Lich bane: life steal off the 75% physcial damage?

LilxPaprika··2 votes·1,102 views

So i was thinking one way to buff akali or kata now that dfg is gone would be to give lichbane's sheen proc some life steal. This is such a minor buff its laughable. we're talking peanuts of a difference. But still a buff no less. The reason I think this would work is because lichbane is like to only other item aside from dfg that gave you extra burst aside from your kit. Lich bane would pair very well with gunblade imo.

The following is a post i made a while back in the now archived boards Lich bane: life steal off the 75% physcial damage?Source

Would be nice if this could be tested out in pbe. I'd like to try it on jax with rageblade. I think it would be balanced since you have to itemize for lifesteal which would take up slot making you more bruiser oriented. granted rageblade is nice in that it can provide for the ap as well. but the lifesteal is only obtained at risky health levels.

It'd be kind of like nidalee q it does magic damage but can still lifesteal. i dont see it being game breaking since without much magic pen ull lifesteal less from lb and with magic pen items you sacrifice ad.

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Phife1 votes

just stop. Nidalee's going to get nerfed again once people realize her jungle potential now.

LilxPaprika1 votes

oops meant to type akali

Phife1 votes

kat wont utilize this at all and akali doesn't need that type of buff.

Chaotic Reks1 votes

i like this idea, but kat does not need any compensation in anyway.

Phife1 votes

Akali's problem is disengaging after engaging and her power levels are tuned a bit too high to start buffing her disengage.

LilxPaprika1 votes

With the resurfacing of Fizz

I think characters like fizz have a sort of identity crisis. Reason being the minute a champion can scale off some ad its often best to just comit to going full ad. And I think the number one culprit is sustain. Lich banes inability to lifesteals makes going triforce the better option. i think this change to bane would be timely and needed. If however lichbane could lifesteal (in the same fashion as nidalee's q (despite doing ap damage)) you could pair lich bane nicely with gunblade, botrk or rageblade.

If it were up to me I'd even give lich bane's sheen proc 100% ad (instead of 75) (it builds from sheen after all so why should it be less on the final item). and lower the ap ratio a tad. Just like iceborngsuntlet. Except instead of slow active each auto attack also deal a portion of their ap. And instead of armor and extra mana u get movement speed and more base ap on the item.

the following i think is by far the best solution: * **You could even lower the ap ratio on your next auto attack after spellcast all the way down to just 25% (from 50%)(or 30% depending on pbe test results) but increase the item's base ap up to 100 (from 80). that way it works nicely on both champions who don't use lifesteal but wish to get more out of their deathcap giving their spells more dmg. and it doubles as a good way to give hybrid champions who lean a bit more on the ap side a way to benefit from it. ** like udyr or nasus even.

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