Jax is broken with Essence Reaver...

After3perma··1 votes·1,364 views

Let’s create a new item that has the exact same cancerous effect but instead of giving mana, now it gives HP.

Oh how you guys were crying that Jax is unkillable with permanent Counter Strike, now he has the same permanent Counter Strike plus extra HP so GL my friends.

That actual dumb people in this balance team. We didn’t want this fucking Essence Flare in the game. It makes Riven, Renek, Jax etc over the top broken, so what do these jokers do? They release a HP version of Essence Reaver with the exact same fucking effect but lets change it to Awakened Dragon and nobody will notice LOL. They didn’t even nerf the effect or anything. Just a copy paste.

You might say that the stats the item gives are not that great and I kind of agree to that except that it gives 20% CDR instead of 10%. But you are not building this item for the stats it provides, you are building it for Awakened Dragon. Items that provide passives kind of have bad stats to compensate for the powerful passive it provides and that’s where the buck of the gold cost goes towards.

But at the end of the day Trying to communicate with the balance team is like trying to talk to a brick wall. Oh wait, you have more communication talking to a fucking brick wall than you do these guys. We didn’t want this item. We wanted the Spear that was in Nexus Blitz.

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woodvsmurph1 votes

Riven is really strong with it... but if she rushes it she's also hella squishy. I'd also argue she has nearly the same cd's without it because her's are so low you can almost permanently layer them even without spear of shojin once you have 40-45% cdr.

Renekton... honestly he's weak as shit later into the game without it. His cd's on his basic abilities are simply far too high even with 40% cdr so that he almost kinda needs it. It makes him very strong, but I wouldn't say it puts him over the top with it late game. Early game yeah, he's disgusting with it and it's a bit much.

Jax with old essence reaver plus other items such as bork, triforce, and/or bloodrazor? Complete over the top bs thanks to his near-permanent e giving damage reduction plus aoe stun. Spear's stats only further enhance this. While some of the new stats help renekton or riven compared to what er gave... the gold cost increase compared to the stats gained and lost makes it a net decrease in efficiency for them. While for jax... all the changes (minus no mana) are a net gain in efficiency for him almost as though Riot tailor built the item for him.

What I've honestly said for months now is that... er (now spear of shojin) is a broken item that needs to be removed from the game. I think renek deserves some lower cd's on his maxed out basic abilities... more comparable to riven level cd's, but that's about it. Early game his cd's are acceptable because it's 1v1 or 1v2 or 2v2 trades and his abilities are up often enough. Mid/late and late game teamfights and duels though, his abilities are on way too long of a cd compared with other similar champs like darius, riven, jax, etc. So give him lower cd's at max ability rank and remove spear of shojin because it breaks jax and it gives crazy strong power to others... not necessarily breaking them late game but making them stronger than they ought to be.

bluefire mark 21 votes

Essence reaver? I think you mean spear of shojinitem 3161 since this item has what the old essence reaver passive was and ER no longer has it.

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