Buffs To ManaMune Anytime Soon?

GG Thanks For LP·9/20/2018, 8:21:19 PM·1 votes·1,138 views

I dont see anyone building this anymore. Only champions I see take it are Ezreal. Jayce was built upon taking ManaMune, but doesnt take it anymore because it takes too long to stack in a short term game. Same thing with Essence Reaver, I dont see anyone taking that every game I play. I thought itd be good for Jayce as well but they made it not for him. Lucian doesnt even take essence reaver, mines well just revert it.

Hope they buff ManaMune or just rework it in general. AP champions get a shield with theirs and 400 more mana, while manamune gets bonus damage on single hits. Maybe rework manamune into being an item active as well? Im not sure what you would make it for AD players beens we already have an item active for almost everything. Just wish I could build this item again, I miss it. But if I do build it then I end up falling behind because I lack damage

9 Comments

Paroe9/20/2018, 8:23:32 PM1 votes

IMO manamune needs to become an onhit item that doesnt descale... Like... 1% of your maximum mana as onhit damage would be fine. Maybe even 2%.

Alzon9/20/2018, 8:42:58 PM1 votes

Manamune feels bad primarily because it has no CDR, making it much more friendly to ranged champions than melee because they auto more and can thus stack it faster. What if Manamune built from item 3133 instead of item 1037 , gave 10% CDR, and granted 50% more mana per proc on melee champions?

OneBarrel9/20/2018, 11:50:51 PM1 votes

The reason essence reaver was created specifically without Jayce in mind was because of one broken rune/itemization build I saw when I saw the Essence Reaver changes. Since Jayce R is a transform with low CD, gives move speed, W gives 3 max atk speed autos, and Jayce's focus is on CDR, Essence Reaver would've pushed Jayce into a broken state. When Essence Reaver was reworked, some new runes came out, including a rune that gave move speed on casting an ultimate. Combining short R transform times, a mini ghost on R, move speed on R cast, and celerity move speed+damage ratios, this alone would've been too strong on Jayce. NOW combining Essence Reaver that has a passive that gives mana on hit (very useful on jayce) and CDR reduction on autos after casting R equals an unstoppable sniper with almost 0 cooldown. Pressing R not only gives a major speed+damage buff, it allows you to auto to reduce the cooldowns on every non-ultimate ability, allowing you to essentially Q E in ranged form then reset the CD by pressing W for 3 maxatk speed autos then transforming into melee form and taking advantage of Q and E auto resets to get extra CDR and damage off.

Now that I've talked about Essence Reaver on Jayce, I don't believe it to be useless. Jax, Riven, Renekton, and basically any auto attack champions with cool down reduction and on-hit abilities/auto resets utilize this ability. Also Lucian DOES take Essence Reaver. It's part of the core bork, essence, cleaver, rapidfire build.