Riot is missing a great opportunity to buff tank junglers itemization with Iceborn Gauntlet

Beats29··3 votes·724 views

Since we basicly see AD champs picking Triforce and AP champs picking Lich Bane (not entirely the case of course, but majority), I believe we could buff Iceborn Gauntlet in some way. I dunno, but I believe this could be seen as an item to buff tank junglers. It could be changed to melee only and with more AP for example. Or as an upgrade of Machete.

I barely see this item being used, and the stats it provides, the utility it provides as well, could be a great item to be used on tank junglers.

I see so many good ideas from the comunity as well, and I don't know why Riot doesn't try to adapt some of those. While some are obviously bad, some are quite interesting and well thought. And** tank junglers main problem at the moment is lack of itemization to help them with this jungle difficulty.** I love tank junglers, as well the utility side of them. But the problem is that** they can't skirmish very well, as well their clears are somewhat worse than most Warrior's enchament users, and finally, their itemization.**

This isn't the 1st time I try to give non-broken ideas to help junglers ( link here if you want), and it saddens me Riot does so little to help tank junglers, be it their ideas, mine, or the rest of community.

Yes I do love the new jungle, it's more entertaining and provides more to the strategic side, but the diversity problem still remains, if it isn't worse. And that's due lack of itemization and nerfing tank junglers on pre-season without letting players testing them.

7 Comments

McAllister1 votes

More AP? Nah, more armor. I wouldn't mind the AoE slow coming with a DoT as well, that would be nice for clears. Maybe instead of 125% base damage, it could be 90% base damage with another 90% over the duration of the slow field.

BluePolarizer1 votes

I remember at the end of season 4 where I was actually scared to first pick Nocturne, Yi or Xin because Rammus, Sejuani and Maokai were actually good junglers and would wreck any squishy autoattacker with their high base magic damage, incredible tankiness thanks to scaling Golem, and teamfighting ults, while the autoattacker is stuck on a low stack flare or weak nonscaling lizards.

Now, lol, I have zero fear of them and just instalock one of the broken junglers.

Beats291 votes

It isn't a matter of being broken. AD champions buy Warrior then tank items and they're good to go. AP tanks don't have build paths for that. Also, they can't skirmish that well without items, and their itemization is way more expensive due to lack of those build paths.

Irelia Bot1 votes

Iceborn does not need buffs. It does not need to be something that is a must buy since if that happens it will be yet another thing that melee have a disadvantage of having to deal with compared to ranged.

Beats291 votes

I don't want it to be a must buy (Warrior Enchantment cough cough), I want it to be picked at least while helping tank junglers. I don't really remember when was the last time I saw it. The stats it provides aren't worth it's cost.

Tin Tarantino1 votes

item 3025 doesn't really need any changes, if anything they could add another build path entirely from item 3057 that does damage based on your max health.

Maybe something like item 3057 + item 1057 = Titans fist 60 MR 300 mana 30 AP

UNIQUE – SPELLBLADE: On cast, for 10 seconds, your next basic attack deals bonus physical damage equal to 10% of your max health and reduces the targets Armor/MR by 10 for every 100 of your Armor/MR. 1.5 second cooldown.

PalPlays1 votes

Thawing Heart:

60 Magic Resist - 1300G value

20% Cooldown Reduction - 633G value

50% Base mana regen - 360G value

Unique Passive - Grants a shield that absorbs up to 30 (+15 per level) damage. This shield will regenerate over 3 seconds after 9 seconds without taking damage.

Cost: 2600 Gold

This fills a very empty niche. For tanks it can be very difficult to get CDR outside of Frozen Heart. I see this being purchased on Junglers like Amumu who suffer from mana issues and love CDR. The shield is mostly helpful for clearing camps or guarding against offensive Noxious Traps. It's also good on tanks, as it can benefit your allies by making you sustain longer.

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