General

• The Nile Crocodile has been turning gods of all types into unsuspecting prey. Sobek has risen in the ranks of the duo lane, resulting in him being one of the most contested supports in SPL and Ranked. Sobek brings strong CC and control with his signature pluck, but he can also threaten to solo kill squishies with his damage. We are bringing down the damage on his ult to prevent Sobek from taking such favorable trades against enemy backliners.

Lurking in the Waters

• Decreased Base Damage from 350/500/650/800/950 to 300/450/600/750/900

General

• Another elusive reptile is being nerfed today. Sobek, like Jorm, has been dominant in the solo lane, and we aim to apply nerfs for similar reasons. One experience that every Sobek opponent is sure to feel is the God of the Nile making a narrow escape. Sobek seems to survive through the most dangerous of fights. We are decreasing the bonus protections he gains during his Ultimate to ensure he is punished accordingly for diving too deep or missing too many plucks.

Lurking in the Waters

• Decreased protections gained from 30% to 20%.

General

• Sobek has risen from the Nile after his boost in HP scaling and self healing. This additional capability to stay out for longer allows him to fulfill the support role in poke and roaming situations much more effectively. His raw ability to survive engagements however has become too potent due to the combination of this extra HP, healing, and passive protection. A reduction to his passive will make him more vulnerable in direct fights while still keeping the more active sustain he brings himself.

Blessing of the Nile

• Changed to per-level scaling from 10 per stack to 4+0.3 per lvl.

General

• Sobek previously bullied the solo lane with Guardian’s Blessing, making it difficult to truly buff him as a support. Now that Guardian’s Blessing has protections against use in the Solo lane we are bringing strength back to this God of the Nile.
• Base Stats
• Increased HP per level from 86 to 95

Sickening Strike

• Increased Healing per hit from 20/30/40/50/60 to 30/40/50/60/70

General

• Sobek has been carefully lurking in the waters, waiting for his time to strike. After he put up an impressive record in the pro league last year he was nerfed, primarily due to pro frustration. We are happy to finally buff the ol' croc, ideally in a way that pushes him more toward support. We also feel that this is safe now that solo lane has become more aggressive and Warriors have more stable footing, if he does end up back in Solo.

Charge Prey

• Decreased Cooldown from 15 to 13s.

Sickening Strike

• Increased Damage from 60/100/140/180/220 to 80/115/150/185/220.

General

• Sobek was a powerful threat in the solo lane during Season 5, really starting the trend of Guardians flexing to that role and stifling picks. With the adjustments to the solo lane we feel comfortable bringing power back to Sobek but feel reverting the cooldown on Tail Whip would result in the same result, stifling diversity. We instead are focusing on increasing his base tankiness, allowing him to be more successful and charging into the enemy team and heavily disrupting opponents.
• Increased HP per level from 81 to 86.

Blessing of the Nile

• Increased Protections per Stack from 7 to 10.

General

• Sobek is a powerful force in the Solo lane, and more specifically serves as an ever present counterpick that really stifles potential god diversity in that lane. While some gods should have inherent advantages against others, his were too one sided. We are increasing the cooldown on his main interrupt, Tail Whip. Players facing him will be able to trade better with him and have larger windows to use their channeled abilities.

Tail Whip

• Increased Cooldown from 12s to 14s.

Charge Prey

• Sobek no longer goes untargetable while plucking an enemy. He instead gains player passthrough, which will allow him to be hit by enemies while he is getting ready to throw someone.

General

• Sobek has been a pretty solid pick for some time, but when reviewing his Mana costs, we found the cost for Tail Whip to be a bit too steep. Sobek can use this ability more freely without relying as much on his Ultimate regen to keep him in a fight.

Tail Whip

• Decrease mana cost from 70/80/90/100/110 to 60/65/70/75/80.

General

• Fixed an issue where High Seas Sobek's Parrot would T-Pose upon his death.

General

• Blessing of the Nile is getting a nice quality of life adjustment.
• Previously, Blessing of the Nile would fall off while in the full duration of Sobek's Ultimate, which felt awkward. Now, Blessing of the Nile lasts for 6 seconds, allowing more time for Sobek to land a new Ability or fully charge his Ultimate on a target.

Blessing of the Nile

• Increase Duration of the Protection Buff from 3s -> 6s.

General

• Fixed the High Seas skin missing some VGS audio.

Blessing of the Nile

• Changed the tooltip to accurately reflect the buff's 3s duration.

