Please bring back mana potions

SeveredKidsFeet·11/13/2015, 8:37:15 PM·8 votes·1,675 views

From patch 5.22 patch notes on item removal

" Niche items that tie themselves so closely to a champion's balance do end up skewing that champion to being dependent on the item to function, and can often ‘hide' real design problems that we can't get to."

I tried playing a top Hecarim game and let me tell you the early game is not fun. They give you this piece of shit refillable potion that has no mana sustain on it. Then I have to upgrade it to a corrupting potion for 350? It gives 30 more health and 10 less mana then the old Crystalline Flask, which btw could be bought at level 1. The mana changes Riot thought would help did absolutely nothing. Jarvan, Malphite, Olaf, and Wukong are all suffering from this bad change. It really inhibits what you're able to do in the early game as people have said. You cant lane bully if you are oom after 1 rotation of spells. What Riot essentially did to these champs was stab them with a knife then put a band-aid over it and said its all better. Bring back mana pots and fix this disaster.

5 Comments

darkmatchwaldo11/13/2015, 9:28:25 PM2 votes

I think it's a wonderful change. People have to be smart with their mana now. You don't have to cower in fear of the Veigar spamming endless event horizons. It makes champions who were supposed to be mana gated ACTUALLY mana gated, instead of spending 150g to get around it.

Abyssphere11/14/2015, 3:29:49 PM2 votes

You can buy Corrupting Potion at level 1. It's 500g, which is exactly how much you start with. No, it's not as strong as Flask was, but that item was ridiculously strong. It's not supposed to be impossible to run out of mana top lane.

Hamy17311/13/2015, 9:24:36 PM1 votes

I agree, mana using champs are at such a disadvantage early game now.