Riot Games has frequently released somewhat controversial updates this season, especially with their incredibly perplexing buff/nerf decisions. And the newly announced update 10.15 yesterday is no exception as the community believes Riot Games has made mistakes again, particularly in ruining a balanced champion like Lee Sin, Thresh, or Twisted Fate. Details of patch 10.15:
System Changes
Nerfed the Spellbook rune: The starting cooldown increased from 240s to 300s, and the cooldown of summoner spells increased from 20s to 25s.
Buffed the Spell Thief’s Blade
Energy restoration from the Spell Thief’s Blade increased from 25% to 50%.
Energy restoration from the Ice Spike increased from 50% to 75%.
Bonus AP from the Ice Spike Fragment increased from 45 to 50.
Nerfs
Aphelios
The cooldown for the Watchtower (Ascension form ability) increased from 0.25s to 0.35s. The attack range of the Watchtower decreased from 575 to 500.
Infernal Cannon: The sparks created by Runaan’s Hurricane no longer damage enemies they pass through. The number of sparks from Runaan’s Hurricane decreased from 4 to 3, and the sparks when critically striking decreased from 8 to 5. The length of the sparks created by Runaan’s Hurricane is now reduced to 100.
Ornn: Base armor reduced from 36 to 33.
Lee Sin
W – Safeguard: Cooldown increased from 12s to 14s.
Fiddlesticks’ sustain: Healing from W when damaging minions reduced from 25% to 15%.
Twisted Fate: W – Pick a Card cooldown increased from 6s to 8-6s.
Thresh: W – Dark Passage cooldown increased from 22-12s to 22-14s.
Buffs
Skarner
Q – Crystal Slash: Damage changed from 33-45% total AD to 15% AD (+1-3% of target’s max health), the empowered Q duration increased from 4s to 5s. Energy cost is now fixed at 15.
E – Scorpion Tail: Removed the reduction in flight speed when hitting a target.
Swain
His movement speed will be decreased from 335 to 325.
Passive – Ravenous Flock: Cooldown is now fixed at 10s but will interact with cooldown reduction stats. Energy restoration is removed.
Q – Death’s Hand: Cooldown reduced from 10/8.5/7/5.5/4 to 9/7.5/6/4.5/3 seconds. The width of the damage area will be slightly reduced but the damage beam now pierces enemy champions.
W – Vision of Empire: Range increased from 3,500 to 5,550/6,000/6,500/7,000/7,500. Damage reduced from 100-300 to 80-240. Energy cost reduced from 70-130 to 70-110.
E – Bind: Cooldown fixed at 10s, energy cost fixed at 50.
Shen
The shield amount from the passive increased from 50-101 to 70-121.
Gragas
W – Body Slam: The AP scaling increased from 50% to 60%.
R – Drunken Rage: The AP scaling increased from 70% to 80%.
Caitlyn
Caitlyn’s base damage increased from 62 to 65.
Base movement speed increased from 325 to 330.
Yuumi
Energy restoration from the passive changed from: 50-150 to 25-100 (+8% max mana). Passive cooldown reduced from 20-8s to 18-6s.
Streamer Riste (one champ Garen Challenger): I really enjoy what you do but I oppose Ornn’s update. Ornn is a tank, so a good sustain is acceptable, but the damage he deals is too high to accept.
Riot doesn’t want Ornn to play as a tank since patch 9.1 because they buffed his damage too high.
Irelia is fine already, there’s no need to adjust this champion.
Twisted Fate is at a balanced level, but Riot wants to disrupt this and nerf the W – Pick a Card ability, which greatly affects his laning capability and makes him weaker than before. This really has a larger impact than the previous two buffs combined, is there something wrong with you?
Besides nerfing Aphelios, Riot Games’ updates in this patch are mostly unreasonable or ruin a champion that is in a balanced state in League of Legends. Twisted Fate or Lee Sin are examples of champions that are not overwhelming in solo ranks but still got nerfed, leaving the community very dissatisfied.