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Essence Reaver. How to fix all nonviable ADC.

Flying Around··2 votes·912 views

First off the current Essence Reaver is just not useful as a Mana / CD item. Their is simply enough CD items and no need for such an expensive mid to late game Mana source. I do however love the way Riot is trying to make unique items in the game to fix problems with large groups of "unviable" champions. I will share my ideas for a new Essence Reaver that will give the "unviable" champions a new surge of power making them much more fun and useful.

item 3508 Stats +70 - 80 attack damage (not sure if 80 is to much) +300 mana

Ranged Only: Passive UNIQUE PASSIVE: Your basic attacks on enemy champions reduce the cool down of non ultimate skills by 1 second (1 second cool down) (abilities with this passive will not stack) Passive UNIQUE PASSIVE: Dealing damage with an ability penetrates the targets armor by 5% for 7 seconds stacking up to 25% (allies damage not effected by armor penetration) Item cost 3200g

Build Path item 1038 item 3134 item 1027

The purpose of this new Essence Reaver is to give ADC casters (Varus Ezreal MissFortune Corki ) the cool down reduction they need in a unique way that allows (and forces) them to still be auto attack threats. Until now there really hasn't been a cool down reduction item that an ADC caster can buy that allows them both strong auto attacks and less ability down time. They either had to choose the common item 3031 rush, not allowing them the amount of spell cast they need, or the item 3158 item 3035 item 3070 type of build which gave them now auto attack presence. With the cool down reduction in the autos it makes almost a high risk high reward type of play style where you need to be constantly auto attacking to make the full use of your 1 second cool down. I believe that this item will vault the under played, under powered ADC that have always been missing the item truly designed for them.

(Example build for Varus)

item 3006 item 3031 item 3046 item 3508item 3072 item 3035

The armor penetration allows it to be built 3rd item instead of item 3035 because unlike old item 3508 it can deal with tanks.

5 Comments

v good pupper2 votes

I play a lot of Varus. The 300 mana would certainly be nice, but it's not nearly enough to enable Varus to use his Q more than once or twice more than he usually can. The cooldown related passive just would mean Varus would be more safe due to his E and R always being up, but otherwise out of mana if he wanted to make the most of the passive. As well, due to the cooldown of Varus's Q I would never buy this over Last Whisper because of the time it would take to stack the armor penetration; and how easily those stacks could be lost. This item would also make ADCs like Lucian and Ezreal even safer than they already are and more effective. It would still make strong Caster ADCs stronger, while not significantly helping "nonviable" ADCs over meta ADCs.

Flying Around1 votes

I do agree that 300 mana is not very significant which is why i didn't mention it, however it is another 3 Varus q's, Another 6 Corki missiles, Another 5 MF q's. I think you may have overlooked a lot of champions on the effectiveness of the mana and armor shred. If a MF were to use her ult or E, the armor pen would stack fully almost instantly. Also the cool down passive does not effect ultimates so Varus would not have his ult up all the time. I do agree that it would make many champions safer, however at the risk of them walking up and auto attacking MUCH more.

HungryHiccups1 votes

This is a very great idea that can make a great impact on the nonviable ADC's

LilxPaprika1 votes

Passive UNIQUE PASSIVE: Your basic attacks reduce the cool down of non ultimate skills by 1 second (1 second cool down)

Don't get me wrong its an original idea. But its just too strong and hard to balance around. Lucian dash was a big issue at release they had to nerf it a lot, this would return it to its old strength, not sure how well that would fly.

300 mana is huge on adc imo, ADCs mostly need enough for ult and their escape skill.

Also if you plan on really abusing varus q you need to get muramana. That's the price you pay for being able to poke so much.

Also the thing is adc kits are such that they don't necessarily need CDR. They are designed similarly to yasuo's and get some CDR from auto attacking, like graves lucian vayne q, ezreal (land spells)... Tristan's has reset etc. And they aren't as reliant on using spells to do damage. They just have to be a bit more careful with regards to using their utility spells.

Not saying it can't be done its just I think well have to adjust ADCs such that they get their CDR from items. Which would require more adc CDR items. To male it fair for ADCs who don't equip ER.

Flying Around1 votes

ADC with pre existing "auto attack cool down dashes" would not have that passive applied (as in it wouldn't stack). I know i did not include this in the item summary, that is because overlooked it. Thank you for bringing that up. About the Muramana point i do agree if you only want to use varus for q poke then that is the way to go however, this item will not allow Varus to sit 1000 units away and spam q. It's cool down passive would really only be utilized in team fights allowing him (and champions with similar abilities) to get off more spells then they normally would. It's purpose is almost to combine the "auto attack ADC" and the "Caster only ADC".

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