Can we get additional sources of energy/energy regen?

Anin777·6/11/2018, 2:37:28 AM·1 votes·1,322 views

Honestly. Playing energy based champs is frustrating. I main Zed and I can't count the amount of times I have died cos 5 energy left for Q. People think it's easy playing them because they don't "run out" but tbh I wish they had mana. There are many sources of mana/mana regen. Honey fruit and Scuttle give mana back. Meanwhile energy based champs are left with blue buff which doesn't even do that great of a job. We need items that regen energy in combat. Or items that increase max energy or masteries. WE. NEED. SOMETHING. And don't say "Learn to conserve energy". It's not that easy. Not when one ability can be 1/4 of the whole energy bar.

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CloudedLogic6/11/2018, 4:38:47 AM3 votes

Doesn't pretty much every energy champ have some way to get energy back as part of their kit?

Though you dying because you didn't have that last bit of energy is part of the balancing of that champion, you can do X amount of stuff in Y time frame. Otherwise you have to wait for your energy to come back/get energy back by doing whatever you kit says you have to do.

I don't know every energy champ's abilities off the top of my head, but iirc their abilities get cheaper as you level up as well.

Personally I find champs with no secondary bar annoying, though I can understand why some don't have one.

FrostlySpark6/11/2018, 3:07:06 AM1 votes

I don't think so. Pretty sure that having your energy run out very quickly but come back very quickly as well is exactly how an energy based champion is supposed to be played. Having a mastery or item that increases energy or grants energy regen would not only destroy diversity for energy based champions, reduce the skill required to play them, be annoying to balance around, but would also be too much work considering that there's only 5 champions that use it. If that weren't enough, Zed has a way to get back energy in the form of his W, meaning that playing better would generally be the solution to your problem. I might be wrong about this whole post since im silver, but these are just my thoughts.

ZedUsanGovos6/11/2018, 11:41:15 AM1 votes

Although I do agree (as a fellow Zed) that the lack of energy regen is fucking tilting as all Hell, the current numbers are set the way they are because energy champions are supposed to use up as much resource as they regain.

Rather than getting items/masteries, I think Riot should improve Zed's Energy Regen from his W all across the board. I mean, when I hit both Qs and both Es with my W and myself, I don't even notice any regen half the time, hence why I didn't even know that interaction existed until very recently (6 or so months ago). His regen is better mid/late game, but early game it's abysmal.

However, if they were to take this route, Riot might have to change something else about Zed. Most likely in the direction of a nerf.

SolitaryEnd6/11/2018, 7:18:59 PM1 votes

Fellow Zed main here, despite several shitty matches recently. I agree with this buff, I recently went against a barrier zhonya rush orianna and because I can’t spam anything constantly like her it’s an instant loss. Yes my burst is higher but early on only, when energy is the least recoverable. A single armor item cripples zed so hard because of his reliance on lethality that I’m starting to go ghostblade and deathdance to just survive until I have reasonable burst.

This is also a reason talon fucks zed. Talon is mana based with low costs, he can spam a tooon and outduels zed as his high damage Q is short CD

Edit: let CDR affect energy regen

Warlord Rhinark6/11/2018, 7:21:14 PM1 votes

I'm probably the only one that misses Energy Regen runes.