Can we talk a bit about Essence Reaver and the fact that its more of a top lane item than an ADC one

JainaProudgurl·6/1/2018, 8:13:26 PM·43 votes·20,293 views

I don't know if anyone else besides me noticed this, but Essence Reaver really on works on a select few people. And then, you get to top lane. This item has single handedly broken almost every top laner off the plain of existence now. For people wondering WHY, lemme put out its passive: Essence Font.

What Essence Font does is this: When you use your ultimate, it gives you 30% Attack Speed and decreases the CD of all your other Cooldowns by 20% whenever you auto attack for 8 seconds. Now lets get to why this is retarded.

In my case, I tried it on Fiora. When you would buy this item on Fiora and ult someone, your Q would ALWAYS be up as long as you hit someone with it, and it also allowed you to parry about 2-3 times in a fight that you shouldn't normally be able to.

But I know this applys to much more than that. I saw a Renekton run it and he literally could just ult and spam spells with no discretion at all. Jax and Riven are about in the same boat, as long as they're halfway decent. Kayle can use it to repetitively Q and heal in a fight, Jayce can use it to get NO Cooldowns on his abilities when he switches....

What I'm saying is that this item is quite viable. Too viable actually. I think something needs done to address this and put Essence Reaver in a place where top laners can't use it as much. As much as I love building it on them, its broken..... just too broken. It needs adjusted.

56 Comments

Pierce The Veal6/2/2018, 12:20:17 AM30 votes

For once an ADC item gets used by another class and people whine about it.

Irelia Bot6/2/2018, 12:09:15 AM17 votes

People wanted URF.

Well... are you happy now?

ZJD1236/2/2018, 12:23:21 AM16 votes

{quoted} Jayce can use it to get NO Cooldowns on his abilities when he switches....

Its disabled on jayce and nidalee. Just spewing misinformation ? Sky is falling sky is falling? Its also really bad on jax.

z63XnLCMwX6/1/2018, 8:54:41 PM15 votes

NASUS. NASUS. Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

SanKakU6/1/2018, 9:55:18 PM5 votes

Haven't top lane players been whining about bottom lane players having too much power? Maybe an item like this is a good thing.

flibitydoo6/1/2018, 9:04:44 PM5 votes

I've been building it as a first item on ez

it's nice it fixes all mana issues the same way manamune does but you aren't forced to build a no damage tear so you can actually lane and fight people with autos instead of cowering with qs and if you build a trinity force after you get a nice 40% cdr build. Presence of mind also helps with keeping everything together with the ult cdr and mana restore.

ValiantKiller6/1/2018, 9:52:12 PM5 votes

I talked about that and everyone was like nah it won't be viable cause it would make them either lose damage or lose armor/magic resist for that. I'm like dude MasterYi Jax got basic skills that can keep them safe from most of damage and can be spammed by that item, yet people make fun. Illaoi give me that w spam ,etc. But people think it fun to never think about something and just make fun of others when they point out the problem early.

Elkington VI6/1/2018, 10:10:40 PM3 votes

Isn't a BF sword part of the recipe? The only top champs that can build that are ones that don't have to invest very heavily into defense. When you're losing a lane (or getting snowballed on) the last thing you want, as a melee top laner, is to be sitting on a BF sword.

DeusVult6/2/2018, 3:05:03 PM3 votes

Teemo can spam shrooms and get a second Q off before the first one ends

HalcyonDweller6/1/2018, 11:13:22 PM3 votes

I don't understand how this wouldn't have been discovered on the PBE, how did it get to live servers?

Automated Riven6/2/2018, 5:01:01 AM2 votes

It's actually pretty sub par on riven IMHO. It doesn't work on her Q until you use them all, even tho the cooldown is running.

Vlada Cut6/2/2018, 8:37:14 PM1 votes

Can't wait to try it on Vayne. Q spam for constamt burst damage would seem like a really fun thing to do lol.

Boulderox6/2/2018, 3:22:55 AM1 votes

item 3153 item 3124 are practically adc items at this point, so what if 1 item gets taken when bot already took 2...

Larkreck6/2/2018, 1:26:23 PM1 votes

Just wait for next patch Spear of Shojin giving flat damage reduction based on bonus AD to toplaners who also build this 70AD item and 80AD Ravenous hydra and/or Death's Dance.

Spacesuit Spiff6/2/2018, 8:09:54 PM1 votes

I thought the boards wanted URF back /s