I have played eve since her old stun days, and I still play her now in mid and jungle. I really think this eve nerf is a mistake, and here is why: it does not suit her role. Eve players are using the ult as an execute because she is an assasin, and the ult is her only cc. If eve initiates a team fight, you are doing something wrong. A good eve player comes in after the start of the fight to backdoor the dps. lowering the cast range means that to get the most out of her ult, she has to facecheck the entire enemy team and initiate with it. Of course I am exaggerating somewhat, and I am sure this has been considered, but the simple fact is eve is not op. She is highly counterable, difficult to master, and relies on her ult for burst damage. This new nerf to eve confuses her role in a team fight. However, all of that will not necessarily make her up. Rather, the extended cd of her ult is what will really hurt eve players. After a few months, the non mains will start to ditch eve in favor of, well, dianna is back, and eve will again appear on the tables. Of course, this is all my own opinion and conclusions, if you have your own please post below. I only ask that if you disagree, you should explain why.

I agree that they're going to change her again in a few months. They'll increase the cooldown and mana cost on Hatespike and reduce her max bonus run speed to 45%.

Lol, we will see for now Eve is shelfed for me, fail riot, epic fail.

It's okay guys Eve will get fixed, no problem. It will be very very soon for sure. I mean look at the last time Eve got heavily nerfed, fixed in no time. :/

this will probably be like Dianna when she was destroyed by the nerf, just put her aside for a while and wait for the fix

I just don't see it. she is an assassin, but, the ability to assassinate an entire team if they are standing close enough together without ever letting them know you were there seems a little OP. There needs to be SOME risk to get a kill. I'll just leave it at that.

Complete destruction. You're right, a good Eve will NOT start a teamfight with her ult when they are full hp and because she's an assassin, she enters the fight later. At this pint, all the dmg done by your team buisers put them roughly to usually around half hp or less. And an Eve ult at that time now deals considerably lesser damage. The 'current health %' has really hurt Evelynn's damage significantly. Its a stupid eg. but spose an enemy has 100 hp and u got lvl 1 ult. You ult then enemy dealing a mere 1 damage. Its not that sensible to pop ur ult BEFORE DFg either cause your ult will miss out on that increased 20% damage. Please fix her back Riot!

The good eve players will still do well with eve.

The trash eves will shelf her and move on to the next FotM.

nothing new here...

The thing is, she doesn't have the durability even with the shield from her ult to stick around if she initiates a team fight using her ult. She'd ult just for the sake of ulting, and then would have to back off. Her best bet in taking out a target is using DFG first, because of the increased spell damage in the following attacks, then follow up with her Ult. If she did this during the start of a team fight, when her ult is most at its strongest she will die instantly thanks to focus.

She can't just toss out her ult at the start of a team fight merely because that's when it's at it's strongest, because she has to save her ult if she wants any chance in finishing people off, or taking out a champ from full or bear full health in a 1v1.

Her role, like any assassin, is to come in at the end if a fight and eliminate the softened target(s). Her old ult catered to this. It facilitated her clean up. Now her ult is not nearly as effective at cleaning up, or coming in when a team has been weakened. It's not synergistic with her role as an assassin at all, and that is unfortunate.

As an Eve player I never felt her ult is what made her OP. I think it's her ease of ganking because she is always capable of getting fed when facing people who don't call MIAs and Pink Ward. She's a fantastic ganker. This really can't be nerfed either, without them removing her perma stealth, which would ruin Eve.


I haven't gotten a chance to play Eve post nerf. Gotta try her ASAP.