Why does taste of blood have a 20 second cooldown.

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Cheap shot can only be procced if you CC the enemy. I'm sure that most CC abilities that have range have a cooldown of 4s. Taste of blood outheals cheap shot's dmg. Unless youre Annie or smth.

Taste of Blood heals an average of 1 HP per second at level 1. Cheap Shot does an average of 2 damage per second. Even with the bonus damage being situational, it isn't hard to have it deal more sustained damage than Taste of Blood could heal thanks to spells like Lux's E which trigger it automatically. The gap only widens as you gain levels as you can apply Cheap Shot's damage far more frequently with CDR and allies' CC.

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Yes it is. 7 lethality is nothing, you can just counter it with 1 armor rune.

Depends on who we're considering because it applies penetration over the next few seconds.

Even can proc it with venomous bite, and all of her autos + spiderlings gain the lethality and penetration, 1 armor runes/1 MR rune isn't cutting it, and most champs take health per level anyway.

or alternatively, even with cheap shot being low on damage, it is free extra damage that procs every 4 seconds, a team with any CC could add a fair amount of extra damage, or even red buff. I take it on Elise because it indirectly boost her missing health based damage during a standard combo and with red buff helps get the lead going early.

Taste of blood isn't really great in most scenarios unless you're taking it for lane sustain, its true purpose (that and filler if you don't have consistent CC or a dash.. ADCs can't really utilize either two.) its only good because you can pair it with ravenous hunter to stay in lane longer, and other secondary runes are either terrible for lane phase or nerfed into the ground.

Out of laning phase tho, you never feel taste of blood, even cheap shot becomes negligible.

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Yes it is. 7 lethality is nothing, you can just counter it with 1 armor rune. The true dmg has been gutted so hard (like wtf 23 true dmg at level 10 like whats the point?) while taste of blood has a decent ad and ap ratio and all you gotta do is deal dmg. Usually mages have 35 ap at level 1, so you'd heal 21 hp (3 ap + 18 base). It outheals both sudden impacts and cheap shots dmg at every stage.

On average, as someone who plays Irelia, SI usually deals like 500 dmg. On a champion who constantly dashes. While taste of blood heals for up to 1.3k almost everytime.

It's simple maths. Please stop being one of those that go ''REEEEEEEEEE TRUE DMG, IT MUST MEAN ITS OP!''

Little bit of true dmg is not the problem.

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The analogy fits because it's a fucking comparison and you don't need to overly complicate it.

Jeez.

Calm down.

Cant wait for the 400 Second lux ult by that logic

And 900second draven jinx and ezreal ults