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I think if his passive is good, this helps bring up his low end a lot. By definition, he has pretty low agency over how the Sun Disk performs, so I believe it'll tend to carry more weight in Bronze than in Challenger.

Now, this almost certainly can't carry the entire burden. Goal #1 is being a fun champion. But right now the passive is really ultra horrible to use and that can get a lot better. So pretty much anything is better than the current state, even if it eats up a little bit of his power budget. Since again, his power level is completely pro constrained and pros are REALLY good at playing around towers, a buff here likely doesn't move the needle a whole lot in pro.

I mean Lee Sin was like 46% win rate and nowhere to be seen in pro. Seems like a pretty safe buff.

Not all champions are equal in terms of player satisfaction, both playing and watching the game.

Tahm Kench had the game's highest ban rate at 45% win rate. People hated playing against him. Most champions are not Tahm Kench.

13.4 was really quick reaction stuff to lower his pro presence. Worse early game, find something not early game to buff.

I think ideally Azir should use both the DPS and Mage halves of his kit. If his R is just a disengage tool, that’s a really flat champion.

The changes here increase his W DPS.

I think the shuffle is the biggest thing that makes him an interesting pro champion, meaning he is acceptable as a top 5 pro pick, which means we can have a higher solo queue winrate.

I think if we were to remake Azir today, it’d be interesting to see what he’d be like as a shorter range champion. Not sure if that’d be Urgot level or more like Ryze/Cassiopeia. That’s a pretty big change, though, and much more work than the relatively simple stuff here. That’d make shuffle a much more cohesive part of the character, though.

Eh, he definitely has less overall dps early game. Not certain he guarantees lane prio when he has 70 less hp for all-ins as well.

Not saying the changes are the perfect silver bullet but I think we get gains. Like if he’s 46% for average players while he’s a pro pick, maybe we get him to 47-48. I still think that’s a win.

If the follow-up changes to Alistar and Thresh are any indication, I don't intend to ignore projects I've taken up. If this guy ends up being 40% win rate, it's gonna be micropatch buffs the next day most likely.

It's why I submitted this to PBE on day 1: I really want the feels testing. Power's going to be hard to surmise, honestly. But hopefully the attacks feel better and the turret feels more like it belongs to Azir. Real live gameplay is going to be how we figure out if the triple-solder needs much compensation.

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Correct. Currently nothing on Azir's kit applies on-hits, which is unchanged here. His W should potentially apply Nashor's on its primary target but that also means it applies Lich Bane and there's just a lot going on there. For now, I'm not desperate to include it, though I think it makes sense for him.

Not sure I'd be comfortable having it apply spells and on-hits, so for now everything applies Luden's, Liandry's, and Rylai's and not Nashor's or Lich Bane.

I intend to remove up to 127% bonus AS from the champion.

Without triple-W this is DPS positive. The value of triple-W can really only be discerned from playtesting. I'm ballparking the compensation.

If you are currently getting to lane by right clicking once from base, the system can get a little confused because it's been so long since your last input. Try right clicking one last time when you get to lane, just before going invisible

W damage is incorrect in the scrape. It's 50-200, up from 50-150

1. Base stat changes that skew positively for low-MMR. Base health, scaling armor, and shore up his ability to last hit or function in case his soldiers aren't in play, which is where the base AD comes in. This isn't necessarily a buff in itself, just directionally positive.

2. Nerf early Q-auto poke but bring it back up late game. Q casts is the single biggest outlier in "Things elite players do that regular players do not." This why his mana pool and costs have changes and the base damage is lower but AP ratio is increased.

3. Shift power away from the 3-soldier mechanic. The data scrape here is inaccurate: His solder damage at level 18 is 200, up from 150. He still has per-level scaling on the ability but since W no longer has AS on the rank up, it now has damage. I also am intentionally lowering his "free" attack speed to hopefully reintroduce options like Lethal Tempo, Nashor's Tooth, and Berserker's Greaves. Currently Nashor's is about 2% lower...

Tahm and radiant will be fixed in 13.5. Sorry it wasn't fixed in 13.4

I did the Azir things. I sent them to PBE on purpose. Definitely still a work in progress but I'm pretty happy with everything so far.

Kinda want the PBE reps to help find if there are bugs, so for now I'm keeping it there.

Significant edit: The scrape is inaccurate: W damage is functionally 50-150 >>> 50-200

I know what you're saying and understand your perspective, but jungle is largely 0-sum. So nerfing spam-gank jungle strategy buffs farming by comparison, so we would want to see if the power levels between the different classes of junglers ends up where we'd like before we commit to even further jungle shake-ups.

possible yes! that was before my time

Right now in the scenario you're describing the duo has a small advantage, we're bringing it closer to 50/50 for both sides.

They've always had a penalty, we just determined it was a little lower than it should be.

The strengths you note about Annie support are meant to be her strengths. We are aiming to keep her shield potency similar to other enchanter's main shields (Lulu, Janna, Karma, etc), and reduce the "free" power she gets from the reflect when maxed.

As others had noted, the nerfs here plus the mana regen loss from support item should result in a decent nerf that brings her from clearly OP (54%+) to normal enchanter strength (51%-52%) if I'm not trolling yet again

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