Petition to Keep Strength of the Ages and Remove Bond of Stone instead

ViciousSummoner··9 votes·824 views

So Strength of the Ages is getting removed and replaced by Courage of the Colossus, but why? IMO I feel as though it should remain in the game. What I feel should be removed instead is Bond of Stone. Why do I feel that way? Because Bond of Stone is useless. There's literally no reason to even take Bond of Stone unless you just want the 4% damage reduction. Even then that's all it is good for. Unless Bond of Stone is buffed to be more useful it feels as though this is a really stupid move.

Bond of stone is outclassed by Wind Speaker's blessing for it's increased healing, shielding, as well the bonus armor and mr towards allies whom you heal and shield. Even having Wind Speaker's on someone such as Braum (as well any other non-shielding/healing double laner) is far better than Bond of Stone. Using Locket in a team fight and granting more shield on top of bonus armor and mr far exceeds you just chipping off 10-15 damage from your allies.

Grasp of the Undying also outclasses Bond of Stone. Grasp of the Undying brings more team fight potential than Bond of Stone. Even if you take Grasp of the Undying on a support you're still going to have a better impact than if you had Bond of Stone.

Strength of the Ages is a no brainer if literally almost every jungler takes the keystone.

To also top this off a new potential item of the pre-season announcement does what Bond of Stone does but far, far better. That item is known as Knight's Vow.

10 Comments

Primaquarius2 votes

Blitzcrank Braum Leona Nautilus Sejuani TahmKench Trundle Would like a word

ViciousSummoner2 votes

Bond of Stone is useless even with such champs. You will have better results using Wind Speaker's Blessing and Grasp of the Undying on all of those champs as support or top. For jungle you already know Strength of the Ages is far better.

Jbels1 votes

Let's talk about how not interactive Strength of the Ages is, and also about how applicable Courage of the Colossus is to practically every jungler worth having on your team

Talisid1 votes

So the way that Courage works, it will give DrMundo a shield every single time he hits something with a cleaver? That seems strong as hell.

VoidStaresBack1 votes

No for two reasons.

  1. It only applies on CC that removes a target's ability to control their movement, such as snares, fears, displacements, and stuns.
  2. From what I've heard it has a 30-second cooldown.
Jbels1 votes

{quoted}

No for two reasons.

  1. It only applies on CC that removes a target's ability to control their movement, such as snares, fears, displacements, and stuns.
  2. From what I've heard it has a 30-second cooldown.

Based on the values and how long the shield actually lasts, it might still be worth taking over Grasp for champions who work better CCing people than people like Darius or Yorick, who are more damage oriented

VoidStaresBack1 votes

Well yes, but it's not going to work on Mundo.

ViciousSummoner2 votes

I'm saying we keep Strength of the Ages and remove Bond of Stone for Courage of the Colossus instead. Bond of Stone is incredibly useless all stages of the game other than the 4% damage reduction. You're better off running around with a doran's shield like a bot all game.

It Hertz When IP1 votes

No. Just no. Taking a mastery just to enhance the effect of ONE item's active is ridiculous.

ViciousSummoner2 votes

You misunderstand me. I'm saying either remove Bond of Stone and keep Strength of the Ages. With that the other option is remove Strength of the Ages and buff Bond of Stone so it will actually do something other than block 10-15 damage for your allies. They might as well pick up the mastery that blocks damage and have a doran's shield all game. That's how useless Bond of Stone is.

Edit: That's with them not introducing Knight's Vow if they buff Bond of Stone.

More from Gameplay

More by ViciousSummoner