I bet Riot could change Ohmwrecker to destroy, not disable towers and no one would notice

JavelinJoe·May 19, 2017·2 votes·434 views

- You know, that Item that disables towers for a few seconds that practically no one gets. I would not be surprised if that, besides from maybe special game modes, this item was bought 1 time a month across all servers. I cant remember the last time I saw someone build this item.

Seriously, I bet if RIOT were to swap out the passive where instead it destroyed towers permanently instead of disable them for a few seconds for a full day (24 hours), without mentioning it at all, no one would know.

This should be your next item rework. Actually, why not revert GA and make this item your armor/ad item? The passive even would be used then.

7 Comments

Moooose3May 19, 20171 votes

If they left it out of the patch notes, you would be correct lol. Nobody builds that shit item XD

JavelinJoeMay 19, 20171 votes

Exactly. Yet we keep getting new items. Why not just fix the shit ones first?

The Lost MarblesMay 19, 20171 votes

It's funny that Ohmwrecker is never built when it's the only item in the game that gives HP, Armor, and CDR. Which is in any other case a fantastic combination of stats that would make it a core item.

I feel like it's supposed to be an item to help tanks split-push, so why not give it a passive where the user's attacks do bonus damage to turrets based on their bonus HP, but only if the user has no allies around.

JavelinJoeMay 19, 20171 votes

no armor buff too from this last tank patch

ErockandrollMay 19, 20171 votes

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It's funny that Ohmwrecker is never built when it's the only item in the game that gives HP, Armor, and CDR. Which is in any other case a fantastic combination of stats that would make it a core item.

I feel like it's supposed to be an item to help tanks split-push, so why not give it a passive where the user's attacks do bonus damage to turrets based on their bonus HP, but only if the user has no allies around.

Tanks arn't really designed to split push. And even as a niche item to allow tanks to Split push, Portal already does that Job pretty well.

The thing with Tanks is that any reasonable amount of defenses, allows the tank to tank turret, making the point of Ohmwrecker some what moot. Honestly, this item would make more sense on a support, as it would allow them to stop the turret from attacking, in Lieu of having those tanky stats. Of coarse that means that it would have to compete against Redemption and locket.

The other issue I have with the item is that it simply loses power as the game goes on. And that's simply because the active becomes pointless once the towers are already down. And this is where I think the active itself needs to be reworked, (or something else to compensate for the lost power)

Meep ManMay 19, 20171 votes

I doubt this. It would have to be put into the game code and there are people who check that stuff on a daily basis.

137434May 19, 20171 votes

Most are looking at the PBE, not live servers as they assume all changes will be documented in patch notes for all to read (so not worth their effort).

Which is why accidental unintended changes do occasionally make their way on to the live servers (or planned documented changes accidentally fail to make it on the live server) without anyone immediately noticing