This looks like the most cancerous thing league could possibly produce.

Packun Flower·12/29/2018, 4:48:23 AM·25 votes·10,848 views

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Are you actually kidding?

80 Ad 30% AS 5% MS 50% Crit chance Crit Bonus damage

Holy shit, if this IE actually becomes a thing... why is this version of IE even being considered? could you imagine this as a first item on let alone ADC, brusiers or even assassins. Why not tak 20% life steal and a GA revive passive on it to while you're at it.

Holy actual fuck no one would ever play an AP champion ever again if this IE came out.

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MorganFreemanBot12/29/2018, 7:17:32 AM33 votes

Five. Thousand. Gold.

Chew on that for a second.

FIVE. THOUSAND. GOLD.

item 3089 is often considered "too expensive to build" these days, and it costs 3600 gold. We're talking about 1400 MORE gold to get this new I.E. The amount this delays your powerspike is freaking insane.

Also? This is a gigantic nerf to Yasuo. Yasuo scales hardest with attack speed, primarily because it reduces the cooldown of his Q and empowers his entire gameplay pattern, rather than just a raw damage increase.

I.E. does not give any attack speed, meaning that it's going to directly harm the way Yasuo fights. Sure he'll hit harder, but if it takes him a solid 10 seconds before he can even try to tornado, you can kill him before he's dangerous. Also, hitting twice as hard is going to deal less damage than just hitting you three times as quickly with more autos and more Q's.

This nerf is even MORE direct than that. Yasuo will get all of his crit from this item, **which directly lowers the effectiveness of core attack speed choices. ** Items like item 3046 become massively inefficient due to the crit overcap. This forces him into suboptimal attack speed items ( item 3153 item 3124 item 3078 ) to get his most important stat, OR to waste a ton of crit strike on his traditional build. To make matters even worse for him, he now loses out on the extremely powerful item 3046 DR passive, which was insanely important to his dueling pattern.

Honestly, with the new IE, Yasuo is going to be up shit creek without a paddle. He's already in a pretty poor spot, and this looks like the change that could straight up dumpster him.

DNFVixen12/29/2018, 6:16:05 AM12 votes

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Are you actually kidding?

80 Ad 30% AS 5% MS 50% Crit chance Crit Bonus damage

Holy shit, if this IE actually becomes a thing... why is this version of IE even being considered? could you imagine this as a first item on let alone ADC, brusiers or even assassins. Why not tak 20% life steal and a GA revive passive on it to while you're at it.

Holy actual fuck no one would ever play an AP champion ever again if this IE came out.

is this a joke?

KFCeytron12/29/2018, 6:20:50 AM11 votes

The 5000g price tag and the part about increasing crit damage by "a fair and balanced amount" are good indications that this is a joke.

Th3 Rift Hero12/29/2018, 6:51:30 AM11 votes

solution is simple: just nerf yasuo and keep this, now adcs are fun to play again

BoilTheOil12/29/2018, 2:03:06 PM9 votes

5k gold

Poske12/29/2018, 1:44:44 PM8 votes

5K GOLD To gain an efficient spike

Relax people aint that scarry

BigFBear12/29/2018, 2:49:26 PM5 votes

You realize it's price is 5000 Gold? So what's the difference if someone build 1 Item or 2 Items with 5000 Gold. They get the same amount of stat per 1 Gold.

This only matters in full build matches but since games are mostly 25-30 minutest long nowadays, you have almost no full build games anymore.

It could even be a "hold back" since you will need around 18 minutes to get your first (unique) passives, when your opponent has access to it around minute 10.

HopeStartsWithU12/29/2018, 2:21:35 PM5 votes

I dont understand you people. You guys want ADCs to be late game. Riot makes an Item that you get pretty late into the game as an ADC since it costs so much. Now with this item ADCs wont have the 3 item powerspike early on AND they wont have to wait until full late game to actually do something.

In terms of yasuo: this is a freaking nerf to him. 5K gold for 100% crit all nice and good BUT PD and IE costs 6,1k. Yeah thats 1,1k difference and Yasuo really gets a "big" powerspike "early" on EXCEPT that he wont get the tankyness and utility of PD. This is a straight up nerf to him. If he gets PD too he will waste unnecessary amount of gold on crit. On top of his AS cap on Q, he WILL have to buy berserkers and that will make him even more squishy. So it is the change every Yasuo hater actually wanted. He won't spike with PD anymore if he really wants that IE.

And if you compare IEs cost with PDs, you can see that yasuo will have an even tougher early game.

In short, I dont see any Yasuo rushing this item at all. The only thing that really could become obnoxious with this guy is the tank builds that could happen. But lets be real: IE, Trinity, Mallet are all expensive as hell to actually build in this fast paced meta.

Daddy Ants12/29/2018, 12:32:18 PM3 votes

That IE won't make it to live.

5,000 Gold is unrealistic to expect a player to spend on 1 item.

If it was like 4400 (same price as IE + Ornn upgrade is right now) then maybe.