The Problem with Warrior Enchant

JC DarkOmen·9/1/2015, 4:35:23 PM·2 votes·272 views

... is that it's just 'the AD one'. It's not interesting at all, especially compared to the others:

item 3725 Cinderhulk: The item 3089 of tanks with a built in item 3068. So good top laners used it for a while. item 3726 Devourer: The former infinitely-scaling threat, now ramps up to monsterous on-hit effects. Have you seen Sated Vayne? item 3724 Runeglaive: The AoE item 3100 that may not be great for some AP junglers, but brought AP Ezreal back for people who aren't SivHD. item 3723 Warrior: ...Lee and J4 use this, sometimes Wukong... and has NEVER been popular outside the jungle.

Warrior is only good for AD junglers that aren't going to build tank and aren't auto-attackers. Even then it's so boring. All of the other enchantments were unique and so attractive people built them in lane at some point; in fact, I'd even go so far as to say Cinderhulk and Devourer are at least top 3 tank and attack speed items in the game respectively, and at least Runeglaive offers extra incentives in the jungle. Meanwhile, why buy Warrior when I could just keep the item 3713 and get a item 3142?

During Preseason, the team was looking at giving Warrior lifesteal but scrapped it, either because it was too powerful or because the junglers that would buy it don't auto attack enough to make use of it. On the topic of too powerful... not really in comparison, and it's still boring. On too useless, why not try something that was played around with earlier: AD Vamp. A straight return on all physical damage taken by enemies. It would have to be lower than other lifesteal items or it becomes powerful on caster carries (Graves Lucian), but it's still something. Or it could have an active; maybe something like item 3074? I don't know, but there's gotta be something interesting and powerful you can give to AD junglers.

We need more ideas, and since Rito is already talking about plans for preseason now is the time to puke them out people. Post below!

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