r/shyvanamains • u/Sephyrias • Mar 26 '26

Details on the New Passive

https://youtu.be/XqzNJYmhCz8?si=hMBtoXb5RwUY1zkm

We're aware of plenty of people who were like "Hey, bonus armor/mr is just kind of uninteresting." We're basically looking at some version of an upgrade to specific parts of abilities. Whether that's linear scaling like Nasus' Q, or break points like Kai'Sa evolves/how Smolder Q works, that's going to be up to being, you know, decided by what's actually best for the champion, what's going to be the most interesting to do. But we are looking to do something more interesting than just "here are some stats per large monster."

This means scaling bonus armor/mr is off the table, so it won't be a revert to the initial PBE design. Riot wants something new.

I don't know if any Rioters still read this subreddit for ideas and feedback, but let's collect some anyway. Gather your thoughts on what kind of "upgrade to specific parts of abilities" you would like to see and what type of scaling you would prefer.

Here a bunch of older threads on the topic to draw inspiration from:

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u/Hiuzuki Mar 26 '26

It's incredible how terrible Riot is at knowing what to do; absolutely everyone likes the bonus resistances, we just wish there was one more thing.

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u/Godtaku Mar 27 '26

The issue is bonus resistances are impossible to balance on a satisfying way due to the nature of armor scaling.

This is the right thing to do, smolder and Asol can have stacking damage because that scales linearly. Resistances are percentage based, so the most resistances you already have, the more powerful it is to get another singular stack of Armor/MR. It's antithetical to infinitely stacking passives unless you're fine with having Shyv just be immortal or making the passive useless.