Ronin Changes

H3t3r · June 2021

Masterpuff said:

MrInsanity said:
Maybe wait to try him? surely Kabam wouldn't mess up a buff for the third time (counting Hood and Nova)
As a Ronin master i can confirm i am very pissed off.

He got:
Slightly more damage(SMALL), less cruelty buildup vs bleed immune, shorter furies that are a tiny bit more potent, aar that still kinda sucks, and a slightly better sig.

I feel sorry. I said what if he got worse earlier on this week. Sorry

Masterpuff · June 2021

jschweri said:
The most challenging part of playing Ronin is getting in/out of those stances and that didn't change. You have to do this at least 7 times to get to his precision buff and start seeing really good damage. This is disappointing.

Nah i like his playstyle.

Agent_X_zzz · June 2021

“Ronin has the potential to never receive a hit in a fight” yeah…. Any champ can do that

Masterpuff · June 2021

Agent_X_zzz said:

“Ronin has the potential to never receive a hit in a fight” yeah…. Any champ can do that

😭

ItsDamien · June 2021

Agent_X_zzz said:

“Ronin has the potential to never receive a hit in a fight” yeah…. Any champ can do that

Kabams Marketing team were behind this ability description clearly 🤣

BitterSteel · June 2021

Agent_X_zzz said:

“Ronin has the potential to never receive a hit in a fight” yeah…. Any champ can do that

“With Ronin’s ability to hit the opponent, he has the potential to do damage’’

MrInsanity · June 2021

Agent_X_zzz said:

“Ronin has the potential to never receive a hit in a fight” yeah…. Any champ can do that

Ronin buff is so trash this is the only pro they could think of

SpideyFunko · June 2021

Agent_X_zzz said:

“Ronin has the potential to never receive a hit in a fight” yeah…. Any champ can do that

In the hands of a skilled player, Ronin has the potential to reduce the opponents health bar to zero.

MrInsanity · June 2021

Any Kabam excuse yet

DawsMan · June 2021

WHY DID THEY NERF HIM

MaxtheSilent · June 2021

I was really excited about this buff and now I feel really let down. We knew it’d be small, that’s ok, but this was microscopic.

Yodabolt21 · June 2021

This could’ve been arguably the easiest buff of any champ… 1 or 2 tweaks would’ve made him amazing…. But they did… nothing really.

Hopefully he gets the Hood treatment.

Rockypantherx · June 2021

This buff does kind of feel like they dodged every single thing Ronin needed fixed, and focused on the one thing he was actually decent at: damage.

He needed a less stressful playstyle and more utility. The AAR still doesn’t play into his kit at all, and is still impractical compared to 20 other champs.

The change to the sig is nice, and I believe the change to 3 cruelties is what prompted the Bleed Immune cooldown. Otherwise he could probably play like ghost in bleed immune matchups, consistently gaining cruelties fast enough to evade every special and get combo openings.

His damage might get a good bump, especially with deep wounds. But like the Nova buff, this isn’t going to change the position of the champ within the game at all. Which to me makes it a waste of effort to be honest.

We need more buffs like Angela’s. Her buff took her already solid kit and built on it. The damage was always good , the sustainability was always great. The issue was that she wasn’t capable of taking any actual fights. She needed utility. And she got it.

That’s exactly what ronin needed.

IKON · June 2021

I think we're seeing lasting effects from the Hood issue. Seems to be an inability to distinguish between core champion abilities and things that need to be changed, so don't change anything.

TripleB · June 2021

Not the buff I was hoping for but, I just compared the stats from YouTube to his r5 stats in game and he is going to be hitting a lot harder with bleeds if you have deep wounds. His furies will help him more but my biggest question is why is it that a sig 200 5* has a longer evade than the 6*??? 5* is 2 sec, 6* is 1.5 sec Please go check auntm.ai if you want to see for yourself.

ItsDamien · June 2021

TripleB said:
Not the buff I was hoping for but, I just compared the stats from YouTube to his r5 stats in game and he is going to be hitting a lot harder with bleeds if you have deep wounds. His furies will help him more but my biggest question is why is it that a sig 200 5* has a longer evade than the 6*??? 5* is 2 sec, 6* is 1.5 sec Please go check auntm.ai if you want to see for yourself.

Evade timer probably scales with Rank

Kabam Miike · June 2021

Thank you for the feedback everybody. I want to remind you all that when we set out to do more champion updates, we said that there are 3 types: Overhauls, Moderate Updates, and Value Only. This is a good example of a Value Only update. Ronin is a Champ that we were fairly happy with when it came to the contents of his Kit, but thought he could do with some number changes to give him a little more viability.

