New keystone idea for supports

Veraska··1 votes·611 views

So, personally i feel summon aery is kinda weird, it's like a flat stat boost to offensive and defensive spells so it's really vanilla and doesnt really impact playstyle, picking up aery is cool tho if not a bit mundane, so this new keystone kinda plays on that mechanic for supports

SPELLMENDER - whenever an enemy champions breaks one of your cast shields, you drop a spell shard that you can pick up or your opponent can step on (think poppy passive) when you pick up the shard, reduce your non ultimate cooldowns by % and gain % movement speed x seconds

Karma Sona Lux Lulu Rakan Ivern

supports love cdr and getting more casts off, the only measure of utility is how often you can use it, so why not a keystone that rewards aggressive plays with lower cooldowns

it also has unique synnergies on some melee ap fighters like Diana and Rumble or maybe even Riven

i wanted to initially have mana refund on it but that would be really powerful and homogenizing and id be worried that Ryze would break this it would be in the blue tree replacing/next to aery since everything in the blue tree needs to help you run fast lol

thoughts?

3 Comments

Atmosphere1 votes

It's good in concept, but it can be abused too an annoying degree way too easily. Reducing spell cooldowns on too of building CDR will just result in a Rakan and Lulu with W and E permanently up, constant Janna slows, and Sona Q's. Not to mention that your "unique synergies" categories would be WAY over the top. Riven in particular is already extremely difficult to deal with when she has her CDR, making her E give her reduced cooldowns is a recipe for disaster.

Veraska1 votes

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It's good in concept, but it can be abused too an annoying degree way too easily. Reducing spell cooldowns on too of building CDR will just result in a Rakan and Lulu with W and E permanently up, constant Janna slows, and Sona Q's. Not to mention that your "unique synergies" categories would be WAY over the top. Riven in particular is already extremely difficult to deal with when she has her CDR, making her E give her reduced cooldowns is a recipe for disaster.

unless you step on the shard yourself and deny them the refund, and besides cdr refunds have diminishing returns the more u stack it with cdr itself, 10% of a 10 second cooldown is 1 second, 10% of a 6 cd is .6 sec, thats a small number but i imagine the best case users (sona, rakan karma) might get like 2-3 shards a fight and it'd be tuned around multiple shield casts (multiple opportunity to get the proc) so it's not like breaking rivens shield refreshes all her cd's

CoolKnightST1 votes

It could be a good keystone for Inspiration. This said tho, I agrea that it might be a little bit abusive in certain situations. But don't replace Aery it's litterly the only consistent trading tool. Almost every other keystone limits your trading actions. The best example would be Arcane Comet where you are forced to start off with hard cc and even that useally isn't that reliable since you often need more ranks in it before it would hit consistently.

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