Dat hurricane on the PBE

Jefftiffy··1 votes·396 views

builds out of 4 daggers now (item 1043 = item 1042 + item 1042 + gold). IDK why you would buff an early game item this hard. Becuase people like Kalista who rely on it need to hold out for their power spike. Now there isn't going to be a window because on top of this recurve is getting damage put on it (although its an on hit effect).

Honestly item 3085 shouldn't be an item. It may have been fine at release, but this is an item that has been around for so long without any major changes that it is in a problem state. It has caused so many balance problems with being too weak on some champs while being god tier on people like Kalista, pre-nerf Twitch, AD Lulu , pre-nerf KogMaw , and pre-nerf Kayle . If an item keeps causing on hit effect champs to be broken it needs to be removed.

Now I can see recurve being put into Botrk, because the full build cost is pretty high for an item that is a staple on quite a few ADCs, but Runaan's doesn't need it. Runaan's really just needs to be removed so it isn't either thrash or broken and a new item should fill its place. (unless you want to rework it)

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Arcade Andrew1 votes

I cant wait for this, now getting it on teemo first wont be such a shitty idea

Zmuecat1 votes

Honest question: Was it really that much of a pain to get in it's current build path?

Arcade Andrew1 votes

Trying to rush it as the very first item? yes it is a pain in the ASS

Jefftiffy1 votes

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Honest question: Was it really that much of a pain to get in it's current build path?

No, but know you can build daggers into it making the build and stats smoother on as an early game item. Early game items do not need to be built extremely fast when they are already fast (look at what happened to static shiv when its popularity blew up due to a fast to build early game item with decent stats and even gold gen stuck onto a recipe item). It's how you make the game more and more oppressive. The faster someone can build a whole item while ahead, the more oppressive it is. Now same goes for the reverse since this game has no gold loss system. Plus recurrve bow will cost 200 more for more stats which is indeed a buff for people who haven't quite got enough for the Runaan's which speeds up everyone's power spikes who relies on it. On top of this Runaan's is an AS item which scales with AD as well meaning that as the game goes on it becomes more and more gold efficient.

If this goes through Kalista is going to get some pretty quick nerfs because she will have access if an extra 10 damage earlier as well as becoming near impossible to catch once she gets finishes her boots. ADC's should not be AoE based 100% of the time. If they have some AoE that isn't spammable and has a limit that's ok, but a free AoE to on targets applying on hits is stupid and is a sign of how old this item is.

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