Ardent censer
Hello,
I'd like us to talk about ardent censer.
When released it seemed like good idea and frankly I was pretty excited about it.
But as you all can see, it is almost never built. So what is the problem? At first sight you would thought that its passive (which is the most visible thing) is great and probably quite "OP" but in reality it is not. The main reason is that for ardent to be poweful you would need to build it in lanig phase. But ardent is too expensive, you would need to start building it right from the start of the game.
And here is another but. What ardent censer has in passive it lacks in stats. It has quite nice mana regen but only 40AP and 10%cooldown. It basically gives nothing. if you wat regen you buy cricible. If you want AP you pick something from many AP items League has. And if you want cooldown just random buy anything and you will end up with 40% cooldown. But yes i does give movepent speed, which is nice but it wont help much.
Ardent is item for utility supports and these supports are easy food for tank and aggresive supports. Ardent does not reward utility supports enough and it basically says: "stay behind and spam heals/shields" that is not much interactive play.
I am not criticizing or anything I'd just like to know what is the point. And will be anything done about it. Because it actually has a nice passive.
) not doing terribly well with it - even Nami, who has a heal, and Thresh, who as a shield, can't really use it due to how their respective thing works - both of them only have a single single-target effect.
, I like to use it as a boot replacement (475 without regular boots - only had Boots 0.8, aka 
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- last game, and I didn't even buy a major AP item yet) if we have at least 2 champions who benefit from AS.
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, who can persistently have it on her whole team (and even like the mana regen overkill with Crucible).
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is great item to survive until you build somthing from it, but then again Ardent takes awhile to build. 
is also interesting item but purely made for agressive play. Someone like Lulu for whom you rather build some HP or