Evelynn Rework: Sadistic Penetration

The first thing you notice about Eve is that she is an absolute sadistic bitch. This is a cat that plays with her food and lets them live, only to die a horrible prolonged death. Knowing that, her new abilities should focus on torturing her foes relentlessly. As such, I suggest a couple of changes to her kit.

Hate Spikes: This is a spammy aoe ability that is super effective in wave clear, but it has no real parallel to her theme (pain and torture). Eve is a relatively easy champ to play, mechanically, but wouldn’t it be better to give her a methodical skill based procedure that gives her opponents a dreading sense of doom? That’s why I suggest we give her this new ability:

Dread chains: Eve makes a moderate ranged skill shot (passes through minions). Upon hit, the opponent receives a small amount of damage based on AP and AD and is slowed for 20%. If the target is hit again with this ability within 3 seconds the target is instead slowed by 40%. The third hit will stun the target for one second. This has a low cooldown, comparable to hate spikes.

This ability is the equivalent of the boa coiling itself around for the kill. Methodical and patient, Eve will slowly wrap the noose around her enemies before sinking her teeth into them. It also gives her a very competent chance of escape in a chase.

“New” Agony’s Embrace: This is where the teeth sink in, the cat bats the mouse and the dom whip her sub. You can only activate this ability on a target that is unable to move (so stun, suppress, ect). Eve leaps onto her target and rips her hand through her target’s flesh (Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom style) Eve then gains 5 permanent AD and AP, along with 5 speed, 3 armor and magic resist and 5% attack speed. The target then receives an automatic exhaust, as if the spell were cast, but the duration is doubled. No cooldown to this ability.

The beauty of this new ability is that it encourages eve to chain up her victims again and again only to rip them apart, all for the enjoyment of the permanent buff. If eve and the victim are alone, she could probably knock this ulti three times in a row (with conjunction of Dread chains). If throughout the course of the game an average player used this 10 times, that would mean, +50 AD, AP, Speed, 30 Armor, 30 Magic Resist and 50% attack speed. With the lost of her aoe abilities, her late game is at a severe disadvantage, but the with the help of these buffs she is still able to hang on and still be as sadistic as possible.