On the Topic of the New QSS
Like many of you, I was quite surprised by the qss changes that went through on the PBE yesterday, and at first I was pretty upset with the changes. To be fair, I'm still not happy, but I understand a bit better why changes needed to happen.
and its cousin
, which I have never seen built ever, were just way too cost-efficient, even for the high price point. The active was too much of a catch-all, so there was rarely a reason to build something else instead of this item. The active was so powerful that we all bought
without a second thought, even though it offers almost no combat stats, and we would buy it on tanks and even Ryze, even though the upgrades are garbage for those champions.
So now we live in a world where
, among others, will run rampant, and nerfs will come through if and when they do. A thought I had though, which I'm sure is by no means original, is to have a sister item. It might share similar stats and upgrade paths, or it could be completely different, but it's designed with an active that covers the other half of the live qss. The two can be made to have the same unique active, so only one can be used at a time and share cooldowns, and buying both to still get both effects would either weaken your build considerably or outright make it terrible.
Just my thoughts anyway. Although I haven't seen any updates on
, so maybe it keeps full debuff removal? Or maybe I just reminded Riot that this item exists.