready change, riot will need to probably check her after such a change, but i think that "rend ammo system" gives her everything that she needs to become healthy while still being herself,
If i didnt cover anthing up or the change sucks in any way just tell me and ill fix it, and as always please discuss.
