So I wondered what could be driving these nerfs so I took a stroll over to LoLking and actually researched the data before I commented to make an ass out of myself. Now that I have the proper data, I will attempt to make an ass out of myself.
Looking at the data for Jarman 5, he looks completely average in all areas except assists, where he excels above the normal, leading me to believe that he is, in fact, helping. I'll note for later that his items look familiar, and certain items have a 60% win chance attached to them. I'll address this later.
Now we look at Xin Zhao. Above average win rate, above average games played. Seems like something is wrong with Xin, but lo! Look at his items yet again. The same items that had a 60% win rate on J4 also have a similar win rate on Xin. Interesting.
Will Vi yield similar results? Below average win rate, below average K/D ratio, below average assists, above average damage taken and dealt. How could this be an over powered champion? Oh, look at the items again!
On all three champs I see almost exactly the same items with 60% win rates. Warmogs, black cleaver, other giants belt type items. There is little-to-no variance in items. This leads me to believe that it's not the champions, but the items used.
They took a game dominated by 3 item ranged AD's, and made other team members matter past the 25 minute point.
It'd just been that way for so long that you didn't realize how broken it was.
This is true - however, there is more tuning to do. Because health is too good doesn't mean that our fighters haven't been problematic since even before this stuff.
The broken you're used to isn't really better than the new issues, but it is less scary and more familiar.
@Morello: you're chasing your tail with these nerfs
Looking at the data for Jarman 5, he looks completely average in all areas except assists, where he excels above the normal, leading me to believe that he is, in fact, helping. I'll note for later that his items look familiar, and certain items have a 60% win chance attached to them. I'll address this later.
Now we look at Xin Zhao. Above average win rate, above average games played. Seems like something is wrong with Xin, but lo! Look at his items yet again. The same items that had a 60% win rate on J4 also have a similar win rate on Xin. Interesting.
Will Vi yield similar results? Below average win rate, below average K/D ratio, below average assists, above average damage taken and dealt. How could this be an over powered champion? Oh, look at the items again!
On all three champs I see almost exactly the same items with 60% win rates. Warmogs, black cleaver, other giants belt type items. There is little-to-no variance in items. This leads me to believe that it's not the champions, but the items used.
It'd just been that way for so long that you didn't realize how broken it was.
The broken you're used to isn't really better than the new issues, but it is less scary and more familiar.