Riot we need a new armor item for mages.

Elewd··1 votes·409 views

Im not asking for some Quick silver sash item. Im not asking for some new item that will fit into any build. Im asking for a armor item that builds out of Seekers armguard and gives mana regen at the same time. Laning against an AD assassin in midlane now is awful, they dont have to worry about resource management so they can just spam and throw out their spells to shove lane really hard, and unfortunantly if you are an ap carry you have to use your spells to push back, AP mid's are forced into this "build mana regen but chances are you will die 1v1 with no chance of survivle" Or "Build Zhonya's and have no mana regen to keep up with their constant shoving of the lane". The worst part about laning against ad champs in mid now is that Maw of malmortius exists, that item has armor pen which basically makes seekers armguard not safe to just sit on anymore, and it has the magic res and high ad. Its the jack of all trades item. "laning against an ap champ? Build maw. They have armor? build a maw."

i want an Item that gives me some ap (like 60-80 to be on par with athene's unholy grail) Decent armor so i can survive an ad assassins onslaught and be able to shove back without running oom and letting them outroam me.

Zhonya's isn't enough anymore with how much armor pen is out there.

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KirbyCake1 votes

hex drinker by design is the most broken thing in an ap vs ad match up. hex drinker is just so much better than armguard and the problem is that zhonyas takes WAY too long to get when they increased the price.

AP items are good, they are just so expensive and ap's already have an inherent disadvantage against ad.

Elewd1 votes

I actually don't mind zhonya's having a 1k combine cost. the active part of it is insanely powerful, but it being the only viable option for an ap champ to survive an assassins burst sucks. Ad's have so many options to deal with multiple situations, Ap have 1 to deal with them all.

LoLKiru1 votes

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hex drinker by design is the most broken thing in an ap vs ad match up. hex drinker is just so much better than armguard and the problem is that zhonyas takes WAY too long to get when they increased the price.

AP items are good, they are just so expensive and ap's already have an inherent disadvantage against ad.

Part of me thinks moving Zhonya's active onto seekers armguard could help out a little with the disparity in itemization

I say this because Hexdrinker gets access to its anti-burst passive LONG before it becomes Maw of Malmortious, yet Seekers Armguard just gets you some armor (which can be easily circumvented with all the Armor pen in the game currently) and you need to wait for almost 2500 gold (2450 to be exact) to get the zhonya's active.

Either that or we can remove Hexdrinker's passive and force them to wait until Maw for it.

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