Considering that there are a lot of tanks who can make use of a big manapool like maybe Singed, Maokai or the upcoming Taric rework why not make an item that builds out of Tear of the Goddess and maybe a Giant's Belt? For them the current Tear options just grant too little defensive stats. It would also pair pretty nicely with all the Glacial Shroud and the upcmoning Catalyst of Eons upgraded items.
Meep Man4 votesYou mean Singed's favorite Tank item?
Mysticman893 votesIsn't roa basically tear+hp?
ETA: I suppose it has AP too which is wasted on many of the tanky sorts, who tend to be AD flavored anyway...
ArnoldSchwarzens1 votesIt does not give the 1k mana the other tear items give and it will give you even less once they patched it, so not really a good choice when looking for a big mana pool. It also has too much of it's cost invested in AP as you already said and while Singed scales with AP very well a lot of other tanks don't. And lastly, you could buy it in combination with the Tear-HP item, it would make for a pretty sick combo.
ChaddyFantome2 votesSame reason the Tank version of Mejai's was removed. Giving free tank stats for spells on an item that anyone can buy is kinda busted.
Leeerzeichen1 votesNo really Leviathan was removed because the stack items are supposed to be snowball items, which give you are huge advantage if you dont die (which gets harder, because the enemy team will focus you harder). The thing is that Leviathan decreased your chance of dying every time you got a kill, which is completely against the spirt of the item.
Tear items are no snowballing items, they are scaling items basically the exact opposite of a snowball item because if you are snowballing you want to get you stats immediately and not in like 10 or 20 minutes
Penguin Eclipse1 votesThe whole tear line needs to be overhauled. Almost no one buys either the AP or AD items and the upcoming tear rework is unlikely to change that.
theArtifacts1 votes