I don't care if you want to remove Frozen Mallet, at least bring at item with phage + giant's belt buildpath back into the game, it made so much sense for melee champions. It also fixes the fact that zeal and sheen each have 3 items to build into on summoner's rift while phage has one?
Togekiss241 votesI remember when Phage used to build into Frozen Mallet, but that got removed because of balancing reasons or something.
Anyway, I haven't read up on it, but to me it kind of makes sense to remove Frozen Mallet for the same reason Leviathan, Ionic Spark, and Madreds was removed. Nobody uses it, and only a few champions really benefit from it, so it's kind of becoming wasted space in the game right now.
Rebonack1 votesAn item being niche isn't a good reason to remove an item.
An item causing degenerate gameplay (see: DFG, Innervating Locket, ect) is a good reason to remove an item.
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Reduced AD, higher HP, and keeps its active that serves more or less the same purpose. Entropy really isn't worth building as an offensive option most of the time, but making it a better defensive option would certainly make it more attractive.
Remake/combine Mallet with Ionic Spark as an HP/OnHit/IAS item. Auto attacks build 1 Frost charge and skills build 2. At 8 charges your next basic attack consumes them and cause a freezing blast of ice to detonate on the target, dealing damage in an area and slowing the target for 2 seconds.
youngjake931 votesI really don't understand how someone can still say no one uses mallet. After Warmogs went down to 800 health, Frozen is actually a decent option at only 100 health less +35 AD and gives you great sticking power. Frozen Mallet arguably outclasses Warmog's on Pantheon(probably a little worse than Randuin's but eh) for example with his nice AD ratios, slight lack of sticking power on tankier champs and not much reason for the Warmog's passive(you already have to back for mana before health). And I've seen pros build Warmog's on Pantheon.
