Mercury Treads could be buffed to 40% and not be overpowered

God Raijin·8/19/2017, 8:27:55 PM·134 votes·5,272 views

With things like all these knock ups, suppression, knock backs they already literally do nothing. But any joking aside, even in the areas that do help, chain CC is already so fucked that if you get hit by one CC you are guaranteed to be hit by the next CC, meaning that unless you are a full tank you are almost always 100% dead. (even if you are a full tank you are usually too crippled to continue to be a part of a fight in many cases.)

98 Comments

kile1478/19/2017, 9:06:29 PM11 votes

Really what we need is stacking tenacity. Have Merc treads or another item give "You gain 20% tenacity every second you are crowd controlled, up to a total of 60% tenacity. Not being hit by any crowd control for 2 seconds resets this to zero". This would mean that it would be increasingly hard to CC chain the target, but one off CC would still work fine. The effect could obviously be tuned (maybe slows only give 5-10%?) but it would be a way to add tenacity that would really just prevent tanks from being permanently locked down while still allowing them to be peeled off since they wouldn't immediately get the full effect. No risk of abuse by squishies either since they wouldn't survive long enough to get the full benefit from it, they'd be better of building EoN or QSS.

RacoonHunter8/20/2017, 3:27:33 AM5 votes

Or.. you can add Knock ups, knock backs, and suppressions into Tenacity.. cause lets face it, tenacity means dick these days.

Executioner8/19/2017, 8:41:21 PM5 votes

Anything that does the stuns, slows, snares, would want to cry.

Penns8/19/2017, 8:33:21 PM4 votes

its already borderline overpowered for mid laners tho hehe

Catastrophic8/19/2017, 11:46:01 PM4 votes

If you buff merc treads you fix nothing about the cc chaining that happens in this game, you just shift the meta from stuns to knockups even more than it already is. Meaning the end result will most likely be

less TwistedFate Anivia Ahri Annie Ashe AurelionSol Ekko Fiddlesticks Gnar Lissandra Leona Lulu Lux Morgana Nami

more Alistar Blitzcrank Galio Gragas Kalista Nautilus RekSai Thresh Velkoz MonkeyKing Zac

SpiritOfOdysseus8/20/2017, 2:08:55 AM3 votes

SOOOO much yes. Riot doesn't realize how much this would help pretty much every melee champion in the game.

EDIT: I thought about it for a good minute and realized it would be a bad idea for some champions. I'd be content if Riot just gave us more tenacity items with the drawback that you cannot stack them and boots giving the most tenacity out of those said items.

Snake Prince8/19/2017, 10:31:20 PM3 votes

Rylais's slow could be buffed to 30% and wouldn't be broken too

ModCaptainMårvelous8/20/2017, 3:58:14 AM3 votes

That doesn't actually solve the problem though. Knock-up/back should be nerfed and normal CC (stun/snare/etc) should be buffed. In this way, tenacity is a stronger counter but you always have your weaker-but-uncounterable fallback.

Increasing tenacity just makes normal CCs even worse while leaving displacement unchanged and this more powerful. 40% of 1.5 seconds just means it's a piddly stun.

Noblewind8/20/2017, 2:04:35 PM1 votes

CC is like problem #99 out of 100 on the priority list IMO, if it even is one at all. If you get chain CCd as a tank, that's several abilities off cooldown for your team to capitalize on, isn't that a Good thing?