Season 6 AD Itemization Needs to be Reworked

Mandaari·3/7/2016, 6:58:31 AM·7 votes·926 views

Coming from an ADC main, it's far too lenient. There's supposed to be a downside to buying Maw or Mercurial aside from losing out on dealing a little more damage with a different item. As an AP champion I should feel somewhat good about forcing my opponent to build so defensively. Instead it's just, "Fuck, now I have to deal with this shit."

Meanwhile Morello's still requires you to burst someone below 40% to apply the debuff. Void costs as much as either Last Whisper paths and doesn't provide as much.

26 Comments

Koechophe3/7/2016, 8:45:53 AM3 votes

This is also why AD assassins feel so oppressive right now. They can build Maw and then outtrade their AP counterparts regardless of the situation. Armor/damage items are almost non-existent: basically, AP has zonyas and AD has nothing. I fail to see why MR/damage items were buffed to such a huge extent.

disregardable3/7/2016, 7:06:55 AM2 votes

What? You only play ARAM.

EcchiOtakuTM3/7/2016, 8:24:05 AM1 votes

All they gotta do is reduce mr on maw by 10 and remove the lifegrip passive. While merc is fine, if anything you can just lower it's mr by 5

There's really no issues with AD items, aside from maybe gage which should have it's shield value scale off 15% instead of 30% on ranged champions.

Old Man Teeto3/7/2016, 7:29:44 PM1 votes

itemization drives this game.

AD and AD Bruiser itemization is actually in a good spot.

AP and AP Bruiser itemization IS NOT.

This is largely because the previous two "Large" patches have been Juggernauts and Marksmen. Thus Riot gave them good itemization. Since only Mordekaiser is even remotely included for AP Juggernaut -- and they gave him highly questionable AD Scaling and a weird as shit rework -- everyone who doesn't directly benefit from those items is left to rot until the next time through.

Personal Opinion.

Riot needs to do less ITEM changes during a season, but do grander item changes for preseason. What I mean is, touch ALL itemization, and not do this piecemeal like they always do. Minor adjustments during the season (slight increase/decreases) instead of flat introducing new items randomly that change how champions play and function to the degree that they then require heavy nerfs or buffs. Cough Duskblade Cough