In the past, we've definitely overdone the Value Only updates, and some were closer to Moderate. Our monthly list of Champions to buff are selected for a number of reasons, but the combined capacity is one of them. If Ronin didn't receive this Buff, another Champion would have received one of this same calibre. This would not have prevented somebody from getting a more extensive buff.

You should continue to expect varying levels of Buffs, some being small, and some being large. We cannot remake every Champion every month, and when there is already a Champion with a Good kit that needs a slight boost to get to where they would be more viable, we will do that.

Kabam Miike · June 2021

Agent_X_zzz said:

“Ronin has the potential to never receive a hit in a fight” yeah…. Any champ can do that

That was in his original Spotlight and hasn't been changed.

RJustice_209 · June 2021

Kabam Miike said:
Thank you for the feedback everybody. I want to remind you all that when we set out to do more champion updates, we said that there are 3 types: Overhauls, Moderate Updates, and Value Only. This is a good example of a Value Only update. Ronin is a Champ that we were fairly happy with when it came to the contents of his Kit, but thought he could do with some number changes to give him a little more viability.

In the past, we've definitely overdone the Value Only updates, and some were closer to Moderate. Our monthly list of Champions to buff are selected for a number of reasons, but the combined capacity is one of them. If Ronin didn't receive this Buff, another Champion would have received one of this same calibre. This would not have prevented somebody from getting a more extensive buff.

You should continue to expect varying levels of Buffs, some being small, and some being large. We cannot remake every Champion every month, and when there is already a Champion with a Good kit that needs a slight boost to get to where they would be more viable, we will do that.

Let's get back to the computer, log on, and add something real quick that the player base wanted, and hit save. 5min wont hurt.

Kabam Miike · June 2021

RJustice_209 said:

Kabam Miike said:
Thank you for the feedback everybody. I want to remind you all that when we set out to do more champion updates, we said that there are 3 types: Overhauls, Moderate Updates, and Value Only. This is a good example of a Value Only update. Ronin is a Champ that we were fairly happy with when it came to the contents of his Kit, but thought he could do with some number changes to give him a little more viability.

In the past, we've definitely overdone the Value Only updates, and some were closer to Moderate. Our monthly list of Champions to buff are selected for a number of reasons, but the combined capacity is one of them. If Ronin didn't receive this Buff, another Champion would have received one of this same calibre. This would not have prevented somebody from getting a more extensive buff.

You should continue to expect varying levels of Buffs, some being small, and some being large. We cannot remake every Champion every month, and when there is already a Champion with a Good kit that needs a slight boost to get to where they would be more viable, we will do that.
Let's get back to the computer, log on, and add something real quick that the player base wanted, and hit save. 5min wont hurt.

LOL. 5 minutes.... you're funny.

MrInsanity · June 2021

Kabam Miike said:

RJustice_209 said:

Kabam Miike said:
Thank you for the feedback everybody. I want to remind you all that when we set out to do more champion updates, we said that there are 3 types: Overhauls, Moderate Updates, and Value Only. This is a good example of a Value Only update. Ronin is a Champ that we were fairly happy with when it came to the contents of his Kit, but thought he could do with some number changes to give him a little more viability.

In the past, we've definitely overdone the Value Only updates, and some were closer to Moderate. Our monthly list of Champions to buff are selected for a number of reasons, but the combined capacity is one of them. If Ronin didn't receive this Buff, another Champion would have received one of this same calibre. This would not have prevented somebody from getting a more extensive buff.

You should continue to expect varying levels of Buffs, some being small, and some being large. We cannot remake every Champion every month, and when there is already a Champion with a Good kit that needs a slight boost to get to where they would be more viable, we will do that.
Let's get back to the computer, log on, and add something real quick that the player base wanted, and hit save. 5min wont hurt.
LOL. 5 minutes.... you're funny.

Lol this buff was also a pretty funny prank... now where's the real one?

Voltolos · June 2021

Catmanndo said:
So lackluster, my excitement for waiting on buffs has become completely numb. Nova, DDHK and now Ronin, does Kabam think these changes are enough for players to invest end user resources on? I was optimistically expecting better…

https://playcontestofchampions.com/champion-spotlight-diablo/
This isnt the only buff next Month you know

FluffyPigMonster · June 2021

Masterpuff said:
Uhhhhhh this may be the smallest and most useless buff ever, maybe even more so than Nova.

