Revert Duskblade - The Item has Nearly No Counterplay Now

Oak Island ·10/21/2017, 9:56:05 PM·2 votes·291 views

I think the original duskblade was a lot more healthy:

Unique Passive – Nightfall: After 2 seconds, deals 90 (+ 25% of target's missing health) physical damage. If the target is taken down before Nightfall dealt damage, the full cooldown is refunded.

Before, there was actual counterplay. The person who was using the item had to dedicate time into killing their target, leaving the target and their allies a window of opportunity to react appropriately.

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Jbels10/21/2017, 10:03:08 PM2 votes

You're confusing narrow design versus general design with the argument of counterplay. The old duskblade had no more counterplay than the current one has today. The only difference is that the original duskblade was designed for assassins. You can tell just by how the damage is set up. 25% missing health after two seconds, only an assassin should be able to get somebody low enough in 2 seconds for that scaling to actually matter.

The only difference is that other classes use it now. Back then the weirdest abuser of it outside of the assassin Class was Jhin