Are Berserker's Boots and Sorc too weak?

Lucky Iccy·1/20/2016, 3:46:18 PM·1 votes·1,000 views

I wanna talk boots for a second, everyone(usually) builds em and overall I love the place they are at right now, there is ton of meaningful choice and the new unique passives of some of them make the choice really meaningful...my thing is, I think a few factors might make Berserker's(and to a lesser extent Sorc Shoes) a bit to weak at the moment and maybe rethinking the AS it gives into something else adcs might like would be better.

  1. With Zeal items being so strong atm, a lot of adcs(especially those that can rush item 3153 or ghostblade) already have the AS the need from other items

2.Caster adcs, which are really strong atm, really have to get item 3158, maxing the 45% CDR is just a much more needed stat than AS atm. The same is true for APC and CDR boots, casting more spells is simply better atm, esp for farming and poke than slightly more damage.

3.Now, the berserker's may never have been the best choice for caster ADCs or BOTRK builds, it was always the go to for the classic IE users...the standard AA builds, but now even those champions are often building item 3009. A lot of that has to do with the item being crazy gold-efficient atm, its not just adc's building it, its everyone. This is also due to the over-abundance of slows in the current meta(looking at you Frost Queen's).

The thing is, those other roles loss meaningful, sometimes game changing things when they choose the roaming of swiftness over combat stat boots. For example you loss substantial MR and Tenacity that is hard to get elsewhere by not building Mercury Treads. and you loss overall tankiness vs multiple AD comps without Ninja tabi.

But Berserker's doesnt give you something unique...or even something you can feel without a few more items...everything you would want from it, you will get by building your standard crit chance AS item.

And with Sorc Shoes its similar, everything you get from it(more damage) can basically be gained from any AP item, how many other items can give you 10% summoner CDR?

I think they arent weak items, just not the unique items with something special to offer like item 3158 item 3009 item 3111 item 3047 are.

8 Comments

Abyssphere1/20/2016, 3:48:04 PM1 votes

They're just too expensive in comparison to other boots. Luicidty/Swiftness need to be more expensive or Sorc's/Greaves need to be cheaper.

Alakalzam1/20/2016, 3:49:21 PM1 votes

There's only one other item that gives you flat MPEN the way Sorc boots do afaik. Sorc boots are core on most mages. You're overvaluing the 10% CDR from Ionian relative to the flat Mpen from Sorc boots.

Xenomancers1/20/2016, 3:49:21 PM1 votes

More movement speed is better and it's the easiest place to get the extra MS for a lot of champions - ever since they removed Zephyr.

WoonStruck1/20/2016, 4:24:15 PM1 votes

Sorc shoes aren't weak, just CDR is often a better choice if you aren't a 100-0 burst caster.

Merc Treads don't currently offer anything special...20 Tenacity is a non-factor in almost every situation. Too low to ever have an impact. If anyone buys them, its for the MR now.

Berserker grieves certainly are not weak. The buffed AS on them places them as one of the most slot-efficient boots now, considering just about every other AD attack speed item in the game was nerfed. Caster ADCs are just stronger right now. Especially since item 3508 is still stupid broken by concept.