This season has proven why perma-stealth is a bad concept.

Pilige·Jul 25, 2014·1 votes·733 views

Prior to the Season 4 vision rework, perma-stealth was an experiment gone haywire. and in their original forms were absolute terrors on the map, capable of shutting down a team by making them too scared to leave their towers. Subsequently they were both nerfed into the ground until they were reworked. Twitch lost his perma-stealth while Eve kept a watered down version of her perma stealth, capable of walking past green wards and not appearing until right before she was in range. In Season 3, right after her rework, she was a good jungler and manageable because pink wards were plentiful. And because pink wards could only be countered by other pink wards, if you wanted your Eve to succeed you would have spend as much gold on pinks as the other team.

Come to the halfway point of Season 4 and I think its safe to say that Eve's stealth has been made slightly broken by the changes to the vision system. Pink wards are still the only way to see her, but now pink wards are easily destroyed and limited to 5 on the map. This gives Eve immense pressure early, making her very snowbally in solo queue. Personally I think Eve's damage is fine. No one gets ganked by Eve and is immediately blown up. The problem comes in that pink wards are now at such a premium because they are also needed to control vision objectives, just having Eve on your team gives you an immediate vision control. To make Eve an effective ganker, all you have to do is make sure the other team doesn't have a pink down. Not a hard chore to do.

Odds are Riot are just gonna nerf Eve's ability to get her ganks off, whether that means increasing the sight radius or slowing her down, I'm not sure. What I think we can be sure of is that there will probably never be another long term stealth champ under the current vision system. They simply have too much power in map pressure with such limited vision.

PS turrets need to die when he does.

6 Comments

Linna ExcelJul 25, 20141 votes

I don't think perma stealth is the issue. I think it's the problem with lack of pinks when you are facing someone like Eve. The midlaner at least needs 2, but that's both impossible and terribly expensive if the other team kills the both. Also junglers don't help pink very often.

PiligeJul 25, 20141 votes

The reason for lack of pinks is to make them valued objectives/resources. Vision in general is now something that can't just be spammed. Pre-vision rework, you could literally ward the entire map. I'm fine with having less pinks on the map, making them important to place in the right spot, but a champion like Eve spits in the eye of the design because she forces you to either place you vision very defensively, or risk getting blindsided. I would like it if you could place 2 pink wards. Because they can be killed easily, odds are you are not going to have all 10 on the map, at least not in good positions.

Linna ExcelJul 25, 20141 votes

Well, then for a champ like her, you need to learn to play it safe when you can't see her or risk a gank.

Luner HunterJul 25, 20141 votes

derp you mean like when you can't see any other champion comming to blind side you? NEXT OBVIOUS STATEMENT PLEASE!

Linna ExcelJul 25, 20142 votes

The problem with Eve isn't Eve. The problem with Eve is that you don't know how to play it safe when she's on the other team. If you go yolo-queue and she ganks you 5 times because you overextended, that's your fault.

Luner HunterJul 25, 20141 votes

i think you don't know what BLINDSIDED means... but lets go with what you've said so you can continue to post replies with about 0 relevancy to the OP