AD Champions have four great keystones they can use depending on what exactly they need

Miraweave··4 votes·347 views

AP champions have one, unless they're named Swain or Brand. Hell, the champion who Deathfire Touch is best on is a goddamn ADC.

The point of the keystones was to give the player a choice of which exact thing they wanted. AD champions get that: they can go TLD if they want burst, Fervor if they're planning on being more DPS focused, Warlord's for sustain, and DFT if they're Jhin. AP champions basically have to pick Thunderlord's regardless of whether or not they're burst oriented, because they only have one other option and that option is intentionally weak in order to not be overbearing on champions with DOT abilities, at the expense of everyone else.

All four offensive keystones interact with AD in some way. Two interact with AP, and DFT is bad on almost every champion. If the two ability focused keystones are going to have AD ratios, maybe the two keystones that are currently AD exclusive should be modified to work on mages. Rework Vlad and then give Warlord's spellvamp. Maybe even give Fervor an alternate mode that does stacking magic damage on ability hits if you have more AP than bonus AD.

6 Comments

SanKakU1 votes

I was having trouble remembering what the name was. Was calling it a Boss Mastery. I'm actually thinking that due to the way the mastery pages work that playing a hero like Teemo as AP is just wrong.

Miraweave1 votes

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I was having trouble remembering what the name was. Was calling it a Boss Mastery. I'm actually thinking that due to the way the mastery pages work that playing a hero like Teemo as AP is just wrong.

Pretty sure with how balanced Rageblade is, onhit Teemo with Liandry's is the best build for him atm.

SanKakU1 votes

You are mentioning onhit Teemo...you mean like Jungle Teemo? And which is the one Deathfire Touch is best on? I don't like that keystone so I'm curious about that. Haven't used Rageblade since the changes to it assuming there were some, it was crap previously for a super long time I think.

I got a quadrakill with Teemo going AD but all the AP Teemos I see fail pretty hard and it doesn't work so well for me either.

Miraweave1 votes

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You are mentioning onhit Teemo...you mean like Jungle Teemo? And which is the one Deathfire Touch is best on? I don't like that keystone so I'm curious about that. Haven't used Rageblade since the changes to it assuming there were some, it was crap previously for a super long time I think.

I got a quadrakill with Teemo going AD but all the AP Teemos I see fail pretty hard and it doesn't work so well for me either.

I've mostly been trying it top lane. Rush Rageblade.

YumaS2Astral1 votes

Deathfire Touch is also pretty good on Malzahar and Karthus due to their DoTs.

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