Preseason 2016 Changes - Page 4

Hi all,

By now, you probably know we're giving small gameplay updates to Quinn, Kog'Maw, Miss Fortune, Corki, Graves, and Caitlyn. That said, we're also doing small changes to quite a few other marksmen that aim to establish/sharpen their identities. For these characters, please do leave your PBE feedback here. There's a lot of marksmen change going on here, and we're interested in your thoughts, so if you have an opinion, don't hesitate to voice it!
Changes:

Ashe

Change Goals
Allow Ashe to interact with chance-based crit events in a way that doesn't compromise her recently-new passive's steady damage output.
Follow up the changes made to Ranger's Focus (Q) earlier this year to make the spell a more interesting, engaging part of her pattern.
P - Frost Shot
Base slow reduced 5/11/17/23/29/35% >>> 5/9/13/17/21/25%
Dealing bonus damage via Frost Shot no longer counts as a Critical Strike (bonus damage unchanged)
Ashe’s Critical Strikes (which once again happen only by chance per all other characters) deal only 1.0 Total AD (as opposed to 2.0 standard), but they apply Frost Shot’s slow at double effectiveness (10/18/26/34/42/50%), decaying to the base amount over the duration of the slow
Q - Ranger's Focus
Slow amplification removed
Can no longer be cast at less than 5 stacks, and passive Focus no longer stacks while the active component is running
Passive no longer stacks with Volley and Enchanted Crystal Arrow
Cooldown removed

Draven

Change Goals
Make axe-catching gameplay flow smoother, especially later in the game.
Base Stats
Attack frame improved by 30%
Attack Speed per level reduced to 1.5 from 2.7
Basic attack missile speed reduced to 1600 from 1700

Ezreal

Change Goals
Build upon Ezreal's affinity for CDR-centric spellcasting item builds.
Q - Mystic Shot
Cooldown reducing effect increased 1.0 >>> 1.5 seconds
Cooldown increased 6.0/5.5/5.0/4.5/4.0 >>> 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.0/4.5
E - Arcane Shift
Cooldown increased at later ranks 19/17/15/13/11 >>> 19.0/17.5/16.0/14.5/13.0

Jinx

Change Goals
Playing up what it means to Get Excited! as a path to success through a teamfight.
Slowing down Rockets' Attack Speed so there's some tradeoff she incurs more of a tradeoff with that weapon.
P - Get Excited!
Can now chain together and stack, increasing Total Attack Speed by 15% per stack (Movement Speed portion does not stack)
Duration increased 4 >>> 6
Q - Switcheroo!
Jinx now has -15% Total Attack Speed while using Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher

Kalista

Change Goals
Increasing Kalista's affinity for Attack Speed.
Experimental dash scaling changes that help attack flow and reduce overall power from jumping.
Base Stats
Base AS increased 0.658 -> 0.694
AS per level reduced 3.3% -> 2.8%
P - Martial Poise
Jump distance scales with boot tier (as live), jump speed now only scales with AS/Slows (is slower early game but scales up).

Lucian

Change Goals
Open up non Attack Speed based item builds, and make The Culling's damage output feel more consistently meaningful throughout the game.
R - The Culling
No longer scales with Attack Speed
Now fires 20/25/30 bullets based on rank

Sivir

Change Goals
Increasing Sivir’s affinity for CDR, bringing us back closer to the late game dream of “Ricochet all the time”.
Base Stats
Base Attack Speed reduced 0.66 >>> 0.625
W - Ricochet
Cooldown now begins on spell cast rather than when the attack buff expires
Cooldown increased 9/8/7/6/5 seconds >>> 12/10.5/9/7.5/6
Attack buff duration reduced 6 >>> 4

Tristana

Change Goals
Begin to shift Trist away from late game clean-up hyper carry to more of an all-in AD caster.
Empower mid game all-in strength while stripping some power from late game sustained dps.
Clean up of minor cooldown returning mechanics in favor of more impactful Rocket Jump resets.
Q - Rapid Fire
No longer reduces [E] CD on hit while active
Attacking [E] Target no longer reduces [Q] CD on hit.
CD 20s -> 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16s
W - Rocket Jump
Dmg Rescaled 80 / 105 / 130 / 155 / 180 -> 60 / 110 / 160 / 210 / 260
No longer deals increased damage per [E] stack
Now also resets on Max stack [E] Detonation on Champions
E - Explosive Charge
Now detonates instantly on 4th stack (max stacks). Bomb Animation shifted to represent this.
Tristana’s abilities also add [E] stacks.
Missile Speed 1800 -> 2400

Twitch

Change Goals
Pushing Twitch a bit farther in the direction of the “marksman assassin” by adding an out to his assassination attempts via Ambush reset.
Q - Ambush
Added: Cooldown resets when an enemy champion affected by Deadly Venom dies
Quality of Life Buff: Entering stealth now cancels Twitch's current auto attack order
R - Rat-Ta-Tat-Tat
Buff Duration reduced 7 >>> 5
Quality of Life Buff: casting Rat-Ta-Tat-Tat during Q's stealth no longer cancels stealth
Cost 100/125/150 >>> 100 all ranks

Urgot

Change Goals
Restore Urgot R's defensive steroid function later in the game so that he doesn't get wrecked so hard by all the percent penetration floating around out there.
R - Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser
No longer adds 60/90/120 Armor/MR
Now adds 30/40/50% Damage Reduction

Varus

Change Goals
Make R zoning more obvious and powerful.
Shift R damage from initial hit to Blight procs.
R - Chain of Corruption
Now displays max Spread Range to Varus and Enemies if it is spreading to at least one enemy champion.
Rooted targets gain 3 stacks of [W] Blight over the duration of the root.
Damage 150 / 250 / 350 -> 100 / 175 / 250

Vayne

Change Goals
Silver Bolts is about expected time to kill on all targets (not squishy bursting), and Vayne's path to success needs to come through Silver Bolts.
Base Stats
AD/lvl reduced 2.66 >>> 1.66
W - Silver Bolts
Flat Damage removed
Percent Health Damage increased 4/5/6/7/8% >>> 6/7.5/9/10.5/12%
Minimum damage introduced at 40/60/80/100/120 flat damage

This is probably a lot to process. Feel free to give feedback on as much or as little as you like. Focusing specifically on "Is this a good direction?" would be great. We're pretty open to change on the above stuff.

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