ornn 9.2 W nerf

keccak256·1/16/2019, 9:35:26 PM·1 votes·1,708 views

hi,

new player here. but can anyone explain this to me?

so from my understanding. pre 9.1 rework. ornn winrates = very very very low. post 9.1 rework. ornn winrates dropped to lowest in game (im sure a bit of that is due to a bunch of people playing him that never played him before. and from what i've read, his pre-9.1 play style was very very very centered around his W shield, which was removed. despite this though, seems ornn was made into something that was absolute trash early game. possibly mildly effective mid game (unlikely though, since his early games so incredibly bad, that he probably died a lot, fed enemy, missed farm, and is way behind, but kinda awesome late game (well, again. probably not. cause games dont go late game, and with snowball meta, by the time he gets HIMSELF to late game lvls/build, enemy is all full built, and hyper fed, negating his awesome sauce ness.)

anyway. all that said.

why nerf him in 9.2?

i would assume either a) dont touch him for a bit, to see if the re-work/nerfs/buffs to him from 9.1 level out and a new meta for him develops. or b) since hes sooooo bad early game now, give him some kind of buff to help his early game.

(where i would assume (a) to be the most likely option)

but... instead... hes nerfed for 9.2?

is it just me, and the fact that im noob so probably dont understand a lot of things i need to yet, or.... what am i missing here? why nerf a champ thats at lowest win rates in game?

5 Comments

Alzon1/16/2019, 9:38:53 PM1 votes

He’s not getting nerfed. In fact, he’s being looked at for buffs to his HP and armor. The W cooldown nerf you’re seeing is a bug.

Thresh Gosu1/16/2019, 9:40:46 PM1 votes

If you've played many games against him now he isn't that bad. He's kind of like Akali where she is a really strong champion but not a lot of people know how to win with her or play her correctly. Ornn's dmg in 9.2 is actually a lot, he can bully any melee champ lvl 3 since he can buy more items early with his passive, his W does quite a lot of dmg. I'm not saying he's better than Jax, Irelia, or Urgot I'm just saying he's not that bad people just don't know how to build him yet with these new changes. Plus there was just a Tobias Fate stream where he only played Ornn and probably only won like 2 games out of 15 so that helps the percentage go down xD

Snarf of thunder1/17/2019, 1:00:32 AM1 votes

cause they want people to ignore ornn and focus on champions that can carry or 1v5 and have lots of skins. Then the player buy skins and riot gets more profit to lay on before ditching this game.

I would actually like to copy and paste the riot developers names so i can know what games to avoid when they pop up again.