Ultimore: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

ProfDrDeath··1 votes·403 views

Thinking about the newly revealed rune, Ultimore, and who it would synergize with.

> Summary Ultimore: > > - Greater Rune in the Sorcery path > - Gives 5% + 1.5% CdR per use exclusively for your champion's ultimate > - Total caps at 20% > - Stacks with regular CdR

The good:

Champions that can use this rune with good efficiency. Most champions will fall into this category, as the utility of the effect is limited by the stacking mechanism - and long-CD champions cannot really stack it efficiently.

Anyone not mentioned somewhere else. Special mention: Galio Gangplank TwistedFate Shen Karthus - CdR for their ultimates specifically sounds potentially broken at first. The crux is, though, that it requires repeated casts to stack.

The bad:

Champions that use the rune really well, for example by being able to use their ultimate twice in a fight (<10 seconds cooldown) or depend on their ult for a stacking mechanism.

Akali Blitzcrank Chogath Graves Hecarim Katarina (with CDR, can lower the required kills to ult twice in a fight to 1-2) Leblanc Nidalee Swain Teemo Yasuo

The ugly:

Champions who have disturbingly high synergy with this rune and could possibly break it in half.

Anivia - fast stacking. Also, she really benefits a lot from being able to relocate her ultimate in fights more often. And there are common Anivia builds that have less than 40% CdR. Corki - has been nerfed in his rocket cooldown quite often for being too spammy. Diana - Potentially 6 seconds cooldown on Lunar Rush WITHOUT Q marks. Ezreal Karma Kassadin Lux

The non-users:

Champions who would not benefit much from the rune in its current form.

Elise Jayce KogMaw Nidalee Quinn Shyvana Udyr


Who did I miss?

5 Comments

Final Spark Lux3 votes

I think people forget that they have to actually use it to stack it. With games being as short as they are, it's probably not gonna be as bad as it sounds. Regardless, preseason is meant for testing, so regardless if its OP or not, riot will keep an eye on it to make sure nothing gets too out of hand. Also you missed anyone with an ult that didn't already have a 2 second CD. Anyone can benefit from reduced CD on their ult (minus stance dancers)

ProfDrDeath1 votes

I put all of these under "the good". They benefit from the rune, but not strongly nor abusively.

As you said, you need to ult to stack it, but most champions that I did put there are either having too hefty base cooldowns or will keep their ultimates in reserve instead of using them as much as possible, thus having problems stacking it in time.

Conversely, for example Cho: He actually benefits a lot from using his ult on cooldown early on, thus being put into the second category.

Final Spark Lux1 votes

I think it could be fun. I know I'm gonna have fun with it. I'm gonna waste my ult just to stack the CDR. Mean while the enemy team will think I've lost my mind and am trolling, when in reality I'm building my CDR, and confusing them with mind games. Bwhahaha >:D (not just on lux tho, it sounds like a fun idea on anyone)

EarthyMadness1 votes

I play Lux mid a lot and this rune scares me because that means that if you kill someone with her ult it's a 10s cooldown (50s at max rank +60% cdr total, 20s, 50% cd refund on champion kill, 10s, for anyone who doesn't know her ult math)

As it is, it's a 15s cooldown on a 40%cdr build, and that's bad enough. 5s doesn't seem like a ton but considering it's a 1000+ damage ult in a huge aoe end-game, on that low of a cooldown, it's almost URF levels of spam.

Wráthful1 votes

do you know what's fun? rengo r with this late game 28 seconds u can see the adc mains's faces or less than a minute cho ult priceless :D adc players must have 3 bans to be a viable role if this keystone makes it to live servers.

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