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1 Life steal item limit?

BullSpit·8/7/2015, 2:59:19 AM·4 votes·1,520 views

Dear Riot: I believe that you should limit champs to 1 life steal. Ever since you decided to GIVE bloodthirstier a shield I can't tell you how many times I'll see yi's kite for days simply because blade of the ruined king and blood thirster?! It makes yi feel like he's a tank! It gives him too sustain compared to only having one because on top of the ls, he has meditate as well. I thought it didn't make a difference, but after playing this game for so long you begin to see just how broken it actually is. Especially Riven too. When riven build those two items you might as well surrender. It makes it so you have to 5v1 her. With two life steal items she becomes way too dominant when fed because with blood and her shield and however much life steal they build makes it next to impossible to kill her sometimes. For example, I remember a fed riven healing for over 300 a hit? How is that fair?! On top of the fact that she has a shield n blood that protects her as she heals for insane amounts. How does make sense? She didn't have a grain of armor and yet she was basically the tankiest champ on their team. Please consider it. Because before long, everyone is going to start doing the same. To be honest, I'm a hybrid player. I like to play champs different because I feel like the game is more refreshing that way be that ad ap mal, adapt; ad ap and tanky akali, adap karma, ap ashe, so on so forth. When I first started playing I hated building life steal because the concept was stupid to me; no offense. Not in the sense that it's stupid, but rather because it's unfair sometimes. After about 6 months of playing, i was forced to start building life steal items just so I could sustain against them. but now that people are building two, I'm really finding it hard to enjoy the game as much. Overall blood + ruined = AD tank w/ 0 armor, and let me remind you how excruciatingly painful aaxtrox can get when he builds blod ruined and omen's. I hope you understand. I just feel like with this implementation people will actually be forced to play a little bit more strategically instead of just hitting a minion and gaining hundreds of health back. Spell vamp is no where near cheap because spells have cool-down's. As for the community, anyone agree or dissagree with me? POST YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW PLZ. TY FOR YOUR TIME : ) WAT EVERY YI JG BUILDS

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20 Comments

CHOPSTICKUHH9/16/2015, 7:30:40 PM2 votes

I wish I could down vote this 1000 times... Limited to 1 life steal item? Lol

Shroom Junkie8/7/2015, 3:06:04 AM2 votes

Lifesteal is part of being an AD champ. Especially melee, its like a must to have some kind of sustain or at least be tanky.

Lifesteal isn't OP, else plenty of other people would complain about it. Heck, it allows for some serious outplays when you know your own strengths.

EffectFX8/7/2015, 4:46:21 AM1 votes

No.

Marthian8/7/2015, 4:48:10 AM1 votes

And yet if both build pure damage and get hit by cc, they are going to die.

If Devourer change isn't going anywhere, Yi definitely needs looked at because he's too sticky and has similar issues to fizz (invuln/dodge being one.)

MLDzXnRRR8/16/2015, 1:40:48 PM1 votes

Lifesteal is toxic

Ateka8/16/2015, 6:42:54 PM1 votes

Fool! You're trying to argue here with logic?! Do You think these guys will ever consider reasons over personal preferences? If You do, You came to da wrong neighbourhood, Buddy. How do I know? Nah. Believe it or not I have more downvotes than actual published posts... Once I tried to enlighten them about the importance of teamwork and all I got was:

"In SoloQ the goal is to 1v5... that is to carry your team. In LCS or otherwise the goal is to work as a team. Therefore the builds you suggest or "watch pros play" are irrelevant to this discussion." - by Random Summoner, Who Obviously Knows Everything About This Game

Bhagswag9/16/2015, 2:09:58 AM1 votes

Yi + Hydra +BT + BORK + Essence reaver.

3TWarrior9/16/2015, 3:44:49 AM1 votes

the reason spell vamp was nerfed was because AP champs like mages or tanky supports were then able to become near unkillable

morgana has up to 20% spell vamp innate....imagine her with 60-100% and her usual tanky self

Fiveofswords9/16/2015, 3:58:54 AM1 votes

seriously? nobody on your team has a stun or a snare?

Lafouboy9/16/2015, 7:41:44 PM1 votes

item 3165 summoner 14 cough

Bronzoid8/16/2015, 6:49:32 PM1 votes

You know that Thornmail negates almost all lifesteal.

And who the hell goes zerker greaves on Yi lmao. That build is terrible, you need some tankiness on Yi.

BullSpit8/7/2015, 3:16:40 AM1 votes

I'm not saying you can't build it, I'm just saying you shouldn't be able to build two. Think about it. if a yi is doing 1000 crits with blood that's 200 + hp a hit. Remember to that this is yi we're talking about. Add ruined king and now your gaining at least + 300 + a life steal active that slows as well. With the example build I have in the post, you can see how a build like that can be very overpowering very fast. Plus he has meditate which when used right can allow him to bounce right back into battle like nothing happened. honestly, how does anyone think that takes skill? I don't know the exact math, but if I did, you'd realize how stupidly broken that is. I mean look at that build! Tell me that's not cheap! Once he ults with that build gg. It just doesn't make sense. Spell vamp is no where near cheap. Because of cool downs. See what I'm saying?

BullSpit10/29/2015, 1:42:00 AM

You guys act like it's stupid because you all probably play yi with two life steal items. However, for those who actually take skill to kill someone, it's way too overpowering. Especially with dev. With dev on yi with two life steal items, it's just unreal. I play yi. I can kite ez with 1 or even no life steal items. his w is heal enough with 1 life steal, but with 2?! If you guys are seriously that blind then honestly screw you. Idk who thinks 2 life steal items is balanced when its really not.. I even saw a yi with 3! So don't act for a second like that ain't cheap. Any person with common sense can do the mental math. It's way too much health gained. Esp with his passive and dev?! Are you serious?! You can't tell me that you think that takes the slightest amount of skill. Try playin yi ap and tanky. That takes skill, but of course none of you will, because you don't use skill to win, you use the noobiest tactics in the book and copy all your nooby ass builds from "pro" noobs.