A buff to Spellthief's

TheHappyReaperz·9/14/2017, 3:39:54 PM·1 votes·388 views

Currently, supports like Janna or Soraka are pretty pigeonholed by what support item you can start off with. While you can use Spellthief's on either of them, its so much worse than using coin, there isn't a point. It just fits badly with their kits. So, I propose that the Tribute passive be transferred to champions you shield/heal. Lasting only a few seconds, this would grant the champion healed/shielded the bonus damage, but you would get the gold/MS. Doing so would consume the stacks, as they normally would be consumed. In situations where multiple champions are healed/shielded, it would be a first come, first served kinda of deal. Thoughts?

15 Comments

DarkRitual9/14/2017, 3:41:54 PM1 votes

It would make them even more passive. Why get in the line of fire when you can just shield your adc while they poke and pull the gold in from it?

I definately think STE needs a change, but this doesn't seem like the right way to go about it.

Dirty Bastard9/14/2017, 3:55:37 PM1 votes

I find the mana sustain from Ancient Coin path to be superior to Spell Thiefs, its a shame its this way given that now the intent of the change to early CDR on STE is to provide a bigger edge to castors but casting can cost more mana than the item will provide in comparison to Ancient Coin.

AmetDeCrypt9/14/2017, 4:57:26 PM1 votes

what the coin needed changed was its reward, not its stats. a single skill point at like level 12 is useless. other than that it's pretty okay.

ZephyrDrake9/14/2017, 5:01:43 PM1 votes

until the coin line gets an actual nerf and/or spellthief line gets an actual buff nobody other than Brand and Zyra should be picking spellthief and even then i would argue that they should also just buy coin. You get so much gold and mana sustain from coin for doing practically nothing, it also has CDR on every stage so frostfang getting 10% CDR isn't going to accomplish anything since you still get 10% CDR from the 2nd tier coin item