League of Legends: Riot plans to buff Taliyah, Gangplank, Irelia and nerfs Ezreal, Karthus, Lissandra

The 2019 pre-season continues

League of Legends Pre-Season 2019: Big change comes to the Rune Gem system

Version 8.23 ​​has officially landed on Summoner Rift with huge changes of the 2019 Pre-Season. The change in rune gems has had a big impact on many different champions. Therefore, Riot quickly stated the intention to correct the balance in the next version.

Note: the changes below are currently Riot’s intentions and may change when the official server is broadcast.

Reducing power

Ezreal

The last 8.23 ​​update for Ezreal was full of good news. Not only did he get an indirect boost through Thief activating up to two times in the 2019 Pre-Season. Ezreal also received a big buff for the skill set: Essence Flux increased damage and Bow of Light always reached. 100% effective when hitting champions. All major statistics sites have recorded that Ezreal’s case has increased sharply in pick rate as well as win rate in recent days.

Fairly evaluating the purpose of both of these tweaks: “Make Ezreal less dependent on the Thief Gem”, this is clearly a total failure. Even though a (very) small portion of Ezreal players started experimenting with other runes like Dark Gathering or Summoning Aery, Thief is still the mainstay of most Ezreal players regardless of their Adventurer build. in which direction.

Therefore, the direction of change targeting Ezreal in the near future will be:

• Decrease the power of Thief’s gem or change the mechanics to reduce its effectiveness when combined with Ezreal’s kit. Mainly revolves around two indicators, which are the recovery time of Thieves and the drop rate of items. (For example, increasing the cooldown but also increasing the drop rate, for example, Ezreal will be less effective when spamming Thief with continuous Mystic Shots…).
• Limit the editing of Ezreal’s kit, whether in the direction of increasing or decreasing buffs. The straightforward buff in this patch comes at the same time as the Thief remake, so it’s hard to judge whether Ezreal really needs it or not.

Lissandra

Similar to Ezreal’s case, Lissandra has been buffed in many respects. Not only has a cool new passive: Ice Tribe, a series of Lissandra’s moves are also reduced in mana. Frozen Road’s movement speed has also been increased.

However, it seems that Lissandra’s rise has come from many directions. Lissandra’s strength is part, but another big part is that her opponents still don’t really understand the mechanics of the Frozen Slaves. They underestimated the amount of slows from these ice phantoms.

That’s not very good, so in the near future Riot will test that the victim only suffers from one of the two effects of the Frozen Slave. One is slow or damage, the other is nerf both. Besides, the stats also show that: Lissandra mid/top lane is much more effective than support Lissandra. This is a positive signal, at least Lissandra’s damage is not too weak or control is not too strong.

Karthus

Karthus is benefiting through Outer Turret changes that make the laning phase significantly longer. Thereby, Karthus can complete his large equipment quite peacefully. This is very good because the early game is the weakest period of the Deathly Ruan.

Karthus is expected to receive a few nerfs on the PBE in the coming days. However, Riot is also quite confused about this champion’s case, because the number of Karthus players is quite small. This can result in Karthus’ scaling statistics being inaccurate.

Increased strength

Gangplank

In stark contrast to Ezreal, Gangplank, although also using the Thief gem with a large frequency, is buffed:

• With Thief reducing the drop rate, this is nothing more than a nerf of Thief Gangplank.
• The removal of the Silk Cocoon makes Gangplank’s laning phase now more risky because of the loss of this straight health bonus.
• With melee rafters, Gangplank’s lane crush is also drastically reduced, as top lane champions now all have 10 armor at the start of the game with the Stat Fragment system.

Drawn alone, Gangplank even suffered… the ultimate damage error in the last 8.23 ​​version. It was a bug where Cannonball always deals damage at first level even though you upgraded it at levels 11 and 16. This bug has been fixed with a patch for now, but Gangplank will get a full buff at the upcoming version to save this champion’s falling win rate.

Taliyah

Taliyah in the jungle is a character with a significant nerf in patch 8.23. The Stone Witch has been dealt a blow by Riot to her ability to clear the jungle, while what makes up for it seems to be only for Taliyah… mid lane.

In the next patch, Riot will partially refund these nerfs to bring Taliyah back to the jungle. Riot pledges that the changes in the next patch will be useful for both jungle and mid laner Taliyah.

Irelia

Irelia has been nerfed continuously in recent versions. The pre-season rune tweaks – specifically the Consistency branch and Stat Shards – had significantly reduced Irelia’s effectiveness. Maybe Riot will increase the power of Sword Master Dance a bit in the next version.

summary

Most champions are affected by the new rune rune system. Patch 8.24 is expected to have a lot of tweaks to balance the power of many champions.

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