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Essence Reaver

Bastilean··2 votes·1,271 views

Essence Reaver is not getting much use. It is out shined by many other AD cool down reduction items. It's main identity is as a mana recharging item. However, as a mana recharging item it isn't even that good on strong auto attacking champions. Most AA champions don't build mana, and 1% refund kind of sucks IMO. Also, it lost the crit chance and that hurt.

The active on the ult is cool, but not quite enough.

I propose Essence Reaver refunds 2% (from 1%) of your current mana per auto attack.

Primary Implications: this item equals mana problem feels more solved. This feels good. It's doing what it said it would do.

Item Combination Implication: Muramana would no longer drain itself bad when you go ham.

Triple Item Combination Implication: With a Guinsoo, Muramana and Reaver you could still land on a matching 3% refund if you went ham procing Shock over and over. With all three items you could get a pretty serious combination of sustained damage that no longer falls off.

Discuss? Worth looking at?

5 Comments

Koechophe1 votes

Here's the issues:

  1. Mana problems are most prevalent in lane, and ER does very little to solve them until you actually complete it. By that time it's almost a moot point tbh. If you really want spammable mana, you go for manamune or sheen into iceborn w/ glacial (hello ezreal).
  2. No real synnergy with crit scaling or hybrid gunblade/nasher's (which has gotten mildly popular). Minimal synnergy with Lethality builds. That's why lucian (who is the only one who can successfully pull off the "BoTRK + BC build") is the only adc who consistently builds it.
  3. So powerful on specific abuse cases that it must be weak on everyone else (I'm looking at you, master yi, renekton and lucian). Ability cd lowering is useful for ad casters more so than adcs, but few adcs are so reliant upon their abilities that they'll feel the need to buy it. So it's instead abused by low cd ad casters (and Yi moreso because he sticks his fingers in both jars.)

Honestly, current iteration needs to be scrapped. A new mana item that has a better build path and a more focused result would be better.

OtterlyLost1 votes

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Here's the issues:

  1. Mana problems are most prevalent in lane, and ER does very little to solve them until you actually complete it. By that time it's almost a moot point tbh. If you really want spammable mana, you go for manamune or sheen into iceborn w/ glacial (hello ezreal).
  2. No real synnergy with crit scaling or hybrid gunblade/nasher's (which has gotten mildly popular). Minimal synnergy with Lethality builds. That's why lucian (who is the only one who can successfully pull off the "BoTRK + BC build") is the only adc who consistently builds it.
  3. So powerful on specific abuse cases that it must be weak on everyone else (I'm looking at you, master yi, renekton and lucian). Ability cd lowering is useful for ad casters more so than adcs, but few adcs are so reliant upon their abilities that they'll feel the need to buy it. So it's instead abused by low cd ad casters (and Yi moreso because he sticks his fingers in both jars.)

Honestly, current iteration needs to be scrapped. A new mana item that has a better build path and a more focused result would be better.

Not true. Mana problems are also prevalent in mid game skirmishes. I know as Xayah, I was constantly running oom because I couldn't build ER anymore.

They should just revert it back the way it was. Its widely accepted that it was better then.

Bastilean1 votes

Would like Riot to look at this. I want to see Ezreal turning into Ahri for 6 seconds

Linna Excel1 votes

I think riot needs to revert it to an earlier state. I don't think most AD champs want or need extra mana or riot made a mistake by making it build out of item 1027. I'm hoping it'll get reworked in the offseason.

5050BS1 votes

See its on my list to buy but games never last long enough to get to my last item..

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