Dear Riot,
That Nautilus buff does nothing for his jungling. He is a jungler, not a support except in niche situations. Stop trying to put him back in the support role.
Sincerely,
Everyone Who Misses Jungle Nautilus
Naut jungle is so far from viable compared to his other roles that we don't think it would be responsible to try to buff it into viability without some much larger mechanics overhauls. So really it would be a matter of trying to put him back into the jungle role if we wanted to.
In terms of design direction & data proof, how far from viability is his top + support?
Are you looking to help both roles out? or one more than the other?
Top and support are pretty close, with support being very slightly better. Jungle is like, 5-9% winrate lower depending on elo.
Don't think it was fully documented on site yet but the tooltip for Aftershock also mentions that resists are now a flat 70 and scales with 50% bonus resists.
Also /u/greaterbelugawhale, you put on some Shaco changes right
yeah we are testing boxes not being auto-triggered by sweeper / control ward. Does mean that pure melee champs like Tryn basically have no way to clear the trap without getting feared, but so far it hasn't been that offensive to playing against experience
And it's a bit off topic but could i ask you some questions about the item shop overhaul you're working on
Not at the moment
Can we have jungle changes list ?
think jatt is currently writing that up
can't you make it so that the traps don't fear if they get sweeped/warded but that they will still trigger for attacking when the enemy gets close?
that means that the main problem of clearing them as a melee champion (their fear mechanic) is gone, but it also means that if the enemy doesn't gets close to clear them (and get a bit of damage and exposure against the enemy team and shaco) they will not die and simply remain hidden in position.
not a fan of divorcing the "oh its a triggered box, its auto attacking things" from "it can't fear me anymore". also it makes for some pretty weird "enemies put a control ward down, so if I place boxes near them they do their best heimer turret cosplay, and attack and last forever"
Oh yeah and more on topic, can I ask what got you guys interested in doing this shaco change now
pink ward was asking about it (multiple time), and we had some time to do a bit of work to see if we could come to a better solution since we agree that the current live one is not ideal.
I love that they call Yuumi 书猫 literally "hey you're a book cat"
Loser cat LOL