At the beginning of the month, August, the chief designer of Fist, updated Twitter, previewing the small redoes to crows, rock sparrows, and Olaf. For these three heroes, whether in the passers-by bureau or on the professional field, the appearance rate is not high, the fist is determined to make changes. Today, the North American test suit updated the redo about Olaf, but this has triggered a hot discussion among players in the follow-up.
Olaf Redo Skill Introduction:
Passive preview:
When Olaf's health is less than 30% after passive redo, the passive attack speed plus achievement can be reached to the highest, and the blood sucking effect is greatly improved. The lower the health, the higher the attack speed and the higher the blood-sucking Berserker stats, which is still Olaf's main style of play.
Q Skill Preview:
The Q skill has not changed much in this change, and the most important point is the addition of a new armor-breaking effect, which can affect the hero strength more than the numerical adjustment. The test suit version of Olaf's armor-breaking effect can reach up to 35%.
The black cut of the armor-breaking equipment that is exclusive to warrior heroes can only reduce the physical defense by 24% at most.
W Skill Preview:
The change in the W skill has greatly increased the strength of Olaf, and the new shield effect is something that many single-player line heroes do not have. Originally, Olaf's body plate relied on the blood-sucking effect. Now with shields, stronger blood-sucking effects, and armor-breaking of Q skills, it's not impossible to develop a single gameplay.
Big Move Preview:
The big move change is the most important and probably the most fatal part of Olaf's adjustment. The duration of the big move was halved, from the original 6 seconds to ignore the control, cut to the current 3 seconds to ignore the control. The fist designer's compensation is that during olaf's big move, the general attack and E skill hit the enemy hero will make the R skill last 2.5 seconds more.
Theoretically, the redoned Olaf has the potential to keep the big move going until the end of the team battle.
Imagine a big man wielding a double axe, charging at you with a ghost and ignoring the control effect. This is no small threat to any hero. However, whether the initial duration of 3 seconds will make his fault tolerance too low is also unknown.
It is worth mentioning that one of the core changes to the small redo of the fist to the crow and the fox is also to increase the duration of the big move. Without changing the hero mechanic, it seems that the designer can only come up with this trick.
Set deceleration, armor breaking, blood sucking, shield, overlord body in one, if you go to the single line Olaf, or will become a replacement for the current version of the professional game of the barbarian king. On the other hand, Olaf's ability to fight in the wild area is also beyond doubt, and the record for the highest single kill in the wild position in the LPL professional field is the 16 kills set by Olaf.
If Olaf's redo this time can be successfully implemented in the formal suit, the ecology of the field position is bound to change significantly. How to solve the balance problem before that is the biggest problem facing the designer.
So what do you think of Olaf's strength after the redo?