Rylai's has way more efficiency, a much better passive, and is currently being built on basically every mage that's in the meta
God forbid a bruiser can slow you for 1 second after ramping up a passive, but it's ok for AP champions to permaslow you by 40% from range
Frozen Mallet sucks compared to Rylai's, Dead Man's plate is nerfed within a week, no AP bias tho
CreationFlaw1 votesI mean, it's pretty powerful. Do you go on the PBE? You literally get a full tank sion with Titanic hydra and it's active with that and you're doing like 700 damage with one auto attack.
Abyssphere1 votesThey're nerfing the armor component of the item because they're nerfing armor across the board and they don't want Dead Man's Plate being picked up because "it gives more stats than Randuin's", they want it picked for its passives. The nerf has absolutely nothing to do with its slow being too powerful, and as such is completely irrelevant to the balance state of Rylai's.
Rebonack1 votesOn champions with a spammy spell, Rylai's is better than poor Frozen Mallet in pretty much every way.
Stronger ranged slow. More cost efficient.
CreationFlaw1 votesOn champions with a spammy spell, Rylai's is better than poor Frozen Mallet in pretty much every way.
Stronger ranged slow. More cost efficient.
Except Frozen mallet is on auto attack, not spell cast.
kile1471 votesWhich meant more when slows stacked. Now it's just a constant slow from AA range, which is actually shorter range than some of the abilities that can keep Rylai's slow on you indefinitely.
Blumpkin Nation1 votesYou really can't compare the two. Considering the tank meta and still having a ton of gap closers, slows aren't really an issue anymore.
