I find it comical how much hate Duskblade gets...

iPooUnicorns·Sep 17, 2018·1 votes·678 views

While & literally exist.

Static Shiv has roughly on par base damage as Duskblade, but it can crit, and deals the damage in an AoE.

Stormrazor is an abomination that should never have been added, I'm surprised Riot could contain their laughter introducing this item.

What makes it even funnier is that assassins are supposed to have front loaded burst damage, while marksmen are supposed to be sustained dps. Yet assassins get a weaker upfront burst damage item than marksmen do.

But hey, Duskblade is OP right?

3 Comments

RexxieeSep 17, 20181 votes

Stormrazor only exists because the whole crit itemization was nerfed into oblivion.

Without it being overpowered crit champs/adcs dont exist in the game, because riot went ahead and broke it in half (and then further nerfed IE again).

Duskblade is broken because its very easy to build and its good by itself, you need nothing else to gain its full power, just finish a 2900 gold item and start getting easy 1 shots and snowball the game, while razor now needs another 2800 gold item to get to its max power (so 2800 + 2800 vs just 2900).

So yeah sure remove stormrazor from the game, but then also revert every single crit nerf that happened so the itemization can exist without it.

iPooUnicornsSep 17, 20181 votes

Stormrazor on its own deals more damage than Duskblade, even though it will scale harder with a second item.

It should be reworked into something healthier, that gives ADCs early game sustained damage, not upfront burst.