reminder that steraks gage needs to be reverted to base ad increase (and sheen items reworked)
when
was introduced to the game it was meant to be a strong ad+health item on juggernauts, and nothing more than a situational defensive item on champions like
and other mobile skirmishers.
it was designed to increase base ad to feed into auto attacks and ability damage of juggernauts who were specifically changed to scale with total ad values.
bonus ad scaling skirmishers could not empower their abilities with the item, which made this much less effective offensive choice, and more of a defensive item for them.
since steraks gage was changed to grant bonus ad, it feeds into all the ability damage of skirmishers, like
passive and became way too good of an item on them.
most skirmishers have adopted either
or
or both into their core builds and became mobile, versatile juggernauts.
change back steraks gage and rework sheen instead to avoid trigage abuse, and do it before you start balancing these champions around those items.
ult that scales with bonus ad because of the large ad bonus off his passive. but everything else scales with total ad.
and others are supposed to rely on their kit inbuilt outplay tools to dodge teamfight aoe and burst. but instead they become just or almost as tanky as juggers.
and
which literally wouldnt change at all since it has an entirely different scaling? lichbanes proc scales with ap, and not with base ad, which was the source of the interaction with steraks.
and its items to something like
would just get increased values on the level scaling/total ad
as a tank item would scale with % of armor+mr + damage/lvl
and steraks shield passive do? they scale off other items.
parrley count as a ranged basic attack instead of a melee basic attack, so klepto, grasp and some items dont have to be balanced purely around
and
to base ad increases aswell.