riot claims to not enforce the meta yet the moment ap kogmaw is good they drop his e's ap scaling 20% instead of nerfing the base damage. or just buffing ad kog. they make a massive jump to enforce kogmaw to be ad which isnt even good at the moment. a monumental failure or riots part will you ever figure out what you want to do with kog?
Yeah not enforcing the meta doesn't mean they'll forgo balance/design decisions, just that you won't get in trouble for building kog as an AP off-tank in top lane.
AP kog can/could be a little too safe while putting out rather a lot of damage, so it's not really something they want from a design perspective.
A late game hyper carry glass canon who can carry a teamfight if protected is what they're going for, but that's a tough balance thing to reach. The 5 AS kog overshot the carry thing to the point where protection wasn't needed. Current kog isn't necessarily 'that' bad, but is somewhat outclassed by alternatives.
I'm rpetty sure they've acknowledge that he needs more work, but they can't spend all their time reworking kog and then reworking ryze and then reworking kog...
They want him to be a Marksmen, not an artillery Mage.
They promised nerfs if AP Kog ever got good again.
Ap Kog got good again, so nerfs incoming.
Idk if they read it but there's a thread on the PBE about it.
if they didnt want ap kog should they not just take off all his ap scalings????????
