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/u/RiotPhlox tweeted:

Hey all

We're putting out a micropatch today for Xayah and Vi. Xayah's lethality build has caught on over the last few weeks and is quite overpowered and Vi's recent rescript added a lot of consistency to her spells which pushed her over the edge of balanced.

Changes Attached

Xayah changes:

Q damage reduced from 50 to 150 to 45 to 125.

Q CD increased from 10 to 4 to 10 to 6 seconds.

Vi changes:

Armor growth reduced from 4 to 3.5

AD growth reduced from 3.5 to 3.

R knock up duration reduced from 1.4 seconds to 1.3.

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over 2 years ago - /u/RiotPhlox - Direct link

Originally posted by Farlston

I'd love to know Riot's logic behind when they hotfix Vs when they wait for a patch. It seems so inconsistent...

Lethality Xayah and Vi were both breaking 55% winrates (with Xayah outperforming Vi).

These characters were pretty wildly out of line and waiting another patch would've caused a lot of messed up games, especially at the end of the ranked season.

over 2 years ago - /u/RiotPhlox - Direct link

Originally posted by Moomookus_

reasonable but what about camille

While I understand the Camille frustration (and personally am frustrated playing vs her) she's not the same degree of powerful right now.

She's the kind of character we would address in a normal patch (though likely not next patch since that's preseason and not a balance patch)

over 2 years ago - /u/RiotPhlox - Direct link

Originally posted by Farlston

Thanks for the reply! Yeah that's brutal. So is it purely based on either obscene win rates or extremely egregious bugs? Or is it also to do with ease of fixing the issue?

We tend to hotfix for either absurd winrates or egregious bugs yeah.

There was a bug this patch that yuumi could be permanently invisible if she jumped off of an ally who was eaten by TK that had to be hotfixed for example.

over 2 years ago - /u/GalaxySmash - Direct link

Originally posted by Reshir

55% win rate is pretty high for 1 day into patch. Nerfs make sense

Important to note that Xayah was 57% nearing 58 and Vi was nearing 56%

over 2 years ago - /u/GalaxySmash - Direct link

Originally posted by SkeletonJakk

56 doesn't seem too bad for a day1

Its a bit above our comfort level. This is also the last patch of the season so we would rather not ruin the end of season climb with secret OP builds being discovered in the final week or two.