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Bring Back Mana Manipulator

SSLRranma·5/16/2015, 10:08:21 PM·22 votes·1,329 views

Mana Manip was one of the good support items. It not only helped you, but helped your lane partner with a mana regen aura. Riot seems to want to phase out auras though, So how about we change it up and create a new mana manipulator?

Old Mana Manipulator: Build Path: Faerie Charm + 180g(300 Total) Unique Aura - Mana Warp: Nearby allied champions gain +5 mana regeneration per 5 seconds. (1100 range)

Proposed Change: Build Path: Faerie Charm + 180g(300 Total)

+25% base mana regen Unique Passive - Auto-Attacks against an enemy champion give you +25% base mana regen for 5 seconds. Unique Passive - After using an ability, Allied champions(excluding the Caster) in 800 radius regain .5% of their max mana(Minimum 3/5/10 atlevels 1/8/11). (2 second CD)

After that, you can make a more advanced Build Path. Maybe throw in an Aether Wisp and a Codex and turn it into a support version of Luden's echo based granting Temporary CDR -10%

New Item: Mana Controller Build Path: Mana Manipulator(Faerie Charm + 180gp = 300gp) + Aether Wisp(Amplifying Tome + 415gp = 850gp) + Fiendish Codex(Amplifying Tome + 385gp = 820gp) + 530gp = 2500gp

+50% base mana regen +70 Ability Power +15 move speed(not %) -20% Cooldown Reduction

Unique Passive - Auto-Attacks against an enemy champion give you +50% base mana regen for 5 seconds. Unique Active - Gains charges upon moving or casting. At 100 charges, activating this item will remove all charges to give all other nearby(1000 range) allied champions a +100% base mana regen and -10% Cooldown Reduction buff or 8 seconds. (Cooldown of 15 seconds before it can acquire charges again, so 7 seconds after the current buff ends)

12 Comments

Erockandroll5/16/2015, 10:30:27 PM3 votes

That actually sounds OP. 4 mana on attacking a champion, when compared to 4 mana on killing a unit from Doran's ring. And obviously the .5% passive would too greatly affect low CD champions. Also considering that a minimum of 10 would not likely gate the early game enough.

It seems to me like Riot doesn't want one champion to affect another's resource by any significant amount. Especially if that champ is suppose to be gated heavily by mana. And I wonder why ADCs and Supports are almost exclusively limited by mana.

Personally, if we did have a mana manipulating item. I think is should act as a Mana Battery, (think soraka before the rework) Allow supports to empower their ADC's spell casting, but at the cost of their own mana pool.

qetzel5/17/2015, 12:12:15 AM3 votes

It isn't just auras that stop MM from returning. What has been one of the big changes this season? Regen. Even blue buff got its regen nerfed. I think Riot wants mana to be important throughout the game for casting champions. This addition would go a long way towards negating that.

straight4free5/16/2015, 11:31:55 PM1 votes

How about an item like Kalista's spear with this regard. You buy it, and bind it to another person. They get access to your mana pool in addition to their own.

It has very obvious drawbacks in uncoordinated play, but could allow the support to build mana for their carry.

All Day Tay Tay5/17/2015, 11:33:30 AM1 votes

Udyr i totally agree with this item

The Lexer5/17/2015, 2:25:39 PM1 votes

If were gonna do the AA passive, can we build this into Essence Reaver?

Trídent5/17/2015, 2:31:36 PM1 votes

if it becomes such a good item tho, it should get a more unique name imo ;p

Sorion5/16/2015, 10:21:43 PM1 votes

Uh that auto-attack thing better have a cooldown period like Lich Bane. Feel free to increase the amount to 10-15 if you feel it's necessary for the cooldown period to take place, mana back on auto attack is kinda of Crescent Reaver's (or whatever that item is called) thing.

I'd be fine with Mana Manipulator coming back as it was though, even with a tiny nerf, although the game is different now and Mana Regen items work off of base Mana Regen and not base numbers from the item, so it might even be fine as it is when it comes back with the appropriate values adjusted.

tl;dr: Sure. I don't think think you need all that though. Just the original item with the adjusted new mana regen values. (100% base mana regen etc. etc.)

Davy Crockett5/18/2015, 7:18:34 AM1 votes

I would build this, a zeke's, and a solari every game if this was introduced

SSLRranma5/16/2015, 10:30:23 PM1 votes

Added a 2 second CD to the allied regen part. Didn't want to make it an aura because riot wants to do away with those since they cause too much passive gameplay. This makes it so the support has to poke.