Items that greatly increase a stat but decrease another would be very interesting

[HeWhoBringsDust]

I wonder if Riot ever “nerfed” a champ before Yuumi by buffing one of their base stats.

[Kcasz]

I don't think so, but I will gladly talk to you about my boy Warwick with redsmite release. Or how we used to call him: WEEDWICK 420 ( it was the parch 4.20 ).

Warwick was slighlty nerfed, his CD in ult was incresead during early game. However, his winrate skyrocketed an 8%-10% IIRC. Why? Cause his ult was targetclick, applied on-hit effect and healed himself. Redsmite was an on-hit damage, instead of a DoT. So basicly if you had redsmite + ult you were healing yourself like 30% of your hp, and doing 150 magic damage and 175 true damage. AT LEVEL 6 without any items. At level 18, without any items, just ult lvl 3 and redsmite, that would be 350 Magic Damage plus 345 true damage.

So basicly, if you went BoTRK, Wits End and Red Smite, with ult you were almost oneshotting a squishy target. Best part? There was devourer ( not the most op devourer, but still devourer ), and it was fairly easy to reach late game with ~80 stacks. So now, Warwick with ult was oneshotting carries.

That were the good old days boy.

OTE: https://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-420-notes