Man Tahm Kench's W nerf is gonna be pretty insane

DotEleven·7/25/2018, 3:52:15 AM·5 votes·2,633 views

That's a lot of power taken away from his saving. CD is almost twice as long going from 14-10 seconds to 26-14 seconds. It's rank 5 will be as long as his current rank 1. Damagewise is interesting, the AP scaling is going down (although that's not really important) but the base is changing from 20-32% of their health to 31-35% so he gets more burst (particularly early) but a lot less individual uses.

I guess if you want the consistent saving potential you need to max W first now.

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Quality Content7/25/2018, 6:48:33 AM3 votes

It's about time they look at the ability. It's frustrating as fuck to deal because there's nothing you actually can do to deal with it.

NY647/25/2018, 3:56:43 AM1 votes

Where did you get this information?

Audhulma7/25/2018, 5:23:24 AM1 votes

Nerfing the CD on it when the 30%+ hp max damage is very obviously the problem is 100% moronic, so it'll probably get tuned again before they put it through to live. That doesn't mean the balance team isn't stupid enough to leave the change as is -we've seen them nerf the wrong thing time and time again in the past, only to double down in a later patch by nerfing something else (usually also the wrong thing)- I just don't expect this particular change will happen as it currently is.

flibitydoo7/25/2018, 6:07:15 AM1 votes

I'll be honest personally speaking, I kinda didn't like how strong tahm's save move was.

The fact that it's a cc cleanse+damage immunity on a target you woulda secured a kill on seemed BS to me.

Like everytime I see a tahm remove like a veigar stun or a morgana bind that would have guaranteed death of a target and then walk away just seemed cheesy. Even if I was the jinx getting saved.

Now that I think about it more, that's also kinda why I hate Kalista ult. Even if she only uses her ult to save someone and she's losing the game, it still feels like crap to have kills taken away like that. Also, when's the last time Kalista was like, even played. Yeesh that champ dropped off the face of the earth.

DotEleven7/26/2018, 1:42:37 PM1 votes

Guys, we got a little more information

 Tongue Lash (Q)

    Slow Duration :: 2 >>> 1.5
    Cooldown :: 6 >>> 5

Devour / Regurgitate (W)

    Damage :: 20/23/26/29/32% (+2% per 100AP) >>> 27/29/31/33/35% (+1% per 100AP)
    Cooldown :: 14/13/12/11/10 >>> 28/25/22/19/16
    Cost :: 90 >>> 60
    NEW :: Triggers half its normal cooldown on enemy cast"

Check the context and notes at the bottom

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2018/07/725-pbe-update-more-tentative-balance.html

So, Q's cooldown means it's going to allow you to get one early CDR item/mastery and you'll be able to keep stacks on them as long as you consistently hit yoru Q every time. When using W as a damaging spell the CD becomes 14/12.5/11/9.5/8, so a 0-2 second buff with a higher base % and a lower cost.