Why are we getting rid of some good niche items? Atma's really Riot? I loved Atma's. All it needed was a rework to make it build off a health item and to phaze out the crit aspect. And Feral Flare? The community had great ideas on how to balance it, and you listened to none of them. I'm really starting to lose confidence in Riot's ability to balance their game, and having the best interests of the community at heart. League's getting some serious competition now, don't think that League will not share the same fate as HON if you take advantage of the community.
You obviously never played with Atmog's meta in S2.
The thing about Atma's is that it's either shit or required for all AD bruisers. Bruisers are not the crazy aoe denial, cc kings, burst maniacs that APC and Assassins are; they don't care about flexibility in items. They care about being the biggest, beefiest, hardest hitting sons of bitches out there. They will build 1 offensive item to snowball and then start stacking hard defense. Maybe an second offensive item after the first or second defensive item and either another defensive or another offensive depending on the situation.
Atma's is all you need when it's good. It gives you AD for building defensive. You build Atma's and then stack 4 defensive items. Who cares about BC? Just grab Atma's. Who care's about the defensive aspect of Maw? Just build more defense ontop of Atma's. BT? Lol, just build Atma's.
If you are building Atmas ontop of another offensive item, you're just building wrong and should reevaluate your building habits. That goes for all offensive items on bruisers actually. If you're rushing BC or Lizard, or Hydra (which are all fine btw) and then build another offensive item, you're not building bruiser. You're not fulfilling the role you say you are doing. The role of the bruiser is to be able to stand right there in the middle of the fight, dealing a shit ton of damage while also not being able to be killed quickly. You will deal a shit ton of damage with all offense, but you'll just blow up. That is why 1st offensive items on bruisers are very cost efficient, like BoRK, Lizard, BC, or Hydra. They need to be because you're not going to be building anything soon that will help multiply it.
And then you have Atma's whose cost efficiency just keeps going up for building defense.
No, Atma's should have been removed a long time ago, along with the hybrid items and FM. It's not the crit, the AD/armor, or just the awkward build path. It's purely the way Atma's interacts with the bruiser class of champions that makes it an item that should not exist.
