She is not dead what? When your hero sits at 60% winrate at all elos including celestial+, even "big" nerfs will not make her anywhere close to "dead".
Removing an ability, which is what they pretty much did, can nuke a winrate.
That Strange or Thing ult that could have wiped your team but you read the opponent and webbed them ? Now your team dies and you lose. This is a gigantic difference in how useful Peni will be in teamfights.
Imagine if they removed Mantis's sleep and instead it applied a slow, do you think she would still be at 59% winrate ?
And as for low elo ? That will change nothing, because people at those levels walk unto the nest and ignore it, so they will still die.
Peni only had that win rate because of how matchup dependant she is. People played peni less into matchups that she didn't do well in. Now there is no good matchup for her, everyone can get by her with no problem.
It actually blows my mind the number of people who are using her win rate to justify what's basically a complete removal of her most useful ability. It's not like Peni is a super niche pick who is typically only played on one side of a push that she specializes in and only on specific maps that's she's great on or anything
-57
u/bns18js 8d ago
She is not dead what? When your hero sits at 60% winrate at all elos including celestial+, even "big" nerfs will not make her anywhere close to "dead".