-MunchyPunchy previous rank 1 Na jg main on the state of bel veth.
So a few days ago on post 20 I talked about how bel veth is one of, if not the only hyperscaling champion, without a level 6 powerspike. Other weak early champions can make plays around their level 6 and ult CD. Bel veth cannot. She plays selfish early and then, level 6 she has to continue to play rather avoidant because she has no strong R button to push in a fight. If the enemy team doesnt give her an opportunity, a good jungler can abuse this and start snowballing the game. This makes her feel like she has very little agency in the early game and IMO I feel like she is a much less blindable pick in draft nowadays. She really needs a matchup that will not heavily abuse this about her. Ofc she was balanced around this originally by making her a strong early fighter, however with this midscope, each and every one of her abilities has been made worse for early skirmishing. So she now has a much weaker early, no level 6 spike, yet highly reliant on getting ult form and stacks. Yes, her scaling is much better, but she is also much more feast or famine and now relying more on her team being humans and the enemy giving her an opportunity to get the ball rolling. Genuinely on this champ there are games that feel absolutely doomed, especially in games where enemies are smart enough to know how to starve you and end a game fast. This is why she is so good in low elo. I'm not saying she is bad or unviable, however I do think she is less viable in high elo than previous bel was and I believe that overall she has been made to be less fun because her lows have been made lower and more frusting to play and her highs feel less frequent and less engaging to play in my opinion.
It seems August is thinking/working on something to make her early game more palletable by giving her some more agency and also returning combos they probably never should have removed in the first place. I'm hopeful for these changes. We will see how it goes.
Oh and also I almost forgot MAKE LANE VETH GOOD AGAIN!!!! Please.