League of Legends Late August Patch Preview

League of Legends' late August patch brings changes to champions: Evelyn, Graves, Corki, and more. Goal of these changes is to avoid too powerful champions by nerfing down their abilities while keeping them competitive.  Riot Games community guy and designer posted a new episode of patch preview covering some of these changes and discussing why the developers came up with these decisions. Continue reading for the details of this new patch.

League of Legends - Late August Patch Preview

League of Legends' new patch brings several changes mainly to champions Evelyn, Graves, Corki. In this new video, Riot developers have posted, we find out more on these changes and the reasoning behind some of these changes. 

Abyssal Scepter item changes:

First of all, one of the items, Abyssal Scepter has gone through some changes. Apparently this item which was designed for short ranger casters like Diana and Amumu. Unfortunately this item turned out to be too effective on almost any caster regardless of the opponent. The problem was its long range. Developers simply reduced the radius of its range and made it closer to the initial idea.

Changes to Diana

This one is a little funny. According to the developers, Diana was stronger than they wanted her to be. Perhaps they found out that players have been abusing it, they thought it was time for a change only after a couple of weeks after her debut in League of Legends. So, expect a Diana nerf in this new patch! What exactly is changing with this nerf? Her burst damage, sustained damage, and survivability will all receive a nerf. Goodbye to her high base stats with the new patch. Damage and AP ratio of Crescent Strike is also coming down. 

Graves, Corki and Ezreal

Graves' attack speed will be lowered. Gorki will receive nerfs regarding his mobility and poke potential. His long range poke will not be too strong anymore as developers though it was necessary to work on that. Valkyrie ability will have a longer cool-down when the patch goes live. Another change is with his ability to generate a new missile. It will take longer once the patch is live. And Ezreal is another champion that will feel the power of the word: NERF! Essence Flux ability will receive a nerf while Mystic Shot will be buffed. Essence Flux had a little bug where players were still hit by it even when they though they were out of its range. So the width of Essence Flux will be reduced. 

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Changes to Evelyn

Finally, the changes to Evelyn... Her mobility will be vastly improved. Dark Frenzy cooldown will be lowered and Shadow Walk has also been improved, allowing her to get closed to her enemies before getting detected. So Evelyn will receive all the love from this patch with lowered cool-downs for her abilities. 

Find out more in the video above. And if you want to read more on League of Legends, click here to see our Leageu of Legends review->

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