Ohmwrecker or OhmBetter?

No Good Deed·5/21/2015, 10:39:22 PM·9 votes·864 views

Not sure if this is the right board for this but, now hear me out, but WHAT IF they added the effects of the old Fortify summoner spell to Ohmwrecker item 3056 so to be used both offensively and defensively. I mean they itemized "Surge" with the Rage Blade item 3124 right? and "Promotion" with Banner of Command item 3060, so why not the same with this? I think I remember reading somewhere that they were going to do something like this, but then nothing.
It could be like:

Unique Active: Empowers nearby allied towers granting them invulnerability and Maximum attackspeed (2.5) for 4 seconds (120 second cooldown). This effect cannot be used with the same tower more than once every 8 seconds.

I don't know. Tell me what you think.

8 Comments

Teridax685/21/2015, 11:33:01 PM7 votes

I'd rather Riot reinforced the offensive power of Ohmwrecker and made it affect enemy structures in a way that doesn't just run out come late game. Right now, I think a big reason why Ohmwrecker isn't picked is because towers hardly feel like a threat past the first few levels, so building an item designed specifically to make them situationally less threatening doesn't have as much of an impact as it should. The other big problem is that the usefulness of Ohmwrecker decreases as a match progresses, and the same would apply even to the active you're proposing, since eventually there would be no towers to disable or empower. I think it would be worth having Ohmwrecker temporarily open up the enemy's base gates to allow better infiltration and attacks, since that would allow it to make a late-game contribution that would also have an unlimited amount of uses.

junglerboy165/22/2015, 1:10:14 AM3 votes

I just like it as an item because if/when I ever buy it (pretty rare but does happen) I get to say "Get Ohm-rekt" after using it to towerdive.

Davy Crockett5/21/2015, 11:41:53 PM1 votes

This would be a great addition. I usually build it to siege the towers and want to tower dive.

khorney5/21/2015, 10:42:23 PM1 votes

they were suppsoed to do that to the item but i guessed that got scraped. as in it was supposed to buff own turret daamge by 100% for 3 secs or something like that and debuff turrets like it does now.

Jungle Lux God5/22/2015, 1:23:39 AM1 votes

One of Ohmwrecker's biggest problems is that it's not very useful when you are behind. This would certainly make it a lot better when behind, when you can't use it to dive enemy turrets, and also keeps its turret-focused niche.

The problem is that, when stacked, this item would basically be used to stall out sieges for a ridiculously long time. Stack it on 5 people, take turns fortifying it every minion wave, and suddenly the enemy team cannot push down your turrets because each minion wave the tower would get fortified, take no damage, kill all the minions, and then reset until the next minion wave comes. Which takes about 30 seconds(?) to come out, giving long enough time to have a near-permanent fortify on the turret; either the fortify effect is not active or there are no minions to take the turret.

What's the solution for the other team? Buy Ohmwrecker and kill the enemy team. How dare the losing team try to stall out a game indefinitely! Buy Ohmwrecker to disable the enemy turret, dive them, kill them, and then take the turret when there are no champions to fortify it.

Basically, with this kind of item in this kind of state, the game would essentially be in a state where Ohmwrecker is a must-have item on at least on person on each team, if not all five players would get it, with that kind of state.

It would stall out games, and make early game champions that fall off and champions that are weak early and late and spike in the midgame would basically be suboptimal, whereas late-game team comps would be the ideal strategy by a large margin because there is relatively low risk.

SpaghettiTime5/22/2015, 3:33:14 AM1 votes

Late game Rammus with Fortify sitting under turret? Better dive him.

Puri Puri Taric5/22/2015, 11:15:54 AM1 votes

more like ohm-later.