@Bond of Stone

Earl Eulrich·1/30/2016, 11:22:18 AM·4 votes·550 views

that´s the 5th (?) change now to this mastery - and it still won´t feel good.

mostly because there´s really a huge philosophical issue with this mastery:

as a tanksupport you want to stand between your opponents and your carry, so they shoot you and he´s free to deal dmg...so if he ever takes serious dmg you sort of already failed your job. This means the 300health or grasp of the undying will always feel better for tank-supports, as they want to stay alive themselves so they can protect their carries from harm in the first place. So Bond of Stone would be perfectly fine for a Nami staying behind her carrie and absorbing some dmg if anything gets through the frontline - but then again, windspeakers is just more helpfull here still.

All in all the only selling point for BoS would be to ricidulously overtune it right now.

so maybe just swap it out for sth. else?

5 Comments

Critmaster Garen1/30/2016, 12:04:47 PM3 votes

the philosophical issue here is to essentially give adc a second keystone. they dont just get their own, but profit more from bond of stone than the support tank himself.

plus, i cant be the only one who sees a huge issue in riots tendency to give adc more and more damage mitigation, essentially removing their only real weakness.

theyre buffing phantom dancers damage reduction to 16% on the pbe. thats ridiculous. but generally almost every single one of their items has some sort of defensive mechanism attached now.

they seriously need to stop this before it gets out of hand and all those defensive components on their core offensive items makes them impossible to kill.

one could argue that some them already are in the realm of broken with these new items. have you faced a vayne with phantom dancers recently? its already impossible to fight her before the buff.

Nyaboron1/30/2016, 12:33:43 PM2 votes

who takes bond of stone on nami? that's retarded. Take it on braum, leo and MAYBE alistar. windspeakers and thunderlord are stronk, dont try to force bond of stone to work. Plus, it's not the support's job to tank all the damage for adc early, it's a shared responsibility. If you're trying to tank all the damage you're going to die in lane phase, your protection job starts later when you peel for adc in fights. The 300 bonus hp is alright, but you dont get shit from it early. You'll get 20 hp from 3rd wave, but it doesnt actually help your adc much and once you hit max the heals are pretty shit and you aren't protecting anyone from any damage late game. Grasp of the undying is crap too because you shouldnt be building full tank as a support. You won't get shit out of it early because you don't aa very often to be able to proc it, and late game you should have more cdr/tank items than full tank, so your max hp won't be high enough to make it worth it. Bond of stone is good on very few champs, but it's fine right now. I take thunderlord on thresh not because bond of stone is shit, but because i want the 5% cdr lvl 1 and the 45% cdr cap later for 3s hook cooldowns.