Please don't go through with the rageblade changes, they're just gonna make the item broken

Hammermancer·Mar 11, 2018·1 votes·259 views

look, rageblade as it is is a strange item but it finds a home on a lot of hybrid on hit champions, without being a major point of balance contention.

Where right now i can play it on champions like teemo or orianna for fun builds, the AP in its power budget makes it decent on very few ADC champions,

By buffing the AD you make this item a bit too strong on certain champions, notably vayne meanwhile you completely remove nashors+rageblade as a viable combination

the thing is that rageblade is great on champs with ap scaling on hit effects, and it makes an entire playstyle viable on such champs

giving it higher AD makes it synergize too well with critical strike items, and i can see it being the next duskblade if made into an AD only item

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z63XnLCMwXMar 11, 20181 votes

Correct me if I'm wrong but stacks would only proc if it's against champs which nerfs the split push aspect of it(hydra+rageblade) and it becomes a melee centered item. I don't see how that's a buff. Vayne would need to hit champions at least 6 times to proc it which makes it extremely inefficient compared to other ad item.

HammermancerMar 11, 20181 votes

it nerfs the value of it for the champions that can use it in a viable way

Teemo Varus Azir Kennen Bard Lulu Orianna which, you may argue is "incorrect build" but it's actually potent, effecting, and fairly cheap itemization for these champs who all have value for attack speed+AP, and if they want to push a nashors build, rageblade allows it to be auto centric, which is cool and allows some of these mages to function with semi-hybrid styled stats

the three item build i've used has been item 3124 item 3115 item 3146 then usually ending with something like item 3153 or item 3091 , lethal tempo. It's great fun and is what i did to learn how to kite back in the day, I still have the page set up because once in a while I want to do some on hit orianna top, or go for this type of thing on teemo/bard. It's also great fun on varus, but his pure adc type kit sorta...

I've seen popular streamers use similar builds in high elo and i've seen it be effective between bronze and plat play myself through soloquoing or grouping up with higher mmr friends in norms (enemy team will usually have higher mmr players if my friends are)

so it has value, it's not optimal, but it's fun, and useful in certain matches.