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Showerthought: What if Glacial Augment was given the Rylai's slows and the item itself was removed?

D2Vincent·8/19/2018, 9:10:44 AM·2 votes·1,280 views

I'm not actually saying we do this especially right now, because even I'm pretty sure this would break some champs (looking at you brand...) but what would happen if we removed Rylai's as an item, and gave the slowing effect to Glacial augment instead of what it has now? I'm talking about removing the AA slow and the item slow because really, I don't see a good use for the item slow outside of wanting ice beams to go with either GLP or Spooky Ghosts.

As it stands, here is the current description of Rylai's slow ability: "UNIQUE – ICY: Damaging abilities and pet attacks Slow icon slow affected units by 20% for 1 second."

I don't necessarily know if we'd want the old slows in case it's OP, but here are my thoughts about this: Glacial Augment is already in the Inspiration tree, which is dedicated to utility, not damage, so anyone who'd want it wouldn't be able to use other damaging keystones if they need the utility. Also, because we'd be removing the AA slow part of Glacial, it can't be abused by ranged AD champs like Jayce or Gnar (verdict is still out on Ezreal, may need to wait until his GU for this lol). As for Rylai's, does anyone outside of mage supports and maybe Mordekaiser even build this item anymore? I don't even know.

This is just a curiosity I had, this isn't actually something that should happen, but what do yall think?

2 Comments

DW Diana8/19/2018, 10:30:56 AM1 votes

Far better to have the slow aoe work on any item effect that slows. So Rylai’s effect would be stronger and have aoe. Could also have a small dot effect.

La Bello8/19/2018, 4:45:32 PM1 votes

glacial should never have been added in the first place.

It only exist to exasperate the Melee vs Ranged matchup which is already bad enough (if you've played top vs Quinn,Gnar,Teemo,Vayne,Lucian or Jayce youd perfectly understand what I mean here) and I despise the idea of Runes being used a method of hard countering classes(fucking conq).

Glacial is weak because Riot knows the design of it in itself is ridiculously strong and prone to abuse cases. Kind of hilarious because that begs the question why add something you KNOW rides a very thin line between useful and must take OP? I would prefer Glacian be removed and Frozen Mallet stat line changed to offer 30AD,10% CDR and 500 HP total.