Make Essence Reaver an Attack Speed item instead of AD

qViolet·4/19/2017, 12:11:16 AM·1 votes·483 views

Essence Reaver really never sees play and is often just a very unique item for very specific cases. The theme of the item however, is for marksmen who use crit, and mana extensively. Many marksmen like Caitlyn and Ashe who like to spam their abilities would be ideal in using them item.

However, its problem is that it's out-shined by IE, and where you would build it first, building IE afterwards would be too costly which is why the cheaper Zeal items are so good. Essentially, you can build ER, but it would slow down your crit IE benefit since it will be your third item, or you will have to build LW as the third item, thus missing the crucial IE passive.

The big problem here is that the power spikes need to happen after 2 complete items instead of 3, because LW is often needed as the 3rd. I'd like to see Essence Reaver played more often, and I think it would see much more play if it were to be built out of Zeal and have no AD like Shiv, Cannon etc. It would then compete with Hurricane as the second item, at least for Caitlyn and Ashe. This I think would be a good spot for the ER passive, fitting it's role of mana and crit. Additionally, Hurricane will also now have a better definition as it is made for champions who don't spam abilities as often, hence utilizing it's bolts.

So to sum it, I love Essence Reaver and I'd love to play the poke marksmen more often. This would be an ideal solution to that, as well as giving ER and Hurricane a better definition of their purpose.

5 Comments

LyingOnLine4/19/2017, 1:31:07 AM3 votes

Wouldn't work.

It's currently positioned as the BIG ADC CDR item, which is gated behind its interaction with crit chance. As the big crit chance items are also attack speed items...

Linna Excel4/19/2017, 12:12:12 AM1 votes

I think ER would work better if it gave life gain and mana on crit. Maybe get rid of the CDR stuff.

Asayake 5150glow4/19/2017, 1:33:35 AM1 votes

Reaver is for mostly ability based ADC's though, so they wouldn't really benefit off CDR.

Ashe just gets it for her R, and Sivir is just Sivir.