10 ad is worth 350g, so the item is now 200g cheaper AND loses 5% true damage as a bonus? Is this supposed to be a buff in what world?
When no viable adc builds that item anymore?
Bot lane is literally dominated by mages and you guys go ahead and just nerf IE? Wtf?
If someone on my team picks a crit adc after this patch im reporting for trolling.
Critmaster Garen5 votesyou wanted marksmen to come online sooner? there you go, the item is cheaper.
now enjoy the lategame nerf that came with it, because you cant have both.
DuskDaUmbreon3 votesADCs were heavily buffed by the build path change, though.
It's not reasonable to expect a marksman to come back to lane with a BF sword in the first three backs. A pickaxe, though? That's doable. You can very much back and buy a pickaxe then. This means ADCs who build crit actually get to have autos with real amounts of damage in lane, and before they're working on their third item.
Tahminatrix 2 votesRiot designed marksmen to be too strong late game and too weak early game rather than letting them all scale individually...targeting their items is best...
Now yasuo will reach his powerspike at 0/4/0 instead of 0/7/0 but he will be a lot weaker overall...
Oleandervine2 votesIt also now builds from 
and 
instead of and , so you can make it a little more easily than you could before, while not having to wait so long to deal damage.
saltran2 votesBecause Rito is full of adc mains that only buffs them so Meddler can get out of Gold, wait, I missed the circlejerk timeline.
OtterlyLost2 votesI dont understand why they took away the changes to Zeal items. I though their intention was to make ADC builds feel less punishing at the cost of late game power. All they did instead was nerf their late game power... I'm honestly just... really really depressed by this season. I just want to be able to play my crit ADCs and have fun. It isn't fun spending all laning phase under my turret trying to farm against double mages, losing my first turret, and then being flamed because my laner roamed. It isn't fun to spend all of early and mid game feeling like half a fucking champion even with two items while the assassin mid just gets to run around 1 shotting me. It's not fun to get to full build and still be instagibbed by everything in the game and still not get to carry or do damage because my items dont give me fucking damage anymore. None of this is fucking fun, Riot.
Imaqtpie said it best. "Either make me tanky or let me do massive fucking amounts of damage but don't give me neither."
Blu 11 votesBot lane is literally dominated by mages
In what world?
EvLoFo1 votesIt's a buff for crit ADCs if you build smart.
In the early game you will build 
. The order isn't that important--it's just a matter of preference and what you can afford when you back/die. As others have mentioned, the build path is much smoother because you no longer need two BFs.
Next, you will grab a 
. After that, spend 1225 gold to finish IE. At this point you're sitting on a 30% crit strike chance because of the IE passive. When you have an extra 400 gold on you, buy an extra 
to bring your crit strike chance up to 50%. If you do this, you will be in a very good position before you even complete your first zeal item. And given the fact that zeal items are now 100 gold cheaper, you will finish your first and second zeal items faster.
If you have your doubts about this, test out the build with someone like 
on practice tool when the patch goes live. I think you'll agree it's a buff.
Almost Creative1 votesI think their goal was nerfing their late game while making ADCs come alive sooner
