Why exactly are we nerfing cinderhulk, when spirit of the ancient golem was far superior
Okays, they nerf both cinderhulk and sejuani, because sejuani was OP with it, ok makes sense. But now that assasins and hyper carries are coming back into the meta, other tanks like nautilus and zac have suffered the consequences of these nerfs. She wasn't all that special during the assasin/hyper carry meta a few years ago. However she was playable as were nautilus and zac(well Zac was OP), but kha zix and elise as well as other assassins were simply more favourable. Now I'm no sej lover, imma naut lover and it's painful to see a champ be made obsolete, especially with vayne's rising pick rate, defensive item nerfs and the reign of sated devourer. Personally I'd pick the old ancient golem over cinderhulk+smite any day. The stats were just so helpful and towards the end of last year they specifically tailored it to make it easier for utility tanks early game. Cinderhulk+smite
- 400 HP
- 15% bonus HP
- AOE DOT passive
- 10HP+5MP for 3 seconds while in combat with monsters
- What ever smite you choose so... AOE monster stun, small true dmg+slow vs champs, damage reduction and true dmg on aa then well there's poachers knife but nobody uses that. and in total costs 2250.
Now Spirit of the ancient golem
- HP- 350/400 pre-nerf or 200 HP post nerf
- 25% bonus HP
- 20 armour
- 10% CDR
- Gold passive+sapping barbs. Deals damage to all monsters who attack you(pretty much the sunfire cape passive) and grants hp/mana regen in combat with monsters..
- And my favourite part, especially when they added trinkets. A ward. This ward+ tinket wards was awesome. Loved warding the enemy jungle up and counter-ganking.
Now, I'd assume most people would prefer the new smites, simply because a majority of them are very useful. But they put a decent effort to make utility junglers strong during the assasin meta through quill coat and the ward addition. And then they just through it away for an easily inferior enchantment, cinderhulk. Simply my 5 cents worth. But tanks have gotta fit somewhere, and the demand for tanks is getting less and less as the assasin/hyper carry meta returns in all its Teemo level glory.