Ohmwrecker has been changed so many times for so many seasons and it's still useless because of its god awful active. Was hoping this tank item update was going to get the job done but nothing was done to the item at all. Can we finally remove it or are people going to keep claiming it's a niche item and let it stay in its current state? You could have at least renamed Adaptive Helm into Ohmwrecker if you're so worried about the Youtubers name.
the active need more uses
it could open base gates
it could buff up player made structures like walls like zapping jarvans ult and grounding everyone inside or shit like that or zz rot portals buffing it to spawn an ultra voidling which doesnt decay and act as a pseudo super minion, just with a lot of hp which suicides on a turret using its remaining hp
it could amp up your own towers increasing their damage to maximum instantly and increasing their attackspeed or force enemy towers to reset damage & attack and then aggro you
active could even be used as a grounded beam or something like that where it zaps an enemy and grounds them or works like a tether
so much options available to make the active useful
the stats are already good anyway
Ohmwrecker would good if towers were actually scary and not a joke.
"But Trick2G uses it so fuck you hahaha"
Seriously tho i forgot this item was in the game wtf.
Riot Repertoir explained why here in a PBE post.
I actually had some changes to it that positioned it as a competitor to other HP/Armor items, but we chose to keep our focus mostly on setting up a good framework. That item has a long way to go before becoming useful, and I'm also not sure players actually want that particular effect to be useful, so it's likely back to the drawing board on it (hopefully sooner rather than later).
why is disabling a tower considered awful?
Probably because Riot considers it a support item before being a tank item.
Even though its supposed to be for tank supports really.
So it should be in the tank update but remember, these are the only changes we've seen so far. There may be some more.
because they dont know what to freakin do with it xP
I use ohmwrecker and I have found it useful. I have saved plenty of teammates when tower diving or setup team fight with it. However, the item is still a hassle if they do anything to it they need to buff it or make it cost less. I don't care how wether they add me into it or increase the health/armor or both that it gives you so it is not outshined. For the little that it provides compare to other items that are the same price or cheaper then ohmwrecker it makes it easy to overlook this item. They need to give it a health buff and lower the price to about 1900 or 2100 instead of 2650. The item is handy in the early game but isn't worth rushing with that ridiculous cost.
A better question is why didn't towers get a massive buff to make the item actually be enticing to buy. If anyone with a single health/armor item can tank a tower, the active is worthless. Now if this was changed so towers were actually threatening all game like they are at level 1 then I'm certain Ohmwrecker would have a place.
A rework would be easy. Just switch letters around and call it "home wrecker" and it's active makes target tower shoot a projectile at any champion, allied or enemy that's within it's range for 5 seconds.
Riot needs to buff towers to make this item appealing and add a new passive or secondary active outside of the turret mechanic so that it doesn't lose value when you take enemy towers. ANYTHING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
I remember a red posting during the Marksmen rework that they were going to make Ohmwrecker do something to epick monsters but got shelved.
The smallest indication of how bad the item is, is that even in the highest level of play where tower dives occur frequently, but still go wrong a lot of times, its still always incredibly risky, and yet its still never ever picked up, ESPECIALLY in the early game
Diver update I guess?
Probably because they don't want it anymore but some item in the game must bear the name so its a mater of waiting until another item can take the name or until they completely change what ohmwrecker does.
reading the "active" just makes you think riot's team is just a 5 year old .
tower can't get dmg for 3 secs (120 sec cd) ... u can't use that on the same tower within 8 seconds..
like wtf?
There's still another three weeks until the tank update, they very well could rework it.
Why remove it though? It sucks but it's not hurting anything by bein there lol
