What Does Loki Need?

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This is a continuation of the "Loki Deals Too Much Damage Thread," because that was a failure.

Anyway, since they are always going to be people who read only the title before commenting, I decided to rename the thread and move a separate discussion here.

I want two questions to be answered here.

1. If Loki got a reduction in his damage, what would be an ideal compensation for that? A taunt on his Decoy? Recastable ? Becoming untargetable while stealthed?

2. If stealth-revealing wards were added into the game, how would you change Loki to not become 100% crippled by that?

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1. If Loki got a reduction in his damage he would need his abilities reworked to make him less useless in teamfights. Currently, all of his abilities are capable of damaging only one person, so that would need to be tweaked. Perhaps make his 1 poison and his 3 a continuous effect that lasts for 5 seconds and doesn't go away after you hit one person with it (like Bakasura's 3). His kit would definitely need some sustain or something, because he has 0 sustain and is one of the squishiest characters in the entire game, meaning you would still die very quickly in teamfights. A recastable 4 with reduced damage but still a one second stun could be interesting so long as you cant recast it if you don't hit anyone with it (would make him impossible to catch). His 2 should be left as is, maybe small changes, but I personally wouldn't tweak it at all.

2. I can't think of any answer to this.

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2. Give them the same effect Serqet's invisibility has where they're visible to enemies within a certain radius, and perhaps a shorter vision area.

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1. There is no ideal compensation. A taunt on his decoy would be far too strong cc wise for an assassin, then Loki would have a stun and a taunt (Which is effectively a stun while moving players toward a spot). Recastable Assassinate would also be too much cc and damage, and then people would complain about him chaining assassinate all over the place. However, solution 2...

2. THIS IS THE SOLUTION FOLKS.

THERE'S NO NEED FOR COMPENSATION. If you guys just want to add stealth revealing wards AND NOT TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE, fine. That's perfectly okay. Stealth revealing wards would not 100% cripple Loki, but they would allow for counterplay, which is the major problem.

I have zero objections to adding stealth revealing wards.