Stopwatch and zhonyas/guardian angel should share cooldowns

Barkley··2 votes·883 views

Was in a game recently where the enemy mid laner had zhonyas + an additional stopwatch, and the adc had guardian angel + an additional stopwatch.

This shouldn't be a thing.

The item was designed as a quick window of invulnerability - not multiple windows of invulnerability so you can basically just zerg your way through a fight.

You should not be able to fight - zhonyas - fight - stopwatch - fight, or fight - GA - fight - stopwatch - fight. Its just ridiculous. You basically can't focus the target down.

I present the following solutions (pick one):

1.) Using stopwatch disables GA/Zhonyas for 15 seconds 2.) Owning a completed zhonyas/GA disables stopwatch in the store 3.) Procing GA or using Zhonyas breaks your stopwatch 4.) Procing GA or using Zhonyas locks out your stopwatch for 15 seconds

Also, I haven't ever seen it done and I'm not sure how it works, but what's stopping someone from having like 3-4 stopwatches in the midgame? Can that happen? Just stopwatch your way through a teamfight. With games as short and snowbally as they are right now, having a fed 3-item mid laner with multiple stopwatches could be powerful enough to win you the game.

I surely hope the answer to that is "no, that can't happen" but as far as I can read for myself, there's nothing stopping anyone from owning/using 3 stopwatches at once.

Rito plz.

4 Comments

RenownedWheat421 votes

Stopwatch becomes Broken Stopwatch on use. You can't just keep spam buying stopwatches. If you get the one from runes, you can't use it and then buy a new one. If you buy one early, your rune one also gets broken on use.

Barkley1 votes

Ok that clears that up, thanks. Still the issue of zhonyas + stopwatch, though... and GA + stopwatch.

Also, why can a person use stopwatch, then immediately go complete zhonyas, and zhonyas is immediately off cooldown?

If you've used stopwatch recently, zhonyas should come into your inventory on cooldown.

There needs to be a globally shared cooldown on these items.

RenownedWheat421 votes

Getting Zhonya's/Stopwatch or GA/Stopwatch is gonna be a very small issue. Maybe it sucks if it happens but having both at one time shouldn't be happening too often to really be THAT big of a deal.

I can see it being a big deal with people who want Zhonya's early (who even rushes GA?), but even then having both up will always only be a one-time thing.

TaIoń1 votes

Aatrox with zilean support, both with stopwatch, zhonyas, GA... I wonder if that would work out.

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