I told you Vel'koz felt weak.

YoungFarmer·May 17, 2016·3 votes·786 views

So I have 100 k champion mastery with vel'koz and shortly after the update I noticed he felt weak. So any who I made a boards post and it got downvoted to oblivion and some people called me bad and such. So looks like Riot agreed with me haters :P

Vel’Koz’s update was meant to help solve his ‘spikes early but falls off’ power-curve by giving him meaningful scaling with ability power (and extra spicy lasers against researched targets). After a patch of careful research, it’s clear we didn’t go far enough to avoid VK’s drop-off, so we’re cranking up his scaling. Passive - Organic Deconstruction RATIO 0.4 ability power ⇒ 0.5 ability power R - Life Form Disintegration Ray RATIO 1.0 ability power ⇒ 1.25 ability power

So take this! http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxd5ycxcDT1r62h47o1_250.gif

10 Comments

Vanic998May 17, 20161 votes

From my perspective, Vel'Koz got stronger with this new rework. Additionally, there're other factors other than win rate that should influence a champions state of balance. The old vel had an average play rate of about 2% and after the rework, it doubled to 4% so that is part of the reason why his win rate decreased. Riot may be buffing vel, but it's only to make him easier for the other 2% that just started playing him at patch 6.9 and are too unskilled or lazy too apply his passive and research enemies. 600+k mastery points.

YoungFarmerMay 17, 20161 votes

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From my perspective, Vel'Koz got stronger with this new rework. Additionally, there're other factors other than win rate that should influence a champions state of balance. The old vel had an average play rate of about 2% and after the rework, it doubled to 4% so that is part of the reason why his win rate decreased. Riot may be buffing vel, but it's only to make him easier for the other 2% that just started playing him at patch 6.9 and are too unskilled or lazy too apply his passive and research enemies. 600+k mastery points.

Did you change your build on him since the update?

Vanic998May 17, 20161 votes

Yeah I did. Instead of building the old VELKOZ build which was sorc shoes, liandrys, and void staff, I now build rabadans, ludens ekko, and I'm thinking about mejais. I still build sorc shoes.

YoungFarmerMay 17, 20161 votes

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Yeah I did. Instead of building the old VELKOZ build which was sorc shoes, liandrys, and void staff, I now build rabadans, ludens ekko, and I'm thinking about mejais. I still build sorc shoes.

you build rabadans first?

Vanic998May 17, 20161 votes

I don't. I only said the items that i didn't build with the old VELKOZ. I actually build morrelo first. The new morrelo is actually good on VELKOZ because of the higher AP.

Duke DryfockerMay 17, 20161 votes

"you build rabadans first?"

What's your build out of curiosity?

YoungFarmerMay 17, 20161 votes

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"you build rabadans first?"

What's your build out of curiosity?

Mine, item 3165 item 3151 item 3089 item 3135 the Last few items are usually situational.

Duke DryfockerMay 17, 20161 votes

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Mine, the Last few items are usually situational.

I like that build, i would even throw a item 3116 in there to max the usefulness of item 3151