Zeke's Harbinger is 2017 LUL
So, as we know, supports right now are a moderately fun role. I've mained the role casually since season 4, and I've enjoyed the ups and downs throughout the years. Zeke's Herald was usually a last item buy on Thresh, if only for the CDR and aura giving my teammates lifesteal. Interesting item at the time, however, now it has become almost ridiculously bad.
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> +30 armor
> +250 mana
> +50 ability power
> +10% cooldown reduction
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> UNIQUE: When within 1000-units of each other, you and your Conduit will generate 1 charge every second, up to 100, with a bonus 4 / 2 charges whenever you or your ally attack, and 8 / 4 on spell cast.
> At 100 charge, dealing damage grants you and your Conduit 20% increased AP and +50% flat critical strike chance for 8 seconds.
> All current charge is lost if you move further than 1000-units apart or hold onto 100 charge for longer than 5 seconds.
So, TLDR; this item gives 30 Armor, 250 Mana, 50 Ability Power, 10% CDR, and when bound to an ally you both get 20% Increased AP and 50% Crit chance. What?
On what planet would you want all of those stats, and in addition, why would you ever want 20% increased AP and 50% crit chance? I've tried to mess with this item in the past, but needless to say I have no idea what the goal of it, ESPECIALLY with the newly released
a few patches ago.
"So what should we do to Zeke's Harbinger?"
Honestly, I think we should make in a tank MR item with CDR. I'm loving all of the mage supports and utility supports this season, but when the support items got reworked (I'm looking at you Locket of the Iron Solari) tank support itemization more or less got shafted and overshadowed by Redemption.
Tank Supports shouldn't have to struggle to reach their CDR cap, and if we changed Harbinger to an MR+CDR item, it would definitely help itemization quite a bit.
"What about the Active?"
The big meme of 2017 is the fact ADC is so weak. What if we made it an active that gave the ADC resistances for a brief period of time, even for 3 seconds so they have enough time to try and lifesteal, or kite their way out of a fight before getting the classic Rengar 1-shot. :^)
Thank you for reading, and I hope this post has some sort of discussion involving Zeke's Harbinger.
