Evelynn has been high winrate in SoloQ (especially in HIGHER elos) for months, yet Riot for some reason refuses to nerf her. And there is no sign that the new map changes will do anything to weaken her.
The issue with Evelynn is her passive. Once she hits 6 she has perma invisiblity that is unreliable to counter because you can only place one pink ward at a time. Her passive is literally a better Rengar ult. You think that warding her jungle could be effective, but that too is limited because you can only place so many wards (only three at most) and you also need to ward for mid lane/bot lane roams. Evelynn can bypass what makes other junglers limited: their ganks tend to be predictable. Even the likes of Zac/Kayn, which can usually bypass walls, have limited capability to do this and because they can’t become invisible, they still have predictable ganks. That is not even to mention the Warmog passive she has on her passive that means if you don’t 100>0 her she is going back to full health, usually outsustaining most enemies.
Also, no, invading Evelynn is not a reliable way to counter her. First, your jungler must actually know how to invade. Second, your teammates need to have priority, otherwise Evelynn’s teammates can help her against invades.
Neither are tanks, despite Evelynn being an assassin, since she has MR shred and % health damage (that scales with AP, being one of the few % health damage sources in the game to scale), as well as an pseudo-execute on her R that does massive damage against even tanks due to its insane base damage and scaling.
It is also baffling how Eve can get away with having Mejai as her core item. This item is supposed to be troll 99% of time, only being built as a win-more item, yet Evelynn can not only build it generally but it is also her core item due to how safe she is thanks to her passive.
So I am asking, why Evelynn has not been nerfed yet? Can someone give a light to this question and reply to why Evelynn supposedly doesn’t deserve nerfs?
Both champs are very different.
-Evelynn E is melee (meaning it gets procced less often) Whereas Vayne W procs every 3rd auto
-(on average a Vayne can auto 10 to upwards of 50 times depending on fight) so that equals 3-16+ Silver Bolts procs per fight consistenly with “no cooldown”.
In a teamfight where Vayne can proc her W upwards of 15 times, Evelynn will only really be able to E once or TWICE max. Not all damage in the game is 1:1 comparable.