Ok... I'm realizing why StormRazor is a degenerate item.

Gamer Gallade·9/27/2018, 6:47:05 AM·66 votes·18,294 views

Seriously. Why does that item need to exist?

To boost ADC's damage better for early.

Well it's working but it's not healthy in the long term of the adc meta.

My opinion there.

It's a horrible item that shouldn't have ever been made.

62 Comments

Thefrostyviking9/27/2018, 9:37:25 AM28 votes

I honestly think so as well, the entire idea of the crit rework was to push back marksmen early but stormrazor promotes a rather extreme early snowball/burst meta for botlane much more often than not.

Even if they wanted to raise the early game a bit the answer shouldnt have been burst, half the reason crit and specifically IE and static were changed is because they added too much burst.

Now marksmen like Ashe and kog feel miserable as hell to play because they dont play as the others do :(

Like sure i can play MF or even Cait, chill out the early with some poking and just scale up to a monster of burst/range and go from there.......but god its so boring.....but at least its safe between range and movespeed.

But if i try to play Ashe i get deleted before i can even activate my Q.......no options for self peel or protection against assassins, divers of skirmishers except staying far away as hell, and if caught its a instant death.

Like i am pretty sure a average Ashe has like 50% winrate and a good one has 52%, great ones might have 55........as compared to average kai sa having also around 50% but good one has anything between 55% to 60%, really good ones can go above that up to 70%.

The gap between many champs has become extreme, no matter how well some play they will never beat others just based on that, even without directly countering.

Now i wont say Ashe is the perfect example by any means but other lanes have similar issue´s as far as i know, i think its worth considering.

Death Rex9/27/2018, 1:00:52 PM10 votes

I never understood why they even thought that this is a good idea. It has everything an ADC wants except lifesteal. It gives you ms for kiting, a guaranteed powerful first hit for perfect trades and AS for better waveclear. Insanely good, they need to either change it to a niche item or just straight up delete it with an explanation that it was an experiment.

Póppy Chulo9/27/2018, 5:00:46 PM7 votes

They added item 3095 due to the removal of early crit and probably also to help adcs run around between autos kind of like a caster mage, cause onshot meta is scary.

But the problem is why remove crit early? They said that it added too much burst damage to squishies, champs like Vayne could tumble one shot. So why not just change item 3031 to do the true damage conversion on crit, and leave everything else the same.. It blows my mind.

Kaìju9/27/2018, 1:18:06 PM7 votes

That item breaks the rules of the class. There is a reason they didn't make items that give crit, attack speed, and AD before, it's because an item like that is busted.

THE RlVER KlNG9/27/2018, 9:02:12 PM5 votes

stormrazor and duskblade are both badly designed items.

they should not ever have been made. items should very rarely if ever give actual damaging effects, which riot has been pushing on them a lot over the last few seasons. items should give stats, unique passives, and cool actives that aren't necessarily all about damage.

is it okay to have the occasional luden's, gunblade, dead man's plate? yeah, sure. but items shouldnt artificially add damage to a kit outside of the stats that they provide. its a similar issue with the new runes.

Mordepool9/27/2018, 12:57:06 PM4 votes

Perhaps if it gave a big spike in power but the passive worked opposite with ATK speed. So the more ATK speed you have the longer the delay.

Make it a early game crutch sure. Not a scaling item

HÔPÊ9/27/2018, 8:46:21 PM4 votes

Both Duskblade and Stormrazor were a mistake.

Herlgar9/28/2018, 12:26:15 AM4 votes

Remember how Ashe's passive used to be increasing crit chance over time when not attacking, and it took over 16 seconds at level 10 to get 100% crit chance from 0%? Now everyone can have 100% crit chance every two seconds!

Sharpest glasses9/27/2018, 1:51:50 PM3 votes

Well it's working but it's not healthy in the long term of the adc meta.

ADC meta ??? what's this ? aren't we in adc meta since x years ?

Nøctμrne9/28/2018, 1:41:17 AM3 votes

Well I main Nocturne I can't become much more of a degenerate, so I buy it.