Crystalline Flask on ranged champions is obnoxious

Yenn·Aug 21, 2019·1 votes·1,124 views

This is pretty frustrating, especially when it's being used to bully you out of lane early, as a champion without mana.

It essentially prevents any form of capitalization on early mistakes, because the Flask will ensure that even a terribly executed trade is still a win for the champion with the Flask. Lanes that are otherwise decided by skill also break down, because the champion with the Flask is able to make multiple bad trades, while the champion without it will likely die or have to leave lane from a single bad trade.

How about reducing its effectiveness on ranged champions?

4 Comments

SEKAIAug 21, 20193 votes

Which season are we on?

Thought Crystalline Flask has been gone for ages.

I have to assume you mean Corrupting Potion. It's solid sustain for laning, yes, but it also means you start with no real starting item (the Doran's masterrace), too. There is a reason why Corrupting Potion is not used by every guy who has ever laned, but just mostly on champs who has early sustain issues that need to spam pots to stay relevant and/or also if they're specific enough with poking they can utilise the burn more usefully than others might.

Corrupting Potion is a pretty niche item.

Chembaron YamadaAug 21, 20193 votes

Reduced effectiveness of Corrupting Potion on ranged champions.... now, this is a new one. Seriously, making a ranged/melee split is not the solution to every problem in the game like people seem to make it out to be. Giving ranged champions reduced effectiveness on that is just weird, what do you want to suggest next, that ranged champions get less health back from health potions as well?

KazekibaAug 21, 20191 votes

You mean Corrupting Pot? The item that virtually 0 range champions buy because D-blade/ring are way way better on them?

The KombinatorAug 21, 20191 votes

Buy it for yourself? That equalise the chances.

Though i would give some extra buff for tank supports in early game. Right now one way to counter them is to play SUPER aggressive before 3 with poker, and by the time they can finally have the rank for combo. They don't have the health to survive it.