Death's Dance just looks like bad design

Drakylon·10/30/2015, 11:13:44 PM·3 votes·640 views

An ADC's primary weakness is burst.

Death's Dance reduces all burst by 20%, applying the damage as a DoT effect over 5 seconds instead. This basically means you'll need 25% more damage (1/.8) to do the same amount of damage in the same amount of time. And 5 seconds is ample time for the ADC to get out of any CC they might be in and just lifesteal back up, especially now that Mercurial Scimitar also gives 10% lifesteal.

Then there's Phantom Dancer, in case 20% isn't enough. PD now reduces all damage from the last champion hit by 12% on top of giving 12% movement speed. That's effectively 32% damage reduction for any burst, provided the ADC does any damage within 10 seconds of that burst of damage.

Riot, why are you insistent on removing this class's primary weakness? They're supposed to be glass cannons, attacking safely at a range. Not a class that can have infinite sustain, tank burst and deal the damage they deal all at once.

2 Comments

CasterGilgamesh10/31/2015, 2:25:24 AM1 votes

meh assassins burst so fast i doubt this item will break adcs and plus Quinn is getting most of her kit removed. Corki got his dash thing nerfed.Graves now has a reload sort of thing on his auto attacks and people can block them. Caitlyn is basically the same but now her traps let her head shot from bonus range. Draven got his attack speed nerfed. Kalista is nerfed even more. Lucian might get small buffs Varus is still one of the most irelevent adc in the game Ashe is the same but now she isnt auto criting.Twitch is the same nerfed self with a small reset to his stealth thing.KogMaw sounds broken just a little but now he is rooted by his auto attacks during his attack speed buff and deals 50% of his ad in his autos during the attack speed buff Tristana got small nerfs and that's about it the only adc that hasn't changed much is Ezreal but he got his Q to reduce his spells by 1.5 seconds instead of 1 second but he benefits a lot from a lot of the item changes oh yah Urgot got a small buff to his ult but thats about it

EndlessSorcerer10/31/2015, 2:27:04 AM1 votes

I really hope they don't screw up the coding on it. It would be quite annoying if a bug resulted in the DoT refreshing instead of accumulating with each instance of new damage.