What's with the witchhunt against Stormrazor.

Tetsip·8/20/2018, 3:43:22 PM·1 votes·1,568 views

All the sudden everyones posting about stormrazor like it's broken. It's literally the only thing propping up a role that is very weak in this current meta so I can only wonder... wtf. It isn't a broken item, and it's getting to be abit irritating reading the opinions of people who only look at things in two shades, broken or balanced. It is good simply because it fits adc's into the current pace of the game. If an adc needed IE and double zeal like they use to in this meta, they would be irrelevant to every game and people would just be taking mages bot every single time. Stormrazor just gives rounded stats so an adc can fight with one item, and has decent first items to buy to build into it regardless of the money they had on their first back. The passive is a crit... thats it... they could have done that on their own when every first choice item before had crit on it, it's not the big a deal people. Calling it burst is straight ignorant, RFC and statik have been giving more "burst" damage on the first auto than it for along time.

I've also seen people saying the only adc's doing well bot lane are the one's that build stormrazor, that is blatantly false. You're pretty much just talking about jinx and to a lesser extent draven, jinx being the top win rate and draven being at 51%. MF is at the #2 spot and her top build isn't stormrazor it's full lethality with dark harvest. Twitch is also tearing up solo q again and most of the good twitch players are rushing botrk into runaans.

Stop the circlejerk bandwagon calls to nerf everything about the game you don't understand. Riot's already strugglin this season tryin to figure out how to balance a game, just because a role you don't like has an actual path to carrying doesn't mean you're being "wronged".

14 Comments

Mordepool8/20/2018, 3:53:15 PM3 votes

It's crowding out other options like Morellos used to do for mages. While simultaneously being ridiculously powerful on its best users. Aka Jhin.

BLIGHTBRINGER8/20/2018, 3:50:17 PM2 votes

I wouldn't say that Free Critical Strike Stormrazor is a broken item. It's just that people don't like it for many reasons...

  • Any AD Champion with Burst potential can abuse it (Assassin's, Fighters).
  • It grants an un-usual early powerspike on certain champions (Draven, Jhin).
  • It's just a really uninteresting item to start the game with, and from everyone's point of view, everyone feels like Riot has basically forced them all to buy that item when they play Marksman (since there is no other better option).
Kivolan8/20/2018, 3:59:53 PM1 votes

You answered your own question in your post.

It's literally the only thing propping up a role that is very weak in this current meta

ADCs are supposed to be late game carries that shred enemies through sustained DPS... NOT early game burst assassins. item 3095 has changed the playstyle of several ADCs significantly away from their intended purpose. MissFortune Caitlyn Jhin etc. simply have wayyyy too much synergy with the item and it's giving them a ridiculous amount of burst potential. Stattik was actually nerfed for the same reason of too much burst. I also hate Rapidfire Cannon for the same reason.

The main problem, however, is that it is abusable on other champions that are not ADCs. Rengar MonkeyKing Talon Zed etc. instantly delete champions with an auto attack.

Kivolan8/20/2018, 4:48:58 PM1 votes

MissFortune does abuse item 3147, though, which is half the problem.

Also https://champion.gg/champion/MissFortune/ADC?

Different sources have different information, I guess. Stormrazor is indeed listed in her highest win % build.

The Ecdysiast8/20/2018, 5:04:39 PM1 votes

The issue is that it does the very thing Riot specifically stated they wanted to remove from ADCs' early game-- it gives early crit damage. Now, instead of the early game zeal + BF sword, with Stormrazer's you simply have more AD, the AS and a guaranteed crit.

But the real issue is that the old early build wasn't an issue and didn't need to be changed.

Kivolan8/20/2018, 5:05:00 PM1 votes

That's why this meta needs to die entirely to allow for actual counterplay. Damage is just too high across the board, more burst isn't helping the problem.

boricCentaur18/20/2018, 3:48:37 PM1 votes

Stormrazor is not op but with dustblade its does alot of burst

OurLestrade8/20/2018, 5:30:34 PM1 votes

Isn't it sort of against the idea for burst having counterplay and junk since the best burst is just stacking instant on hit effects for autos like Stormrazor and Duskblade? It's a big contradiction.

OtterlyLost8/20/2018, 3:56:55 PM1 votes

I dont build storm razor personally; it becomes a useless item late game and I dont feel it's actually well balanced for ADCs. It rewards burst attacks instead of DPS. If the crit was smaller but charged up via AAs instead of just not AAing over a certain amount of time and getting a big crit I would like it more.