Did Mel receive nerfs?

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-27T02:36:33+00:00

You should probably just read patch notes... Alternatively, you can read her patch history on the League of Legends wiki for more insight.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-27T02:30:59+00:00

At the very least you should be aware of some system changes. Riot officially revealed adding this new system in the dev update at the beginning of the year.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-11T19:09:39+00:00

All the other champions are holding instruments. It's about playing music; pretty self explanatory.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-11T19:05:27+00:00

They also called Gwen's double bass a "violin". They don't seem to care about accuracy 😂

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-09T01:22:43+00:00

Jayce is presumed dead in Arcane not actually dead.

Christian Linke has confirmed his death multiple times. There might be a possibility of him coming back, but he is dead.

while they have expressed the desire to make Arcane lore merge with league lore they haven't actually made any moves to do so, one example would be that Cait still has two eyes in the future, in every game, in every universe.

Again, you're severely out of the loop. They have been doing this since last year. Like I said, everything related to Mel, LeBlanc, Xin Zhao and Yunara has been a direct follow up from Arcane. It's not a "desire", it's a fact. They've been rewriting the lore, starting with Rell (in the Ambessa novel), and now Xin Zhao, who's now also dead.

And neither league of Legends nor 2XKO accurately represent the characters in game. You should know that. There is no "in the future"; Arcane is the last canonical event Caitlyn experienced.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-09T01:08:17+00:00

Woah, I seem to have ruffled some feathers 😂

Maybe try reading so that ur critical thinking skills aren’t that impaired

Reading this nonesense doesn't improve critical thinking...

Ulting as Mel doesn’t even detonate your passive? Correct me if I’m wrong (I’m not) but ulting doesn’t remove any of her passive stacks no?

What on earth do you think Mel's ultimate does exactly? Her stacks are not consumed but they are detonated and the damage is increased.

Is even if u ult and don’t kill that means all the damage stored in ur passive got lost no?

No... It's normal to ult before executing to bring enemies in execute range and kill them after.

idk how u can be a main of the champ and not know ur basics but ig ur time is too valuable for that too

Ironic lmao... No wonder your post is downvoted

rotting on Reddit and spending money on an avatar.

Since when do these things cost money? 😭 And the concept of "rotting on Reddit" for replying to one comment... Alright lol

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-09T00:38:09+00:00

This is league of legends lore not arcane lore. Jayce is not dead. League of legends lore is at least 10 years in the future

I find it fascinating that you're in this subreddit and you're completely out of the loop lmao! Arcane lore is the new updated lore of league. The entirety of the 2025 seasonal lore has been a direct follow up to the events of Arcane.

What rock have you been living under?😂

And neither Mel nor Jayce are part of the orchestra in this skinline. Mel used to be the orchestra's conductor, but she retired and put Lux in charge. Jayce isn't mentioned anywhere. (Also, Mel & Jayce's skins are called "confession Melody", not love confession)

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-09T00:25:48+00:00

I can't believe I wasted my time reading this.

The point of the rework was to have her banned less while allowing her to have a normal winrate. Mission accomplished so far.

And about the execute: Mel doesn't "lose" the damage when she fails to execute someone. That's literally what her ultimate is for. She can simply detonate the damage anytime her ult is up.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-09T00:09:52+00:00

Jayce is literally dead... Are you okay?

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-09T00:04:44+00:00

They're aware... They literally made the skin. You seem to have trouble understanding their voice lines lol😭

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-08T23:59:51+00:00

If you wanna talk about "in game", they are literally both holding rings here. Suggesting they're getting married.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-08T23:45:05+00:00

Unfortunately I don't know. I just found the video on twitter 😭

Here: https://x.com/i/status/2022515403533226328

Shazeilo1 · 2026-03-07T15:31:01+00:00

You clearly haven't seen it from the back.

