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Spear of Shojin + Steraks gage... are these changes really needed?

Bjørnetjenesten·5/21/2018, 2:17:06 PM·1 votes·1,201 views

> Spear of Shojin - New item > RECIPE: B. F. Sword + Kindlegem + 900 g = 3000 g. > STATS: +65 attack damage, +200 health, and +10% cooldown reduction. > UNIQUE PASSIVE: Reduces damage from champion attacks and abilities by 10 (+ 15% bonus AD). > The flat damage reduction occurs before armor and magic resistance is applied. It is as 30% as effective against damage over time. > UNIQUE PASSIVE: While within 500-units of at least 3 enemy champions, basic attack to gain DRAGON HEART (90 second cooldown). > DRAGON HEART: For 6 seconds, blocks 200% more damage, for a total of 30 (+ 45% bonus AD). The duration refreshes on Damage rating takedowns.

> Steraks Gage - item 3053 > REMOVED UNIQUE PASSIVE: +50% base attack damage. > NEW UNIQUE PASSIVE - GIANT STRENGTH: Gain 50% of base attack damage as bonus attack damage.

They are giving assassins/divers/fighters another item with insane damage reduction and hp. Combined with the item 3053 changes, I can now see ZedTalonRengar build full lethality and finish of with these items + item 3026, to make them completely unkillable, while oneshotting squishies. Lets not forgot they will get 30% tenacity and are able get 35% total armor pen, in case they need to kill some tanks too.

item 3046 item 3812+spear of shojin is gonna be the new 3 item spike that gives fighters insane dueling, diving and teamfighting potential.

Sure gonna be fun to fight them as any other class. Not like Yasuo XinZhao Graves Aatrox Irelia MonkeyKing Talon Zed have been sitting on insane winrates+ playrates already.

Lets not forgot Yasuo now has quadruple crit chance with item 3031 and 30-40% of his damage will be true dmg when combined with Conqueror. Now imagine he builds, item 3046, shojin, item 3053 item 3026 or item 3072

I have no clue what riot is smoking nowadays...

2 Comments

Khristophoros5/21/2018, 2:23:40 PM1 votes

Yeah I actually tried this combo on Zed and it's pretty stupid. Like the enemy team had a Katarina and I just kinda chilled in her ult LOL

The Sterak's change is probably... fine... maybe. But Spear of Shojin is overpowered.

And don't forget you can also use Spear of Shojin + Sterak's in an Atma's build because you get an actual fuckload of bonus AD when Atma's is stacked up.

Critmaster Garen5/21/2018, 2:29:44 PM1 votes

i think the steraks change is from the wrong end. if they think trigage is too effective, they should reduce the base ad scaling on sheen, and offset by adding a flat damage/lvl scaling.

because if sheen wasnt interacting quite as strongly with base ad, they could easily add more base ad increasing items into the game. this would make it easier to balance fighter items sepratately from assassin/skirmisher itemization.

what i can easily see happening here is, that assassins, skirmishers and adc might build fighter items to get tanky and turn into ranged/mobile bruisers again.

if they commited to the idea of base ad increases, and changed sheen scaling instead, fighter items would be a lot easier to balance.