League of Legends patch 13.5 set to nerf support Ashe, base stats changes, W cooldown increased, and more
League of Legends patch 13.5 will be a significant patch from the developers, with several champions slated to be adjusted. Ashe is one of the champions that will see modifications in the forthcoming patch. Riot Phreak provided in-depth details regarding the adjustments on Reddit.
Initially, Riot Phreak, a League of Legends game designer and former shoutcaster, mentioned Ashe revealed information of nerfs in the upcoming patch 13.5 in his patch 13.4 analysis video. In a League of Legends Reddit post, he detailed the adjustments.
Given support Ashe's dominance in professional League of Legends play, these changes were inevitable since her pick rate has been relatively high, and she has occasionally been a little influential in her secondary position.
Riot Phreak went on to elaborate on the logic for these changes. He clarified that these changes do not result from Ashe's performance in the ranked Solo/Duo queue. He realizes that the player base, like Ashe, is a support pick, which the game developers are perfectly fine with.
The primary reason for support Ashe's nerf is her overwhelming domination in the League of Legends professional competition. The developers would probably have taken a different path if she had maintained a 70% play rate with an average pick and ban rate.
Nevertheless, given that she isn't even seen very frequently owing to her ban rate being nearly 100%, her nerfs were just a matter of time before bringing changes to her professional play behavior.
He said that to shift her stance in professional play properly, she needs to be nerfed so drastically that professional players now think that support Ashe is counterable.
She is believed to be inherently weak compared to champions like Leona, Nautilus, or Pyke
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