Make Giant's Belt Build out of 2x Ruby Crystals

NamesRHard·12/20/2014, 5:05:07 PM·156 votes·6,173 views

For almost all defensive items, a Giant's Belt only builds into armor items and a Ruby Crystal only builds into magic resist items (I think Ohmwrecker is the only exception to this).

This can be punishing to tanks who typically build their first defensive item earlier in a game than other rolls when it may not yet be apparent who the biggest damage threat on the enemy team is.

Making Giant's Belt build out of two Ruby Crystals (plus a combine cost of 200 gold, keeping the total price the same) smooths out tank builds and gives tanks more early/mid game choices.

96 Comments

Saianna12/20/2014, 5:47:43 PM44 votes

How dare you trying to make tanks life easier?!

MrSexyHobo12/20/2014, 7:41:41 PM14 votes

i made a thread like this once and someone gave the arguement that it would be overpowered. mostly it just came down to not wanting to buff tanks and a lot of other bad arguments.

when you are behind its a lot harder to save 1000 gold up without losing lane than it is to save up 400, back and tp in, then save 600 for giants belt. the only thing it would be doing is helping a lane stay relevant if someone gets first blood top and then comes back with a brutalizer while you come back with 2 cloth armor and a potion and no hopes of building any hp in the forseable future

Chromatic Eagle12/20/2014, 6:08:46 PM8 votes

Isn't it supposed to be the B.F Sword and Needlessly Large Rod for tanks?

ImHerVoice12/20/2014, 8:02:05 PM7 votes

ungut giants belt So its not only 380 hp like a worthless sack of shit it is now..seriously 1,000 for basically half an ADC crit? Yeah good pricing on them items. Make it back to 400+

Call Me Khal12/20/2014, 6:30:24 PM6 votes

Something that helps out tanks? Sorry no-can-do we can't have that.

Kingsgrave12/20/2014, 11:09:18 PM5 votes

Buying Armor and MR is reactive. Buying Health is proactive. They don't want proactive purchases to be as easy or easier than reactive purchases.

Kingsgrave12/21/2014, 4:43:20 AM4 votes

Now that I have thought about it, its mostly the same reason Chain Vest and Negatron don't build into everything. They don't want Health stacking to be super smooth in power curve because it causes a lot of issues.