Sickening Strike

• Fixed an issue with rank 5 of this ability costing 85 mana instead of the intended 80.

General

• After looking at Sobek's performance and his limiting factors, we chose to lower the Mana costs on his abilities as well as give his Ultimate more utility. Lowering his Mana costs means he should be able to protect his teammates and catch enemies much more often. Increasing the utility on his Ultimate means he has better engage potential with this ability, while also allowing this Ultimate to act as a much stronger deterrent for chasing enemies.

Charge Prey

• Reduced Mana cost from 70/80/90/100/110 -> 70/75/80/85/90.

Sickening Strike

• Reduced Mana cost from 70/80/90/110/110 -> 60/65/70/75/80.

Lurking in the Waters

• Sobek now increases his Protections by 30% while submerged.
• Slow increased from 15/20/25/30/35% -> 20/25/30/35/40%.

Tail Whip

• Fixed issue where ability would not go on Cooldown if interrupted.

Blessing of the Nile

• Increased protections from 5 to 7 per stack.

Lurking in the Waters

• Slow increased from 15% to 15/20/25/30/35%.

Blessing of the Nile

• Fixed an issue with his passive activating when using Health and Mana potions.

Blessing of the Nile

• A new Passive meter has been added.
• This ability now builds stacks on successful hits from basic attacks and abilities. Abilities will only grant one stack even if multiple targets are hit.
• Fixed an issue with Sobek passive meter not updating correctly when he had multiple effects.

General

• Updated targeters for High Seas.

Sickening Strike

• The healing debuff from this ability now stacks properly with healing debuffs from items.

General

• Auto-buy items have been updated.

Charge Prey

• Visual modifications to the targeter.
• Updated tooltip to indicate he is immune to knock ups while dashing.

Tail Whip

• Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.4 to 0.1.

Sickening Strike

• Post-Hit delay reduced from 0.32 to 0.1.

Lurking in the Water - High Seas Skin

• Fixed an issue in which the canons were not playing their FX when damage occurred.

General

• Some abilities have seen FX improvements.

Tail Whip

• The distance that enemies are knocked back has been reduced.
• The amount of time that enemies can be knocked back has been reduced.

General

• Minor visual improvements to his model.
• New inhand weapon and animation.
• Now has an out of combat stance.
• Sickening Strike has a new animation.
• Sobek is now immune to CC while emerging from Lurking in the Waters as intended.

General

• Sobek’s model has undergone visual improvements.

Charge Prey

• Fixed a bug with Sobek's Charge Prey.

Blessing of the Nile (Passive)

• Gain 5 protections for 4 seconds.

Sickening Strike

• Healing reduced by 50% for 4s at all ranks.

Lurking in the Waters

• Slow by 15% at all ranks.

Sickening Strike

• This ability now only heals off of up to 3 enemies.

Blessing of the Nile (Passive)

• The physical power bonus has been removed from this ability.

Blessing of the Nile (Passive)

• Buff gained from basic attacks has changed:
• Old - +5 protections, increasing with Focus up to +10 and +5 physical power, increasing with Focus up to +15 per stack
• New - +5 protections and physical power, increasing with Focus up to +10 per stack

Tail Whip

• Magical power contribution has been reduced:
• Old - 50%
• New - 40%

Sickening Strike

• Focus conversion for heal has been changed to magical power conversion.

Lurking in the Water

• Cleaned up the description to fit in the space.

PASSIVE – Armor of the Nile

• Name has been changed to Blessing of the Nile
• Each hit now also gives Sobek +15 physical power, stacking up to 3 times.

Charge Prey

• This ability no longer goes through enemy minions.

Lurking in the Waters

• This no longer ignores deployables / obstructions.

General

• Tail Whip: There is now a .4s buildup at the beginning of this ability.

General

• Sobek Tail Spin now hits the first time it is used, where as it did not before (bug fix).

Charge Prey

• Issue was fixed where this ability sometimes ignored protections to knockback.

Tail Whip

• Base damage reduced from 90/140/190/240/290 to 80/125/170/215/260.

Lurking in the Waters

• This ability no longer reduces incoming damage by 25% while firing.

Tail Whip

• Magical power contribution decreased from 70% to 50%.

Sickening Strike

• Base damage has been reduced from 60/120/180/240/280 to 60/100/140/180/220.

Lurking in the Waters

• Magical power contribution decreased from 100% to 80%.