Just a few days ago, League of Legends launched a new auxiliary hero alchemy baron Renata Gorask, who has become a popular hero because of its powerful skill mechanism, which has been loved by players since its launch. Unexpectedly, within a few days, the "League of Legends" national uniform immediately released the news that it was about to weaken, and it would be launched in this afternoon's non-stop update.
In this weakening, the Armor Growth of the Alchemical Baron was reduced from 4 to 3.5. Passive marker damage is reduced from 1%-5% max health to 1%-3% (equivalent to the original level of damage at level 11, passive damage will not continue to increase when level 11 is reached). W's cooldown was changed from 28/26.5/25/23.5/22 to 28/27/26/25/24 seconds, the time to respawn to continue fighting was reduced from 3 to 2.5 seconds, and the amount of health retained after resurrection was changed from 35% to 20%.
The official positioning of the Alchemy Baron is soft assist, but his skill does not look like a soft method, the Q skill is slower to move, and it must be close to ensure the hit rate, while the passive requires him to continue to come forward. The weakening of this growth armor and passive is indeed a bit too much, the growth armor is lower than the wind girl, not to mention, the only means of damage passive is also greatly weakened.
As for the cooldown time of W and the weakening of the resurrection effect, I think it is quite reasonable. The CD of the alchemy baron W that was equipped in the later stage was about ten seconds, and the normal end time of a team battle was probably around this time, which was equivalent to a team battle alchemy baron can basically throw out the skill twice. There are two heroes with their own resurrection armor on the opposite side, which is terrible to think about.
So is the Alchemical Baron still worth playing after weakening now? Personally, I think it's still very strong. His strong point is mainly the mechanism of the W skill. W kill resurrection does not need to kill the specified target, only need to get assists can also be resurrected, such as a blind monk, give a W rub can also be resurrected is very outrageous. It will be very useful when combined with some heroes with more team buffs or AOE skills. And the R skill backhand ability is super strong, a wave of R down a control is a large piece, the headwind can also play a great role.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that recently the U.S. test suit announced a new version 12.5, in this version there is no longer the name of the alchemy baron, it seems that for now, the alchemy baron has reached the expectations of designers, there should be no more changes in the near future, want to practice a new auxiliary but afraid of weakening the player can rest assured that the experience.