Can we get some AP bruiser items like holy fuck.

ProphetOfDraven·1/11/2020, 1:34:37 AM·2 votes·968 views

Seriously I've been playing Sylas and the itemization is so terrible. What am I supposed to go first back? ? ? Do I build first? But then I have no health. Do I build ? But then I have no CDR. The only item with health CDR and AP is the only true AP bruiser item but it has so low stats so its bad for scaling. Which Sylas is geared towards.

Stop fucking around riot, make AP black cleaver already and make it melee only.

Build Path + total gold cost 3100 Stats 400 health 70 AP 20% CDR

It's that easy. 100% Gold efficiency. Throw in a weak passive and bam you got an item and a new class.

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iiGazeii1/11/2020, 1:57:41 AM1 votes

I absolutely agree, we do need better AP bruiser items, but I understand why the devs are so hesitant to make it happen.

We've got Mordekaiser . He's pretty much the only true AP bruiser. We've also got Sylas Elise Diana who should by all rights be AP bruisers as well, but the lack of itemization has forced the devs to balance them around being assassins.

We've got a few bruisers who can build AP, but currently build other things because they're hybrid and/or scale with other stats, like Volibear Nasus Shyvana Udyr Skarner

Then we have the tanks, who add another twist to the problem. Lots of tanks scale with AP, so items that give you heath/resistances and AP would need to be balanced around champion like Malphite Sejuani Alistar Amumu Maokai Ornn Shen

We also have battlemages like AurelionSol Swain Ryze Vladimir Rumble , who would also want to build AP bruiser items, but their existence means you can't just slap on "melee-only" to keep burst mages and assassins from abusing them.

And that's the main issue here. Champions like Akali Ekko Katarina Kassadin who would love to build AP and health at the same time and never die while dishing out mountains of damage.

They can't just slap an AP version of Black Cleaver in the game and call it good. The lack of AP bruiser itemization is a huge, systemic problem. Giving AP bruisers even one good item would require AP champions across the board to get adjustments so they can make sure it's only the bruisers and tanks that are building those items.

Paroe1/11/2020, 2:02:23 AM1 votes

item 3151 item 3116 item 3157 item 3102 item 3027 ... I do admit that the AP bruiser itemization is severely lacking, and not exclusively meant for AP bruisers.

Kazekiba1/11/2020, 5:20:27 AM1 votes

They were working on updating RoA and making Haunting Guise more versatile, but then this was iced because "nah no major midseason changes, we'll do an Item shop project in Preseason!!!" and then THAT never happened either?

With no explanation for why. (Hilariously, they were potentially removing Lethality items or at least Duskblade reverted to the Zedblade. Instead we get 3 MORE :P)