A gap closer on a champ that has persistent camouflage is an awful idea.
Just from screwing around with Eve, from a mechanical, or play style standpoint, the only change I'd really like to see is a solid reduction in the CD of her ultimate, even if that meant lowering the damage on it. It doesn't strike me as naturally big time ultimate given all it is a short range AoE nuke with a displacement on it (ok, and invincibility...) - it doesn't feel like something that should have a 140s CD at rank 1.
Meddler on why no mobility ...
"We think she's closer to an assassin than any other subclass, agree she's got some skirmisher aspects though certainly. We're cautious about giving her too much target access given her permanent camo post 6 and access to hard CC on a basic spell, both of which are not strengths other assassins (who do tend to have significantly better gap closing) have."
My question is ... why though?
Why not make her stealth more interesting than "welp, at level 6 (cause balanced counter play! Can't let her be too strong early..) she can now passively not be seen in most cases ... but for even more counter play lets makes the range where that stealth breaks like as wide as a lane"?
There was that fake leak that had a cool idea (make her only stealth near walls. Have the range where she can be in stealth away from the wall grow with levels iirc). My personal idea was to make it a skill and connect her mobility to it. As in, unstealthed she would only have 3 dmg skills and in stealth she would have mobility skills that didn't do DMG. Leaving stealth by recasting the stealth skill would do some kinda AOE dmg but would put her non-stealth form skills on CD for like 1.5secs or something so that she couldn't just pop out and blow her kit on you without counter play time.
Why does Eve need a point n click HARD CC that's unavoidable if she hits you with anything? This seems like a bad thing to me ... no other Assassin has unavoidable hard CC for a reason. There are some with Hard CC but they're locked behind being Skillshots. Many of them have slows and some have Zero CC ... but here's Eve, having her kit built around this Hard CC skill.
It's strange to me ... like having an ADC with a skill that allows them to tank dmg and then building a whole kit around it.
I'm legit confused on why they did this. And it's sad cause without a big kit change I don't think I'll ever change my mind on how bad I think this is as a concept. :/
