This New Statikk Shiv change is actually BIG!

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[edweldthedum]

Imagine if that 21 appeared because of height diff in fountain

[gamesyes]

Shiv was always a waveclear item, however their decision to give it an AP scaling is one that is a little weird.

[EeveeRealSenpai]

Oh so the dashes is why it was op?
That makes sense I guess

[Vandiril]

Just a few minutes ago, we got ANOTHER Statikk Shiv nerf announced:
- AP ratio reduced from 50% to 30%

[Stachelbeeerchen]

Leblancs only weakness was the waveclear. With static it was removed. This will really take her down a few notches.

[Piromysl]

Old Twisted Treeline music.
Brings back memories.

[freakhead]

It's funny because shiv existed to give adcs waveclear, as they got waveclear built into their kits shiv was not needed and from then on most of them came with built in waveclear
Turns out that now mages make extremely good use of new shiv because of the waveclear they get, honestly they should make shiv an AP item

[DJ_v]

Bruhh, it made so much sense for it to get 100 stacks on recall.

[jzuo]

just remove ap scaling in favor of base damage, problem solved, no need to go through all this useless changes. statik shiv having ap scaling at all is stupid

[Flikanik]

Looks at Turbo Chemtank dash changes*

Riot releases Statik shiv*

Me: "They never learn from their mistakes do they?"

[rbrtz]

I think Riot needs like a server to test things before updating the game, if there was only a way..

[jonesen]

The nerf is actually bigger than this because you dont dash and hop back instantly, you dash, walk a couple meters, auto and then hop back and on current patch you basically double the charges from that short walk by hopping back with w (charges from hopping back scale with the distance) making it easy to actually get 50 + 50 charges. Now the hop back seems to be fixed to 10 charges.

[idkwatimdoingtbh]

This is just me but maybe we shouldn't make a crit item meant to be built on crit melees and adcs randomly have an AP scaling? Idk. Just a thought.

[garrettwidner]

It's going to be a never-bought item after they nerf it in every conceivable way... They're not only nerfing the fringe problematic users like leblanc, they're nerfing the bases and scaling.

[amrienwinterweiss]

Twisted Treeline Music in the background is just a nice touch~ <3 thanks for that

[RonanTetsu]

it's funny that I built this on ziggs back in whatever season vel koz first came into league of legends. I built it cuz I liked the lightning effect and additional wave clear with no mana cost.

[syckray]

I still don't know why a adc item with crit as has ap scaling

[Josh]

Maybe make it so the charge up depends on amount of time spend moving instead of how far you move?

[WhitedevilEE]

So glad, that this is coming. Yasou and others with dashes using shiv every 2 seconds was a PEST!!

[Lean_God]

>Riot adds Shiv
>Shiv has a static (lol) on-hit damaging effect i.e. scaled with level, not bonus stats, and could crit
>ADC players love Shiv
>many (failed) balancing patches later (buffs, many nerfs, many changes (build cost increases and decreases, bounces increased and decreased, , damage was set to flat amount, did not stack with other energized effects, etc.)
>Shiv is removed
>brings back one Shiv
>its on-hit effect only scales with AP
>ADCs scarcely build said item (it's kinda dogshit on ad marksmen champs aside from comps wherein you need waveclear but also need 100% crit)
>LB/Zoe/AP Kai'sa/AP Varus/AP Ezreal/AP Akshan build said item instead as it synergizes well with other recently buffed and/or reworked items
>item gets scaling and stacking nerf (still scales with AP though)
>scaling nerf is irrelevant as proc + aoe ability will essentially full clear waves even post-nerf
>stacking nerf is only directed at two champions who should never have been incentivized to build the item in the first place yet it directly effects many AD marksmen that might be inclined to build the item (vayne, lucian, caitlyn, kalista (lmao good luck ever trying to run it now), as well as other adcs with high movement speed but low waveclear
>Shiv was implemented during ADC item overhaul, never scaled with ADCs, and is now leaning yet again towards irrelevancy

I am very confused ngl.