Can we agree that Ohmwrecker is a bad item?

Yuumi or Lose··9 votes·3,269 views

No seriously, when have you seen this item in playitem 3056 item 3056 item 3056 item 3056 item 3056 ? This item is outclassed and useless. Oh yeah you can reset turret aggro and dive. Guess what items do better? EVERY OTHER TANK ITEM. Let me break this down as to why this item is not good and will never be seen in high level/tournament play and only in troll games.

The stats are bad.

It is expensive and by the time you do buy it, you barely put it to use because it's so situational.

When you do buy it, you realize that you could have tanked the turret without having to buy the item in the first place.

There are tank items that do the job better without having to reset turret aggro.

The active is on a very high cooldown for god who knows why.

Active needs to be reworked so that it can carry on to late game instead of it having become more and more useless as the game progresses when more turrets are gone.

Passive needs to be replaced or added because it's so lackluster.

All in all, the item needs to be looked over. There are other items that also need attention but this item has been with us since season 3 and still has no play in tournaments. PBE came in and buffed the passive so it works on fallen turrets but still doesn't do justice. This is honestly a trap item and only to be used for LoL troll youtube videos.

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youngjake932 votes

Riot is buffing the entire Raptor Cloak family(Raptor+Zz'Rot+Ohm) in the next patch. Also, Trick2G uses Ohmwrecker in like more than half of his games because it is a niche item that fits his backdoor 'GATES' strategy.

It is less powerful as a dive item because you give up combat stats required to pull off a dive to get it, but it is really powerful for backdooring lazer turrets.

UncensoredAngel1 votes

OH ok so it works for one person lets keep it

Yuumi or Lose1 votes

You might not have been on his stream 3 days ago but him and Sirch had a discussion about Ohmwrecker and the Portal and they both agreed they are both really bad items and that they do not recommend people to buy it. Even when he uses Ohmwrecker to implement it on his Backdoor strategy he was always performing better not buying it. He just buys Ohmwrecker when he's trolling as always. He's an entertainer. I can assure you that if Trick were to play at a tournament, he wouldn't even scroll down to look at Ohmwrecker.

ActualPain2 votes

GATES

Shadow Gilgamesh1 votes

I've literally only ever used it ONCE, and that was last week in nemesis mode, we had an AFK but we kept winning teamfights under our towers and were incapable of taking objectives because of the waves were pushed, so I grabbed that and we just ran up and blew up towers.

THAT'S how god damn situational the item is, lol, a one in a million game scenario

WeirWulf1 votes

I think it needs a buff to 400~450 health and then it would be in a better spot. I agree its just not strong enough stat wise, especially compared to its main competitors, sun fire and randiuns. But the CDR and health regen are both nice stats and it has a nice build path, If it gave more health it would definitely be a more compelling option. Would be nice jungle pick up aswell.

DarkenedSoul4201 votes

Not to mention, the new bard champ has an ohmwrecker active built in with his ult

windwolf7771 votes

Riot notes: Some sort of pun (maybe something like "Turn a blind eye" Passive: No longer can draw turret aggro unless you attack a friendly champion (right click only: Spells and items don't draw aggro. Examples: item 3087 lightning, item 3153 active won't draw aggro, etc etc)

(EDIT: Maybe point and click spells would draw aggro but just not AoE/Chain spells)

Yuumi or Lose1 votes

It needs another active. A secondary acvtive that works on your own turrets. Something that feels rewarding to carry on late game.

YOU BEEN WARNED1 votes

Why would a tank not tank the towershots with a better item like item 3143?

1- the tank is behind --- sort of works because point runner helps you siege when behind, but it's not as good as item 3143 item 3075 when you're behind and it's so EXPENSIVE. If opting to pigeon hole it to this niche without decreasing price, give it a secondary effect on dead towers: revive tower for a short duration/low hp like Azir's passive since you're supposed to be using it to come back in the game.

2- the tank has low hp at the time, can't afford to keep tanking --- this is valid however, if you're low; you want to get out of there ASAP after proccing the item, the point runner passive is irrelevant. If it granted a movespeed boost on active then it would fill this niche.

3- you're trick2g reincarnate and you use this for split pushing --- works, but because of backdoor protection on towers it's not as good as buying a damage item unless you're Nasus. Have it completely disable tower passives in the duration ( including backdoor protection ) and it will do this well.

AnOstrichWithPMS1 votes

Ruby sightstone called it wants its title back

Yuumi or Lose1 votes

Ruby Sightstone is WAY better than Ohmwrecker lol.

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