Buff Last Whisper to be a true end game item.

BluePolarizer··1 votes·545 views

As of now, Last Whisper is a game with an end-game passive, but mid-game raw stats.

I think that Last Whisper should actually be BUFFED to reflect how good it is in the end game, while not making it negate all armor purchases in the mid game. Of course, its cost will also have to be... buffed.

Idea:

Last Whisper item 3035 3715 gold item 1038 + item 1043 + 1065 combine cost +80 AD +35% Attack Speed Unique passive: Deal 10% bonus AD as on-hit physical damage. Unique passive: 35% armor penetration

Sure, you might think... man, this really messes up the build path for this item. Almost as if it made AD assassins have a much harder time getting LW to snowball harder and making it hard for ADCs to immediately switch to buying LW instead of finishing BT or PD if people start rushing armor. But I assure you this was not my intent. It was only to make AD assassins and ADCs even stronger by making LW stronger for a tiny extra cost.

3 Comments

Mat7itan1 votes

The problem with this you kind of already point out in you little outro at the bottom. An ADC would just need to build IE and LW and no one would be able to deal with them. Your version of LW is an IE that gives attack speed, armor pen, and 10% bonus damage instead of crit chance. If I were to buff last whisper (I wouldn't I think it is fine where it is) I would give it a %max armor pen (like % health damage) instead of a flat percent. It would be less effective early because enemy champions have less armor (so you probably pen less with this change than you would with the current LW), but late game you would penetrate more armor.

BluePolarizer1 votes

this is actually a net nerf to LW lol. I was being sarcastic.

The build path was made shit, so AD assassins lose a huge power spike by forcing them to save for BF sword and having a useless attack speed stat, while ADCs are forced to either rush it 2nd and have no additional crit, or be forced to save up for a 3rd BF sword and thus stay weak during the crucial mid-game. If the ADC ever gets full build, of course, it makes them stronger.

Mat7itan1 votes

Yeah it is more expensive compared to other items an adc might need, but overall an adc with this version of last whisper will hit their first huge power spike in less gold than they currently do. ADCs right now have a 3 item powerspike that costs almost about 8500 (give or take depending on 3 the items) gold. This gives them that same powerspike (okay a little weaker compared to the current 3 item spike) for about 7515 gold, so yeah they may have to save for a second bf sword, but in the long run they get a similar powerspike for about 1000 less gold (which is a lot of gold).

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