Constantine Vontas

[Constantine Vontas @CVontas55473]

@Mywtheking You can’t give “same items” you have to give “same gold”. Yone has more expensive, premium items that take longer to get because they are more powerful

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@Cero404 @Pablochele69 @Burrito_TTV And yes range is the most op stat in the game, otherwise this item would not exist. Try playing Nilah at 30 minutes in a team fight without deaths dance and tell me how long you can live. Even if you get one kill you will blow up right after. This item needs to exist

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@Cero404 @Pablochele69 @Burrito_TTV Never said it mitigates poke. I’m assuming the twitter translation is wrong. What this item mitigates is squishy melees like Nilah, Belveth, Yi etc getting one shot before they can even get in range assuming an even playing field. They need to be able to play the game too.

[Constantine Vontas @CVontas55473]

@Cero404 @Pablochele69 @Burrito_TTV When will people learn that this is the compensation champs get for being melee, and even with all these “op melee items” we are still in a “range is king” meta? The most op thing you can do is hit someone when they cannot hit you back. This item mitigates that

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@TepesGod @Burrito_TTV This item isn’t just for bruisers. Every light fighter doesn’t get to play the game if you nerf DD passive. Nilah, Yi, Belveth etc all just get one shot before they can even press any buttons without this item. It is a necessary evil

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@MakkroLoL @RiotPhroxzon The fact that this bug genuinely ruined multiple team fights in pro play and they still don’t seem to care about fixing it 💀

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@Diddledee32 @InuGami43376739 @peakmann1e “This is like every series ever….. only a few get the budget to animate background characters”. Basic reading comprehension will tell you the first part of the statement is verified as a hyperbole by the second. Comment literally said it’s rare to have that high of a budget

[Constantine Vontas @CVontas55473]

@Diddledee32 @InuGami43376739 @peakmann1e SpongeBob likely genuinely has a higher budget per episode than avatar seven havens. It’s literally all about budget. They can go only do so much with the amount of time and money allocated by paramount. If the concept and story are good, then mediocre animation is an ok tradeoff

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@Thegold4ffs @scrsxd @RiotPhroxzon And she was always relatively weak as well? This isn’t really a debate, at no point in time have high elo players considered Nilah meta or strong. She is a wr inflated champ

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@Thegold4ffs @lmann1211 @scrsxd @RiotPhroxzon She is not just weak against mages though. The 200 percent crit buff lowkey hurt her more than it helped because now every ad carry does more than enough damage (her niche was partly doing more damage) and easily one shot her before she gets in range. She is an otp only champ

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@lmann1211 @scrsxd @RiotPhroxzon Yes, she’s not low pick rate because she is weak. That is entirely separate issue. Right now she is largely played by a small dedicated player base or chosen as a counterpick. Those same people would play her regardless of how weak she becomes

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@lmann1211 @scrsxd @RiotPhroxzon True, but no one was ever really saying her low pick rate was a symptom of her being generally weak and awkwardly designed. The main thing to be aware of is how riot considers Nilah “fair” when she has 53-54 wr because they acknowledge she is largely an otp pick

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@_EB_W @scrsxd @RiotPhroxzon I think there was a short period of time where she was semi popular with certain ranged supports like senna to accelerate their scaling. There are some cool clips of guma playing Nilah with T1 in pro games.

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@JVLIVS_GOAT3 @scrsxd @RiotPhroxzon Yes, the rioters who made her have repeatedly stated that they acknowledge her kit feels pretty awkward and was largely a failure compared to their expectations for her. Aside from that, most rioters and high elo players also agree she is currently quite weak and needs adjustment

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@bluwunk To be fair, smolder is an extremely simply and popular champ with low agency. His wr is sometimes deflated due to that

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@GwenPopstar @steelingz Because its existence is necessary for the existence of AD melee skirmishers who are themselves balanced around this items existence. Champions like Nilah, master yi, Viego, belveth would all need massive compensation buffs if this item was ever nerfed or removed

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@real_mihira Bewitching Nilah could be fun, I think she suits the skin line thematically the most of our potential candidates

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@scrsxd @RiotPhroxzon Not to mention, she is extremely squishy and the targeted dash means her actual agency in fights is extremely low. She ends up having to face tank even more than other melee skirmishers cuz she can't freely dodge even a single ability unless there is a target conveniently placed

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@scrsxd @RiotPhroxzon I feel an issue is that she is forced into at least 3 crit items before being able to get the actual fighter items she needs to play the game. She needs deaths dance and arguably endless hunger ability haste to function as a fighter but you never reach those items in most games

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@scrsxd @RiotPhroxzon To justify a little, every other hyper scaling melee fighter has their “op defensive ability” and mobility scale to a low cd in late by way of normal item builds and natural level scaling (Gwen, bel, jax, etc). Why does Nilah even exist? She is just AD Gwen but worse in every way