Change suggestion to Zhonya's Hourglass

BLIGHTBRINGER··2 votes·1,820 views

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item 3157 Zhonya's Hourglass

###Changes

  • No longer builds from Fiendish Codex.
  • Total cost increased from 2900g to 3200g (3 items = 3000g + 200g to finish).
  • Now builds from Seeker's Armguard > Lost Chapter > Stopwatch.
  • Zhonya's Hourglass now has slightly different stats (+300 Mana).

###New Zhonya's Hourglass Stats

+75 Ability Power +45 Armor +300 Mana +10% Cooldown Reduction

https://i.imgur.com/qIrVRrg.png

###New Build Path

item 3191 Seeker's Armguard (1100g)

+30 Armor +20 Ability Power

  • UNIQUE Passive: Killing a unit grants 0.5 Armor and Ability Power. This bonus stacks up to 30 times (+15 Armor and +15 Ability Power).

item 3802 Lost Chapter (1300g)

+40 Ability Power +300 Mana

  • UNIQUE Passive - Haste: +10% Cooldown Reduction.
  • UNIQUE Passive: Upon leveling up, restores 20% of your Maximum Mana over 3 seconds.

item 2419 Stopwatch (600g)

  • UNIQUE Active - Stasis: Champion becomes invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but is unable to move, attack, cast spells, or use items during this time (one time use).

https://i.imgur.com/qIrVRrg.png

###The goal of these changes

  • Make it less punishing for Mages who decide to buy Zhonya's Hourglass as a first item against Assassin match-ups (A way to deal with them, how they use Hexdrinker to deal with Mages).

  • Replace Fiendish Codex item with an item that provides more than some Ability Power and Cooldown Reduction, one that would be far more useful for a similar price cost, Lost Chapter (gold difference between the two items = 400g) which is an item that every Mage heavily relies on in the early game.

  • To avoid such a change being somewhat balance breaking, increase the total cost of the item up to 3200g.

https://i.imgur.com/qIrVRrg.png

###Is this a kind of change, that you would support?

6 Comments

Even1 votes

its already rly good best mage item in the game

HP Crookshanks1 votes

That looks too strong because every AP champion with mana will rush item 3157 as first item almost everytime. But it could be great to compete with the broken item 3155&AD champs.

Craktite1 votes

no-mana ap champ?? They pref actual item 3157 , 300 less gold + 0 useless stats x)

HP Crookshanks1 votes

Sorry I should have said every AP champion with mana.

LBmyBB1 votes

zhonyas is already too expensive tbh.

BLIGHTBRINGER1 votes

I didn't knew what kind of compensation nerf to suggest for something that improves the item this much. Any suggestions?

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