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How to buff Miss Fortune without making her OP

etherfreeze··1 votes·731 views

I like playing MF, but she has a few oddities in her kit that cause trouble:

  1. Target Priority on Q: Currently there seems to be none. Suggestion: The bounce on her Q should prioritize champions. It could be a really useful poke tool in lane, but as is now if there are any creeps in the range, it seems to hit them instead of the champion standing right next to them.

  2. AP scaling ult that does physical damage: I don't get this one. Her ult is strong at level 6 but quickly becomes useless as you complete more AD items because it isn't scaling. The only time I find myself using it mid/late game is to snipe someone with low health, to clear a creep wave, or if we have a 5 person AoE engage and I am in no danger. If an aoe ultimate with a long-ish cooldown is doing less damage to 3 people than if you were just auto-attacking them, something is off. Suggestion 1: This could be fixed by giving it a LOW ad scaling so it doesn't become outclassed entirely by her single target damage late game. Suggestion 2: Increase the base damage and make it deal magic damage. That way ad MF gets a slight buff, and AP MF is more ... viable?

I don't think MF is horribly underpowered, but (in my opinion) these buffs would put her on par with other adcs. That being said, I know that even minor changes can put a champion from feeling a little weak to completely dominant. Thoughts?

4 Comments

Sawsers1 votes

Prioritizing champs with her Q would make her OP in lane. With BF sword alone you can already chunk the enemy ADC for a large portion of their health. After a single creep wave you'd either kill the enemy ADC or force them to go home

Her ult does scale with AD and deal magic damage to an extent. The ult damage scales with AP and deals physical damage, Impure Shots scales with AD and deals magic damage.

etherfreeze1 votes

Fair points. The lack of champion prioritization just feels ... weird. I get if the minion is closer or something but if both are equidistant and in range, I feel like it should hit the champion. I agree that once you get BF it chunks pretty hard, but it also has a small cone and is easy enough to play around (if MF is about to last hit a minion, don't stand behind it).

A Miss Fortune1 votes

Miss Fortune's kit has mixed scaling and damage for a good reason. If her entire kit was physical damage, she would just build something like

item 3071 item 3035 item 3142 item 3134

And start killing entire teams with just her ult alone.

She isn't OP with her mixed scaling, but it makes her impossible to build against similar to Corki. You can block some of their damage off, but they'll do damage regardless.

Nekusen1 votes
  • give her a dash
  • double the damage on her ultimate

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