Riot, since were talking about masteries, can we do something about Fervor of Battle?

DeusVult··1 votes·341 views

There is almost no case of this mastery being used by the champs that it was made for. You see a ton of it on MasterYi Tryndamere Kayle , but some of the most prevalent users Darius Teemo Yasuo Fizz

It is almost exclusively used in top lane and the jungle as a way to boost your damage for free early game, especially on champs who bully in the early game. If an ADC goes bot lane, they almost always go Warlords Bloodlust for the sustain. But if an ADC goes top lane like Vayne Kennen Lucian than they run Fervor, solely to push the other person out of lane with their early game autos.

The same goes for a bunch of other champs who take it top lane. When Fervor is the optimal keystone on Darius as compared to SRS or Grasp, then there is something wrong with it. Same with Teemo taking it. DFT was practically made for him, but most Teemos take Fervor to poke people out of lane. Fizz is taking it, when Fizz should be taking Thunderlords. Yasuo takes it when he should have been banned.

Fervor, down to its core is just another case of damage creep. It adds to much free damage for no real trade of. Thunderlords is burst and has a window when its down. Grasp has an internal CD. DFT cant stack on itself. But Fervor is always there, ready to increase that champs damage.

If you intend to keep it, at least make the free AD that it gives scale with BONUS AD THAT YOU ARE BUYING, that way its not as good early, and not as good on champs who have no intention of buying any AD or only 1 AD item. cough Darius Teemo Fizz cough That way, the champs who want to buy it aren't hurt, while the ones who are abusing its free damage for a stronger early game have to use a different keystone.

4 Comments

dangopee1 votes

"Yasuo takes it when he should have been banned."

This actually made me laugh.

Edit: also one small flaw in your logic is that Darius gets a bunch of bonus AD from his passive so if fervor amplified a champions current bonus AD it would still be ridiculous on Darius probably even more so than now.

Hela1 votes

fervor probably wont exist after the new mastery keystones...you should rewatch the video.

PhDs Nuts1 votes

Uh, what? Fervor dominates bot lane. Darius goes Stormraider more often. You didn't even mention Renekton who can fully stack it with AA + empowered W.

DeusVult1 votes

Fervor is the most run keystone on Darius in Plat + and has the highest win percentage

And 4/5 games ADCs take warlords for the sustain

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