A very needed tank Item

StoryDuck··3 votes·353 views

There are very few methods to deal with Attack speed based champions. The games I have been playing lately have been flooded with Devourer junglers and Vaynes. There are 39 champions that can boost Attack speed. Most of which can do so above the 40% mark. There are 4 that reduce attack speed. There are 2 items in the game that reduce attack speed and 13 that increase attack speed (one of which is boots!). This is a HUGE discrepancy. I don't think the reduction to the tank items was bad per say, but tanks are missing a key item they need to be able to build, one that focuses on AS reduction.

Here is my go at such an item:


item 3082 + item 2053 + 600 gold = Frostlord's Bulwark Armor + 100 Health Regen +200% Unique Passive - Point Runner: Builds up to 20% movement speed over 2 seconds while near turrets and fallen turrets. Unique Passive - Cold Steel: Whenever you are hit by a basic attack the attacker will have their attack speed reduced by 8% for 3 seconds stacking up to 4 times. When the attacker gets 4 stacks they are slowed by 20% for 1 second.


I would love some feedback on such an item and would also love to see other ideas on Attack Speed reducing items. Perhaps a more powerful Aura then frozen heart? Or an active on the item? There really are a lot of options and I would love to see other's take on such an item idea.

6 Comments

ABlueQuaker2 votes

item 3110 item 3143 was more than enough pre-5.16.

Riot hit my 3 core Jungle Tank Items item 3717 item 3110 item 3143 and my most common Situational Jungle Tank Item item 3075 in one patch after nerfing Tanks for the entire Summer Split.

StoryDuck1 votes

To be honest, I've never really seen the 15% ASR work well unless stacked with the Randuin 15% ASR as well. Jax, Kayle, vayne, Kog'maw still chunk through those with no problem at all with just 2 items. you might notice they all have magic damage or true damage in their procs. I'm not saying it doesn't have an effect (you'd be crazy not to buy it) but what good are those items if the enemy has an AS boost to go with their AS items? 1 Nidalee heal (or some other champion that can give AS) and they nullified that ASR you just purchased. It's too easy to get around that small amount of ASR when there are 13 items and 39 champions that can boost AS. Heck, Beserker boots alone almost make up the difference.

ABlueQuaker1 votes

The thing is, though, that the more AS you have, the more you lose from % AS Reduction.

15% AS Reduction from FH + 15% AS Reduction from Randuins (because they stack) ends up taking A LOT from a 2.0 AS Champion.

StoryDuck1 votes

1 base + 100% as = 2 -15% = 1.7 -15% = 1.445 +25% from Nunu lvl1 ASB = 1.695

Hmm. I see your point. So the values I have are certainly too high. When you take ASB its from base AS value where as ASR reduces overall. I have certainly over tuned the item, I'll change that. Thanks for the feedback.

XaviorZeroBlazer1 votes

where did the mana regen come from? otherwise doesn't sound to bad

StoryDuck1 votes

Opps, meant health regen from the raptor cloak. Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.

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