What if Manamune built like this:

Z3Sleeper··1 votes·180 views

item 1043 + item 3070

And gave this:

UNIQUE - SHOCK: Unit-targeted abilities and basic attacks on champions (on-hit) deal 2% current mana bonus physical damage. This effect only activates while you have greater than 20% maximum mana.

Just makes more sense to me that an on-hit item would be tied to, y'know, on-hit builds.

Full item looks like this:

item 3004 (cost unchanged) +30% Attack Speed +250 Mana

UNIQUE – AWE: Grants bonus attack damage equal to 2% maximum mana. Refunds 15% of mana spent.

UNIQUE – MANA CHARGE: Grants a charge every 4 seconds, up to 3 charges. Each basic attack or mana expenditure consumes a charge and grants +5 mana, up to a maximum of 750 mana.

UNIQUE – SHOCK: Unit-targeted abilities and basic attacks on champions (on-hit) deal 2% current mana bonus physical damage. This effect only activates while you have greater than 20% maximum mana.


item 3042 +30% Attack Speed +1000 Mana

UNIQUE – AWE: Grants bonus attack damage equal to 2% maximum mana. Refunds 15% of mana spent.

UNIQUE – SHOCK: Unit-targeted abilities and basic attacks on champions (on-hit) consume 3% current mana to deal 6% current mana bonus physical damage. This effect only activates while you have greater than 20% maximum mana.

5 Comments

Dead flag blues1 votes

Yes, and overbuffing KogMaw Varus at the same time.

C9 Squeeky 1 votes

Who do you see building your version of Manamune/Muramana? Just curious.

Z3Sleeper1 votes

Lucian Ezreal Kaisa Varus KogMaw Xayah possibly Sivir .

Essentially the same targets of Essence Reaver but geared more towards on-hits rather than AD/crit.

Kai'Sa is just there cuz I'm thinking it could work on her. Dunno if her Q counts as a single target spell but Attack Speed and AD are definitely in her sights for core itemization and I've seen Rageblade Kai'Sas seeing success.

iPooUnicorns1 votes

I don't think this is the right direction for Manamune. It's more oriented to AD champions who utilize both spells and auto attacks for their damage, like Jayce Ezreal.

I think it should build out of item 3070 item 3133 so it gives more than just damage. Additionally the Shock passive could be changed to apply with all physical damage dealt, (1/3 damage for AoE/DoT).

This would open the item up to more champions like Pantheon MonkeyKing Khazix Kayn Graves who are rather mana hungry when taken outside of the jungle. Also this wouldn't bring Ezreal out of line because only one of his abilities deals physical damage.

Z3Sleeper1 votes

Jayce is probably never going back to the Tear build since Lethality exists now and functions greatly on him.

Ezreal won't really take a hit from this. He'll lose 25 AD from the item that's made up for by the new on-hit from Manamune proccing on his Q's, keeping it relatively the same (though yes, slightly weaker I think). On the flip side, his earlier all-ins will be stronger with this due to the AS and the on-hit covering most of the lost AD.

I'm sure there are other options like what you suggested though, this is just a suggestion for a different path than what it was traditionally designed for.

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