Why are people complaining about Ohmwrecker being removed?

DeusVult·10/23/2019, 4:51:42 PM·1 votes·1,144 views

The item does not show up on any of the tracking sites data (OP.gg, u.gg, etc) for any of the champs in league. Its not even niche, because NO ONE is building this item. The item itself is effectively bad, because it serves a very odd purpose - its a tank item that turns off the turret. Tanks, who are stacking armor, want to have that turret aggro when their team is diving a turret; they have the armor to survive the shots and let their teammates do the damage during the dive. Assassins would want the active, but not the stats. Even bruisers wouldnt want to pick up this item because when they would need it, in the early game, building it would hamstring their build, while late game they want more efficient items to round out their build.

The ONLY reason to keep the item is because of it being a named item created by Riots old referral program. To do that they would need to massively change the item (which they could)

IMO, if Riot was to change Ohmwrecker, it would need a clearer active, but also a stat-line that isnt garbage when the active isnt being used.

item 3056 - item 3067 + item 3082 + item 1029 + 600g (2700g) 70 Armor 300 Health 10% CDR Unique Passive - Cold Steel: When hit by basic attacks, cripples source's attack speed by 15% for 1 second. Unique Active: Targets nearest enemy turret within 800 units with a freezing ray. The user instantly gains turret aggro. The ray resets turret damage and prevents the turrets from gaining stacks of "warming up" for 3 seconds. The freezing ray creates a slowing field in a cone on the ground behind the targeted turret, which last for 2.5 seconds, which slows enemies by 25% for 1 second. The targeted turret is immune to this effect for the next 30 seconds. (90 second CD)

Now the item has a better synergy with champs (tanks want the stats, they also want the active instead of not wanting the old active) It also creates more incentive for use to dive by a team, as the tank can "claim" the turret aggro even if someone else went in first, or simply to reset the heated up passive of the turret.

3 Comments

Póppy Chulo10/23/2019, 5:04:33 PM1 votes

Make it an MR item, that way you drop the armor used for tower tanking and get mr instead while still being able to tank tower on a cd.

I often times top lane find myself buying armor vs an Ap mage because tower does more damage than the annoying neeko top

True Garen10/23/2019, 6:26:03 PM1 votes

I built it rarely. (Like %1 of the time.) I enjoyed it very much when I built it.

Hmmm... Actually if I consider only SR I built it a bit more often... maybe %2 or %3 of the time. Building it was a special treat. It didn't bother anybody. I wish that they would just let it stay. NOBODY was complaining about it, it caused problems for no-one, it's fun to use when it is justified.

Do I need to build an item every match?

There's a lot of items that a champion will make, just once in a while. MOST of those items are built more frequently by other champions. Ohmwrecker was not built frequently by anybody, but we'd still like to keep it around.