Why does Duskblade's passive last for 5 seconds?

TheShréktEffect·11/20/2017, 9:13:38 PM·11 votes·549 views

I am so sick and tired of getting oneshot by the enemy J4 who builds duskblade and then full tank, or by the enemy Zed, or Kayn, or Talon or any stupid AD assassin with this dumbass item. Given it's ward-disabling passive, one might think that Duskblade is supposed to be an item for stealthy champions who can proc it effectively. What exactly is stealthy in running half-way down midlane straight through the entire enemy team and still being able to proc the bonus damage?

It's not stealthy. It's not flanking, there's no careful and clever positioning involved. It's literally just fucking walking up to someone in the 5 seconds and hitting them, and BOOM, they fucking explode, because Duskblade. Why has it not been nerfed to only last 1-1.5 seconds yet? Make it a stealthy item or nerf its damage. This is ridiculous.

P.S. Fuck Jarvan

5 Comments

DemonBoneJangles11/20/2017, 10:37:22 PM2 votes

part of the issue is that the champions that use this item are the ones with the highest mobility or most mechanically simple engages, (jarvan for example has an AoE ult that blocks movement and deals damage) whereas the stealthy champions that I believe duskblade was intended for have limiting factors outside of their ability to stealth and sneak up on you, I believe the ward finding passive should instead make the user immune to ward vision (kind of like they can pass the ward but it doesn't register that they are there) for 1.5 seconds after being spotted by an enemy ward, while also activating the usage timer for the damage portion of duskblade, this would mean that yes you got spotted but the natural powers of the item protected you from the ward this time, you now have to use the damage portion of the item or it goes on cooldown and you have to wait 10 seconds before it can be procced or you can be protected from another ward.

Karn Bishop11/21/2017, 4:46:27 AM2 votes

What upset me even more is there were no changes to deal with lethality abusers at all, not even a nerf for ezreal, in fact the only champion they nerfed was rammus which is funny as rammus is only strong when super strong AD people are way too strong.

I expected rammus nerfs however i also expected nerfs to lethality and duskblade, instead we recieved zero balance changes wtf.

iPooUnicorns11/21/2017, 4:50:00 PM2 votes

Duskblade is the bandage solution to the massive failure that was the Assassin class update.

EkyonKun11/21/2017, 2:22:33 AM1 votes

It's funny. It almost seems like they accidentally reversed the numbers but never noticed. Like it should be:

"If unseen for 5 seconds, after being seen for 1 second or less your next basic attack does ___ bonus physical damage"

You know. Kind of like. I dunno. A fucking assassin.

Teriyaki Bukkake11/21/2017, 3:03:11 AM1 votes

Agree with you!

Items seriously unhealthy and has no place in the game in its current state!

UPVOTED!