Can we get a new stacking damage item for ADCs based on farm?

Jefftiffy·Sep 19, 2015·1 votes·585 views

I'm really missing how much old BT influenced bot lane. I'm not saying get rid of current BT. I'm saying a new stacking damage item on farming that works similarly to how old BT did without the stacking passives. For those of you who weren't around for it. Old BT gave 12% lifesteal and 70 AD and gave 1 AD per CS and enough lifesteal that at 30 stacks (the cap) would add up to 20% lifesteal. On death you lost a half of them. I think bringing back a similar item would help let lane bullies be a bit more effective at their role again.

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AwesomeChadSep 19, 20151 votes

I think a problem this presents and the main reason why they changed BT is that stacking items on adcs have high snowball effects. The current meta for adc items as it stands is any adc can come back into the game by gaining gold through any means (cs, kills, assists, objectives) so you can close gaps between power in terms of item builds. An item based on stacking is counter to that. You will only gain more power from farming which provides almost an unfair advantage to the adc that bought this late and hasn't stacked it yet vs. the adc that already has it purchased and stacked from their gold lead.

JefftiffySep 19, 20151 votes

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I think a problem this presents and the main reason why they changed BT is that stacking items on adcs have high snowball effects. The current meta for adc items as it stands is any adc can come back into the game by gaining gold through any means (cs, kills, assists, objectives) so you can close gaps between power in terms of item builds. An item based on stacking is counter to that. You will only gain more power from farming which provides almost an unfair advantage to the adc that bought this late and hasn't stacked it yet vs. the adc that already has it purchased and stacked from their gold lead.

That's not necessarily a good thing. See: Vayne Tristana Jinx . All perfectly fine before the ADC reworked items. Afterwards now they are all in the spotlight. Sometimes you have to give new items to open up early champs to actually be able to abuse their early game. If you don't you have what we have now which is almost every ADC being late game with no real early game bullies being viable.

If you add in a new item it gives more options to the stagnant rush IE or Botrk (or item 3085 as Kalista ). There is no real choice but to rush IE you either go for it because everyone else is going for the damage or you fall behind hard. It is not better than before and in fact is making later game carries too strong.

And let's be honest. Riot has given up on preventing snowballing. See the entirety of the S5 changes as well as the inhibitor reworks (lol you still get double super's and it's supposed to be anti snowballing). Buffs are stronger and towers are weaker.