Talk:Evelynn/@comment-24.54.216.216-20130103222530/@comment-4929329-20130105021604

Evelynn has literally 0 effective trading tools when laning against any mage that has range. Against medium-long range casters, she can't Q them. When fighting close-range mages, she can't hope to match their power with her QEWQ hit and run. Evelynn's first few levels are similar to Nasus, but she can escape if she puts a rank into W.

How many melee mids exist? Katarina uses Q and W more than her autoattack, which are manaless, unlike Evelynn's Hate Spike. Mordekaiser isn't played much, but he buys Spell Vamp and his Siphon of Destruction is abhorrently good at trading and farming, making it, too, far more effective than Hate Spike. Kassadin is a champion I haven't seen much of recently either, but he can hop any wall every few seconds, has mana sustain to keep up his Q, and he is equally as hard to catch or run from as Evelynn is. Diana has her Crescent skillshot, which is better at trading than Evelynn's Hate Spike.

Literally everyone has an advantage on Evelynn during the early game. If they fail to make use of this, then they're asking to die by letting Evelynn farm. Most people I fight as ANYONE in mid are cautious and never push the lane to harass me. This gives me loads of free time to roam, farm, and then ambush them when they finally decide I've left for good. It's not about "Evelynn OP" in the sense that she has a lot of tools to help her get the job done, it's about people who don't know how to fight her. "High Base damage" Ooh, such a scary Hate Spike at level 1. Just autoattack her back if it's early. Evelynn can beat most long ranged mages if only because she has stealth and can make a comeback once she gets her ultimate. You people speak of Evelynn as though her ult has a 50sec Cooldown, when it's 120sec when she first gets it.

The hard part about fighting Evelynn is when it comes time for her to gank and mid-late game comes around. Since most people lose to her before then, and I don't get to play Evelynn too often, I don't have much expertise in this area.