RiP Rylai's Crystal Scepter 2009-2016

Pyro·11/24/2016, 1:27:58 AM·6 votes·2,136 views

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Just kidding, still going to rush it on Brand to provide utility and let my team clean house and carry me. If I wanted to be some mindless ball of damage, I'd play Katarina or Yi.

This pretty much kills the item in the lategame though. Mordekaiser in particular (hello MM) needs that base MS buff more than ever (and then a full rework by someone who doesn't put unnecessary passives on every champion they touch).

In other news, the cost of Haunting Guise went down to 1500, and Liandry's Torment is down to 3100. Yeah - Brand, Malzahar and Rumble should be alright.

8 Comments

resumed11/24/2016, 1:32:59 AM5 votes

these changes are a huge buff to the support mages like zyra brand and velkoz

they just get their rylais + liandrys powerspike way easier now

and they already do well against the tank supports making use of the new keystone

Big Lincoln11/24/2016, 2:20:55 AM3 votes

kind of tired of this trend of flat nerfing items and then making them cheaper

was hoping for it to be a tanky AP item, not a support one

SGT Dingle Berry11/24/2016, 1:50:49 AM2 votes

Nerfing scepter will just open up crying about other items. First item lich bane after first upgrade on Viktor is always fun, nobody ever expects that AA damage for half your life.

HazyCloud711/24/2016, 2:28:35 AM2 votes

Season 8 end game AP builds are gonna be like 300 AP at this rate. Building Zhonyas or Abyssal as one of the mages reliant on Rylai's is going to be a lot less viable now, unless you want to hit like a potato. I would've rather they just tailored the item to Mordekaiser and buffed the HP rather than removing 25% of the health and AP + 50% of the passive's effectiveness.

Sure the cost is lower but at 6 items cost is no longer relevant and you are left with an item that is worse in every conceivable way. Time for some buffs for Ludens & Deathcap?

All Skillzz11/24/2016, 3:47:06 AM1 votes

that looks like a pretty good buff to supports who abused it. its like what 500-600g cheapter i cant remember if its 3100 or 3200 item it lost 25 ap and 100 hp an the slow isnt as effective. but 20% slow is still really strong.