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Void Staff And Hourglass are a bit too strong

Praexis·7/19/2019, 9:12:50 AM·2 votes·1,159 views

Here me out on this one. AP items seem to be a bit too strong right now and are quite a bit stronger than their AD counterparts, the most egregious of the lot being Void Staff and Hourglass.

Like how come Void Staff gives more penetration, more damage, and is cheaper than Lord Dominik's Regards? It makes no sense to me at all. Like how come that item is allowed to give 5% more penetration and 25 more damage but also have the bonus of being 150 gold cheaper than the AD version?

Hourglass is the AP item that counters AD champions and Maw of Malmortius is the AD counter to AP champions but Hourglass is way better than Hourglass. The only thing Maw has over Hourglass is that it gives 5 more MR than Hourglass gives armor. Hourglass is not only 350 gold cheaper than Maw but it also has better build components and gives more damage than Maw does even when Maw has Lifeline triggered. They provide damage negating actives, Maw with Lifeline and Hourglass with Stasis but Stasis is a way better active. Going back to build components Fiendish Codex gives 10 more damage and is 200 gold cheaper than Caulfield's Warhammer while also giving 10% CDR just like Warhammer. Seeker's Armguard when fully stacked up gives 15 more damage and 10 more armour than Hexdrinker while also being 200 gold cheaper, though Hexdrinker has the better active. Lastly Stopwatch is just Hourglass active but 600 gold and one time use and it still reduces the cost of Hourglass once used. So in the end Hourglass has a way smaller finishing cost than Maw along with a better active, better components, better stats overall, and is far cheaper.

So yeah, the gap between AD and AP items, especially in the penetration and defensive category is rather obvious and either Void Staff and Hourglass should be nerfed or Lord Dominik's Regards and Maw of Malmortius should be buffed.

6 Comments

TheBrothersGrymm7/19/2019, 9:34:32 AM3 votes

alot of ap items are op, historically ap scales better on most ability than ad does, alot of ap items are cheap af, and have insane passives, zhonyas is ok, but void needs to be like 30-35%

ap items are babied, for instance, tiamat went from 1200 to 1375, but like you look at lost chaper, its 1300, gives u 40 ap and mana, and heals mana on lvl up, with cdr built in, while tiamat just lets you push, and do a lil extra damage

Pxerkza7/19/2019, 9:16:19 AM2 votes

except for the stasis effect hourglass is a shit tier item

of all the ap items that are op these 2 are not

Posui Gart7/19/2019, 10:04:14 AM1 votes

Void Staff is the only source of %mpen, while there are 3 options for %armorpen(even if 2 of them don't stack with each other) Hourglass is OP in certain conditions, and a suicide button in others, while Maw is more consistent. AD also have Mercurial and Wit's End as anti-magic items. Overall I think they are balanced between each other I personally think Hourglass active should be removed/reworked(maybe something like "takes 50% less damage, deals 50% less damage, moves at 100 ms for 2.5 sec" would be more fair active), and Hexdrinker is too viable as first item on AD champions that are not ADCs.