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"Hextech starburst will be too good on High Mobility Mages"

LeifKlover··1 votes·529 views

Here I am, staring at the more terrifying alternative champions that could abuse an easy engage, with or without the new .25 second cast time delay post starburst.

Volibear Udyr Pantheon Nautilus XinZhao Zac Blitzcrank Garen JarvanIV Olaf Rammus Singed TahmKench Warwick Vi Thresh RekSai Sejuani Malphite Maokai Amumu Alistar Gnar Aatrox

Hope you like sudden flips, stuns, silences, and suddenly having big, burly tanks in your face for the next few months.

Again.

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8 Comments

Mecha MaIphite3 votes

A lot of those champions don't really have a reason to build AP. I'm more worried about Galio

LeifKlover1 votes
  • Recipe: Hextech Revolver + Kindlegem + 600 Gold = 2550 Total Gold
  • Health: 300
  • Ability Power: 60
  • Cooldown Reduction: 10%
  • Active - Fire Bolt: Dash 275 units in a direction (at 1150 speed) and then unleash a nova of fireballs that deal 100 - 250 (+25% of your Ability Power) magic damage to enemies hit. Enemies hit by more than one fireball take 15% damage from additional balls. (30 second cooldown, shared with other Hextech items).

Considering the gold efficiency of the Active is immeasurable when it comes to this type of mobility, that's like saying old Triforce was unusable on anyone without Mana or AP scaling, even though it was arguably one of the best items you could build on any auto heavy champion.

Sightless664 votes

Yeah, except that Triforce was stupidly gold-efficient even without mana or AP. This new item is.... well.... not. Even with a dash, 2,550 gold for 300 hp and 10% CDR is pretty goddamn expensive. This isn't like a blink dagger or anything. The range isn't that amazing.

I can see it working pretty well on a few of the tanks with no mobility and good AP ratios, but I honestly think most of them can do better. Like, no way I'm taking this on Volibear or Garen unless the game is going so well that there's no chance of losing no matter what I build, and it's not helping me engage as Malphite so why even bother?

Meep Man1 votes

The thing is, this item doesn't exactly close the distance. 300 units is 3/4 the range of Flash and the fireballs it uses won't really help them at all. It's not exactly the best item when there is Deadman's and other items they can build to be tankier and deal more damage.

Streeton2 votes

yes garen using an ap item! GENUIS

A Simple Desire1 votes

Jax E->Q->W->E->Hextech Starburst to reposition infront of you for no escape->kills you shuddersliterally no escape

Nekusen1 votes

none of those champions need or could give good use to the item, they already have stuff to build.

Erdamon1 votes

At first I kinda agreed that Starburst might be stong on some champions, I could see the point of abuse cases on someone like Annie or Fizz and stuff like that.

Now when people are bringing pretty much every single tank into this I think that all of you are pretty much overexaggerating at this point. Zac? ok. Amumu? Ok. Warwick? What? Pantheon? What? Gnar? Eh? Aatrox? Are you even trying at this point?

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