Could a champion that scales on AS and/or MS ever work?

Linna Excel··1 votes·280 views

I've been thinking about champion scalings lately (such is why don't more tanks scale off of tank items). After that I noticed something that never directly scaled for a champ, that being AS and MS. I know some champs have an advantage as they build those things, but we never see a here's a hard benefit for building AS and MS specifically.

People have been asking for a dancer champ since I started lol (probably before) yet riot has never done one. I'm assuming they've been kicking around ideas but it's a shame one's never come out. Could a feature like this be the sort of thing to build a dancer champ around, like a passive that turned AS into on hit damage and MS into armor and MR (rolling with blows better)? I mean we've got 2 wind champs, yasuo and janna, and neither scale on being fast. You'd think a wind champ would naturally want to build stuff related to speed.

Could we ever get a champ with a kit that directly rewards you for building speed related items?

4 Comments

TehNACHO1 votes

Well there are a lot of champions who scale indirectly for certain stats. Shyvana for example really likes attack speed but her abilities never explicitly mention it. Dr. Mundo's Cleavers can only possibly scale on time, so they scale on CDR and how long you can stay alive (ergo, tankiness).

Indirect scaling imo is just as interesting as "+x damage for every y attack speed" or such crap. I mean, indirect scaling is literally how you define Carries from Assassins (Carries scale on time, Assassins do not, in this case).

Cosmic Warper1 votes

You basically described kalista. She scales with both MS boot tier and AS. Converting stats is wonky because the conversion rate can either mean they are op, or very underwhelming ( See PBE azir where he got 80% AS after 40% CDR).

Ariaflux1 votes

Hecarim's damage scales on MS

I Am Florg1 votes

Hecarim scales with ms and both yasuo and azir scales with as.

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