What if we had an item that reduced the cost of abilities?

Cloud273··4 votes·548 views

It could be an alternative to mana/mana regen items. The item simply reduces the cost of your abilities. Whether your ability costs energy, health, mana, etc everyone could benefit from this item. And there would be 3 versions of this item. One for AD champs, one for AP champs, and another for tanks. And if that's not enough we can give it a bit of cdr too, since everyone seems to love that.

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LostFr0st4 votes

item 3070 does that.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

item 3070 does that and adding something that lowers HP costs is just asking for DrMundo and Vladimir to become insanely broken really fast... also don't see an energy reduction item to be any useful for energy users except for Shen since energy users already have to wait in between their combos and that's more than enough for their energy to refill

WoonStruck2 votes

Not really?

Vlad and Mundo don't really feel their HP costs past level 9, which isn't hard to hit on them. The item would obviously have trade-offs that would probably include not being a major bump to damage/survivability.

Basically, it would be a complete waste of gold on both Vlad and Mundo.


Seriously, decent Mundos and Vlads don't even notice their HP costs unless they're spamming abilities without hitting anything.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Not really?

Vlad and Mundo don't really feel their HP costs past level 9, which isn't hard to hit on them. The item would obviously have trade-offs that would probably include not being a major bump to damage/survivability.

Basically, it would be a complete waste of gold on both Vlad and Mundo.


Seriously, decent Mundos and Vlads don't even notice their HP costs unless they're spamming abilities without hitting anything.

you seriously underestimate what their costs are and even more so, Who the hell is going to bother picking the item then? Aatrox ? he is better off just building lifesteal to negate his health costs so Mordekaiser ? great! we have an item for one champion! sorry but that's not enough for an item to exist... and if the item gives AP then Aatrox really won't care about it... so it either has to give AD or HP if you want him to bother picking it up and even then it depends on how much would it reduce the cost, how much will the item cost... would it be better than him simply getting lifesteal? not likely

WoonStruck1 votes

I don't underestimate the costs.

DrMundo literally sit back and last hit with cleavers if you don't have lane advantage with Mundo. You won't run out of HP if you aren't spamming it off CD for no reason. You won't even approach half.

Vladimir you just last hit until you're 2+ items unless the enemy laner goes full-retard and lets you kill them or goes kamikaze to try to kill you.

Neither have problems with their costs.

Aatrox costs aren't an issue if you're using the healing portion of W, again, unless you're uselessly spamming stuff off CD. He just sucks at laning in general though.

It would only be useful to Mordekaiser early game, and barely helpful at that. His costs aren't an issue if you're just using them to sustain your shield when you need it.


Believe it or not, but early laning phase is not about spamming your spells off CD. Its about managing your resources so you can afford a good buy on your first back, rather than giving up the lane or being forced to back.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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I don't underestimate the costs.

DrMundo literally sit back and last hit with cleavers if you don't have lane advantage with Mundo. You won't run out of HP if you aren't spamming it off CD for no reason. You won't even approach half.

Vladimir you just last hit until you're 2+ items unless the enemy laner goes full-retard and lets you kill them or goes kamikaze to try to kill you.

Neither have problems with their costs.

Aatrox costs aren't an issue if you're using the healing portion of W, again, unless you're uselessly spamming stuff off CD. He just sucks at laning in general though.

It would only be useful to Mordekaiser early game, and barely helpful at that. His costs aren't an issue if you're just using them to sustain your shield when you need it.


Believe it or not, but early laning phase is not about spamming your spells off CD. Its about managing your resources so you can afford a good buy on your first back, rather than giving up the lane or being forced to back.

so... why are you even bothering to reply when your answer is pretty much "there is no point in adding this type item?"

DarkRitual1 votes

Lower health costs on abilities? Betrer nerf Soraka.

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