As Quinn builds a decent amount of crit and that crit manifests in stronger autos and more passive procs, we're compensation nerfing those same auto-reliant passive procs.

Quinn has been one of the winningest top laners for a while now and with us nerfing both Doran's Shield and Second Wind this patch, we're confident that Quinn is due for some nerfs of her own lest she completely overtake top lane. We hope that these nerfs will open up her build options away from simply high AD lethality burst, allowing her the space to play out a more sustained auto-attacking pattern.

Quinn’s most effective builds (namely Statikk Shiv and Symbiotic Soles) have caught on and she’s ultimately a little too performant. We’re taking a stab at her strength in the later laning phase, weakening her wave clear by asking her to wait a little longer to access all that area of effect power while preserving her auto-attack damage.

Quinn is quite weak right now and has had to rely on burst lethality builds to get some semblance of a good performance. We’d like to return her basic attack prowess to its former glory in this patch and we’ll revisit her if she needs further buffs.

We made changes to Quinn in 13.17 after we identified she was getting incredibly squishy due to build changes after the midseason item update. While we tried to compensate for some increased midgame durability buffs with some base damage nerfs, she ended up stronger overall, which wasn't our goal. This patch, we're taking a more holistic look at the champion with two goals: nerfing her on average and granting her better gameplay for her and her opponents. Why base health? This places her much closer to other ranged top laners with strong anti-melee tools like Mini Gnar and Teemo. We still believe in the goals and results of increasing her health scaling, but she doesn't really need strong durability in the laning phase. The move speed nerf is part of a long-term effort to rein in the overall movement speed in the game. In Quinn's case, she already has substantial movement speed buffs through W and R, so she isn't really going to be missing it too much.

Earlier (check the Akshan context above) we mentioned that several champions lost a meaningful amount of durability over the last year. Quinn is one such outlier who has moved from skirmisher-style builds (Wit's End, Blade of the Ruined King, the old Bloodthirster) into full-offensive builds, frequently opting to build lethality. We'd like to slow down Quinn's combat pattern and get her back to relying on attack speed and less on a kill-or-be-killed burst, while also giving her enough baseline durability to not get one-shot when someone closes the gap onto her.

Although Quinn is technically flying fine, her impact has descended a bit across all skill brackets due to various system changes recently. Since she's ended up with some headroom, we're taking this opportunity to improve her gameplay satisfaction.

Quinn's been flying high above her competition in top lane. We're dropping her to a lower elevation so that her enemies can stand a chance against her in duels.