Rapid Firecannon

BattleBalladeer··1 votes·3,524 views

Here are the stats of a new item on PBE right now:

Rapid Firecannon

Recipe: Zeal (1200 Gold) + Kirchei’s Shard (750 Gold) + 550 Combine Cost = 2500 Gold Total

Grants 30% Attack Speed, 30% Critical Chance and 8% Movement Speed

Passive: Moving and attacking will make an attack Energized.

UNIQUE Passive – Firecannon: Your Energized attacks gain 35% bonus range (+150 range maximum) and deal 50-200 bonus magic damage (based on level) on hit.

Energized attacks function on structures.

Notice that it is not ranged only.

So lets theorycraft here.

Gangplank critplank is probably going to rock this. Bonus points if harassing with Energized Momentum Trial By Fire. Energized Momentum barrel farming. Garen , Mordekaiser (assuming anyone puts crit on morde) will now almost have Urgot's AA range (actually just 325 to his 425, unless it affects Garen's Q [I am currently trying to find the Range of Garen's Q])

Caitlyn will become a sniper truly obnoxious. Edit: 650 AA Range --> 800!?

The real important part of this is the line: "Moving and attacking will make an attack Energized." Does this mean that your attacks are only energized with A+Moves? Does it mean weaving movement and AA's increase damage?

Edit:

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it works exactly like shiv, but if it´s loaded you don´t get chainlightning but higher-range-poke instead (for 1 hit). It makes sieging incredible easy, as you can just patrol in front of the turrets and slowly kill them from save distance.. (and i really can´t see how a 35%increase for melees should help them out in those situations, it´ll still be built by marksmen only)

EDIT2: My original math on Garen/Morde was wrong. It would not give them 150 Range since the bonus range is 35% of their base. 233~ ish is the new range.

7 Comments

Earl Eulrich2 votes

Does this mean that your attacks are only energized with A+Moves? Does it mean weaving movement and AA's increase damage?

it works exactly like shiv, but if it´s loaded you don´t get chainlightning but higher-range-poke instead (for 1 hit). It makes sieging incredible easy, as you can just patrol in front of the turrets and slowly kill them from save distance.. (and i really can´t see how a 35%increase for melees should help them out in those situations, it´ll still be built by marksmen only)

BattleBalladeer1 votes

It could potentially help garen and morde land their Qs which are a huge part of their kits.

Gangplank has pretty big splitpush potential already with his passive dealing true damage to towers (the dev blog on his update mentioned him being a top tier splitpusher now or something) so if building this on Gangplank: it is probably for the crits, splitpush, melee 1 AA poke (this item will make harassing with his passive more rewarding and maybe even easier with the MS) and MS which are all staples of his kit now. The range itself isn't important for him at all (unless it affects his Q which I highly doubt but the wording is vague)

Thank you very much for the explanation of its function!

Earl Eulrich1 votes

for morde it wouldn´t do anything though...as onlyy his 3rd q is important and he would lose the stacks on the first q already. For GP Trinity still is a lot better to rush for Splipushing - and once you alreay have that IE is a lot more attractive than RF - also ER for the 40%CDR. So it´ll just stay a Gimmick for trollish-builds on melees, nothing for serious games.

BattleBalladeer1 votes

These are all good points (especially the Morde), but what about item 3071 , item 3742 , Firecannon on Garen ?

I still think Garen, who benefits from Crit and MS (as a juggernaut) a lot can use it. If the effect increases his Q range it will be harder for enemy casters to evade it.

Ralanr mentions Pantheon below. In a chase this could secure an execute if Q is on CD. I've had moments where just the tiny extra range of Trundle's Q secures kills. +150 on this execute would be handy. The crit chance would be redundant tho.

Edit: nvm I wasn't paying attention to the 35% bonus. If it does affect GP Q it would make pre-teamfight harass a lot safer, but still is stat-wise worse than other options.

For every other melee aside from Garen it is a horrible idea.

Item appears to have been made for Caitlyn or maybe Miss Fortune.

PapaGreg211 votes

Caitlyn will become a sniper? Lol

BattleBalladeer1 votes

I forgot for a moment that she has one of the highest AA ranges already. I remember a friend of mine complaining about laning against her and being zoned by AAs or something.

This weapon will synergize with Cait a LOT by giving her crit chance for her passive and increasing her already considerable AA range.

Ralanr1 votes

I kinda wanna try this with Pantheon.

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