A simple change to ZZ'rot's Portal to make it a better tank item

The Paulrus·1/28/2015, 2:27:53 AM·1 votes·399 views

Currently, it's got:

50 armor 50 MR +100% base health regen

Passive:Point Runner Active: Spawning voidspawn

Health: 40 Armor: 115 MR:20 Health/Level: 15 Base damage to minions: 30 First and every 4th voidspawn gain bonus of 100% of armor/mr as damage.

The key issue here is that that 4th voidspawn can be easily targeted and removed as the first priority. Not only that, but a tank that stacks health to combat true damage (against, say, a Darius), gets a reduced benefit to the minion's power. To make it a more useful item for every tank, I'd add an additional buff to it.

First and every 4th voidspawn gain bonus of 100% of armor/mr as damage and 20% of bonus health as health. This way a tank who builds bonus health actually gets a benefit from building health that ends up penalizing him against anyone with % of max health damage. A tank with 1000 bonus health would get a voidspawn that's not only has some damage to it, but is durable and not one hit-able at range by any carry build worth a damn. A 1000 bonus health tank at level 18 would get a voidspawn with 500 health (still less than that of a siege minion at level 18), instead of the paltry 310 (less than that of a melee minion), which at level 18, are virtually 1-hitable.

Thoughts?

1 Comments

Erockandroll1/28/2015, 2:38:36 AM1 votes

I'm not sure that's necessary. Any good tank will Build both Armor and Health. so It shouldn't matter that much what the item scales with. It's Possible that scailling it with health would be trickier. since health is fairly effective against all kinds of damage, and have different scaling patterns with certain champs.

Also consider that it might be an Over bearing mechanic because ZZ'rots supports, AFK split pushing. Not referring to the exploit, but rather that you don't need to be at the portals position to push with the Item.

The only other Option would be to look at the base stats, But I would guess those are fairly good right now.