His only good new move was his remade Tsunami Charge because it had a bug in it where if you shoved someone into multiple terrain objects with it, like say 3 trees, it did the bonus damage upon hitting terrain thing for each object. This is why running someone into say a ledge or tower didn't seem that great but shoving them into the woods during the early laning phase seemed crushing for some reason.
Remember that game where I kept crushing that Cronos of all people by just ramming him into trees somewhere in his jungle and holding him there with my ult so Tim's Dark Lady could just slash in and finish him off? The only reason that was working was because of the extra bug damage.
Now that's been fixed and he just sucks.
I really want the old Kraken back with a much less drastic and shitty change because that's all this was. They changed every ability he has with the following effects.
Tidal Pull -> Torrent: Now instead of having a passive slow aura immediately around your str tank that you can use to prevent people from escaping either your really good AoE ult or your teamates' attacks, you have a boring as dirt single target slow "nuke" that lowers armor even though almost all of Kraken's damage is magic in nature. Plus it has a bad animation so it's hard to chase the guy after you slow him.
VERDICT: PRETTY AWFUL CHANGE
Tsunami Charge -> New Tsunami Charge: The old Tsunami charge was pretty boring, it was basically just sandking's(magmus') burrowstrike(lavasurge) except that it didn't stun but instead had a ridiculous range (1200 at max level). Instead of stunning, it just did the medium nuke damage and it sort of shoved people as you went by them. A good player could use this shove effect in conjunction with the huge range of the charge and tidal pull's slow to actually fuck people over pretty well if they didn't have a blink.
The new charge is a little more interesting but sort of borders on just being gimmicky. The range is much lower (800) but instead of the little shove, you now grab the first person you hit and carry them with you to the end of the charge. The new charge does less damage than the old one, but if you collide with terrain after grabbing someone it actually does more damage than the old one AND stuns them for a second or so. This is interesting, but only really has synergy with your ult since the stun time lets you drop your ult at their feet and hit them with it before they can move away. Since it only grabs one person though it forces you to ult just that one guy which sort of makes me wonder why he has a weak but AoE ult instead of just something single target and more powerful.
VERDICT: Uhm, sort of cool, but what's the point, he has no real synergy with it. Why not just play any other Str nuker and just stun people where ever I please instead of up against trees?
Splash -> better new Splash: They made Splash less retardedly under powered and more like anchor smash from Dota. It still sort of sucks though because it's magic damage so torrent doesn't help it at all and it has a cool down so you can't be luck sack a bunch of procs of it like Tidehunter could. It only helps for farming really, Kraken is now totally a ganker and doesn't really need to farm, it sucks.
VERDICT: Still pretty much sucks
Whirlpool -> RELEASE THE KRAKEN: Hahahha, what a funny meme that whole Kraken thing is, right? Hohoho, my sides are spliting. I need something to make me stop laughing. Okay, how about they took away Kraken's really unique enemy team teleporing fuck over ult and gave him... Tempest's ult except it doesn't disable or damage you until you reach the center of it, blinking characters can blink out of it, and all characters can actually just walk out of it if they try?
VERDICT: Wow... that's awful, I think I want to cry.
Every change except splash was drastic and every one of them is stupid in some way except the one to splash which didn't really make the ability that much better anyway.
Thanks for making a hero that needed a little rethink into a hero that is completely redundant with 6 other heroes and is worse than all of them except maybe Tundra. Can they put the real designers back on the payroll?
