So... have you actually figured out a direction for Evelynn yet?

darkdill·Mar 14, 2016·3 votes·763 views

Or will she forever remain the blue-skinned stripperific assassin chick that no one knows what she is?

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d4rkshockMar 14, 20161 votes

She needs a rework. Keep the passive but the rest is a total tear down. She's been gutted for a while.

darkdillMar 14, 20161 votes

If anything, the passive IS the problem. Permanent stealth and the ability to ignore green wards is borderline toxic because of how game-warping it is.

She's actually the best Champion in the game for early-game cheese plays because it's suicide to take a pink ward right off the bat. You simply CANNOT play safely early against her with warding trinkets.

GreenLoreMar 14, 20161 votes

While it is problematic to balance,it is the most outstanding and unique thing about eve,so it will likely stay,similar to how Kassadin is allowed to keep his ultimate. Of course her passive might get some slight changes,but I think the perma stealth will stay in some form.

PyrodiniumMar 14, 20161 votes

I remember reading somewhere an idea for changing the detection range on Shadow Walk, making it bigger at the start of the game and shrinking it as Evelynn gains levels.

A change like that might allow to check her early-game dominance without impacting her lategame as much, but no idea if it would mess too much with gameplay clarity.

darkdillMar 14, 20161 votes

I think Riot said that making her Shadow Walk detection range change as she levels would create a lot of "burden of knowledge" and inconsistency issues. Keeping it at a fixed range is better since you only need to memorize one distance for spacing, not multiple as you keep getting levels.

PyrodiniumMar 14, 20161 votes

I believe that this specific change has never been addressed by Riot.

We have seen a lot of comments along these lines regarding ability ranges (in particular those of targeted abilities), as they create an interaction game between the user and their opponent.

Shadow Walk on the other hand, is an ability that places the burden upon the person using Evelynn, as it is only useful whenever your opponent can't actually see you.

darkdillMar 14, 20161 votes

In any event, I was more asking whether Evelynn's going to be getting any direction in terms of thematics and lore design, not necessarily gameplay.

PyrodiniumMar 14, 20161 votes

At some point she should.

I would put her at around fifth place in terms of need for a VGU.

d4rkshockMar 15, 20161 votes

That's what makes eve eve. Just like Elises spider form, tryndamere's undying rage, regard triple q one shot, ahri's mobility and versatility as a mage(not positions but on what she can do), etc. Her q can't be spammed like you used to do. She's meme. Super squishy unless you go tank. Low damage if you do. She's a bad champion who got nerfed into the ground and Runic echoes was the final nail in the coffin. She's more dead than ryze 6.3.

GreenLoreMar 16, 20161 votes

I'm pretty sure that the most iconic thing about rengar is his "jump-out of the brush attack" and not the triple Q,I mean empowered auto attacks are pretty common among champions,but being able to jump out of any brush?Thats unique to him.

Dominick DestineMar 14, 20161 votes

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Or will she forever remain the blue-skinned stripperific assassin chick that no one knows what she is?

Implying that's a bad thing?

Evelynn Leave Busty Smurfette alone!

darkdillMar 14, 20162 votes

Not a bad thing, but not a "good enough" thing, so to speak. The issue is that Evelynn isn't anything truly unique. She just looks like a prostitute with a spikey dominatrix fetish, blue body paint, and freaky pink hair. That's kinky, but not really "fantasy".

Dominick DestineMar 16, 20161 votes