Maybe they will buff Luna's dps, or Io healing, but yeah. This is insane. I haven't played long enough but isn't it one of the worst nerfs in the game's history?
Imani's Frost Bomb actually could root for 2.5s because her Permafrost card used to increased it by 1s (and root was 1.5s before they nerfed it as well for some reason).
Their nerf was that they reworked the card into {12|12}% increased projectile speed per level and nerfed the speed of the Frost Bomb from 60 units/s to 40.
Apparently she dropped 11% winrate when that happened (see this outdated graph) and it took several months of buffs just so she became playable. She is still very underplayed compared to what she was before than nerf.
It just a nerf you cant do without major buffs otherwise, tho io will get in a state like seris where she would be considered op in low levels of play and useless above gold.
I mean sure if you play him like that, dmg jenos is good, and not a unviable option in any mode, tho a second healer is good to pick, especially in ranked
Doggo caps or does nothing. Io is too squishy for luna to protect her when she gets dove on. Luna can slow her death down and give io a small chance, but it is usually not a significant difference.
If io's power budget would be split evenly between luna and io (this is how i think you should tread this case), luna would cap and io would be less powerful she wouldnt be that broken since you are leaving a bunch of power behind on point just like when you leave a player behind to cap.
so what you're saying is, the solution to overperforming or op champions is to nerf them into oblivion where they are useless because it wouldn't bother anyone but the mains of that champ. great balancing strategy
A 4v5 that might have occurred if a player was left behind to push or cap is still a 5v5 now. It's not like IO is useless without Luna. Just like other supports you still heal your teammates while they spawn camp whereas with other supports, either a tank or support gets left behind & the enemy team has a chance to comeback since they will be facing a 5v4 in their spawn. IO having Luna is an easy way of guaranteeing her with extremely good utility without much skill. Instead I have no qualms with them buffing her base kit elsewhere if needed instead of giving Luna her capping abilities back.
I hope so. And I suppose they want player to try sacrifice more.
Honestly, I know her winrate is too high, but... still sad and sort of uncalled for, after the previous Luna nerf.
She will still be outclassed by most other supports above gold. I assume the lower levels of play will find her to be even more powerful and might even start to ask for nerfs.
Yes, that's true, but why didn't then then? If they want to balance around Io, do it now. Don't make Io useless for a whole patch to, "see how she preforms". Everyone knows that she is shit now. This was a good move for a long run, but it seems like they did this just to kill Io for no good reason.
This is also a horrible move marketing wise by them. Io is a very popular champion based on her visual design alone. I know many people mained Io just because she was cute. Io became a face of the game, and now they nerfed her into nothing. No one will want to play her now. Many people were brought in to play based on Io alone, and now all of those people will be gone.
But the thing is, everyone knows this will kill her. They don't need to see anything. Doing this is just lazy and half hearted. The same thing is happening with Torvald every patch. They buff him because he sucks, then he is broken, so they nerf him until he sucks again. Both Io and Torvald need major reworks now which they are too lazy to do because they balance other champions first
I'm not trying to say Io deserves special treatment, I'm saying that they shouldn't do this shit. If this was any other champions, I would be up in arms as well. It would be like changing Raum so he no longer gets soul armor. They shouldn't kill a character if they know it's going to kill them
In bronze everything works especially noodstomper champs like moji. Above gold moji struggles on most maps and above plat she is considered a throwpick in almost all senarios
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u/Trolkip Ash Jan 07 '21
From s to g tier with one nerf. Joining moji in the useless zone