Strength deepens with sacrifice—and I have given everything. Ambessa Abilities Rundown 🧵👇

14.21 Full Preview! Swain - Swain has been in a state for a while where his most popular role is support; has been most popular in support, while being his weakest role - His farming roles have pretty consistently been more powerful, but unsatisfying and as a result unpopular - The changes aim to make his farming roles (especially in solo lanes) more satisfying, powerful and reliable. Galio - Galio's builds are a bit too non-AP skewed currently pushing him into more of a pure tank than we'd like - We'd like to make ROA a bit more of an attractive item compared to other options and taking his mana costs down a bit Volibear - Volibear's ROA/Riftmaker Navori builds have been pretty strong - We think it's a cool build, don't need to adjust it fundamentally, but it's just a little strong overall, so we're tapping it down a bit AP Champs - This patch, we're nerfing Sorcs a little bit as they're a tad strong relative to other boot options for AP champs - We're nerfing a bunch of champs, especially ones that aren't as reliant on sorcs (though some of them we're nerfing them a little bit and doing the rest of the nerf from sorcs) - Gwen's builds have skewed too heavily flat AP recently which has turned her more into a burst champion which is pretty expectation breaking for counterplay and understanding of what she's capable of - Hwei has been a tad strong for a while in both mid and bot. We're increasing some of the windows for engaging and capitalizing on a mispositioned Hwei by bumping his E cooldown and a small nerf to his damage output Non-Item Scalers - Karthus/Kassadin/Brand/ASol/Taric/Nasus/Senna/Camille, etc. are champs who benefitted a bunch from items becoming weaker as their inherent kit scalings have become relatively stronger and they've risen above the pack - We're targeting some nerfs at these champions to bring them down some amount as a result - In a few instances, we wanted to make some of the champions a bit easier to punish, because there's less damage in the game in general which is meaning they get to scale a bit for free (ASol, Camille, Taric) in particular Buffs - Azir, Corki have been champs that have been historically a bit pro skewed - We're adding some power back to these champions in attemped less pro skewed ways; to tide them over for a bit, but still looking to do some larger changes to Corki - Irelia: This set of changes is attempting to make Irelia a bit more spell focused (Q) and less auto attack focused while being more early game skewed - Other champs in this list are just generally a bit underpowered and receiving simple buffs; not too much to write home here