So... Nami took backshots and nerfs in earlier patches due to sup item changes being too strong at the start of the season, now that you've nerfed items and taken mandate away from her, will we be seeing nami buffs to compensate? @RiotPhroxzon@drewlevin
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MSI is on Patch 26.13, so this is the penultimate patch before then.
There are a few things that we'll be monitoring on the 16.11 patch as we see how the 16.11 changes impact the Bot Lane meta, which is currently pretty heavily dominated by Enchanters and Ranged Supports.
Teleport
- Especially in Pro play recently, we've been seeing some usages of Teleport at very short ranges to prepare quite large shields for tactical usages in combats (such as objective fights)
- While this is a cool usage of the spell, it's a pretty unintuitive behavior and we want to skew its usage to be better to use for its cross-map and "joining fights" capabilities
- As a result, we're reducing the duration of the shield and increasing the shield amount by a bit to compensate
Yuumi
- Last patch, we had a change to Moonstone that fixed it being doubly impacted by either Grievous Wounds or Heal and Shield Power
- Yuumi is one of the few champions who has Heal Shield power baked into her kit and so she was disproportionately impacted
- As a result, we're compensation buffing her
Lee Sin
- On 26.10, we made some adjustments to Lee Sin that gave power back to some of the fun elements in his kit that lost a lot of power over the years (namely the amounts of dashes he has access to, etc.)
- This made Lee Sin a pretty strong champion in higher levels of play again and in a way that we think is fantasy aligned for him
- However, the magnitude is a bit too much, so we're pulling it back slightly
- We're happy with the shape of the changes and how it's affected his power curve though
Mid Meta
- For average play, AP Xin Zhao has been tearing up the rift with a lot of his power budget in healing, especially in the early lane creating some pretty uninteractive lane states
- We're tapping this down, as well as some of the top end healing in the later game
- Otherwise, a few adjustments to the champions who have a bit of room in Solo Queue like Hwei, Sylas, Syndra and nerfs to some of the top end like Cassio (who really benefited from Deathfire Touch being added) and Ryze and Ori who have been strong for pretty much the whole season
@RiotPhroxzon So... considering nami took backshots and nerfs in earlier patches due to sup items being too strong with the changes, now that you've nerfed items and taken mandate away from her, will we be seeing nami buffs to compensate?
@drewlevin game id: 5552845703 your match making is making your game unplayable, yah i'm supposed to carry my 14 death toplane and split push afk inting mid on mute all. I get s+ on prio role but I don't get any compensation for my team running me down and trolling.
@drewlevin You take my lp for duoing, but then I solo climb w coaching and you just put me against lvl 30 smurf accounts to shit on me? doesn't sound very fair does it? can you ban this smurf who flamed me for not giving him a penta? and can I have my lp back? WIREDv#NA1
@drewlevin It's incredibly frustrating trying to communicate plays in real time to your team through pings, why won't you just add voice chat? this is a team game yet it feels so isolating and hard to communicate.
@blknoiz06 I have a project of my cat, i've been working on the art and content for over a year now, have never found the right time to launch because i'm scared everyone will fuck me over