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Essence Reaver needs a touch-up.

Mataraél··3 votes·929 views
Essence Reaver

I have a few thoughts on this item. Because of the meta, the item has been really weak. Personally I would like to see this item used more in competitive play and games in general.

The Problems: -The item is very champion specific, mostly for AD champions that have expensive abilities or use them very often. -Has been touched by Riot since 4.15 -IE is the most used ADC item and is essentially stronger. -Outscaled by most ADC items

Lets compare this item to Blood Thirster-

item 3072 BT gives

80 AD 20% Lifesteal A shield with 50-350 depending of the level

item 3508 Essence Reaver gives

80 AD 10% Lifesteal 10% CDR A mana regen on autos

And is 300 gold cheaper

The problem is that it gets outclassed by the Bloodthirster at the moment. Why? Because the Bloodthirster scales better (higher lifesteal that scales with the multiplication-marksman-build + shield)

Personally i think that the Essence Reaver, considering it's passive should be an earlygame/midgame-item when manaissues really matter. So i dont see a reason why it should compete for the 80AD-BF-Sword-Slot. Like many others before mentioned, the manaregen comes too late to be useful enough to warrant it's weakness against the Bloodthirster.

Through the nature of its passive, Essence Reaver should be an inexpensive item. Well, here we are. Maybe rework it into a new item for mana heavy ADCs like jinx, ezreal, and maybe graves or lucian.

TLDR: Essence Reaver needs a buff or rework for mana heaving champions as other items outscale it.

9 Comments

zeathoros3 votes

Now this may seem weird... but... I would like to see it reworked into a doran's blade alternative. As of right now there isnt a lot of choices when it comes to starting items as an ad champion. Supports being the ones with the most options.

UltraSceptile3 votes

Even if you made it cheaper no adc would buy it.

I would never think of essence reaver as an alternative for BT on any adc.

ofart1 votes

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Even if you made it cheaper no adc would buy it.

I would never think of essence reaver as an alternative for BT on any adc.

I agree. It needs enough power to be slot efficient. Currently, it is not. I think it should give 20% CDR. Caster ADCs are outclassed at the moment and that would make it an attractive item for them.

Bouncemaster Zac1 votes

I tried it on Lucian (before he got gutted, mind you) and while it was great to q spam constantly without running out of mana, the lifesteal just wasn't enough to survive serious fights.

Reaper Review1 votes

Soul Sickle

Recipe: Long Sword (360) + Sapphire Crystal (400) + 440 = 1200

+25 Attack Damage +200 Mana

Unique Passive: Basic attacks restore 1.5% of your Missing Mana on-hit, doubled to 3% against enemy champions.

Essence Reaver

Recipe: The Brutalizer (1337) + Soul Sickle (1200) + 463 = 3000

+50 Attack Damage +250 Mana +10% Cooldown Reduction (317)

Unique Passive - Pierce: +10 (+1% of your Base Mana) Armor Penetration

Unique Passive: Basic attacks restore 1.5% of your Missing Mana on-hit, doubled to 3% against enemy champions.

Unique Active: Deals 7% (+1% per 250 Maximum Mana) of the target's Current Health as Physical Damage and restores Mana equal to 50% of the damage dealt this way (90 second CD).

Mataraél1 votes

That looks like a good item

ofart1 votes

Scaling penetration off base mana? Why? I also don't think such an item should have an active since it isn't bought for the purpose of bursting and would just reduce its power budged for the primary function.

Reaper Review1 votes

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Scaling penetration off base mana? Why? I also don't think such an item should have an active since it isn't bought for the purpose of bursting and would just reduce its power budged for the primary function.

The pen scales off base mana to make sure people like Riven aren't buying it just for more pen. (If you're wondering about the numbers on it, Kassadin gains 15 ArPen from it at level 18, as he has the highest base Mana @ 18. People like Jayce/Varus/Urgot gain ~10-12 pen at 18.)

That's also why the pen is a named passive. It's from another post I'd made elsewhere about how ArPen might be more manageable to make if it was a named passive, so we didn't just have "stack all the ArPen".

The active, yeah, it's just fluff. Probably isn't needed, but it felt boring being just a stat stick.

Hullabaloo9071 votes

I think they should just buff the lifesteal or cooldown reduction. It already is an ok item on some adcs. It was just used in the lcs on varus, who is one of the two adcs i build it on.

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