Conqueror: Resolve tree?

TheMoobile·4/25/2019, 7:12:32 PM·2 votes·1,347 views

Given the nature of conqueror in the sense it heals now, it's mostly taken for the ability to trade in long fights and get sustain through it, essentially a more accessible version of Grasp, healing on a % of damage dealt rather than % of max health.

The precision tree is there to amp the damage for squishy targets - and in the case of fleet footwork to provide minor sustain and provide additional mobility to avoid attacks; which squishy targets are meant to do.

Conqueror doesn't really do this, it doesn't amp DPS in the way PTA would (12% increase overall) or lethal tempo (exceeding attack speed cap) but it does provide some pretty good sustain (10% healing on damage dealt) - essentially a mini deaths dance/hextech gunblade.

In a very loose sense it makes people a "drain tank" they deal damage and heal off of it, much like drain tanks like Aatrox (more so old aatrox tbh) or Trundle do and I feel that is more along the lines of the resolve tree of just being able to survive through fights and dealing damage that way.

That's literally the whole premise of the resolve tree, you do damage by surviving. Aftershock provides armour and MR, Grasp provides sustain and additional damage scaling from health, Guardian grants shields and Conqueror should be here because it allows you to dish out damage and heal up from it.

TLDR: Move conqueror over to the resolve tree.

1 Comments

Lovelle5/1/2019, 3:11:51 AM1 votes

Agreed, the Precision tree is exponentially better for survival than the Resolve tree right now, at least for bruisers.

I used to take Grasp on Trundle, but since the new Conquerer dropped it's just been the superior rune for actually staying alive in combat, especially since he scales well with lifesteal. I barely even care about the damage aspect of the rune, as Trundle doesn't struggle to kill tanky targets to begin with. Basically, if your champion doesn't have synergizy with Aftershock there's no point in going Resolve as a primary, which kinda sucks.