Can we buff Dark Harvest's to 6 damage per stack over 5

XeroKimo·12/31/2018, 8:47:53 PM·1 votes·1,779 views

Call me crazy, I understand that dark harvest on rework was a pretty big mess, but now that the base damages are in line enough that it isn't a major issue early, they need to look at it's late game again due to the previous scaling nerfs, It doesn't even have to be big.

Currently Dark harvest can match Electrocute with 24 stacks, but that's only in base damage, due to the higher scaling Electrocute has, it still has the advantage over dark harvest.

If we assume a 300 bonus AD, it requires an extra 9 stacks to match electrocute and the difference gets greater the more bonus AD or AP the champion has. For a total of 33 stacks, on average, I doubt that is something that is achievable in a average game, which really makes taking the keystone not worth at all anymore.

If it was buffed to 6 damage per stack, using the same example, it takes 20 stacks to match Electrocute's base damage, and an extra 8 stacks, which brings it down to 28 stacks, still pretty hard to achieve, but it should be more achievable making it just ever so slightly more worth sacrificing that early game damage.

2 Comments

ValyrianBlade12/31/2018, 9:01:59 PM2 votes

You're missing the big power advantage dark harvest has over electrocute: the cooldown basically resets on kill/assist.

That means in a late-game teamfight, you can get out 5 dark harvest procs whereas you could only get out 1 (or maybe 2) electrocute stacks.

24 stacks makes them break even in damage on one target, but realistically it's much less than that to break even on damage contributed to a whole fight (assuming you can get through the first target).

Daddy Ants12/31/2018, 8:54:01 PM1 votes

No thanks.

Toxic keystone is toxic.