The Greatest Winners and Losers

LoL Winners and Losers this patch are virtually all losers, as Riot Video games was a bit tight with buffs this time round.

League of Legends Patch 13.16 has been out for a while now, however the knowledge in regards to the buffed and nerfed (primarily the buffed) champions was a bit bizarre: Riot Video games buffed 11 heroes of LoL, however none of their winrates appeared to enhance. Despite the fact that the choose charge of champs reminiscent of Sylas, Lulu and Milio went up, their winrates decreased despite the assistance they received from the steadiness group. The nerfs have been on level, as Rek’Sai’s winrate lastly went down, however some nerfs weren’t harsh sufficient, for instance Naafiri continues to be very robust, and Tristana has been rising as a substitute of falling.

League of Legends Patch 13.16: The Greatest Winners and Losers

The Winners

Tristana

We touched the topic of the Yordle Gunner, so let’s hit it off with Tristana. The crush of Rumble has been dominating the midlane in proplay as pushing and getting precedence is extremely necessary these days, and with some AP junglers, toplaners and even ADC’s being within the meta, and AD midlaner could be very helpful. Riot Video games had sufficient of the reign of Tristana, so in Patch 13.16, they hit her with some base stat nerfs, reducing her Armour, Armour Progress, MR and Well being.

Whereas stat nerfs are all the time a harmful factor as they have an inclination to both don’t change something or wreck a champion, a 3rd possibility emerged for Tristana: she rose in win charge. Tristana went from a 51% WR to an over 52% one in keeping with Lolalytics, however no less than her play charge went down.

Caitlyn

It’s indicative of this Patch’s irrelevance when it comes to buffs that among the many buffed champions, the Sheriff of Piltover’s win charge improved essentially the most, however Caitlyn continues to be behind Tristana when it comes to elevated WR. Riot Video games decreased the pictures wanted for Cait’s headshot in Patch 13.16, so now the Sheriff can hand out justice within the type of empowered auto Assaults faster, which helped her a bit.

Caitlyn’s win charge elevated by a whopping .66%, which simply places her above 50% total. Whereas she’s not the worst champion within the sport, these buffs positively didn’t push her into the OP territory – if Riot Video games desires to carry her again for Worlds, they must do a bit greater than that.

Lulu/Milio/Karma

I lumped these champions collectively as they primarily received the identical therapy from the steadiness group in Patch 13.16: as a substitute of buffing their shielding energy or giving them different utility buffs, Riot Video games elevated their harm and AP ratios to open extra potentialities when it comes to construct patchs. In idea, Lulu, Milio and Karma ought to have the ability to construct some harm gadgets with out dropping out on a lot enchanting prowess.

Whereas their win charges are lastly going up (apart from Karma, who’s nonetheless down .08%), initially, folks tried them however couldn’t win with them, as they required extra thought as a substitute of simply shielding your allies continuous. This was as attention-grabbing alternative from Riot – and a really welcome one, as they’re making an attempt to carry these character again into the meta with out making them shield-bots.

The Losers

Shyvana

The Half-Dragon received some hefty buffs again in 13.14, which made her AD construct a lot better, whereas protecting her AP construct robust as properly. Riot Video games hit her with some nerfs in Patch 13.15 alongside Aatrox, as they deemed them too highly effective after their respective nerfs. Whereas the Darkin Blade stayed down, Shyvana didn’t, nonetheless boasting an virtually 54% win charge.

Riot clipped her wings once more, this time nerfing her W harm, each the Burnout DoT and the on-hit harm on her autos when hitting somebody affected by her W. This resulted in her WR happening but once more, along with her toplane win charge being beneath 50%, whereas she has a 51% win charge within the jungle – however can nonetheless shock opponents along with her large burst.

Rek’Sai

The Queen of the Xer’Sai continues to dominate the information, as she nonetheless had a 55%+ win charge earlier than Patch 13.16. Despite the fact that her play charge is pretty low, the few gamers that play her have unimaginable success along with her, so Riot Video games determined to nerf her once more. This time, the steadiness group hit her unburrowed Q,  Queen’s Wrath, which now offers harm relying on Rek’Sai’s Complete AD as a substitute of a flat quantity + bonus AD scaling.

Whereas these nerfs are welcome, they don’t actually appear to be sufficient: Rek’Sai’s win charge went down a full 1%, however she nonetheless sits at an over 54% WR. Gamers can nonetheless be extraordinarily profitable along with her, however as she doesn’t actually have an effect on proplay and doesn’t have a giant presence in informal play, Riot could be a bit slower to nerf her correctly.

Naafiri

The Hound of a Hundred Bites has been a really robust midlaner since her launch, and the builders really feel prefer it’s time to tame the pet a bit. Whereas they didn’t nerf her severely, Riot Video games did lower her base Armour, base Assault Harm and base Assault Pace with a view to carry her early dominance down.

As I stated, it’s all the time harmful to the touch base stats and their scalings, however Naafiri wasn’t weakened sufficient to even push er right down to 50% – the nerfs solely made it in order that she’s barely beneath a 55% win charge, as she will be able to nonetheless snowball extraordinarily successfully, leaving little counterplay outdoors of her W, so count on Riot to nerf her once more.

Whereas Patch 13.16 had some attention-grabbing modifications for League of Legends, the newest replace for League of Legends didn’t change up that a lot within the sport. The identical can’t be stated for the subsequent Patch, as 13.17 seems to be to regulate a number of champs, particularly Aatrox, Hecarim, Blitzcrank, Vi and Xin Zhao whereas nerfing and buffing champions and gadgets as properly, so count on the meta to be a bit totally different subsequent week – and till then, try our different articles!