Idea for Manamune/Muramana
Here is the problem with Manamune. It is built on only 5 Champions. Ezreal, Varus, Jayce, Yorick, and Urgot. Debatable that 2 or 3 of them are pretty irrelevant. The reason it is built on these Champions is that they have the easiest time stacking the item, and they are pretty mana dependent.
I feel like the item should be changed to fit the existing Champions while becoming something that other people might become interested in to pick up as an option if they want it.
Also, another problem is the Champions building this item are pretty much balanced around it. Excluding possibly Varus. Ezreal is a special case. He wouldn't be a top tier ADC atm if this item didn't exist.
Here is the idea:
Manamune Recipe: Tear of Goddess + Caulfield's Warhammer + 750G = 2600G Total Cost Stats: +40 AD +10% CDR +250 Mana
UNIQUE PASSIVE – AWE: Grants bonus attack damage equal to 1% maximum mana. Refunds 15% of Mana spent.
UNIQUE PASSIVE – MANA CHARGE: Grants +4 maximum mana for each basic attack, spell cast, and mana expenditure (occurs up to 3 times every 12 seconds).
Explanation: This gives out more straight up AD to the buyer, but less if you get more mana items. It also stores more charges so more basic attack reliant champions who don't have abilities to be able to spam can hold more while running to something they can basic attack.
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Muramana Manamune transform unchanged
Stats: +40 AD +10 CDR +1000 Mana
UNIQUE PASSIVE – AWE: Grants bonus attack damage equal to 2% maximum mana. Refunds 15% of Mana spent.
UNIQUE ACTIVE – SHOCK: Consume 10% of your Maximum Mana, your basic attacks will deal 4% of your Maximum Mana in True Damage for a duration of 10seconds, 5 basic attacks, or activating again to cancel the activation. (Active Cooldown is 7seconds after it ends).
Explanation: ricklessabandon was looking at giving this item true damage before and I thought it was a cool idea. This is a overall nerf to Ezreal and Urgot(possibly to Yorick too). However, it now has more overall AD when it is Muramana which will help them out a bit. Urgot and Yorick needs work on anyways.
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While this is a nerf to Urgot and Ezreal. The item should not be NOT TOUCHED due to a few champions being balanced around it. Since items should be balanced around the Champions.
Anyways, I think this will give the item a new flare and still be an attractive buy to the old users. If not slightly better for some of them.
