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Chiming in because I don't think I was incredibly clear and succinct in the conclusion: True damage gains on %health damage against tanks because armor increases more sharply than health does. The absolute power levels of BotRK/Kaken slayer aren't incredibly important, only the relative gains. And in general, those gains were greater against tanks than they were against non-tanks.

Some champions, like Yasuo, tended to buy purely +Armor (Death's Dance, GA), and others like Darius, would buy purely +Health. Those will also change your item goals.

It would not be permanent just while you are walking out of base

Very insightful.

When you hover the item it shows the range. I was going to add a range indicator for when you purchase the item and leave base, but ran out of time before ship. If I get time, I will try to add it for a future patch.

Did think about passive. Didn't feel like putting power in it would help as much as the other places it could go, especially when we're looking for play-feel improvements.

Ah, I see. That's unfortunate, but I don't really have the capability to fix that as a designer (or to know how difficult it even would be to fix, I think). Thanks for the info.

I think removing the cast time on her wall would be a bad change for the champion. Being able to consistently stuff movement skills would require her to be weaker in other areas of her kit and would also be most powerful in support, because that utility doesn't scale with gold, along with encouraging her to hold on to her wall to use it reactively instead of proactively setting it down to define the battlefield.

If you have specific reproduction steps for people walking through the wall, then I can take a look, but I haven't seen it myself.

So, I definitely sympathize with the health decrease. Ultimately I looked at it as: I have X amount of power to work with to make Anivia feel like a functional modern champion. Where do I put it?

If I had extra room left-over, or if she's still too weak after these buffs, I very well might consider some sort of base health or health per level, but it just didn't make the cut over any of the changes I thought were most important (and I had to decrease R damage somewhat to even make room for what's here).

I tested this in the first iteration of the changes (because responsiveness up was a core value). Playtest team felt it was pretty notably counterplay down and it generally felt cheap when she was able to pretty reliably CC you while she was CC'd, so I pulled the change.

Oh, I missed a line in the text version of the list. I can't check the exact numbers atm, but ult cost is also down a bit as well. It'll show up on PBE shortly, though.

Main focus is to make Anivia feel better to play in modern League without much change to her core identity or skill-tests. This is meant to be a large buff, because Anivia was hit by a large systemic nerf in 10.23. Also, the reason we didn't hotfix Anivia is because I already happened to be partway through an Anivia modernization pass when she dropped precipitously in the preseason patch, so I wanted to use that extra room to find more buffs with long-term value for the champion instead of hotfixing in generic power.

For those concerned that this is too large of a buff—if it's too much, we'll nerf her. I think a lot of these changes will make the character feel better to play without significantly eroding counterplay, though, which is the important part that will stick around when she's balanced.

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Then maybe the champion who is designed to kill tanks should itemize in a way that kills tanks and not the ones that provide a shield and the one that gives up-front burst to kill a squishy.

It's almost like ADCs actually got choice in what items to build and then complain when they do it wrong.

sure

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I hope Bwipo and Hyli become the pillars of FNC for years to come, i fear that Selfmade leaves next year if Jankos retires :(

no fnatic had it much worse, they lost their best players to their rival team in the same region... meanwhile perkz went to NA and was sold for 5mil