Wait..... a Second buff to Ultimate Hunter?

Illabethe··1 votes·2,227 views

On PBE right now.....

Ultimate hunter is now 5-25% Ult cooldown reduction.... (5 + 4% per stack)

Even when it was on Sorcery it was only 20% potential max..... and that was considered so powerful that in Domination's incarnation it was chipped down to 2% per stack, for a total of 15% when fully stacked.

Now we're spiking it in 2 consecutive patches to 25%?

And you guys wondered why they were nerfing Zed..... (Every single Domination change over the last 6 months has been to favor Zed; Converting Electrocute into Thunderlord's Decree, Ultimate Hunter move to Domination, increased Sudden Impact Lethality, Poro/Ward buffs of Bonus stats).

I mean..... it's not exclusive to Zed, but he uses it the best because of how his cooldowns and energy gain is constructed.

It's certainly not a Karma rune anymore.....

I guess Riot really wants people to spam ults the entire game.

(I'm really thinking about picking up Lux and pairing Ultimate hunter with her own innate Ult cooldown buffs.... just to spam buff Dark Harvest)

I'm not even going to ask what they are thinking about Transcendence's buff either...... I can pull 80% overcapped CDR on a viable build..... welcome home 240 free AP!

I think I'll dig Evelynn out of her closet too..... as she is the best user of BOTH of these runes.

7 Comments

How Do You Meta1 votes

That rune is still not worth taking over the other ones because spell vamp, ms, and item cdr is way more useful than lowering the CD of an ultimate. Not even Karthus takes it. It was an ok choice in the sorcerer tree because that tree has some pretty subpar choices, however the hunters all offer great utility. Lux doesn't need that rune either because her ultimate is already such a low cd already that the few seconds it shaves off would still not be worth taking over the other runes yet again.

Illabethe1 votes

Nearly every single Assassin takes it over Ravenous, and most Mages do far better with Relentless hunter than Ravenous. Ravenous only has a lot of impact on champions whose skills behave like auto attacks but have aoe features.

iiGazeii1 votes

Ultimate Hunter will still only be great on champions that either have an ultimate central to their kit (e.g., Ekko, Pyke) and need that insane CDR or on champions that don't build CDR and can't really benefit from the spell vamp of Ravenous (e.g., most ADCs).

Ultimate Hat was fine because it competed with Manaflow Band and Nullifying Orb, situational and mildly useful, but none of them hugely powerful. Ultimate Hunter needs to compete with Ravenous Hunter, and that's a whole different ball game.

Illabethe1 votes

You do realize over half the assassin populace takes Ultimate Hunter over any other 3rd tier rune bar none, right? And no. Their kits do NOT revolve around their ults. Unless you mean like 135 of 143 champs......

Terozu1 votes

You do realize this isn't true right? Ravenous hunter is far more popular.

Illabethe2 votes

Talon: 44% Relentless 42% Ultimate; 12% take Ravenous Zed: 50.2% Ultimate Hunter, 41.2% Ravenous Hunter Akali is building Ravenous, but mostly because for some reason she is taking Fleet Footwork, so using wierd runes for an assassin Evelynn: 75% Relentless Hunter, 17.4% Ultimate Hunter LB is taking Ravenous, but it's worth noting 20.6% are taking Ultimate Hunter Ahri has an interesting split: 37.9% Primary Ravenous hunter, and 25.8% Primary Ultimate Hunter, BUT 17.2% SECONDARY Ultimate Hunter, while only 2.6% Secondary Ravenous Hunter: Net total: UH: 43% RH: 40.5% (Ultimate Hunter wins again) Annie is split between all three but has a lead in Ravenous. Karthus is 48% UH and only RH only 42% Lux isn't taking much Domination, but when she does, it's UH followed by Relentless Nocturne is 46.1% Ultimate hunter, and not any other Domination runes at all...

Colte1 votes

well looks like i'll finally use the ultimate rune instead of spell vamp [slayer-jinx-wink]

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