The Zekes change has me a bit worried.

Bârd··2 votes·501 views

Zeke's Harbinger Total cost: 2300g Recipe - Glacial Shroud + Aegis + 300G Stats: 55 armor 30 MR 250 Mana 10% CDR Unique Active - Conduit: Bind to target ally (0 second cooldown) Unique Passive: Casting your ultimate near your ally summons a local frost storm for 10 seconds. As the storm rages, nearby enemies are slowed by 30% and your ally's attacks burn their targets for 60% bonus magic damage over 2 seconds (45 second cooldown) Frostfire Covenant - Attacking a burning enemy ignites your frost storm for 3 seconds, searing enemies inside for 50 magic damage per second.

Quite a few champions concern me with this item.

Alistar Would finally be useful after his initiation. His current weakness is that he can't do much after he goes in besides ult and wait on CD's. This slowing field changes all that. Blitzcrank could become meta. It gives him mana, CDR, and resists; all thing Blitz wants. Due to his short R cooldown, he can proc the effect on cooldown. Rakan especially when with his ladyfriend, Rakan would be devastating. Those resists, when combined with an HP item, would be amazing. The Quickness was already strong; adding a slowing field to that is crazy. Oh, and the 50 DPS aura helps with his issue of having no damage. Corki won't be buying it himself, but he is the only marksman who builds magic penetration; that 60% damage increase is incredibly good on him. Malphite Guess what? Now he exists after his ult. Fiddlesticks can now sell his Rylais late game for a Zekes; exchanging a bit of his own damage for a 60% increase to that of his carry.

And that's just off the top of my head.

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WiccanBKaplan1 votes

Just a few things:

  • The local frost storm around the champ is pretty small and would only be good on champs that desire or can survive being up close to the enemy for the whole 10 sec's (Alistar or Support Malphite for example).
  • It wouldn't be good on Fiddle because you have to be bound to someone and cast your ult while near your bound buddy which he rarely does (Support Fiddle maybe) he should still get Rylais since the slowing zone is less than half the size of his ult.
  • Blitz's low ult cooldown (60s-40s-20s) wouldn't be an issue since he cant proc it every time he ult's, instead only every 45 sec (item cooldown) which is the same 45s that many other late game champs need to wait.
  • The way Rakan plays doesn't want you in the fight for an extended amount of time but dashing in and out of the fight to heal and shield and disrupt the enemy. It might be a good item in general but you shoudnt be in the enemies face for a super long time (10s is pretty long)
  • While Corki would be great with the magic pen he builds himself; this item should also be built when playing with Varus or other champs that deal addition Magic dmg or take DFT instead of FoB or WB.

Riot knows what they are doing and this item is late game oriented anyways, if it ends up being to strong (which I doubt) they know what to do. [slayer-jinx-catface]

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