Problem with Cinderhulk

LatetotheRace··1 votes·193 views

The firecape-esque item is cool and all, and the bonus health is quite substantial when built full tank. To fighters, bruisers, and now even tanks. Building Devourer for on hits like; Shyvana Udyr Nocturne XinZhao MasterYi. And For champions with decent AP scaling; Gragas Amumu Udyr Maokai The added damage, jungle clear, and mobility is the obvious choice over the mundane item which is Cinderhulk.

Now I don't know for sure whether it would be a good choice to buff cinderhulk, or simply take Echo and Devourer down a notch to where it's balanced out more. But for riot to get people to build Cinder over say echo, there's going to be some serious problems with a tank item that powerful. (Can you say; "smite top?")

So, let us brainstorm on how exactly we can solve this problem that has arised. (Keep in mind giving the jungle more MS was probably a hasty decision, and every devourer type item thus far has been either considered unbalanceable, or nerfed into the ground and removed.)

6 Comments

Rain NT2 votes

give cinderhulk tenacity and 3-5% extra bonus HP boom problem solved

LatetotheRace1 votes

Would that really be enough? I think the solution would actually be to tweak the AP tanks to where their damage is almost exclusively base, so that building AP will be a pointless endeavour.

Rain NT1 votes

Yup, if it gives 35% tenacity like the old merc treads... its hard give up... Tenacity is one of the stats that you cant get much, theres only so little options for tenacity. A lot of champions will opt out for it I would bet and just build DMP for movement speed or ludens. Mostly when merc tread isnt a great item atm. If they give tenacity on cinderhulk, junglers can go CH into swifty boots or mobi boots.

And the extra hp would just be a bonus buff to come along with the tenacity.

Rain NT1 votes

Nevermind lets change it to 30% like the current merc tread. Cause too much tenacity on Udyr would be broken.

LatetotheRace1 votes

Intriguing suggest, I'll have to take a look into how that could affect certain champions. Especially Udyr ^^

Rain NT1 votes

Yeah the whole reason why merc tread was the best boots in the game for a long time was just because it has tenacity. All higher level players knows that tenacity is probably the most broken stat in the game. When you take 1 a half second off a hard cc thats huge.

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