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Your Favorite Champion is Nerfed Severely, What is the Reason Riot Specifies?

rebound2·3/26/2015, 9:12:11 PM·1 votes·966 views

Riot has nerfed many champions in the past. A number of those nerfs have been too hard, and many without good reason cough cough. So I'd like to hear, seriously or sarcastically, how Riot would nerf your favorite champion (or champions), and why.

Jax is a champion, who, with the recent addition of Cinderhulk, has been seeing a great increase in play as a Jungler. After analyzing Jax as a whole, we've decided that he does far too much for one champion, and that he needs changes, pronto. We'd like to point out the toxicity he brings in his hybrid damage, so we are homogenizing it into physical ONLY. Leap Strike: Ranged reduced to 600 from 700. AP Ratio removed. Empower: Ratio changed to +20% AD from +60% AP. Damage changed to physical from magical. Counter Strike: Increased damage per dodge reduced to 5/6/7/8/9% per dodge from 20% at all ranks. Grandmaster's Might: Active portion of ability removed. Passive damage ratio changed to +40% Bonus AD from +70% AP. Damage changed to physical. Base damage reduced to 100/150/200 from 100/160/220.

12 Comments

OneMoreDaySK3/27/2015, 1:13:39 PM3 votes

We want Sona to be more interactive. Let's give her a rework then nerf her +30 times. Oh, wait.

Tyren3/26/2015, 9:36:50 PM2 votes

Any champ Rito says, "No counter play."

Thefriendlyorc3/26/2015, 9:22:50 PM1 votes

Singed has been seeing far too much play (lol) and is overbearing in top lane, so we at riot have removed the ap ratio from his flip entirely, in addition, we have made it so his ult has half the duration, to compensate, we've taken 5 seconds off its cooldown!

disregardable3/26/2015, 9:24:40 PM1 votes

Jinx : Jinx was once one of the most balanced marksmen in the game. After several nerfs to other top tier marksmen though, she is now too consistently safe of a pick. We want everyone's favorite maniac to be forced to utilize her passive a bit more and get into those close range teamfights she excels at.

Q - Switcheroo

Rocket Launcher: Basic attacks deal 110% Damage to Jinx's target and all nearby enemies, gain ~~75/100/125/150/175~~ 50/75/85/100/125 range, and drain Mana.

R - Super Mega Death Rocket!

Cooldown increased from ~~ 90 / 75 / 60~~ to 130/100/85.

Maximum Zilean3/27/2015, 3:10:51 AM1 votes

Zilean has been a pretty balanced support with his rework and recent buffs. But we don't like that, so were nerfing every last skill of his for no real reason. Now he should be on par with other caster supports.

Q: Time Bomb: Range reduction Scaling reduction

W: Rewind Cooldown increased

E: Time Warp Slow / Speed up strength lowered to 75% at max rank

R: Chronoshift Window for revival reduced to 3 seconds.

If these changes are a bit to much, don't worry we will be closely monitoring Zilean's balance over the next few weeks and make changes accordingly in about 3 years.

Myrddin3/27/2015, 3:34:35 AM1 votes

Kayle

because she was played in the lcs, the end

IziMytTJd73/27/2015, 4:06:11 AM1 votes

Veigar Veigar has always been a champion who has greatly benefited from using DFG to burst down his target. Often while scrolling the forums we hear players complain about Veigar's huge burst potential when combined with the DFG active. Players who haven't built a Banshees Veil or Mercury's Treads tend to find themselves dying before having any chance for counterplay. The objective of these changes is to ensure that players will still have room for counterplay even when caught in Veigar's "grasp" (see what we did there? Eh? Eh? No? Ok...)

Q- Baleful Strike Passive AP stacking- removed=> This should tone down some of his insane late game burst.

W- Dark Matter Cast time delay- ~~1.25 seconds~~=> 8 seconds. This change should give opponents a bit more opportunity for counterplay when caught by an Event Horizon.

R- Primordial Burst NEW Is now a global skillshot that detonates on champion impact and deals damage to all targets within a 300 unit radius. This keeps in line with the recent Baleful Strike change, and requires Veigar to be on top of his game when attempting to assassinate a target. We will be closely monitoring this change to see how it affects bot lanes.

Also, we're removing DFG.

exiledFromBadmen3/27/2015, 5:53:58 PM1 votes

Lissandra has been an anti-melee, obnoxious top laner... Oh wait.

Blue Moon Wolf3/30/2015, 2:31:25 AM1 votes

(at the risk of bringing down the nerf hammer) MonkeyKing we have noticed his ability to use his decoy to block skillshots has lead to LeeSin not being able to land his Q combo properly, so we brought up the cost of his decoy and made it so spells will now go through the decoy and deal twice the damage to wukong. Ult: now doesn't knock up, it wasn't healthy for the game

GroundRuleDouble3/26/2015, 9:13:34 PM1 votes

Katarina. No reason needed :) She is my favorite champ and I play her any time I can (so I'm not a Kat hater).

DorkunedAuras3/30/2015, 5:07:52 AM1 votes

Rammus Rammus has always been built for, and been amazing at, stonewalling and killing Marksmen. We, however, like marksmen, and want them to continue feeling strong. As such, Rammus needs to be toned down

Passive - Spiked Shell Armor Scaling: ~~.25~~ - .1 Armor to AD ratio reduced from .25 to .1 in order to stop him from reaching 300 AD with just building armor. This allows a tank to do damage, and we can't have that.

Q - Powerball Too Fast: ~~Big Speed~~ - Less Speed This is the highest movespeed buff in the game, and allows him to gank into the lane too fast. As such, we're halvening the move speed buff it grants in order to better allow the Marksmen to escape.

W - Defensive Ball Curl Armor Scaling: ~~10%~~ - Removed This Ability really hurts those Autoattacking Rammus, and as Marksmen like to Autoattack, this also has to go.

E - Puncturing Taunt Duration: ~~1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25~~ - 1/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4 This forces Marksmen to attack targets other than Rammus, and removes their ability to kill other things, ruining their fun, and thus has to be weakened.

redniwediS3/26/2015, 9:19:51 PM1 votes

I can't actually find a way to write a reply in the provided style without sounding like a complete asshole toward Riot...

Forever my favorite, but considered a non-competitive, beginner champion by Rito. item 3070 Garen