Lich Bane; Item Buff Suggestion, (but a nerf for the exploiters)

Stacona··1 votes·268 views

Ode to Runeglaive... Anyways, the suggestion is basically make Lich Bane convert the user's base attack damage to magic damage instead of dealing physical damage and then lower the AP ratio to 40% from 50% (the base damage removed too, and replaced with 100% base attack damage as magic damage). This is a small nerf to champions like Twisted Fate and Viktor who exploit the item the most since they already convert their attacks to magic damage, and a buff to other users that can use the magic damage conversion.

The damage is basically this... 100%base AD as magic; 100% bonus AD as physical; an additional 100% base AD as magic; an additional 40% AP as magic... for the basic attack proc [Sheen is 100% base AD as physical; 100% bonus AD as physical; an additional 100% base AD as physical (i need to state this because a lot of you would think I added some absurd damage to Lich Bane since most of you do not know how basic attacks work for some reason...)]

1 Comments

junglerboy161 votes

Aside from being very unclear with your numbers (they're right, but you said it in the worst way imaginable), you confuse champion-item synergy (a very good thing) with item exploitation (a very bad thing). Item exploitation is things like Garen abusing the Zz'rot portal bug on release, item synergy is champions that have auto attack modifiers sensibly working well with auto-attack modifying items.

Should we go through and gut Trinity force so that it doesn't work for Corki Ezreal Fiora Fizz Gangplank Hecarim Irelia Jax Nasus and so forth who all use it exceptionally well?

This seems like a nerf for the sake of a nerf, neither Viktor nor TF abuse this item in an unfair way, and neither are in need of independent nerfs either.

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