The new AD Assassin Item has been revealed!

Tornado of DOOM·1/27/2016, 9:26:42 PM·2 votes·746 views

Here is the link: http://www.surrenderat20.net/2016/01/127-pbe-update.html

If you can't use the link here is this:

Name: Duskblade of Draktharr (DoD)

Cost: 3250

Recipe: DoD - B.F Sword + Serrated Derk (Serrated Derk - 2 Longswords)

Stats: 75 AD, 5% Move Speed

Unique Passive: +10 Armor Pen

Unique Passive: Basic attacks on an enemy champion apply Nightfall (120 sec CD)

Nightfall: After 2 seconds, deal physical damage equal to 90 plus 25% of the targets missing HP, if the you get a kill or assist before Nightfall ends, the CD is refunded.

What are your thoughts? OP? Balanced? Overtuned? UP (Underpowered)? Will we see Zed and Talon more in-game and the LCS because of this?

10 Comments

TehNACHO1/27/2016, 9:29:23 PM1 votes

Deceptively weaker than it appears.

Hayaishi21/27/2016, 9:32:05 PM1 votes

What a broken piece of shit.

TheLastShadow451/27/2016, 10:30:02 PM1 votes

I just used it in a game and it isn't as great as I thought it would be. It can get you kills but they need to be pretty low for it to come close since you still have to factor in armor.

WalkingInACircle1/27/2016, 10:42:52 PM1 votes

Worth buying for the stats alone, its stupidly overpowered.

l Helios l1/27/2016, 10:53:30 PM1 votes

It doesn't sound OP at all. The passive part only applies for one auto and is dependent on the person being low to begin with. Plus that cool down is super long and you can't control when you use the passive except via autos.

Critmaster Garen1/27/2016, 10:56:02 PM1 votes

Garen

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

no seriously, just add a bit of cdr and im sold.

Lovely Pants1/27/2016, 11:03:36 PM1 votes

Pretty much the same as the original announcement, then.

I'm all for assassins being given a few items to be pinned to, really. There's always been a problem with how wide the AD stat applies to the champion roster with varied outputs that certain classes can't be balanced around a core.Not too concerned about the numbers; those can be adjusted. The general idea of the item seems fairly sound to me.

The only thing I still don't like about this, and this was the only concern I had however so many weeks ago as well, is that it refunds the passive on a kill or assist. We've had countless examples of how powerful the threat of power is whether or not it can constantly be executed (TF stun, Blitzcrank grab ready, etc. for anyone who needs a reminder) I don't see why a champion should have the additional damage to snowball with if it doesn't get used on the first target. If this is supposed to be the safe pick for assassins, it should be just that.

(I'm assuming that still means on the target of Nightfall, not just a general kill or assist reset, because I can't even imagine how that could even make it through concept phase as a good idea)