edge of night doesn't make sense as an assassin item, and marksman will probably buy it more

Moody P··2 votes·1,428 views

most assassins already come in built with at least one way to make it difficult to hit them with abilities or to dodge/negate them altogether through means like untargetability

edge of night giving you a spell shield (and a delayed one at that) just seems extraneous considering what most assassins come with. for example; Zed has W to juke spells and R's brief untargetability can be used to avoid damage as well. Talon has stealth, Rengar has stealth and enhanced W which cleanses CC, Shaco has stealth+blink on the same move, etc.

Unless the item has just really dumb stats or is really cheap compared to other preferable ticket items, I don't think assassins are going to buy this. What worries me, though, is that these issues don't exist for the marksmen who bought the item when it was good -- and were the reason the item got nerfed in the first place. Miss Fortune definitely still enjoys Lethality builds right now, and it might make the item at least worth a pickup on its old users Quinn, Lucian and Jhin; they get a solid chunk of AD and lethality and a spell shield that softens up their main weakness - being bursted by abilities.

redesign EoN for juggernauts and we'll make better use of it than those ungrateful assassins :]

3 Comments

Ætheist1 votes

I'm pretty sure the original EoN got nerfed because damn near EVERY AD champion was buying it, not just marksmen.

It was practically League of EoN until it got hit by the nerf hammer.

Moody P2 votes

sorry, thread is sloppy because i'm sick rn

but ur right. still fits w/ my point though because unless EON is just too good nobody will bother with it except for ADCs; if you changed its stats to like hp and ad it'd be a solid fighter/juggernaut pickup though, since they tend to lack means to outplay CC and could opt into buying it over items that had superior stat lines

ZT Xperimentor1 votes

Kind of surprised it hasn't been used more, it's been around since the class reworks.

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