Why not making new champs with unusual "standard" builds if you want them to feel distinct

Photos of Ghosts·Jan 13, 2016·8 votes·489 views

If Jhin needs to be this precise and powerful sniper, why not giving him incentives to build pure AD? Instead, you made him build the standard marksman crit-AS build, and get weird stat conversions to give him a playstyle as if he had tons of AD and no crit nor AS.

Same for Quinn, she's always been the duelist, assassin/light fighter marksman. What does she get on her burst? A critchance-to-CDR conversion. So now she has to build crit like every other marksman. And Youmuu doesn't even have crit anymore.

10 Comments

CatastropJan 13, 20162 votes

You can still build champions in a non-standard fashion. You just need to stop conforming to the Fun Police Mentality of other players. Shen item 3930 item 3068 item 3748 item 3091 item 3065 item 1315

JohnTheLibrarianJan 13, 20161 votes

Love this build, I'm gonna do it

Photos of GhostsJan 14, 20161 votes

I actually imagined this build before Shen was picked again in the LCS. Or even better Nautilus item 3020 item 3151 item 3068 item 3091 item 3001 item 3075

CatastropJan 14, 20161 votes

I think I had a Naut try to do this very build in my last game. He was mid and started off with Abyssal then attempted Liandry's. On another note, Devo Shen was done in the LCS?

Photos of GhostsJan 14, 20161 votes

No, there was not devourer yet, but they consistently took Wit's eary on and swapped for Botrk at the end

xl Kirito lxJan 13, 20162 votes

What pure AD items are there? Infinity Edge gives crit. Essence reaver gives cdr / crit. Bloodthirster gives lifesteal. The only "pure" AD items that I can think of are Manamune and BF sword.

Photos of GhostsJan 14, 20161 votes

Yes but they're AD oriented. BT, IE, ER, MercScim, Maw

The Sword SaintJan 13, 20162 votes

Because we already have raw ad stacking characters, but we don't have someone who gets the passives of a bunch of the crit/attack speed items and still plays like an ad stacker. His builds WILL be unique because he can stack items that would normally be terrible because they don't balance the attackspeed/crit/damage trinity correctly but in this case work because of his passive.

Imagine a build using stuff like wits end and nashors tooth on him, the attack spee would become ad. He could be a truly hybrid champ if you decide to build him that way.

Or you could get ruunans and static shiv and rapid fire cannon and it would work. I don't get people with no imagination insisting that its gonna be a 'cookie cutter' build.

JohnTheLibrarianJan 13, 20161 votes

Youmous made sense, most people using it didn't need the Crit. And I think Riot isn't happy with how their new diversity in the ADC builds turned out.