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Phroxzon is out this week, so we'll be stepping in for this Preview! Small patch this time as we prepare for 13.10, which will be our biggest patch since season start. 13.9 focuses on lifting some champions that haven't felt great, including bigger changes for Neeko and Kayle.
Champion Buffs
Champion Nerfs
Champion Adjustments
System Buffs
There was actually a study done - and yes while champs are more likely to be mentioned when they are getting skins, they're actually nerfed more often than they're buffed. Either way I think it's mostly pure coincidence. The teams are much more separated than you think.
Hi I was just in the meeting where we decided we should definitely buff Volibear. I personally pushed through some pushback against buffing him.
At no point did his skin get mentioned. I also had no idea he was even getting a skin. I literally have no idea what skins are coming out in the next several months because I don't go and look for that info.
I just want AD Twitch to be viable. Ranking up E increases the damage by 40... when you're at max stacks. Way more work for the same damage increase as other ADC's abilities. Some crit scaling on it, like a few other ADC's have gotten in the past couple years would be nice - and it wouldn't impact AP Twitch at all.
Support is unironically his best role which just shouldn't be the case.
AD Twitch is plenty strong.
Amumu? Again? Since 12.4 he’s had 11 changes. This will be the 12th. They seem to be incapable of balancing this champ.
It's more that he usually sits near the top of the acceptable WR band for lower MMR play since he's an easy jungler to clear on, and we try not to run him all the way down to 50% since he's so low-MMR skewed. This means his changes tend to be pretty small in scope and thus overall jungle fluctuations bring him up past data-driven bounds or low enough that we choose to buff him.
I've personally picked up most of the Amumu changes this year and I've tried to very lightly reduce that skew while still keeping him as the de-facto new-to-jungling champion because I think that suits him very well. Mostly this has been making his early clear safer and lowering his scaling a bit.
What was the push back? Champ seems to be in rough shape in solo q.
Volibear has essentially zero counter-play from ahead. You can't even rely on your tower.
For now we have no intent of getting his top lane win rate to 50% without some extra work being done but he's at like 47%, so there's room between the two.
I don’t understand this. Your comment makes it sound like you’re passively observing that Volibear has no counter play, but you guys are in charge of balancing. If his kit is fundamentally broken shouldn’t he be in line for a rework then?
Yeah that's the direct implication. Not a rework per se.
Can you consider putting a per champion cooldown on Amumu Q to nerf double stuns combined with ult? Say you Q the same target twice, the second Q would slow or ground instead of stun again.
I really like Amumu as my primary jungler in high elo but his double stun is a huge power budget.
Double stun does a ton of heavy lifting for MMR skew
Phreak, do you think there is a world where his ultimate removes his ability to shut off towers in favor of strength elsewhere?
What would it look like if he personally just took reduced damage from the turret or whatnot? I guess he would just kind of fall into the same territory of diving as Alistar.
Yeah that's possible.
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