This patch brings only nerf and no buffs. Most Major S tier picks take a hit along with Guardian Angel.
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\n\n(1) Starsurge
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\n- Bugfix: Aurelion Sol no longer gains 20% movement speed when Starsurge missile is fired
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\n\n(3) Comet of Legend
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\n- Maximum passive move speed: 40% → 20%
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With the rise of Evelyn mid, the roaming mid strategy gained a lot of attention. The only mid-laner who could match her shenanigans, with good wave clear and rotation speed was Aurelion Sol. This is a nerf to exactly that. His movement speed is nerfed by half in the third ability. He will still be able to rotate well, but not without consequence like he did before. It is interesting to note that none of the damage numbers are nerfed, so he remains just as strong in team fights as always, along with all his Galaxy throwing fits.
\nThe change to Stargate is just a bugfix where he randomly got a speed buff when making those galaxies.
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\n\n(1) Sonic Wave
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\n- Target range: 11 → 10
\n- Base damage: 60/100/140/180 → 55/90/125/160
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These are some good nerfs, but this isn’t the reason why Lee Sin is so obnoxious. Its his base damage. In this patch, he can just jump onto you even without hitting his SOnic Wave and still burst you down with his insane burst and game-breaking ult.
\nWe are going in the right direction with these nerfs but Lee Sin will still dominate the jungle role in my opinion.
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\n- Total cost: 2800G → 3100G
\n- Combine cost: 400G → 700G
\n- Attack Damage: 45 → 40
\n- Revive cooldown: 180s → 210s
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I don’t think this is nearly an enough nerf to GA. A snowballing ADC can easily rack up those 300 coins and the cooldown buff isn’t that significant either, it will still be up every second team fight. If you really want to stop the GA madness, you have to make it so that it can only be used a set number of times which would mean it can only be built as a last item. I despise the GA meta, where you can just choose to not die even after horrendously over extending as an ADC. It also makes comebacks that much more difficult.
\nHere are the Patch Notes from the Gaming Galaxy Thrower himself. Many thanks to Shurkou for letting us embed his video on here.
\nHere is another detailed rundown from Excoundrel.
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\nAll over I really like this patch. Many of the S tier picks took hits on the right stats.
\nGoodluck on the Rift, friend!
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