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There's a better way to deal with shield champions than simply buffing Renekton

Samflash3·7/4/2019, 4:30:16 AM·2 votes·1,252 views
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TL:DR - How about pushing Hexdrinkeritem 3155 /Maw of Malmortius item 3156 as the Anti-shield item? Suggestion item 1036 + item 1033 + 500g = item 3155

+20 attack damage **+25 **magic resistance UNIQUE – LIFELINE: Shield at 30% that absorbs 110 − 280 (based on level) magic damage for 5 seconds (90 second cooldown). UNIQUE - Hex Sucker: Attacking or dealing single target spells on shields deals 30 - 100 damage (based on level).

Lower magic resists, higher damage to shielded enemies.

Long context: Hear me out...Hexdrinker has been the bane of mages everywhere due to its "needlessly large" (see what I did there) amount of Magic Resistance, which makes item 3191 look like a bargain bin item bought from the nearest Zaun scavenger. It prevents strategic choice - an AD assassin can buy this item and be practically invincible to a mage with similar gold, due to the excellent lifeline shield, and high innate magic resist.

For top laners, the magic resist is kinda wasted when facing their major threats. Champions like Viktor , Ryze , Camille , Nautilus , Karma , Malphite , Old Shen, Ornn have been frustrating to play against due to their higher defense mechanism. Combined with Morgana , Yuumi , Sona, it becomes increasingly hard to face them because it's a battle of who has the higher burst to destroy them before they can pop a shield off cooldown.

This version of Hexdrinker reduces the frustration playing against an AD champion as a mage, while encouraging more use cases of this Maw as an Assassin/Fighter/Jungler/Skirmisher/Diver/Top Laner.

2 Comments

Xavanic7/4/2019, 4:50:00 AM1 votes

i feel, this is more of trying to help out non-juggernauts be viable, lately i've noticed the only champs in top lane are juggernauts and ranged, simply because they have more to offer, why play jax when vayne has more dmg and the same amount of resistances, why play renekton when darius can devastate a team, why pick camille, when morde pretty much does the same thing, but for longer while bringing bulk to a team. Overall with the current juggernaut meta, divers and fighters have really been suffering in terms of performance, so i believe what riot wants is to give diver/fighter champs more utility to make up for their lack of power

Crispy0Snake7/4/2019, 7:06:53 AM1 votes

It's tough to say what this will mean, Renekton has a 46.88% w/r into Janna and he does struggle vs shield enchanters because he has a lot of burst damage and putting a big "nope" shield on his target pretty much means he gets blown up immediately after

Renekton is pretty busted already though imo. He takes ignite and just stays in the wave daring you to come and try to cs. He procs press the attack with just his empowered W. Q heal is p nutty, really good mobility for short trades too.