TFT Balance
Hello everyone, here is a list of balance issues and potential fix for TFT from what I have seen so far from playing live and in the PBE server:
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Upgraded items should not stack - We all see what dual shojin spear does to multiple champions, or multiple rage blade, etc. Just like in regular LoL Item's special bonuses should be unique.
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Guinsoo's rageblade should have a max stack at 5 or 10.
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Glacial stun should not perma CC or we should have access to item to avoid the perma CC of glacial. Every team comp has an item to counter it (PD, Anti-heal, Dragon's claw). But nothing against glacial or CC in general.
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Kassadin's mana drain needs to be vastly reduced. On his own he is simply a better more reliable demon synergy buff. When Kassadin starts the fight he pick someone and that someone will never ever cast an ultimate. He is one of the most OP T1 character just for that. So I would reduce his mana drain by half and increase his shield generation accordingly.
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Pyke is goddamn OP.
Simply stat wise if we compare him with other assassin excluding Akali because she is T4: He has more HP than any T3 or below with 600-1080-2160 the second highest is Evelyne and Rengar with 550 -990 -1980. He has the highest base attack damage with Zed with 60-105-215 (Kha'Zix, Kat and Evelynn have 50-90-180) He is the only other Assassin with Zed to have 25 Armor instead of 20. He starts with 50 Mana for an ult costing 100. so only need 50 mana to cast his first ult, ... which is pretty fast especially when you are that tanky for an assassin.
Now his ultimate is what actually makes him completely broken. I mean, a map wide stun for 3 seconds, that he can spam Thanks to a Shojin blade and an attack speed item, might as well add a morello to it and you have the most resilient assassin that can drop aggro because of his ult, stunning the entire enemy team and then can cast it again in about 6 seconds.
Basically we have a T2 Champion outperforming and having better survivability than ANY other Assassin of Tier 3 or below.
- So Nerf Pyke health in line with any other Assassin's (500-900-1800).
- Nerf his auto attack damages to be inline with other "caster" assassins Like Evelynn or Katarina (50-90-180).
- Drop his armor to 20 just like most assassins
- Then for his ult, make his starting mana 0 (Like EVERY other assassin) or reduce the stun duration to 1/1.5/2 seconds
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Just make Pyke die after he uses his ult once!