Frozen heart has a 10 armour buff on the PBE
I think it might not be enough anymore. We needed that 10 armour a long time ago.
At least it's back now.
Discuss
I think it might not be enough anymore. We needed that 10 armour a long time ago.
At least it's back now.
Discuss
Issue with FH is that there's not much reason to build it over other items.
It gives Armor, but no HP. That flaw means that its main selling points are the AS aura and CDR.
The AS debuff is considerable, but the CDR, which is much of the items value, is undercut by just how common that stat is now.
Riot keeps throwing 10% CDR on every other item, so why dedicate an item slot to it on a tank?
We have a new rune that converts excess CDR to AP. That's going to be useful on tanks.
Depends.
Riot has had two ways of designing tanks, historically.
Either give them h mediocre damage scaling so they don't build damage (Ornn, Maokai, Shen), or give them absurd scaling so they can get the maximum value out of any little bit of AP they get alongside their tank items (Amumu, Nunu, Old Sej).
That rune would be useful on the latter, but awful on the former.
Issue with FH is that there's not much reason to build it over other items.
It gives Armor, but no HP. That flaw means that its main selling points are the AS aura and CDR.
The AS debuff is considerable, but the CDR, which is much of the items value, is undercut by just how common that stat is now.
Riot keeps throwing 10% CDR on every other item, so why dedicate an item slot to it on a tank?
I mean, in the past, I used in as a niche caster item for tanks.
Especially on Sion. It was a rush item against an AD opponent. (against an AP opponent, I would get a specter's cowl, then rush FH)
Though currently, that niche is largely filled by Abyssal Mask. Though it's offensive power is partially wasted on Sion, as a number of his abilibies are Physical damage.
10% amp on the shield bomb and minion grenades is powerful enough.
I've been building adaptive helm vs ap laners.
They should just reduce the cost to make it more gold efficient without the mana being factored in
I'm pretty sure that would break
again.
I'd love if they just converted half the cdr to armor and maybe buffed the passive.
Great! Now I can ALMOST consider buying this item!
But I still won't because shit like Thornmail and Randuin's Omen are still much more gold efficient and useful.