Can we address Stormrazor?

CloakAndGrenade··1 votes·867 views

This item has been far too overloaded for far too long. Crit, attack speed, move speed, AD. It's literally a stat-check item. Do you know what, besides being able to right click, the following champions have in common? Caitlyn Graves Kaisa Sivir

If you guessed it's that they rush item 3095, then congratulations, you've been paying attention. Marksmen with such vastly different kits shouldn't have the same first item build path but whether you're talking Jhin or even XinZhao everyone is rushing this freaking item.

We get it, riot, you trashed ADC itemization so badly the last pre-season that it was literally a meme again. We had Swain in the bot lane for like two months because of it. But the solution was not to throw in an item so broken and brain-dead that any physical damage dealer in the game can build it and succeed. Do you know what is really, really god damn dumb? Garen item 3095 item 3078
That, that is weapons-grade stupidity and it works! When every ADC is just building an item because it's overpowered and gold efficient and not because it meshes with their kit, there is an issue. You -finally- got around to nerfing item 3124 for very similar reasons, and it wasn't even as widely abused as item 3095 is right now. It is so freaking frustrating to just be walked down by a physical damage dealer because they are getting a metric fuckton of move-speed and damage for doing what they were already doing without the item.

Wanna play Evelynn ? That's a shame because Graves rushed a item 3095 + Fleet footwork and even if you ult over a wall you aren't kiting anything.

Fell like playing Skarner ? You're not going to be able to get close enough to their ADC to grab em thanks to fleet footwork, item 3094 and of course item 3095.

Especially since the ten trillion IQ changes to Dark Harvest turned it from an obscure keystone that a few junglers, assassins, and Miss Fortune were able to abuse into something that literally every laner in the game is taking because it hits harder than student loan debt hits a med-school drop-out.

Dark-Harvest + item 3095 is a combo that even fucking Janna could one shot with.

7 Comments

boricCentaur13 votes

lol if you think 20%ms for .75s is a lot pls never look at item 3142 since you will die from a heart attack after learning how much ms that item gives.

CloakAndGrenade1 votes

That item doesn't give crit or attack speed, and gives less damage. Are you dense mate?

boricCentaur13 votes

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That item doesn't give crit or attack speed, and gives less damage. Are you dense mate?

It gives lethality,cdr and ad, so it also gives 3 stats and you said that stormrazor gives a lot of ms so me comparing its ms part to a another item that also has 3 stats it gives makes perfect sense. So no im not dense.

CloakAndGrenade1 votes

The lethality and AD add up to FAR less damage than a stormrazor proc, and unlike ghostblade, stormrazor's movespeed is on a 2 second CD, (default is 3 but with attack speed in the kit this drops to 2 rapidly) to the point where champions like Draven and Jhin who pause between auto's anyway are able to keep this bonus up nearly permanently. Not to mention that Stormrazor also scales very hard with other crit and AD items thanks to its passive. Ghostblade does not. Not to mention that Ghostblade gives 20% movespeed. The exact same speed buff as Stormrazor.

So let's do some math. Assuming a full 2.75 seconds between procs, you can proc this passive on Stormrazor 21.81 times, rounding down to 21 and multiplying this by the .75 duration you get a cap of 15.75 seconds of move speed per minute. Ghostblade gives 6 seconds of movespeed on a 45 second cooldown meaning at most you are getting 12 seconds of movespeed a minute.

Furthermore, ghostblade costs 100 more gold than stormrazor.

Try another strawman please, this one isn't even making my crows nervous.

CloakAndGrenade1 votes

In addition to my other reply, ghostblade users like Zed, Kha-Zix, and Rengar are all currently rushing Stormrazor half the time for a reason. It hits harder and scales better than Ghostblade, which has dropped to a third or fourth item priority if it's even still built at all.

Eedat3 votes

Uhhhhhhhh no they aren't

mack91123 votes

They definitely are not doing that

If you actually follow things going on in the league community you will know meddler already said they are looking at ad items and in particular stormrazor

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