Talk:Evelynn/@comment-218.186.15.10-20121021043513/@comment-220.255.1.133-20121022041518

Thanks for the contructive comment :D I could predict a nerf to her early burst after seeing her played AP, and it got me thinking. All her skills seem to point towards DPS. A spammable Q and a AS/MS steroid - all pointed towards Riot wanting people to play her as a high DPS assassin. But since playing her burst was more rewarding most of the time (plus the fact that it was safer and you could deal a high amount of initial damage in a teamfight without dying first), people naturally played her as such.

As a burster, you can afford to go almost entirely glass-cannon and still perform rather well if you have proper positioning with your initial burst, but with DPS, you have to lose damage to build some resistance, and hence isn't really worth it all the time, especially if the enemy chooses to focus you down first. Therefore, she has to have some sort of scaling on her shield (actually anything) to make it more worthwhile to go the route of DPS. AP Eve can currently (without the nerf) shred a ridiculous amount of HP from enemies in a single DFG+ult combo. If DPS Eve tried to do that, she'll have to survive as long to rival that damage. I'm taking teamafights into account here, as this is where most of the game is decided.

I'm not going to determine whether Eve is OP or not. I'm just saying that if players are playing a champion in a way that was not expected, it means that that "unexpected" way has to have some kind of special trait that makes players choose that playstyle instead of what the game creators wanted. Therefore, instead of just nerfing that playstyle, Riot could possibly try and shift her power into something else, not removing it completely.