Does anyone actually build GLP
Genuine question. When's the last time you've seen someone take it over ludens or tear.
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I wanna say I've seen it on eve?
Funnily enough, I don't think that the problem is that the item is weak. I think that the problem is that AP champions have an overabundance of utility items with lackluster stats and powerful actives, and GLP doesn't make the cut due to
- Being designed to be a rush item, when you usually want your utility item at least second after a stat-stick.
- Having a somewhat more finicky active than the competition.
just outclass GLP in most situations imo.
Sol builds it no?
Other than that most AP guys just get Rylais when they need a slow, more reliable and works better with Liandries.
Very niche item, kind of like ER or Manamune
I see it every now and then on champs who want the dash. I never build it though.
Not anymore. Even when its the optimal buy it feels to weird and awkward to purchase.
GLP is no different from several other items: not worth getting when compared to the alternatives. The last time I saw it used was by a challenger Malzahar on a youtube video a month or so ago. He build GLP, shurelias, and laughed saying "I'm embracing the midlane support". Thats when I stopped watching
I honestly think that GLP is a sleeper item that's a lot better than most people make it out to be. I take it all the time on some of my core picks. If you're an assassin, the item offers more burst than Ludens (actually about double at level 18) and the slow is extremely useful, in addition to the buildpath of gunblade (which is a great item in lane). I take it on Leblanc frequently so I can hit the completed power spike earlier, and I use it on some supports, depending on the game (Bard, Zilean, karma) for the cheap stats.
i build it on veigar 100% of the time. Perfect engage tool to slow them and set up the cage
sometimes i get it as 
for an easy charm (even when my ult isn't up) + additional burst and an early powerspike
anyway it's still really situational and there is always a better option ( or 
),i think that with a bit more scalings on its active we would see it more often
I would build it on people like 
who have a CC move they like to land before they combo off, but the fact that GLP can be body blocked makes me not want it. I think I'd buy GLP if it pierced through enemies or just slowed everyone in a cone in the target direction, even if it dealt slightly less damage.
Another issue with GLP is it basically shuts down so many other AP item purchases since it's connected to two different item lines. Purchasing GLP basically makes you unable to purchase:
This is due to conflicting UNIQUE Passives, UNIQUE Actives, the way slows work, and conflicting with then you want to buy RoA. I would change RoA to be a part of the 
line of items instead of 
to be honest. Then maybe make a few other changes to GLP to make it then not compete so heavily with .
On the rare occasion, I build it on Veigar, A Sol, or Zyra.
Besides that, It's more of a TT item now because ROA isn't great on that map.
I build it on lux and morg, pretty cancer if you paired it with twin shadows, pretty much you peel, or guarentee a Q hit, or you can give chase, pretty cancerous when paired with ingenious hunter
I think it's one of the most underrated items, atleast if you are premade with you're jungler and can coordinate plays. Many champs can use it to sewt up their own CC and creat picks, and if you have you're mates to capitalize on that you can easily sacrifice some damage for it(though it actually bursts as much as ludens)
Thalia can use it to prep her E+W combo, Veigar can set up an easy stun, Morgana/lux can land easy bindings, LB can easily connect her chains(though she also likes gunblade for that)...there are plenty uses. Depending on the matchup, you can spice things up with glacial augment which means getting into AA range duering lane set's up you're combo, and later on the slow fields created by GLP are quite solid controll for fights.
I build it on zoe sometimes.....
What is GPL again?
Is that the one that shoots the ice spikes?
If so I've never seen it built in a ranked game.
I've seen people use it for waveclear, so I'd imagine champions with bad waveclear could build it. The active CD is really short, tbh.
Can't see many champions building this over RoA/Luden's though.
I take it with off-meta supports that need the extra cc. Or when I try to force someone into support.
Otherwise I do it with victor for the "Hextech", the E + GLP + Glacial Synergy, and etc.
Honestly, people underestimate this item. The slow is cancer with Glacial and it becomes AoE pathed.
Its the passives. The ludens prioritizes champions and can be used frequently whiles also providing nice wave clear. Glp has an active which most players don't like to begin with and over it results in less dmg. Aerlion sol benefits pretty well from it so he can line up his stars better resulting in more over all effectiveness. Problem is you don't see many of those. When you see mages you are seeing ludens because the popular mages don't have much need for that active while a ludens proc is always good.
GLP was good at the start of the season. Eternity was nice, and the active was great with Glacial Augment--In narrow passages, like the river or jungle, you could have a slow field as large as Lissandra's ultimate.
The build path change wasn't awful...but they also made it so that the bolts no longer pass through their targets, which was a massive nerf to GLP + Glacial Augment.
There's no point in using it anymore.
Nyarlathοtep8/21/2018, 7:37:27 AMYesterday. Having to deal against fast moving champs (not mobile) when your spells are slow as they fk force you to buy this poop of an item.