Bring back the aura passive on Locket only

JavelinJoe··1 votes·566 views

Being that Locket of the Iron Solari is a defensive only item, unlike how Banner of Command is more of a offensive lane pushing item (while neither offer offensive stats, Locket is only used for defensive reasons), it would make sense to have the old mr aura passive. And with the support lane being more and more of an AP mage based role, when it is not used for tanky engage champs, having that 15 extra mr is really important. It was one of those items where you could just add a little bit of defense to your ADC without having to have them sacrifice a build item (or get a later item sooner than desired) to get the MR just to survive laning phase.


Champions like Brand Velkoz Zyra Zilean and Singed are becoming (or have been) quite common as "mage supports", meant to be almost another carry role similar to an AP mid laner in damage and threat level. Having to sometimes get item 3155 before I can even finish my second item (if it is not Maw, which it almost never is) is really hard to work with. Your support use to be able to grab item 3105 and then you would have a small MR boost to help you both not get chunked before you even get out from under your tower. But no more.


So, add back that passive to item 3190, or make a new build path for item 3060 and add the MR aura back onto item 3105 so the bot lane has some more defensive options. Also, if this item was only nerfed because of item 3001 being the first go to item for many AP mages, I think its new passive is more than enough to compensate it. 10% more magic damage is a great scaling buff. Which stops it from having its early game power spike and trades it for good late game damage. 100 AP mans a 10 more magic damage, not a whole lot. But if you have 400 or so AP, that is 40 additional magic damage. 25 more than the defense given by the old aura passive of item 3190.

8 Comments

Mysticman892 votes

I don't think singed support is or ever has been 'common'. There was like, one guy.

Aptest1 votes

soon, there will be more...

...so many more...

JavelinJoe1 votes

The singed support was more of a joke, but I imagine it has gotten some slight increase in play lol.

Akenero2 votes

You're forgetting the fact it's an aura. Everyone gets tankier, not just adc.

JavelinJoe1 votes

Yes, and item 3001 is also an aura, so everyone takes more damage, not just the adc.

Eedat1 votes

He's kind of got a point here

JavelinJoe1 votes

I played as Veigar and this item was giving me a ton of extra magic damage close to the end of the game because of his scaling lol.

azrolator1 votes

I am not a fan of the locket. Armor and MR just scale so badly I hate to buy them when they don't come with heath as well.

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