R Mana Cost Equalization List

Xeranis Azourael··2 votes·759 views

(Idk if this has already been discussed & I've no time to sift through all the threads to check, so here goes..)

@ Riot.. Live Balance Team(?)

Earlier this year(?), you guys started the initiative/"Standardization Pass" for Ult. [R] Mana Costs, making them all cost 100 Mana. Then sometime during summer(? {2015} ), however, you guys suddenly stopped & never really finished, now leaving 8 champions with mana costs that haven't yet been standardized. So, with Pre-Season 7 end quickly approaching already here halfway over, I've created this list as both a reminder & a check-off list of the remaining 8 champion ultimates that still haven't undergone the "Standardization Pass".

Here are the remaining 8 champion ultimates that still need your attention:

  • Amumu R Mana Cost: 100/150/200 → 100 at all ranks (increase cooldown during late game, if necessary)
  • Karthus R Mana Cost: 150/175/200 → 100 at all ranks (increase cooldown during late game, if necessary)
  • Teemo R Mana Cost: 75 → 100 at all ranks (decrease cooldown, if necessary)
  • TwistedFate R Mana Cost: 150/125/100 → 100 at all ranks (increase cooldown during early game, if necessary)
  • Vayne R Mana Cost: 80 → 100 (Fair is fair. Decrease cooldown, if necessary.)
  • Vi R Mana Cost: 100/125/150 → 100 at all ranks (increase cooldown during late game, if necessary)
  • Zilean R Mana Cost: 125/150/175 → 100 at all ranks (increase cooldown during late game, if necessary)
  • Zyra R Mana Cost: 100/120/140 → 100 at all ranks (increase cooldown during late game, if necessary)

(Not Included - champs with a toggleable DoT/spammy ultimate: Anivia, Corki, Kassadin, Kog'Maw, Maokai, & Swain)

Hope you guys can get to these ultimates sometime during this Pre-Season soon! (And not SoonTM.)

13 Comments

Xeranis Azourael1 votes

(Obligatory weekly BUMP, so Reds can see this, and until the above-listed R costs have been equalized to 100.)

Xeranis Azourael1 votes

B.U.M.P.

Xeranis Azourael1 votes

Draven & Orianna's Ult mana costs are now standardized! TY, Riot! =D Now, only 10 left to standardize!

Xeranis Azourael2 votes

[Updated OP.] Warwick & Singed's Ult mana costs are now standardized! TY, Riot! =D Now, only 8 left to standardize!

SaltyKracka1 votes

I rather suspect you're going to see Riot change the mana cost of most these just about...never.

Might do Draven and Vayne. Mebbe Zyra.

Xeranis Azourael1 votes

=( But..but..they must finish what they started! There's only 16 left! (*The completionist in me cries.*)

SaltyKracka1 votes

I certainly wouldn't expect them to change mumu, Karthus, or Singed.

Xeranis Azourael1 votes

Lol; I get Karthus, but Amumu & Singed?

And they could just increase the cooldown, couldn't they? (If the purpose was to gate/limit the frequency of usage..)

SaltyKracka1 votes

Mumu's is more to ensure that he uses it at the start of a fight and limits his spam after that, methinks.

Singed's ult just straight up gives him more mana than he spends on it.

Xeranis Azourael1 votes

If that's the case, they could always increase the cooldown on Amumu's ult, and nerf the MReg rate on Singed's ult. I'm open to compensatory re-balances elsewhere in a champion's kit, in order to be able to drop/raise their ult mana cost to 100 flat (at all levels).

Xeranis Azourael1 votes

Oh look.. Singed's Ult. mana cost finally got decreased to 100. : j

The Bearded Bard1 votes

I'm thinking there's a reason Karthus's is so high. On top of being a global nuke to all enemy champs, he can cast it for free while dead.

Xeranis Azourael1 votes

I'm totally fine with Riot giving his ult when casting while "dead", the same mana cost as when "alive", if it means lowering the cost to 100. =) If they need to tune his kit some other way, in order to compensate for the cost reduction, then so be it.

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