Down to 48% winrate in Diamond+. A champion with 2% pickrate and a 5% banrate gets nerfed prior to a new season in which it’s best build (that utilizes a combination of serylda’s + BC) is being rendered unusable.
Not making this post to make an argument for or against decisions that were made for the new items, for the new season - frankly I have no idea if they are good or bad, and I doubt anyone would have a good idea anytime soon.
Somehow in this process Naafiri gets nerfed, and 2 mages that are far more problematic (and coincidentally impossible to play against as Naafiri) get untouched? Funny statement had an appearance in that set of changes on PBE - we know players think they are a problem but let’s leave them as it is :)
If you want to apply a philosophy of “good winrate but very low playrate still warrants a nerf”, be my guest. But if you are at it, how come bigger offenders than Naafiri in this regard (I trust everyone knows I mean a certain jungler and a certain support here) are allowed to remain in this state but Naafiri isn’t? All the more egregious when you account for the fact that their winrate does not go down the higher the rank is, but Naafiri’s does.
Naafiri was specifically designed to be a low skill champion, of course she is balanced primarily for low ELO brackets and not diamond+