Talk:VPBE/@comment-26489540-20151101155735/@comment-3974211-20151101175022

... yes you have to stand still and shoot. You realize Bio-Arcane Barrage doubles his attack speed up to 5 attacks per second?

Miss Fortune wouldn't have been as simple as a numbers buff. She's a bully - too high numbers and she bullies too reliably, but too low and she doesn't bully. There's no fair way to balance her numbers for both her and her opponent. Love Taps is an interesting way to give her absurd bullying potential without her just out-damaging her opponent. Her base damage isn't that much lower than other marksman and she now has the highest attack speed steroid of any marksman (barring Kog's unique one and Jayce) - so she still has duelling potential without using Love Taps.

The point of the changes, though? To make all of them distinct. Why do you pick Graves over Lucian? At the moment it's just whoever does the most damage this patch - because they do exactly the same thing. Lucian gets nerfed - Graves becomes popular. Until they both get nerfed to the point that non-casters are better - which I think is the current situation. Why pick Miss Fortune? Why pick Kog'Maw? Marksman have historically been bland - "survive to late game and then right click on people". Similar to the Juggernaut reworks - Riot just wants each marksman to be a distinct option. Want a pushing comp? Pick Tristana. Want an initiator? Pick Ashe. Got a lot of initiation? Pick Miss Fortune. Got a lot of protection? Pick Kog'Maw. They've got a health of health? Pick Vayne. They got a lot of front-line? Pick Graves. They got a lot of peelers? Pick Sivir. Your team all over the place? Pick Jinx - the got-a-gun-for-everything. Their team all over the place? Pick Lucian.