What's a "good item"

spicystats·11/5/2016, 4:54:03 AM·1 votes·668 views

So there was a post earlier about rylai's being changed because its current state is "bad". Someone also posted something about Knight's Vow giving hidden power and being potentially "unhealthy" because there was nothing you could do about a person getting it.

These are legitimate concerns, but this raises the question on what's a "healthy" item. I can't really think of something that everyone can agree as a "healthy item" though. Morellos? Boots? Sightstone? I'm pretty sure someone can make arguments some of these are healthy and some aren't...

Its easy to think of examples of "unhealthy items" I guess. But what's a healthy one to buy? Any traits a healthy item has? Any indicators that an item may be healthy?

18 Comments

AnOstrichWithPMS11/5/2016, 4:59:44 AM2 votes

zzrots gate is a good item because ''winions''

Aptest11/5/2016, 5:52:33 AM2 votes

An unhealthy item is (a) any item that is strong enough to be purchased but does not increase the amount of agency a player has and (b) any item that has no downside because it gives good stats both on one type of stat and on it's direct thematic tradeoffs.

Irelia Bot11/5/2016, 5:58:39 AM2 votes

A good item will be core on some champs and situational on others in a class.

A bad item is one that becomes so mandatory on everyone in a class that if you do not get it you are greatly limiting yourself. Rylai's currently is basically mandatory on most any AP building champ due to the 100 AP, 400 helath bieng nice for suitability and the slow being highly effective and reliable. There is no reasonto not get it on mages in it's current state.

Rustling Bush11/5/2016, 4:56:43 AM1 votes

how is rylai is bad? i see it all the time

Blàdedancer11/5/2016, 6:07:00 PM1 votes

An example of a balanced item would be Void Staff, you add it to your build if you want to get through any annoying magic resist. It doesn't do anything extra, just a nice power spike.

LordGeovanni11/5/2016, 11:54:44 PM1 votes

Morelleo's is one of the most overloaded items in the game and unlike trinity its not abunch of weak stats with 1 strong passive its abunch of very potent stats and passives