why is spear of shojin allowed to exist

dunkmaster putin··5 votes·3,158 views

top lane is usually decided by who gets the early kills(in solo queue anyway) but spear of shojin breaks this dynamic by making you unable to lose 1v1 to anyone, unless you are several thousands of gold behind. Meaning that even if you're behind you can still splitpush and 1v1 or 1v2 anyone that tries to stop you, just because you built spear of shojin.

This item alone also changes how a team approaches a teamfight. Normally you could just kind of ignore a renekton late game in a teamfight, now your entire team needs to pour resources into cc'ing him so he doesn't kill anything he touches. The item alone makes the entire team need to play around it or they'll lose.

The item itself is pretty good cost efficiency wise, considering it has one of the most game changing effects of any item. And there's nothing stopping Riven Jax Renekton from just rushing it and never losing a 1v1 again, they just need to smash their keyboard against the opponent and win automatically because they have so much cc and dmg from the effect alone. It even provices enough cdr to lower their ult cd enough to constantly have ult up.

5 Comments

Alzon2 votes

Just rework it so it doesn’t have regular CDR in addition to the passive. There, it’s fixed, and can probably be taken on more champions who don’t appreciate the CDR as much but who still want the passive, while no longer giving Riven everything she needs in a perfect statball.

HommeGoujon1 votes

I thought the Spear was a worse version of the previous ER? Or did I miss something?

MessyStuff2 votes

Pretty much except some champions abuse it. Like Master Yi, Jax, and Riven to some point.

Ginjavitis3 votes

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I thought the Spear was a worse version of the previous ER? Or did I miss something?

It’s better for the abusers because it still give AD but now also gives health and no mana which means there are no wasted stats in buying it like there used to be.

SammyDayspring1 votes

I played against the twice tonight. Both players did poorly until they bought this item. Then it was nearly impossible to counter their constant spells. It was a Yi and Jax. Riot needs to stop making these items that are so OP on only a few champions and that have little to no counter play. They keep adding complexity to the game when they can't balance what they currently have. It is getting so boring.

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