yohosie@yohosiefgc
Happy patch day y’all. some notes on the latest patch:
Overall Patch Vibe
We’re taking this patch to remove some of the least interactable portions of our game, on a champion level. Some champions (aka Ekko and Yasuo) don’t have clearly defined strengths and weaknesses, so we’re using this patch to continue to carve them out.
Our hope is that with this patch we are in a position where we have reached the appropriate baseline and we can tune around this champion power, rather than making significant shifts.
Read below on some additional color on the nerfed champions, and some notes on what’s coming next.
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Health Reductions
We took a pass at each champion’s health, and made adjustments to better align archetypes. Illaoi and Blitzcrank having the same health, or Vi and Darius having the same health doesn’t align with each champ’s fantasy.
Ekko
I mentioned this with Blitzcrank last patch, but hitbox/hurtbox adjustments are an underrated big impact. Ekko’s aerial normals and specials are significantly worse, particularly j.S2 which was overtuned. These, plus d.H and n.H adjustments, mean Ekko does not win interactions he should have no business winning.
We’ve also made a big combo change for Ekko, in that by raising j.S2 minimum height, Limit Strike is no longer possible at the end of every single route. This is most impactful off Tag Launcher, where he’ll likely go for j.H > j.S2 into f.S1. This hurts Ekko’s meter generation, which means less supers in general.
Yasuo
Yasuo’s j.d.H overhead not being cancelable on block was having the impact we wanted at the highest levels of play, but unless you were extremely dialed into defensive systems, defending against Yasuo was an intense knowledge check.
For reference on n.S1, the pushback is about 40 more units. As for where this leaves his conversions, LMH > n.S1 > stance.M (without run momentum) can be done without any timing adjustments.
Also, we tuned stance.S2 so that it’s still very strong, but not overwhelmingly so. In terms of timing, j.L hits at the same timing it used to due to the lowered height, and stance.H > stance.S2 > j.[S1] still combos in the corner.
Warwick
n.S1 doesn’t do it all now.
Illaoi
We’ve removed the infinite blockstring, and we are going to be removing her unblockable soon, so don’t get used to it.
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In terms of what’s coming up:
We’re going to make a sincere, concentrated effort to not impact combos going forward.
We know that combo adjustments cause a lot of player pain, and we’re going to avoid doing this moving forward. This may not always be possible, but when we do it we’re going to do it with the intention of helping combo stability rather than hurting combo stability. Jinx and Caitlyn, in particular, have instances where pushback or knockbacks or minor reactions are hurting their ability to convert in a meaningful way.
Finally, on where we sit, we’re taking this patch to pull back some power on champions that are outside their power budget, so we can buff appropriately. Future patches will have buffs for lower and mid tier champions, and maybe some high tier champions!!!! find out!!!!!!!
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thank’s
