u/DeadAndBuried23

Even with sundered getting nerfed and eclipse getting buffed, sundered is still the better option.

Testing against a dummy of the same level with roughly matching defense, Eclipse got 15 more damage on Q's, 31 more on EmpQ's, but 21 less on the basic EmpW>Q combo.

Which realistically isn't enough damage to make up the difference in defense. You're giving up 400 HP and the heal/temp bonus HP for a shield that you can't proc from your ideal range and usually get when you've got them stunned and you're likely about to E anyway. Versus even at max HP the temporary bonus HP from sundered lasts four times as long.

It's a staple of their design philosophy to release champions and reworks with more mechanics, and wittle away at them until they get to a solid core that they can then adjust only numbers for.

Sera has mostly escaped this. Looking back through her patch history, I can only find one instance, when her heal stopped scaling with nearby champs.

That, and all her other interactions with allies, made their claims she was a mid laner dubious from the start. She was supposed to be solo lane, but her passive and W and E and R all have direct interactions with allies? That's as many as Taric.

I think the best direction to go for nerfs would be to start taking those away. So much of her power budget is in those interactions, especially in the problematic duos they're trying to target. Don't let ally shields count for W. Don't let ally CC count for E. Buff per-note passive damage but only apply them on herself.

Then they can address the raw stats.

Edit: Typos

I love the character. I draw my own profile pictures of him for every site. He's my laptop, phone, and cheap smartwatch background. I custom ordered a poster because they didn't have one big enough on the merch store. I genuinely cried reading In Battle, Broken (more for personal reasons at the time but still). I own every cosmetic except that one fuckass chroma I missed. I adore everything he is, and everything he stands for.

I also love his kit. It has a little of everything, including two of the rarest mechanics in the game (invulnerability and map traversal). It even counters the most annoying champions in the game.

But they could change his kit significantly, and I'd still play him. If for balance reasons they made W a skillshot/ground target or Q was half the width, or E lost its total immunity, I'd still play and enjoy him.

I'd say my feelings are 65/35, character/kit.

I'm curious where you guys stand.

(this is satire)

DnD successfully made effects that were only supposed to apply every 3rd hit so strong that it even outclassed the fact it doesn't have stats some of its users wanted from Rageblade. So we've decided to make more items that help you meet the "champion fantasy" of not having to deal with silly things like balance mechanics.

First off, we're giving Stridebreaker back its dash, and bringing back both Galeforce and Prowler's claw-- with the ability to target minions. No more will something like being immobile because you're ranged or a statstick be a hindrance.

Now for the new items:

* Timewarp Tassle: A new Adaptive tear item. At full stacks, grants 50% CDR to your first rank 5 ability. This CDR is counted separate from AH. Can't let something silly like costs or cooldowns stop you from using your abilities more often.

* Glordoth's Glassbreaker: A lethality item with an active (100s cooldown) that allows your abilities to deal damage through untargetability. No more pesky Zhonya's stopping your faker Zed plays.

* Bob's Bow: AD+AS+Crit, critical strikes no longer occur normally, instead Attacks grant 0-100 stacks of *Bobeye*, with minimum and granted stacks both scaling with crit chance, and will critically strike at 100. This is also an on-hit effect because fuck it why not. Chance be damned, now you can always know when you'll crit.

* Dad's Belt: HP, armor, MR. Buildpath: 3 Giant's Belts. Your immobilizing crowd control deals %max HP true damage scaling with your HP. Because a full tank build shouldn't mean you don't get to do Tons of DamageTM.

* Spellslinger: Adaptive force, AH. Half of AH applies to summoner spell cooldowns. Don't worry, we'll let Zoe abuse it for a month or so.

* Dawn and Dusk: it's just Dusk and Dawn but AD. Vi mains rejoice.

We know we told you there was going to be a shift away from game-changing item spikes in favor of champion kits, only to make an item that fundamentally changes how some champs *can* be played once it's finished, and we figured the best solution is making more of them and never addressing our mistake/lie.