This item is garbage and clearly inferior to
even after the next patch's pbe nerfs spirit visage is overwhelmingly superior to adaptive helm,at this point i can not even understand why riot bothered releasing this new item if its obsolete from release day.
Anomander4 votes
all really hate it
Rainfall1 votesdoes not look like it.without even considering spirit visage's passive you're trading 125-150 hp and 5 mr for a mere 15% damage reduction from the same spell/effects.
Rainfall3 votesfor this item to be worth you would have to receive 1000 damage from a single ability/effect in 4 seconds. Note:in all of these i am disregarding the extra mr and visage's passive AND the fact that the initial damage is not reduced,just the subsequent damage.
MrHaZeYo2 votesIt's a niche item. It's better vs Cassi than a SV would be.
junglerboy163 votesactually it is mathematically inferior in almost every respect.
The damage reduction is not strong enough to counterbalance the weak base stats and SV's regen and healing boost are actually stronger than 15% damage reduction in the first place unless you are taking massive amounts of sustained damage (as in enough that you should be dead before the adaptive helm actually has any benefit compared to SV)
The damage reduction needs to be closer to 30% before it'll be a competitive item from a straight numbers standpoint, otherwise it'll always be a "get this after SV if you have extra gold and an item slot you don't need" item. Until it has identical stats to SV and solely different based on the passive, there's not even a chance it'll compete.
One Ashe On2 votes
hate this item.
Darkdemon6531 votesIt's better than what BV was, so I'm OK with it. I wouldn't mind seeing SV nerfed and better tank MR items, though.