Eve deserves these nerfs
Evelynn in LoL Classic deserves these nerfs.
What gets me is the double standard around this champion. Eve players act like the entire enemy team is supposed to jump through hoops and do backflips all game just to prevent her from getting fed.
“Buy pinks everywhere.”
“Never walk alone.”
“Track her constantly.”
“Ward differently.”
“Play safe.”
“Don’t push.”
“Coordinate with your team.”
Okay… so five people need to completely change how they play the game because one person locked Evelynn?
Meanwhile, the Evelynn player can be an average Joe, derp around on a relatively simple champion, wait for somebody to be slightly out of position, appear out of nowhere and collect kills. The amount of coordination required to counter Eve is completely disproportionate to the amount of skill required to actually play her.
That’s the problem.
She’s also incredibly safe. Normal junglers/roamers have to worry about being spotted while approaching a lane, crossing wards, choosing their path carefully, or showing themselves and giving information away. Evelynn gets to bypass a huge part of that interaction simply by existing.
And once she gets ahead it gets even worse. Now every squishy has to play terrified because you don't know whether she's actually nearby. Her invisibility creates pressure even when she isn't doing anything.
There needs to be a reasonable relationship between how difficult something is to execute and how difficult it is to counter.
Right now Eve can demand an absurd amount of effort, gold, communication and map discipline from the opposing team while the Eve player herself doesn't have to demonstrate anywhere near that level of execution.
If the answer to a champion being oppressive is basically “your entire team should have played around her perfectly for the last 15 minutes,” maybe the champion is the problem.
Eve deserves these nerfs.
