"Evelynn's burst is too damn high"

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Honestly... I HIGHLY disagree. Evelyn, in all honesty, ONLY does a shit ton of damage when she lands her W which takes 2.5 seconds to proc. In all honestly, if you're nerfing her damage, you need to think of ways to make her feel overall better to play.

People actually learn how to play and adapt to Eve. The way you have the game right now, it's next to impossible to play Eve in the late game if teams are organized. I've played multiple games where teams straight up REFUSED to engage as long as I wasn't on the map. And what this did was disable me from not only getting picks, but from fights straight up not happening.

Yet, at the same time, you nerf her overall damage yet don't even consider how difficult it is to survive as an Eve being invaded. How are you going to straight up nerf her without giving her something to defend herself? Granted, this nerf really only affects tanky junglers, but at the same time I feel the nerf is unwarranted. While I do understand the sentiment, this is too harsh. If you want to nerf her overall burst, fine. You should up her sustain damage instead, then. At this point, her spikes are actually useless. It does so little damage early in the game, it's laughable.

I'm not suggesting you buff the damage on it, I suggest two possible changes:

  1. Uncap the amount of times you can spam spikes when you hit your first part of the Q on a champion. This gives her more sustain overall and some more kite ability.

  2. Reset her cooldown if she hits any units and make it not only work on jungle monsters

I also have a huge issue with Eve's ability to waveclear. It's pathetic.

Also, as a side not, lets add this on as an added bonus for things to think about

As HIGH as damage is, isn't it MIND BOGGLING how shields and heals still HIGHLY prevail in this current meta? You can't burst through shields nor have enough sustained damage to break through a shield before another one is granted. In addition, lifesteal is also added onto this fact making it near impossible to kill an adc unless ALL members of a team straight focus either the adc in the middle of a fight or pick the support before the fight begins.

And this is with damage overall going up and sustain (heals and shields) receiving minor buffs.

8 Comments

H1 H0w are Ya1 votes

Well thought out but I have to disagree. Evelynn was just way too strong and needed just a direct nerf and thats it. In D5 in my games she is banned every single game with Zoe and Vayne. She was oppressive to play against and offered little counterplay.

"ok that thing is above my head I get 2 seconds to run before im inevitably one shot"

TS Media1 votes

I'm not disagreeing that she's strong. But I am disagreeing that her burst is too high. She strives on the fact that if she lands her charm, you won't be able to retaliate. Because if you CAN and she doesn't kill you, she straight up dies. I'm simply saying if she can't burst you before you react, then she's as good as dead.

To top it off, I'm more downright outraged by the hypocrisy of it all.

"We have an assassin that does too much damage. We need to tone her down"

Yet, we've had issues with adcs for a full YEAR, yet no nerfs across the boards. Yet, assassins are getting swept left and right for being "too strong" with burst that are out playable. Yet, we sit here with ADCs right clicking us and riot decides, "Some ADCs are too strong which keeps other ADCs oppressed. Lets buff the other ones to balance it out!"

Evelyn is banned mostly because of the fact of HOW you have to play against her, rather than the amount of DAMAGE she does. People are just too lazy and prefer not to buy pinks, sweeps and stay grouped together and not be caught out alone.

H1 H0w are Ya1 votes

Stop pretending like she dies if she doesnt kill the carry. She jumps on a carry and realizes she wont kill them and presses her "lol fuck u im out" R button and the ADC still gets raped while shes out of there.

Eve is toxic as hell as a champ and playing Udyr jungle with Cinderhulk and SV and getting exploded by an Eve is bullshit

TS Media1 votes

If you're losing to an eve jg as an udyr, you're doing it wrong. Ambush her at her 2nd camp and I guarantee it'll be a different story. You can easily shut her down early game. And she still won't have enough damage at 6 to out damage you. Her R, if you see it coming, is pretty easy to cut her off unless she goes over a wall or you misplay it.

H1 H0w are Ya1 votes

We were pretty much dead even. Both level 13, I had 30 more CS and she had 1 more kill and 1 more assist.

I saw the heart thing go above my head, I switch to bear to get ready, She casted Q out of stealth and it charmed me.

I was instantly dead before the charm wore off, legit completely nuked me.

I get you main her so you are going to have a ridiculous bias but she deserved this nerf

SaturnSC11 votes

Relic shield meta we have right now, destroy Eve possibility to assassinate ADC who also get peeled. I main Evelynn and this relic meta make me cry.

chipndip11 votes

I'm actually seeing assassins in the LCS. Can we not nerf Eve/Khaz for a spell or two?

Master Noct1 votes

[Laughs in Veigar]

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