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So WOTA was removed.......

Saianna··1 votes·730 views

EDIT: Lots of people dislike the idea of Spellvamp returning to LoL. Most likely you guys still remember Vladimir/Akali/Rumble/X/Y/Z abusing it. But please, think a little bit farther. WotA was easily abusible cause it had no downsides. I'm proposing "healthier" (biased opinion, obviously) spellvamp. A stat that is alot harder to be abused and made for more champions to actually use.

Removed cause of few champions (Mostly Akali and Vladimir ) were abusing it, right?

Vladimir - gets reworked the same update as WOTA removed. But could have been made less spell vamp abusive. Anyways, the old abuser is gone'ish.

Akali - gets her rework soon. With some change with how her spell vamp passive works

Maybe, just maybe, We could bring back WOTA? It's spellvamp passive could be weaker & gated by cooldown, or by "energized" (Like item 3087 / item 3094 ). Also I hope that if spellvamp will truly come back, it could be made a lil bit more healthier and for bigger champion pool other than 4-5~.

The point of why I'm writing this is because:

  1. Major spellvamp abusers are kinda gone, or could be still slightly tweaked to make sure WOTA is bad option for them
  2. Old spellvamp stat could have been reworked to be alot more healthy. Yet it wasn't. Maybe it's time?
  3. I saw sliver of hope with Kog Maws rework revert.

Lastly, few days ago I saw Caitlyn with Runaan & Bloodthirster healing on a wave (2 minions + cannon) **faster **than 16 level Garen with warmong. Needles to say she was full HP for the next battle, while we, non-ADCs, were still in miserable state from earlier teamfight. If I was Trump, I'd call it rigged system as fuck.

11 Comments

Chamuel852 votes

No, they specificially mentioned that they removed WotA because Vladimir was entirely in lockstep around the power of that item. They removed it so Vladimir could exist and be balanced more easily.

Sona x Rubick2 votes

vladimir was the only thing that made wota removed no joke. for example his E costs hp now, before it didn't cost anything because of WOTA

if you want to bring back wota you have to make it unbuyable on vladimir, just like how some heroes can't buy certain items in dota2

Saianna1 votes

I guess you haven't read what options we have to make it less abusible. I'll repeat:

  1. Gate it by COOLDOWN. For example 10s. that way Vlad won't be able to abuse it in true meaning of this word.
  2. Gate it by ENERGIZED passive. You walk/attack = charge WOTA then you can use it's spellvamp.
Sona x Rubick1 votes

First change won't change anything unless you increase the cooldown to at least 15 sec

second change is good.

Saianna1 votes

Gate it by COOLDOWN. For example 10s.

It could be even 20s. The point is -> there is viable option to bring back WotA without making Vlad into abusive spellvamp shitmaster.

CerealBoxOfDoom2 votes

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Removed cause of few champions (Mostly Akali and Vladimir ) were abusing it, right?

no, because the only time it was useful was when it was being abused regardless of champ

No changes too any champ are going to fix that

Pandemic Punch1 votes

We need a fucking dictionary on the front page of these forums because of all of these damn acronyms.

Saianna1 votes

Uh oh sorry..

WOTA = Will of the Ancients. Spellvamp item that was nerfed few times to finally being removed in Mage update. It was abused by Vladimir and Akali to the point of "no return". But now, once the main abuse culprits are gone, this item could be returned into the game somehow :)

Pandemic Punch1 votes

Ahhhhhhhhh! Yes, I was a fan of that item :)

Talisid1 votes

Kennen was also kind of abusing it to be impossible to force out of lane. He'd just max Q and heal for 50 HP or more every time he last hit a minion with it. He'd also restore like 30% of his health while R+Wing into your team. I don't think we want to buff Kennin considering how much of an outcry there has been about him lately.

Katarina would do the same thing, although to a lesser extent and Nidalee with her cat combo or healing for like 20% of her health off of one spear.

Basically any mana-less champion with a ranged spell that could hit minions got infinite sustain from it.

Saianna1 votes

True, True and.. I'd say Fiddle/Morgana liked to buy it.

But what'cha think about my solutions? If solutions are fine, then so will be WotA :)

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