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@Riot are you serious about Pyke's passive?

Frontline Fury··1 votes·1,977 views
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Did you learn NOTHING from THE ENTIRE META that was built around this extremely unhealthy concept?

https://i.gyazo.com/b4b2e9029b0fa4a4ccc57a2376e7b25e.png

Now, i get the difference. Like Kled, Pyke will be incapable of increasing his own health, meaning there is a payoff for the insane amount of attack damage he'll be getting for building tanky defensive items.

But if there's Riven one Talon thing Zed champions Yasuo building Tryndamere full ad Fiora have MasterYi taught us, its that they dont NEED health to be extremely, extremely unhealthy for the game.

And if they gain assassin tier damage by building full defense? That's the atmogs thing all over again. Granted Warmogs will be awful on Pyke, but items like Randuin's omen, Sunfire cape and spirit visage will NOT.

I realize you've been returning a lot of old features you removed to right your mistakes, but this is NOT one we need back. This guy is going to be extremely unhealthy for game balance, and i doubt he's going to be primarily played support unless you severely cripple him to the point nobody wants to play him.

8 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer8 votes

He doesn't get the health.

Baron Barian4 votes

It's meant to make him extra squishy. Sure, he'll benefit from the damage, but he would get more damage by not building tanky items. Even by building the health items that melee supports usually build, he won't get that much tankier from it.

Makes it much riskier to play him since he can die so much easer then some of the other supports.

Baval2 votes

Atmogs gave AD for how much extra health you had. Pyke gets AD instead of the extra health. big difference.

Khristophoros2 votes

So if you understand how this is different from Atma's why did you even bring it up?

I mean sure it's valid to be concerned about defensive items giving him AD instead of health but the way you're framing it is stupid.

OatheSworn1 votes

Isn't that a thing with Vladimir too? He gets health for AP and AP for health or something like that?

ModWulf Helhammer4 votes

Vlad get's both stats when he buys an item (so when he buys a Spirit Visage, he gets the health from the item, then some bonus AP from his passive).

Pyke's just goes straight to AD. I don't know for sure how much he get's from a single point of HP, but he doesn't get the health at all from them.

It's made this way to that 1. he doesn't become a new tank Ekko, and 2. so that he can get the damage he needs and be able to build support items (while again still not getting tanky)

OurLestrade1 votes

It's a weird way to string together a support assassin, but you can see where they're coming from.

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