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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...

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

It’s ok Azael, we are equally important parts of the DugDuo

Unless they’re the one assist.

Hmm, this is weird.

The item is coded to give 15% of your max HP on press. Because it should use that new total health value for the heal calculation, the heal is literally coded as a function of that +HP variable. This way I can also feed the tooltip a mathed-out heal amount. For what it’s worth, that functionality was already in before I touched it. Kudos to the prior designer for making it cool that way.

When testing the item locally the math was all accurate. It would heal me for exactly what I expected based upon updated health values pre-ultimate, and the post-ultimate tooltip would be wrong (on purpose, it’s not worth somehow shoving a different number in there post-activate.)

The tooltip is getting updated again in 13.4 anyway to show the total healing and I’m pretty sure that’s meant to be accurate, too, so we’ll see what happens.

The way the tracker works, it simply compares the outgoing heal value to the champion’s missing HP and just tak...

My thoughts:

Truly passive effects like Frozen Heart and Locket do not deserve assists.

Locket active and Shurelya’s active deserve to.

Radiant is somewhat in the middle. The radius is huge (1200 or so) and is sorta an active but also sorta not since you almost never directly target its effects. This is kinda like how Jarvan E attack speed just prints free assists because it’s bound to affect everyone.

This is the kind of thing I’d bet there are differing opinions on in the design team, though if I was going to come in and change it for 13.5 no one would stop me.

I’ll give it some thought and am curious about everyone else’s

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Nullifying Orb is there because I had initially made a bunch of scripting changes when I was investigating buffing it for ADCs. That didn't end up shipping but I still had all the scripting improvements, so once we had a real patch, I submitted them in. If we ever update Nullifying Orb again, it'll be a bit easier to modify. Not a terribly important change, though.

Singed I added the shift-tooltip so that players can see what a double-tap of Q should deal. Should help understand waveclear breakpoints a bit better.

Lee Sin is a bugfix as you mentioned; the Q2 description is wrong, so that's just cleanup.

Kassadin R was re-scripted as I was trying to get maximum R damage into his tooltip but it's slightly weird so I don't think that's in right now. Still would like to do it but tooltips are actually kinda wonky. You can't do much math in the tooltips themselves so you have to write it out somewhere else, which kinda bloats things.

Pretty small. Currently a little bit more on the AP ratios (Wizard Cow is nowhere near good, this is safe) and putting his teammate heal roughly back where it was.

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edit: this was sarcastic. I'm shipping the Aphelios buff and it's one line lol.

I agree, Orianna is swell.

The problem with your analysis is that you're not looking at total play presence. Ranged supports outnumber melee supports in total pickrate about 2:1. The overall resting winrate of all melee vs ranged supports is within about 0.5% of each other.

Solo queue is mostly fine in all ranks, but it's really enchanter heavy at Masters+, which often closely follows the pro meta.

It wasn't fear of damage creep. It was fear of this being too much power.

I want Q+E AP scaling to actually be good and I want Q max to be good (it's currently his worst max and what most players in low MMR do).

Your "obvious" max being bad is a really, bad thing IMO. There used to be a more complicated changelist, but I pared it down over worries of the message getting lost.

Ultimately, Q and E have cooldown incentives, plus the increased Q damage on rank-up, so with the base damage functionally getting increased via soul scaling, that should help those being worth the points.

Lantern nerf is mostly because of concerns of too much power, though again, I'd rather reshape the abilities somewhat to make Q>E>W a generically good skill order, which it currently isn't.

Anyways, circling back to Thresh in the first place, I think he's mostly a damage champion. Making him threatening against no-peel bot lanes is important and hopefully that is true ...

Yes having eyes makes me a hater.

Wow everything that could have went wrong did. Riftwalk into the Q heal. Elise instant casts E but not until after taking Auto-R-Auto and because it's instant he lands back down onto Decimate.

This is practically one of those staged tiktok videos. Jeez.

You had me going until you libeled Singed like that. Singed is my boy. You can f*ck off with that sh*t.

This man knows what’s up

Because it's the only play style right now.

Notice I'm not nerfing Ashe and Nautilus is getting like 8 damage.

I don't want 100% tank meta but I'd rather it be 90/10 tank than 90/10 enchanter. Really I want something much more equitable. We've just never been able to hit that.

It existed to give some kind of effect that wasn't just "I heal you" as a team-based item.

However, I think an item should really try to just do exactly one thing so that its purpose can be as pushed as possible.

Very broad strokes rule of thumb but one that I'm attempting to apply for now.

Sure if you want to never be able to play her support again as she lives out her days as a top laner.

That's the core problem I see with the champion. She's the perfect 1v1 ranged champion and then a shield bot in teamfights.