The Locket reworks makes it clash with Redemption and leaves a void in the items.

Bârd··3 votes·366 views

For those of you who don't know, Locket is having its shield active replaced on PBE.

After a delay, you drop a bubble (looks like 500 radius) that lasts 8 seconds and causes allies inside to take 35% less damage.

I have a three problems with this.

  1. It's essentially the old Maokai ult, which was removed for being too boring.
  2. You currently buy item 3190 against burst and item 3107 for drawn out brawls. Now, both of them are built to deal with sustained damage, the only difference being that Redemption also deals damage and is good in a siege.
  3. With item 3309 out of the picture, this leaves us without a shield item.

With this change, we supports no longer have an item to protect our carry with.

I get that shields are a bit over-tuned right now, but Locket isn't the problem, Heal/Shield Power is the problem. item 3504 item 3222 item 3107 plus Rejuvenation total us out at 45% extra shielding.

Maybe hit that instead of removing Locket shield.

7 Comments

Professor Ward1 votes

Not true at all, this will just change it from late proc to early proc. An early pop of locket will deal far greater damage reduction than before

Couple it with

item 3047 on your ad

And

item 3109 on yourself and say goodbye to being assassinated.

Eedat1 votes

35% damage reduction isn't effective against burst? WUT?

Bârd1 votes

It's delayed.

They're dead before it procs.

Eedat2 votes

brief delay

dunder kill1 votes

I like these explanations when in reality you just buy them regardless. Real talk

Bârd1 votes

Speak for yourself.

Supports in particular (in most cases) only have two items we rush for every game.

item 3098 / item 3096 /item 3097 and item 1001.

Everything else is a situational item, like item 3140 item 3123 for other roles.

Even just on Bard that's obvious. Everything else you buy as needed. Need physical durability? item 3109 Enemy has magic DPS? item 3194 Enemy has burst? item 3190 plus other HP Sedentary, slow fights? item 3107 Need picks? Initiations? Vision? Easier ults? item 3905 Want damage? item 3151 item 3165 Are we gonna look to do Baron? item 3060 Are we sieging? item 3083 Divers? Big crit damage? item 3143

dunder kill1 votes

I don't need to speak for myself. I have facts

http://na.op.gg/champion/statistics

Just look at supports lol. They builds the exact same items in the vast majority of their games. Hey look, locket/redemption built over 90% of the time. So weird. Guess that makes them niche items lol

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