This just heavily restricts his itemization.
now have to be core, every game purchases.
It's gimmicky, forced, and feels bad (especially when you consider that they aren't even the best items for Pyke in the first place).
Bonus AD scalings would be absolutely fine, but Lethality? Lethality?
No.
TehNACHO3 votesWoe the day the Assassin support must build Assassin items.
On a more serious note, I feel this is more of a commentary on Lethality items than it is necessarily on Pyke. You can pull something similar with any Assassin and it would still look funny. But if the Lethality item pool were as fleshed out as say, the Crit item pool or as diverse as the tank item pool, I don't think this complaint would stand.
LFG2 voteshonestly im ok with this.
Pyke was designed to be a Assassin, and also a support.
Currently I see too many games where Pyke is destroying games by himself.
Im not against a support role carrying a game by himself, but I see it as a problem when all hes building is stuff like 
for an assassin champion and have no downside.
Pyke was first designed to be a nontank, risk taking champion, but current Pyke is too much like a brusier.
With this new change he'll probably go back to building damage which is what Riot first designed him to be, and with building lethality, he'll be faster and longer stun duration,so theres some compensation for this.
This is like back in time before Akali's rework when tank Akali used to be a thing. Its better that Riot found this as a problem soon before Tank Pyke becomes more primary build.
And for why Lethality, if Riot choose to scale off of bonus AD for those Stun Duration and W's speed, people will then start building items with health/AD like 
, since Pyke was designed to be an assassin and lethality is whats popular for assassins, scaling off of those seems fine.
5050BS1 votesYa he is stupid tanky and then just vanishes for 5s and comes back healed to full all the while doing tons of damage.
YuGiHo1 votesthere should be more incentive for pyke an ad assassin support to build ad assassin items over tank items.
Bârd1 votes...then give him lower base values and higher bonus AD ratios.
If they want him to build AD that's fine, but the specific items he buys should be based on their synergies with his kit, not based on arbitrary conditions the devs set to shoehorn him into buying Ghostblade+Duskblade+EON every game.
YuGiHo1 votes...then give him lower base values and higher bonus AD ratios.
If they want him to build AD that's fine, but the specific items he buys should be based on their synergies with his kit, not based on arbitrary conditions the devs set to shoehorn him into buying Ghostblade+Duskblade+EON every game.
ok, lets say they gut his base values and give him good ratios. then he would just buy 
and 
every game. the lethality items do synergise with his kit people just dont by more than duskblade because there are just better items for him instead.