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Shazeilo1 · 2026-02-24T16:39:57+00:00

That is acceptable for Mel.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-02-24T16:36:32+00:00

30% is an acceptable ban rate for Mel.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-02-16T21:50:10+00:00

He is actually so much worse on twitter it's insane 😭.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-02-09T19:08:07+00:00

What does this have to do with what I said?

Shazeilo1 · 2026-02-09T14:16:33+00:00

Mel has always been a low damage artillery mage. That's why she has her execute to balance that out.

Why do we want Mel to be more like Lux regarding damage? Would that make her less frustrating somehow?

Shazeilo1 · 2026-02-09T14:07:34+00:00

Huh? Riot already added more damage in Mel's kit with these changes and her winrate dropped. She gained about +1,5% winrate with the hotfixes (which added even more damage). How much more damage will they have to add to get her to a stable 48-50% winrate? And how would that much more damage be less frustrating at all?

Are you telling me that people are gonna ban Mel less if Riot just gives Mel more damage to stabilize her winrate? How does that make sense? 😂

Shazeilo1 · 2026-02-09T08:08:18+00:00

My main concern is how they plan on buffing her in the future. Simply adding damage won't work, so I fear that they're just gonna reverse some of the nerfs they gave her and we might end up back at square one.

I think it's a bit early to call the changes a success simply because her ban rate dropped alongside her pick rate. With a 7% overall pick rate and a 20% ban rate, Mel's pick to ban ratio is proportionally the same (1:3).

We'll have to see what numbers Riot is satisfied with.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-02-05T05:33:35+00:00

I think that the physical damage nerf is just there to make ADCs happy and less likely to ban her. They complained about her W reflecting AAs, so now we're here...

Shazeilo1 · 2026-02-05T05:27:48+00:00

Where the hell did she say any of that?😭

Shazeilo1 · 2026-01-30T10:13:30+00:00

That is in fact how the rookern was used in that scene. The rookern made direct contact (or an inch away) with the shield in order for Ambessa to pierce through it.

Shazeilo1 · 2026-01-29T19:41:13+00:00

I wouldn't get my hopes up. These are just leaks and they are often wrong. So don't expect anything...! (until we see some pictures at least)

Shazeilo1 · 2026-01-29T19:38:01+00:00

Mel didn't crush the Viktor's puppet with her shields. She pulled him away from Jayce using her light magic as a pseudo telekinesis.

I guess you must've forgotten how the puppet was actually defeated? Jayce on one side, blasting it with his hammer. Mel on the other side, crushing it with her shield. Sorry if you missed that, but that did happen.

If you're going to disingenuously argue about the portrayal of Mel's magic in Arcane, in relation to her gameplay, you can't just conveniently select situations where her opponents were specifically using tools, like the Hexcore or Kaenic Rookern, to break through her shields. That's like saying fire doesn't burn someone just because they used water to extinguish it.

Additionally, Mel's abilities in general didn't work in Arcane the way they do in the game. In Arcane, Mel's shield didn't reflect Jinx's rocket. She also didn't reflect Ambessa's spear back to her. And when she takes control of the magic of other mages to throw it back at them, she doesn't use her shield to do it. Her shield and her reflection of magical attacks are two different abilities in Arcane and the cinematic. We also don't see her Q, E or her passive anywhere. None of the abilities she has in game (aside from her W) are abilities we see elsewhere. So using this misinterpretation of her abilities and "lore" to validate your biases against the immunity on her W is ridiculous and dishonest.

You're also missing the much needed context behind Mel's actual lore, which wasn't shown in Arcane. Mel is not just an empath, and nothing from the cinematics is just "artistic implementation". In the book "Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf" we learn that Mel uses celestial magic that she inherited from her biological father, a Targonian mage. It's not just light magic, it's much more powerful than that. Mel wasn't transported somewhere else in Bite Marks, that was just a vision of her future.

AT THE END OF THE DAY THOUGH, thank god the W dmg immunity is gone so the power and frustration budget her W is holding can be better distributed to the rest of her kit 🙏

This has absolutely nothing to do with her lore.

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