As the oldest batch of heroes in League of Legends, Sword Saint has always maintained a high selection rate. In order to allow the veteran hero to keep up with the game's version update speed at any time, the official has also modified its mechanics again and again, such as Q changed to be able to attack the same unit repeatedly, W changed the double resistance bonus to become a high damage reduction, and so on. Just some time ago, the "League of Legends" officially made another change to the veteran hero Sword Saint in the 12.5 version, so let's take a look at it.
This change mainly revolves around the Sword Saint Q skill. The Q of the original version of Sword Saint is the selected target, dealing one damage to the target and the enemies around the target, and if there are no enemy targets around the target unit, it can attack the same target in multiple consecutive stages. The new version of Q now retains the original effect, lowers the base damage and critical hit damage, and gives Q an additional effect of attack effects, such as the true damage of E skill and the Nash's Tooth effect. The specific values are adjusted to 25/60/95/130/165+90% Attack Damage 30/60/90/120/150+65% Attack Damage, and Critical Strike Damage from 60% to 50%.
After many player tests, it was found that the Q additional attack effect of the sword saint can be applied to most of the equipment in the game, such as destruction, three items, etc., only two types of attack effect equipment cannot be triggered, namely sheep knife and kraken killer. The effect of these additional damages has allowed the Sword Saint to usher in some new ideas for outfit playing, such as the Divine Separator, the Percentage Routine of the Broken Combination, the Extraction, the Endless Extreme Explosion Routine, etc., and even directly dream back to the S2 TO walk the AP Stream Sword Saint.
The new version of Sword Saint Q itself has no AP bonus, but we can rely on the special effects of Lich's Curse and Nash's Teeth to make the skill add additional magic damage, and with Luden's collateral effect, a Q can easily hit a high amount of magic damage. If a set fails to take away the target, you can also turn around and use the W mechanism to pause the time of the E and R skills, and return to the state to continue the next wave of output.
The new version of the Sword Saint is definitely stronger than the current version of the Sword Saint, but the advantages are bound to have drawbacks, the new version of the Sword Saint's Q attack return CD will be affected by the skill of the hero with rapid skill, the faster the skill, the lower the benefit of the Q skill. So what do you think of this newly revised version of the Sword Saint?