K’Sante changes:
Now replaces Hexflash with Magical Footwear
P ult mark damage changed from 45% - 75% (6-18) to 30% - 78% (1-18)
Q base damage reduced from 30 - 150 to 30 - 130
Q cost increased from 15 to 27 - 15
E base shield increased from 45 - 125 to 50 - 210
E shield ratio reduced from 15% bonus HP to 10%
R base attack damage reduced from 15 - 45 to 10 - 40
Granted, there are several changes on K’Sante on PBE right, but the first one seems like the outlier here. Automatically swapping out a rune is not uncommon and is always applied when a rune cannot be utilized on the given champion. For example, Cassiopeia cannot use Magical Footwear as a rune because the champion is unable to build any boots on her items.
This seems like the first change where a rune cannot be used despite the fact that it can be applied no problem on a champion. An odd way to balance a champion.
Personally, while this could solve some issues, this seems like a scuffed way to do it. So far, it’s also not noted anywhere that K’Sante is blacklisted from using Hexflash, so players will miss the memo. There’s got to be a better solution than that.
Thoughts?
i don’t like this change. this feels very forced and unintuitive. rather than tackling the actual problem they are just sweeping the problem under the rug