Twitch really benefitted from the new items introduced this season, and players are really gravitating towards his glass cannon playstyle. With that in mind, he's a bit too resilient to be considered glass, so we're making sure his damage comes with appropriate tradeoffs.

Twitch's late game team deletion with 200% crit damage will probably be too fast, so we're targeting some general late-game DPS nerfs.

AP Twitch has been terribad for a while now. While we really don't want AP Support Twitch, we think there's safe room for a revert of a prior nerf while we are also adjusting AP items, and then possibly a re-assessment sometime down the line.

Twitch got a minor buff last patch putting him at a reasonable power level for AD builds. However, way back in 14.9 we gave him a pre-emptive AP nerf, which is now unnecessary.

Twitch is one of the harder ADCs to play due to his unique play style as a quasi-assassin. But even with that in mind, we don't think he should lose quite as many games as he currently does. To help our favorite rat, we're giving a small power injection for all the smelly-rat enjoyers out there. His attack speed duration will now match his ult duration, plus a little extra oomph to bring up his power levels.

In a routine sweep of champion viability and satisfaction, we identified Twitch as a Champion that isn't necessarily weak but could use some quality of life improvements. We think Spray and Pray is the coolest part of Twitch's arsenal and want to play up the differences between R being up and R being down. The change here is a small increase to the reliability of his ultimate as it'll be less likely that someone simply walking sideways will dodge the bolts. Plus he won't feel as much of a need to be in melee range just to make his attacks hit. His attacks are still Flashable and other fast dashes can get out of the way, but Spray and Pray will be a bit more reliable.

Oh, AP Twitch. You're one of my favorite champions. You're also overpowered. You're also INCREDIBLY frustrating to play against if you don't have to actually lane, since you can be anywhere at any time. At least Evelynn has to wait until level 6. That's the worst part of it, honestly. Back off of Evelynn's niche, you jerk. I'd say you stink, but you'd probably like that.

There are actually a lot of AP Twitch cheesers and we want you to know that we also see you. Go forth onto the Rift magical plague rat.

When Twitch uses his ult, his basic attacks become bolts that travel slightly farther than his attack range and deal damage to enemies in a straight path (similar to Kayle's passive). This distance also used to be a flat number and will now scale with his bonus attack range.

Many of Twitch's skirmishes in higher level play involve sneaking around and blasting his enemies with his ult. We're ripening the damage only on his R to make his best-case surprise engagements more powerful without overbuffing his jungle or non-ultimate DPS.

AP rat is strong, AD rat feels wrong. Recalibrating.