Statikk Shiv and Rapid Firecannon Nerf

SkrubNoob·Feb 26, 2019·3 votes·3,391 views

"Two passive effects (unnamed and FIRECANNON) changed to ENERGIZED and a unique passive. UNIQUE PASSIVE - ENERGIZED: Moving and attacking will make an attack Kircheis Shard item Energized. Your Kircheis Shard item Energized attacks deal 60 − 140 (based on level) bonus magic damage on hit. UNIQUE PASSIVE: Kircheis Shard item Energized attacks gain 35% bonus range (+150 range maximum), charge 25% faster, and function on structures.

Two passive effects (unnamed and SHIV LIGHTNING) changed to ENERGIZED and a unique passive. UNIQUE PASSIVE - ENERGIZED: Moving and attacking will make an attack Kircheis Shard item Energized. Your Kircheis Shard item Energized attacks deal 60 − 140 (based on level) bonus magic damage on hit. UNIQUE PASSIVE: Kircheis Shard item Energized attacks bounce to 5 targets and can Critical strike icon critically strike."

How could riot make these changes to rapid firecannon and statikk shiv without putting it in the patch notes. I was playing in urf and read the passives to find out they're the same. According to this they do not stack, this is a major change and should've been included in the patch notes.

9 Comments

Chembaron YamadaFeb 26, 20192 votes

As far as I know, this is just a format thing and actually doesn't change anything. Static Shiv and RFC should still work the same. All the effects (more range, damage to towers, chain lightning) get added to the attack, just the energized damage is a named unique passive, meaning that you just get the damage of 1 of the items.

They probably just felt like they should unify the effects like that because of the changes made to Stormrazor. Nothing got nerfed here. The combo is actually buffed because of the existence of Stormrazor now.

Sir SaltarinFeb 26, 20191 votes

{quoted}

As far as I know, this is just a format thing and actually doesn't change anything. Static Shiv and RFC should still work the same. All the effects (more range, damage to towers, chain lightning) get added to the attack, just the energized damage is a named unique passive, meaning that you just get the damage of 1 of the items.

They probably just felt like they should unify the effects like that because of the changes made to Stormrazor. Nothing got nerfed here. The combo is actually buffed because of the existence of Stormrazor now.

Combo isn't buffed because StormR is a meme item.

Chembaron YamadaFeb 26, 20191 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sir Saltarin,realm=EUW,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=2xPJn8U9,comment-id=00030000,timestamp=2019-02-26T09:41:12.869+0000)

Combo isn't buffed because StormR is a meme item.

Fair enough, yet not nerfed either, is it?