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Riot, I want to address two items and a champion, and hopefully give an idea

Huebone·11/8/2016, 10:56:19 PM·1 votes·571 views

Hell I'm a Gnar main with around 350k mastery points on Gnar, and I've been playing since season 4, and I want to address my main. So as we all know, Gnar core items are item 3022 and item 3071, but I want to talk about the more hated one out of both. item 3022 .

Gnar has been a fun champion for me to play personally, and I hope it has been for everyone else, but Gnar has been flowing around the lowest winrate right now, only one step above Shen in top lane, and it's understandable why, he's a champion that depends on his team to know what he plans to do and depends on them to follow up, otherwise he loses. We saw that in the LCS, but we all know how annoying it is that item 3022 just let's him kite you infinitely and capitalize on your mistakes, I've been there, I've done it, and I know that Riot is eventually going to remove this item from the game for being so toxic, and I agree with them. But I want them to give Gnar an item that would benefit him and other champions that want to be tanky without being completely useless. item 3025 The Iceborn Gauntlet.

Hear me out, item 3025 has been giving me the love eyes lately, and I love building it for fun, and it adds up so well,** the slow isn't super oppressive**, the sheen proc helps mini Gnar in clearing waves, and Mega Gnar in dueling, not to mention that he could get max CD with item 3071. But I wish Riot would make it more viable for champions that aren't Ezreal or Malphite , of course there's Nasus, but the cs he hits with that zone don't add into his Q, so he's better off building item 3078 , and so is Ezreal, but that's a different topic I don't want to argue right now. So Riot, please, consider changing the mana to something else. Before There's an argument, I'd like to say that some tank champs would like that mana, but I'd also like to point out that those champions have item 3110, and other than Ezreal , I haven't seen item 3025 be used offensively.

That is all. I hope you all view this opportunity like I do, to get rid of the perma slow item 3022, and allow more champs to build item 3025, which include Gnar Shyvana Shen, 2 of which would love it. And if given more health while getting rid of the mana, it would help ALL tanks who like this item to build it and feel more useful. And I know Ezreal would probably suffer a bit however, now that he would have to go more offensively withitem 3078 instead of being safer with the extra slow he got from building it(that added to his blink, summoner 4 and high range) . Thank you all for your time.

3 Comments

Shifthappen111/8/2016, 11:46:36 PM2 votes

Thats an interesting idea, perma slow is quite oppressive and it would make sense to diminish the accessibility by giving it a cooldown, but IBG is quite niche and not accessible to most champions since you need to : have an easy way to land auto attacks for the slow ( dash, range or both), need cdr, need mana AND need tankiness.

Making it less heavy in the mana department and giving it another stat could be a way to make it replace FM, or better yet, have 2 different ways to get it much like some rylai changes suggested by a mob about 2 different paths, one for utility and good slow and one for damage and okayish slow, but not all of them at once.

It's certainly a good idea on where to start to make slow possible, but not THAT oppressive.

Boulderox11/8/2016, 10:58:44 PM1 votes

Ezreal shows he can still do the perma slow with it at times, and with the boomerang it can be just as bad at time, and because we just got over item 3025 item 3068 meta, i would rather not have that be the thing again....