Are there any plans to buff Perseverance?

HongChongDong·Nov 12, 2016·7 votes·1,109 views

For a T4 Mastery that forces you to choose between 15% Cooldown reduction on summoner spells and the new T4 which is almost a keystone by itself, perseverance is abit underpowered. 50% base HP regen? That's the same amount as a bead and doesn't scale at all unless you get below 25% HP, which won't make a difference unless you're running a build specifically focusing on getting base HP regen.

Not really saying it should be stupid strong but atleast strong enough to where it's worth it to take over the other T4 resolve masteries.

3 Comments

LankPantsNov 12, 20162 votes

Firstly, Fearless actually isn't very good. Why, because it has extreme antisynergy with Courage of the Colossus, which is the Keystone ~80% of the people who'd even look at Fearless would run. When you proc Fearless and CotC at the same time, which happens a lot you wind up providing extra armour and MR to your shield which is already a strong burst deterrent. The enemy is likely to either wait for CotC to fall off or DPS through it, in either case Fearless procing isn't that useful. The only champs I could see this being useful on are burst prone bruisers like Irelia or Fiora, but even then, Insight is so good.

There's no way to make Perseverance anywhere near as strong as Insight without flat out breaking Perseverance or dumpstering Insight. Same goes for Fearless to a lesser extent, you probably could make a raw stat mastery that competes with Insight, but it would have to be far less situational and very strong. Something like 'gain 7% A/MR unconditionally' would be competitive with Insight, the problem here is that we're talking about the strongest 4th tier mastery in the game, so we need some broken shit to level out with it.

IMO what Riot should do is move Insight to T5 alongside Swiftness, which is another disproportionately strong mastery, Insight is probably still far better, but with small buffs there'd at least be situations to run Swiftness. Currently if you spec 12 into Resolve you take Insight 100% of the time, it's just better than the other masteries.

From there I'd look to balance out the other T4s with Fearless, which would mean buffs to Perseverance and most likely a new defensive mastery more for tanks, since Fearless is actually, somewhat counterintuitively most valuable on medium durability bruisers like Irelia even with the 10% boost, the flat just matters more.

I'd also look to buff some of the incredibly weak early masteries in the tree cough Veteran Scars cough. Especially so since moving Insight to T5 with no other changes would make 12 in Resolve super weak. Currently if you're 12 in Resolve you're doing it almost entirely for Insight, some champs like Annie literally go 12 in Resolve for Insight, they spend 11 points on trash they don't care about because of how insane this mastery is.

MunchCrunchLunchNov 12, 20161 votes

yeah its extremely weak. buff the hp regen to 100% at all times. and 200% when below 35% hp.

or make it scale dynamically. so 50% at 100% hp. up to 300% base hp regen when at 1% hp.

btw base hp regens in league are really low and they aren't gonna be like amundo ult its just lane sustain and it isn't much unless you can complement it and most champions have abyssmal health regen anyway

HongChongDongNov 12, 20161 votes

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yeah its extremely weak. buff the hp regen to 100% at all times. and 200% when below 35% hp.

I personally wouldn't mind if it was changed into a keystone all together. Make it specifically to either empower regen stacking or if it remains as is then it needs to be changed to something that will matter on people without stacked regen.