Atma's Impaler status?

Sliyer·12/10/2014, 10:51:41 AM·3 votes·738 views

Riot, what is the status on Atma's Impaler? I want to know if it's currently being worked on, or if its time has truely ended.

I'd love to use the item again in Summoner's Rift. I know players believe it's over powered and some believe it's not worth getting, because it's more of a late game item. It doesn't provide enough offensives and defenses to be powerful in my option. I've had a lot of experience with this item, and I can say that getting an all out defensive item or a damage item is actually a lot better. I only buy Atma's Impaler when I feel it's necessary or when games have reached late game on a bruiser or tank. If anything it's perfect as it was, because it didn't give enough of both defensive and offensive traits. No health to go with armor pretty much cuts the defensive traits in half, and the damage to health ratio isn't enough to compare with the complete offensive items; on top of that it doesn't have any unique "status" effects. Most players who uses this item probably knows it's better to build it with bruisers and tanks, and if you can usually it'd be late into games. Most games you probably won't really bother to get it, because you'd need the first few items to be a real defensive item such as item 3143, or offensive item like item 3074. So, getting it early probably wouldn't fully give you the outcome you'd like. In late game situations as a bruiser it's hard to either go defensive or offensive if you're a fighter like MonkeyKing, you're more likely going into offensives than you are defenses. Atma's Impaler Is the perfect item to help you change your course, by being able to shred off some damage and still potentially deal damage. But if you're a tank like Maokai it's probably not worth getting, because you're probably going to play with more utility and defenses.

So I beg of you Riot, please bring back the item to Summoner's Rift.

3 Comments

City of Toronto12/10/2014, 1:36:07 PM2 votes

Atma's had a nice idea, but the way the item was in its current iteration was kind of bad tbh...

Granted AD based on health, gave some armor and some CRIT (???) It matched a lot of champions back in the season 2 metagolem bruiser top meta, but now it's so niche that there are hardly any good situations to buy it in. I hope Riot reintroduces it later after changing it up.

Lumus Avatar12/10/2014, 1:01:08 PM1 votes

Atma's is removed from Summoner's Rift. If you want to use it, play on Howling Abyss.