The Guinsoo changes trash the items for the champs who use it most right now, why complain?
Calling this new Rageblade damage creep is absurd and laughable. The champions who currently use the item (Yi, Varus, Vayne, Kog, Kai'sa) are losing an immense amount of damage from the loss of both the scaling AD/AP per stack and the AD/AP ratios added to the on-hit damage. 15% hybrid pen doesn't even come close to competing especially with the raw squishy-killing power that these guys were gunning for. It's more of a compensation if anything, so that it can at least retain some degree of tank DPSing that it'd be losing without all that raw damage.
What this change does is shift the item into actually being an on-hit item and not a "get fucking everything you want" item. At the expense of its raw power (and it objectively has lost a ton of power, at least on its best users), the item now opens up to champions who previously didn't make enough use of the above stat boosts to justify the purchase. Now that Guinsoo is almost entirely about its on-hit damage, the item's now going to open up to a lot more champions, many of which are bruisers who enjoy on-hits but can't dedicate more than a few slots to them. Shyvana, Volibear, Nocturne, Xin come to mind, as well as potentially new off-builds for Warwick, etc.
I'd like Riot to keep an eye out on Jax in particular here, since he's already an S tier champion as far as soloQ is concerned, but these Rageblade changes are very good and should not be nearly as controversial as they turned out being. This is actually a fairly big power down to damage creep, so you should appreciate the change now that Kai'Sa isn't going to start deleting you with tons of on-hits that she barely built.
's Q, passive, and W hurt more now with the added penetration.
just uses it for extra on hits with his true damage E and double attack passive
why do I have a funny feeling they're changing it just for her upcoming rework.. sounds great on current kayle.
Already does %health damage and his Q shreds armor and MR, this will either buff him to uncounterable levels (less resistances and tons of %health on-hits) or leave him as is because he's only gaining what he already has.
too squishy to use it anyway, he wants to build a bit more like a diver then a duelist, since his diver builds do a ton of damage anyway so trading off tankiness for more damage with guinsoo's sounds meh.
sounds like a possibility since she is mixed damage, could use the extra attacks for her E on-hit, and penetration will make her W and E hurt more.
Did somebody say armor penetration on a caster without losing out on a DPS build?
meh
so she relies on MR shred. Now she'll have shred + %penetration for late game MR stackers. Losing the % AP on it doesn't really matter because it was only gaining 2.5% AP on a champ that relies on nashor's and 25 AP guinsoo's to begin with, low numbers until late game. Think of the penetration in kayle's case being roughly the same damage as all that 2.5% would've gave until deathcap (if you do buy it).
he will be dealing true damage if the enemy doesnt have any mr, that would be so amazing as a full ad comp, if u are