You know what the problem with banner of command is?

Sir Rouge··7 votes·1,333 views

It's counterintuitive.

Here are the stats and active of the item: item 3060 +60 Armor +30 Magic Resist +400 Mana +10% Cooldown Reduction UNIQUE Active - Promote: Greatly increases the power of a lane minion and grants it immunity to magic damage (120 second cooldown).

Why does an item that has an active mostly meant to counter/pressure teams that are mostly AP have twice the amount of armor than mr? Every time I'm trying to buy this item it feels bad, because either I'm buying more armor than I should be buying with my gold (against heavy AP) or the active is not good enough (against heavy ad).

I would like to see either the amounts of armor and mr switched (with a price adjustement if mr is worth more than armor), or half of the armor taken away (with a price adjustement) or the armor replaced with a bit of health... basically something that wouldn't make the item counterintuitive. Even reverting the build path to what it was before would be better.

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FingerFlavored2 votes

Banner of Command League of Legends item Statistics: +200 Health, +60 Ability power, +10% Cooldown reduction, +20 Magic resist, +100% Base health regen Cost price (gold): 2,900 Selling price (gold): 2,030 Recipe: Fiendish Codex, Aegis of the Legion, 600 Gold

These stats where far more superior. Now i dont even touch it.

DarkRitual1 votes

The item went from being a counterbuild item into a full niche item that only splitpush tanks/offtanks use.

kile1473 votes

It's basically the exact same niche that Zz Rot uses, except Zz can be used more defensively and has better stats.

Spoofghoul1 votes

zz rot is completely retarded right now though

i mean i get one on my 7k hp sion it literally 1 shots turrets with the big minion . . .

thats so insanely busted lol

kile1471 votes

Even without the Hp scaling though I'd still say it's better than banner because you can put it in a defensible area in order to keep the lane pushed even on a team that's ahead.

nanogibbon1 votes

Very good point. Seems very arbitrary that the two aegis items got assigned to stronger armor & MR.

Big Lincoln1 votes

I think it should just be changed to give extreme damage resistance to counter all heavy pushers instead of AP only

Illâoi Evê Siôn1 votes

I've made two threads about it: They should replace Glacial Shroud with Chalice of Harmony. That gives the item more Magic Resistance than Armor, the Mana Regen makes up for the missing Mana, and you get Health Regen for sieges. You might lose 10% CDR, but there's enough CDR in the game anyway. Supports won't mind, and anyone else who buys this item can just get it from someplace else. Edit: Also, they can reduce the cost to like 2100 because Chalice costs less than Shroud.

Illâoi Evê Siôn1 votes

Ooh! I have another Idea: What if they combined Ohmwrecker and Banner? The active either buffs a minion or stuns a tower depending on which you target. Because items that are too strong and do too much are split up. Items that have too small a niche could be combined instead.

Kinjishi1 votes

+45 MR / +45 Armor... that would be fine for me (all other stats same)

Proxy3451 votes

I miss when it used to give 80AP and boosted the stats of allied minions lol I used to buy it on mages like Heimer,Zyra and Malzahar.

Sohleks1 votes

It has terrible stats because it would end up a very problematic item in the top lane if it was a good first buy. It would defeat ap champs single handily and would get old immediately.

Maybe it should go back to make a generally really strong tank minion and give it solid stats rather than "completely counters 1 type of champ otherwise ineffective, oh and still can't have viable stats"

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