Athene's needs shield + heal power

Nhifu·3/16/2019, 7:52:36 PM·1 votes·1,345 views

Hello! Just wanted to bring up this concept for all of the Utility players that play mid.

The general idea is that we give Athene's unholy grail a shield + heal bonus, while lowering the healing effect it gives to keep it as a healthy item. The reasoning behind this change is so that players can actually shield themselves more to survive better.

Overall it would heal your team the same amount, just now you can shield yourself for a little bit more (10% heal shield bonus).

Lux Orianna Lulu etc So let's say you rush this item right now in the game, completely understandable to rush it.. but when your ADC flashes out of the fight and you try to shield yourself (Keep in mind Athene's only grants magic resist and not AD). So in match ups against Pyke, or any ADC in the lane means going Athene's is instant death.


In general, the whole concept behind Athene's is that you constantly poke, making your shields heal. But without a heal+shield bonus to the item, you die in the middle of trying to poke.


7 Comments

Frosted Tips3/16/2019, 7:59:44 PM8 votes

No. Athene's is already a great item and it is designed for supports you already build heal shield item, but adding a heal shield effect would, put too many heal shield effects into the game.

HP Crookshanks3/16/2019, 8:12:55 PM1 votes

item 3174 was a decent item when it had +20% cdr and mana regen was more common. Now it's a terrible item because it's stats are really weak and healing is not noticeable at all. It would be great if it came back as first item alternative to item 3285 for mages because they keep building the same items over and over now.

Terozu3/16/2019, 9:17:57 PM1 votes

It... it already has a flat healing bonus.

And adding shield + heal power, wont make you tankier...

MankeyMadness3/16/2019, 9:49:55 PM1 votes

Athenes isn't a rush item. Its designed to fit item 3311 item 3504 item 3107 builds by turning those items into around 90 AP (+50 + 80 +18 from runes and possibly more with Waterwalking or Gathering Storm)

Works great on Soraka Nami Lux. Janna doesnt need it, Sona builds item 3040 and othet supports don't shield enough.

Orianna is almost trolling but her E is really strong once you have 3+ items, granting shield + healing + 50 armor/mr letting your squishier engages last longer and cause more Command: Havoc from R