I mean he didnt need it, but this seems like Kabam noticed 2 days before the update “Whoops we didnt do an update” and they chose to do almost nothing to Ronin.

Kinda annoying but I still love him

(and he is still better than Elsa)

Looks like:

1. Damage has increased

2. AAR with Wraith stance and SP1 now adds to 100% and an additional second in length (9s total)

3. Evades only cost 3 cruelties as opposed to all 7.

Isn’t that everything we wanted? What am I missing?

Gamer · June 2021

Kabam Miike said:

RJustice_209 said:

Kabam Miike said:
Thank you for the feedback everybody. I want to remind you all that when we set out to do more champion updates, we said that there are 3 types: Overhauls, Moderate Updates, and Value Only. This is a good example of a Value Only update. Ronin is a Champ that we were fairly happy with when it came to the contents of his Kit, but thought he could do with some number changes to give him a little more viability.

In the past, we've definitely overdone the Value Only updates, and some were closer to Moderate. Our monthly list of Champions to buff are selected for a number of reasons, but the combined capacity is one of them. If Ronin didn't receive this Buff, another Champion would have received one of this same calibre. This would not have prevented somebody from getting a more extensive buff.

You should continue to expect varying levels of Buffs, some being small, and some being large. We cannot remake every Champion every month, and when there is already a Champion with a Good kit that needs a slight boost to get to where they would be more viable, we will do that.
Let's get back to the computer, log on, and add something real quick that the player base wanted, and hit save. 5min wont hurt.
LOL. 5 minutes.... you're funny.

I’m meant he didn’t need one but decided to Giv a bit new champions but where’s know someone like ant but need more that’s value only but then why do a. Value updated one champions when u can just said we didn’t had 3 champions instead of just giving a very very smail one. You guys doing amazingly but this buff might aswel ben gone wrong

Kabam Miike · June 2021

Catmanndo said:
So lackluster, my excitement for waiting on buffs has become completely numb. Nova, DDHK and now Ronin, does Kabam think these changes are enough for players to invest end user resources on? I was optimistically expecting better…

These Buffs are not solely for End Game players. In fact, I think if could be said they're not really aimed at End Game players at all. Giving more players more options for Champions to deal with certain Challenges really benefits players with a smaller roster, though you'll still get a Champion update every now and then that really skyrockets a Champion to the top of everybody's Roster.

Shock29 · June 2021

RJustice_209 said:

Kabam Miike said:
Thank you for the feedback everybody. I want to remind you all that when we set out to do more champion updates, we said that there are 3 types: Overhauls, Moderate Updates, and Value Only. This is a good example of a Value Only update. Ronin is a Champ that we were fairly happy with when it came to the contents of his Kit, but thought he could do with some number changes to give him a little more viability.

In the past, we've definitely overdone the Value Only updates, and some were closer to Moderate. Our monthly list of Champions to buff are selected for a number of reasons, but the combined capacity is one of them. If Ronin didn't receive this Buff, another Champion would have received one of this same calibre. This would not have prevented somebody from getting a more extensive buff.

You should continue to expect varying levels of Buffs, some being small, and some being large. We cannot remake every Champion every month, and when there is already a Champion with a Good kit that needs a slight boost to get to where they would be more viable, we will do that.
Let's get back to the computer, log on, and add something real quick that the player base wanted, and hit save. 5min wont hurt.

Its way more involved than taking 5 minutes to add some stuff. It might be fair to say that tune ups are easier to come up with and take less time to create than an overhaul or update but 5 mins is definately not enough time to create nor fix a buff.

Raganator · June 2021

Kabam Miike said:

Catmanndo said:
So lackluster, my excitement for waiting on buffs has become completely numb. Nova, DDHK and now Ronin, does Kabam think these changes are enough for players to invest end user resources on? I was optimistically expecting better…
These Buffs are not solely for End Game players. In fact, I think if could be said they're not really aimed at End Game players at all. Giving more players more options for Champions to deal with certain Challenges really benefits players with a smaller roster, though you'll still get a Champion update every now and then that really skyrockets a Champion to the top of everybody's Roster.

From what I've seen, the vast majority of buffs are targeted to progressing players, not end game players. Help progressing players feel less bad about a mediocre pull. Of course, there are exceptions, but typically these buffs don't suddenly create a champ that is better at something than an existing player isn't already better at. I'm fine with that...at least until the Groot buff comes along....

Ronin Changes

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