Anti-Assassin-Item concepts for Mages

Eranell·7/15/2018, 8:52:24 AM·16 votes·5,850 views

This is my attempt on giving mages the Hexdrinker/Malmortius treatment which is long overdue IMO.


Lindworm Scale Robe

Materials:

  • Amplifying Tome
  • Cloth Armor
  • Null-Magic Mantle
  • 315 Gold (1500 total)

Stats:

  • +25 ability power
  • +25 armor
  • +25 magic resist
  • UNIQUE - DRAGONSCALES: If you receive 50% of your current health as damage within 2 seconds you are granted a shield that absorbes damage equal to 40% of the treshhold health responsible for the activation of this item + 70 - 160 for 5 seconds. (cooldown: 90)

Voiddragon Nullcloak

Materials:

  • Lindworm Scale Robe
  • Negatron Cloak
  • Amplifying Tome
  • 445 Gold (3100 total)

Stats

  • +60 ability power
  • +25 armor
  • +75 magic resist
  • UNIQUE - DRAGONSCALES: If you receive 50% of your current health as damage within 2.5 seconds you are granted a shield that absorbes magic damage equal to 80% of the treshhold health responsible for the activation of this item + 110 - 200 for 5 seconds. (cooldown: 90) Also if this shield is destroyed before it runs out a 3 seconds long lasting void singularity is spawned at your location which reduces enemy movement speed by 15% and grounds them.

Icedragon Glaciercloak

Materials:

  • Lindworm Scale Robe
  • Seeker's Armguard
  • 400 Gold (3100 total)

Stats:

  • +60 ability power
  • +75 armor
  • +25 magic resist
  • UNIQUE - DRAGONSCALES: If you receive 50% of your current health as damage within 2.5 seconds you are granted a shield that absorbes normal damage equal to 80% of the treshhold health responsible for the activation of this item + 110 - 200 for 5 seconds. (cooldown: 90) Also if this shield is destroyed before it runs out a 3 seconds long lasting icefloor spreads around your location which reduce enemy movement speed by 15% and makes them clumsy. Champions will be stunned for 1.5 seconds if they use dashes, blinks or teleportations while being clumsy.

56 Comments

Daddy Ants7/15/2018, 11:05:01 AM15 votes

75 armor? 75 MR?

No way that's a lot more stats than some tank items have.

Warlord Rhinark7/15/2018, 8:59:08 AM13 votes

These items seem WAY too strong for their gold costs.

I'd much rather have Nullyfying Orb be changed to an Adaptive shield to be honest.

Vier7/15/2018, 2:30:27 PM8 votes

This hurts burst mages more than assassins since it will probably be used on assassins themselves.

bloxiefox7/15/2018, 4:23:22 PM7 votes

wait wait wait, let me get this right....

Voiddragon Nullcloak

Materials:

Lindworm Scale Robe Negatron Cloak Amplifying Tome 445 Gold (3100 total) Stats

+60 ability power +25 armor +75 magic resist UNIQUE - DRAGONSCALES: Make an assassin completely useless (90 second cooldown)

remakoro7/15/2018, 2:21:47 PM7 votes

So in short its item 3053 but with poppy's W? Totally not gonna be abused by tanks. Especially with that armor and MR

Akali is SO HOT7/15/2018, 5:56:42 PM7 votes

All of those items are insanely busted. You have like 4 different champion abilities in a single item + insane stats.

Arcane Blue Boi7/15/2018, 2:34:54 PM6 votes

IMO, we just need an ap item that gives armor and mana. Thats what would be great

Fízz v27/15/2018, 10:02:54 AM5 votes

why not just build it on tanks if it lasts 5 seconds and scales with HP tho?

AirKingNeo7/15/2018, 4:24:01 PM4 votes

Why should mages have anti-assassin item exactly? They already get shit loads of health and outscale assassins.

Phoneutria7/15/2018, 3:58:10 PM4 votes

Why would mages need anti-assassin items? The Zed I just played against as Vel'Koz that couldn't land a single actual skillshot told me Zed is weak right now and has a super weak early game! Obviously assassins need buffs and mages need nerfs not the other way around!

FlyingRoboticCow7/15/2018, 12:22:24 PM4 votes

item 3157

Daddy Ants7/15/2018, 1:40:58 PM4 votes

All of those items are over stat and op as hell effects.

Lohrr7/15/2018, 8:54:43 AM3 votes

Should be a shield that just absorbs physical damage. But, good luck getting something like that in a bloodthirsty meta.

MYXYN7/15/2018, 8:31:53 PM2 votes

or use zhonyas lol

Blue Moon Wolf7/15/2018, 3:59:28 PM1 votes

Passive could be interesting with some tweaking. I believe Riot is trying to gear mages to be Anti-Assassin/Diver champs. If they are this could be a good way to enforce that concept so long as its balanced well. Don't want Tanks to start taking this stuff because it provides what they want and gives them damage on top of that. maybe if there was less focus on MR and more focus on Armor. I believe there is already plenty of Magic resist and anti-magic stuff in the game already while item 3157 is more or less all Mages have to go on for armor. maybe something like 50 armor and a passive along the lines of "after taking physical damage, Armor increases by 50% for 2.5 seconds" or something. that would be enough time to block most if not all an assassin burst while not being too useful to a tank seeing as ADCs will be able to keep up the damage long after the passive ends.

Modl Ryden l7/15/2018, 6:25:32 PM1 votes

Boy, would't it be funny to see two mages try to 100-0 eachother only to find out they both built the same item?

SwiftKitten887/15/2018, 6:30:05 PM1 votes

as a player who plays almost exclusively ap

those are too broken gold for stat wise. and I'm not too fond of the passive either.

Nausicäa 7/15/2018, 9:56:57 PM1 votes

Nah these monkeys on the balance team are too busy thinking up new items for brusiers despite them already being disgustingly broken.

SugeMinPikk7/16/2018, 4:38:01 AM1 votes

ZH is the best item in the game. qwedf

LordGeovanni7/16/2018, 4:41:22 AM1 votes

Lindworm Scale Robe assassins and mages are just gonna build this against each other because both have ridiculous burst with no really cooldowns to speak of

Thing is you guys want an item that just lets you ignore the class of champions that is supposed to be the weakness of any ranged Squishy champion not that mages are squishy with Their to tier items having a ton of hp for no appearent reason but tank items have the same amout of hp 50 more or less overall hp while having worse scaling Magic resist and armor combinations.

Id immediately build both of these items on any tank just because they beat tank items down at their own game. Mages already like to cry because they cant one shot any tank with just q (when they still 80% most tanks and 60% some tanks with damage reduction or extra magic resist)

Malak7/15/2018, 5:09:00 PM1 votes
Daddy Ants7/25/2018, 5:51:45 PM1 votes

The problem with Assassin's is they make you feel completely worthless whether they are ahead or behind.