New Armor + Magic Pen Item Suggestion: Zhonya's Battlemage Armor

badooga·3/19/2017, 1:49:18 PM·3 votes·640 views

Recipe: item 3191 + item 3136 + 500 gold (3200 gold total) Stats: +45 AP, +40 armor, +200 health Unique Passive - Eyes of Pain: +15 magic penetration Unique Passive - Seeker's Hunger: Killing an enemy champion grants 2 bonus Armor and 1 bonus Magic Penetration. This bonus stacks up to 5 times.

Furthermore, item 3191's unique passive would be named Seeker's Hunger as to prevent the two from stacking.

Despite the fact that magic resist is less common and does not scale with level (while armor does), magic penetration and armor items for mages are in short supply these days. So I thought, why not put both of them in one item? Of course, having this item work well with item 3157 and item 3151 would definitely spell overpowered for certain champions, so the unique passives this item shares with them and/or their components will make it inefficient to get those items alongside with this one.

Zhonya's Battlemage Armor would be meant as an early (thus the relatively lightweight buildpath) counter to squishy AD assassins, moreso than item 3157 (except against Zed) in most cases. ZBA would give both the armor to counter lethality assassins and the magic penetration to get through their MR (with some health from the build path), at the cost of losing out a good amount of early AP.

This item would probably be a great early anti-AD buy for champions like Karthus Annie Rumble that have higher base damages and would be fine without some of the extra AP they'd lose out on and would enjoy the magic penetration they'd gain.

Thoughts?

5 Comments

ForgiveColour3/19/2017, 3:13:25 PM2 votes

Stop crying zhonya was nerfed for a reason

Warlord Scrap3/19/2017, 1:56:00 PM1 votes

One thing zhonyas hourglass loses seekers armgaurd passive so idk what you mean by zhonyas passive stacking. Also it needs a couple more ap cause currently upgrading it makes it lose ap overall if seekers was at max stacks.

Makharya3/19/2017, 2:07:48 PM1 votes

As a veigar main i say yes.

Paroe3/19/2017, 3:08:58 PM1 votes

i dont see the point of this item. Its just AP armor? for 3200g?

we would be better off if seekers armguard just had the zhonyas active, and zhonyas itself had its pre-nerf active.