why was edge of night spell shield turned into a passive?

NodirjonSattarov·1/31/2020, 8:34:13 PM·11 votes·6,289 views

it's an assassin item, for champions that require some sort of preparation and thought (in the sense of positioning within brush/out of vision) but now it's persistent and requires no thought. the difference between it and banshee's veil is that most AP champions don't have reliable self-disengage so once it's popped they have to be extremely cautious once it's popped. but edge of night gets popped on zed, khazix, pyke, shaco, talon, qiyana they just fuck right off with their mobility and come back moments later with it back up. it's extremely discouraging disabling the item only for them to literally disappear and come back with it up.

11 Comments

DartExplosion101/31/2020, 11:53:09 PM9 votes

because 200 collective years of professional game design experience

The thigh guy1/31/2020, 8:57:48 PM7 votes

Because. Riot doesn’t like when assassins require thought.

Hayaishi1/31/2020, 10:10:18 PM5 votes

Cause it wasnt OP enough.

2Charmnot2Charm1/31/2020, 8:55:51 PM4 votes

Because pressing buttons before engaging is hard /s

Was much better when we could choose when we want it and that its cooldown didn’t require us to be out of combat.

Woodakoodashooda1/31/2020, 9:44:28 PM3 votes

Edge of Night Before had its own pros and cons as does the new one.

Old Pros: It allowed decisive control over when and where the spell shield might be implemented.

Old Cons: It required being out of combat for a few seconds before it would activate.

New Pros: It no longer requires being out of combat to activate.

New Cons: It no longer allows decisive control over when and where the spell shield can be implemented. Anything can remove it including splash damage from item 3285 . A real "feels bad" moment when your long CD spell shield is removed by something insignificant all because you were just slightly too close to an allied minion when an enemy decided to use an ability on it.

Irelia Bot2/1/2020, 11:01:39 AM1 votes

Revert BV, GA and EoN

xelaker1/31/2020, 11:15:14 PM1 votes

Because League of Assassins would be pretty silly if assassins weren't smothered in great itemization all around.

Modl Ryden l1/31/2020, 11:36:02 PM1 votes

Anyone building item active CDR (Ingenious Hunter and Cosmic Insight) as well as having the active available on ARURF a year ago. An assassin or anyone who made use of Edge of Night can have a spell shield around every 26 seconds rather than 45 seconds without item CDR.

On ARURF, the cooldown was like 8 seconds and gave any AD user a distinct advantage over high CC champs or just negating a lot of damage at the press of a button.

RyzeRework2/1/2020, 6:46:04 AM1 votes

you forget champions that are ap assassins that use it too...

Garson2112/1/2020, 9:16:57 AM1 votes

Soon League of legends MANAGER 2021. simillar to football . You complete team then join lobby and instantly result without waisting 20+ min ,its very much like now but now you have this pleasure of tilting when playing with trolls and griefiers