Infinity Edge + Runaans

Apocalypsic·Jul 6, 2016·2 votes·549 views

Anyone else getting sick of this combination of items and the ADC's that build it?

I feel like it's just Shiv IE all over again, it's putting hyper carries in a power-spike much before they should and honestly something needs to be done about it. Something needs to be done about ADC's in general to make it so everything balances just right and things don't crowd out other things.

It's really annoying that if you nerf bullies like Lucian, all the hyper-carries suddenly burst out of the woodworks and bully just as hard as the bullies that keep them down tbh.

On the flip side, if you buff lane bullies, then it has the exact same effect in an opposite manner and it's just as annoying.

ADC balance is completely out of whack.

11 Comments

KaiokoJul 6, 20162 votes

It's not the combination of IE and Runaan's - the ADCs always get their powerspike from completing IE and whatever crit/attack speed/movement speed item they want.

oSEXYPLATYPUSoJul 6, 20162 votes

it seems to me that most people want all tanks to go away, all adcs to go away and have 5 man teams of Khazix Zed Yasuo Leblanc Katarina . who needs adc tanks supports or junglers, go full kill comp new meta, oh wait people then would bitch that assassins are OP and need to be nerfed. AND THE CYCLE CONTINUES.

zlumpyJul 6, 20161 votes

Geuss we should just nerf everyone then. Ok new plan! All champs do 1 damage at each rank, have the same skills, no summoners, and only 6 items! That way everything is just a skins game and all champs are balanced! Game is renamed League of 130ish dudes and gals!

P.S. nerf assassins I hate them. :P

oSEXYPLATYPUSoJul 7, 20161 votes

you know my comment was in sarcasm? im a huge fan of garen, mao, amumu, naut, nunu, tank morgana, tahm ect. i kinda hate the assassins too. but its a cycle, catch 22 if you will. assassins get strong so tanks are more picked to counter the burst, cuz tanks are picked alot u get hyper carries, high dps sustain damage dealers to kill tanks, to kill the hyper carry heavy dps sustain damage dealers assassins come back. the balance is the team comp, you need a support to heal shield or lock down targets. u need an adc to hyper carry. you need the assassins, you need the tank to sustain the damage and peel. just as you need the early game strong top laner and the late scaling mid laner , the mid /late game adc and the jack of all trades junglers. in competitive play you see team comps built that way and they play around individual power spikes in the game. thats how they decided who to give kills to, gives turrets to ect. but me being low elo or no elo cuz i dont play rank what do i know?

zlumpyJul 7, 20161 votes

So was mine :P

Frankey88Jul 6, 20161 votes

you realized these itesm got buffed because of the ghostblade black cleaver build, ie and runnans are what you build as adc

ApocalypsicJul 6, 20161 votes

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you realized these itesm got buffed because of the ghostblade black cleaver build, ie and runnans are what you build as adc

Yeah, and it's just as oppressive.

Frankey88Jul 6, 20161 votes

ya and before they were buffed adc used them, they have been using them for a long time it would be pointless to finda new build

67chromeJul 6, 20161 votes

It's really annoying that if you nerf bullies like Lucian, all the hyper-carries suddenly burst out of the woodworks and bully just as hard as the bullies that keep them down tbh.

Lucian's been suffocating marksman diversity for a while, think I've seen him in ~70% of my ranked games. I don't see why Lucian eating a nerf should annoy anyone. That champion's been as bad as Zed and Thresh where he's just always been a strong and safe pick for ranked, and as such tends to kill a ton of diversity.

Also: Hypercarry power-spike has been 2 major items as long as I've been playing LoL. IE+PD got you there for most of LoL's history, I don't see why IE+RH getting champions there now should be worth fretting over.

MunchCrunchLunchJul 6, 20161 votes

lucian is still really strong and i'd rather have him on my team rather than any other adc because of his safety and combination of early game damage and good team fighting. its better than having a hypercarry that feeds 9/10 times or an ezreal that has no idea how to play ezreal.