Revitalize - is it crap?

Zero Skill Tank·Nov 26, 2017·1 votes·2,521 views

At the end of a Naut game, in 25 minutes, it said 'damage shielded 1018'. Since as a Naut you often shield yourself just too push, the actual 'useful' value of the rune was even lower.

By this time in another game, second wind like 1300 healing for me. Healing is obviously worth more point-by-point than shielding (because you get to keep HP), and there is no 'fake value' (because revitalize only heals you when you are actually in combat champions).

It looks very underwhelming - Naut has one of the best self-shields in the game, and no direct synergy with second wind, except for building HP (his base HP is average, though, so other champions will use the mastery even better), and second wind is still way better.

If revitalize is not worth on Naut, is it worth on anyone sans Janna and Sraka? Or is it just crap?

2 Comments

Some Noob DudeNov 26, 20171 votes

Second Wind is just sleeper op right now, start the laning phase with second wind and a Doran's Shield, you never run out of HP.

Frontline FuryNov 26, 20171 votes

Revitalize is by far one of the strongest runes in the 3rd rows out of all the trees. It might not be that noticeable on champions that do not oroperly utilize it, but you can bet you feel the difference if used on champs like xin zhao, udyr, vladimir and taric.

Champions that utilize high power heals or shields with a high frequency get a huge benefit out of the rune - even more so if they build spririt visage as well.

Your friendly neighbourhood nautili has very loong cooldowns and rarely transforms their shield into a high power one before very late in the game (being dependent on scaling for the most part), so it is only natural you would not get a lot out of the rune until your W is maxed and you are approaching 3500/4000 max hp.