Gunblade buff please?

Summer Dust··1 votes·898 views

So I like playing a lot of caster champs, and I love how much damage they deal, but their sustain and survivability is based on their ability to kill people before they get killed. Which is why I like Quinn, because she's also a marksman who can sustain through auto attacks. However, for tankier champs that I like to play mostly in the top lane, they just go until they drop, and don't deal a whole lot of damage unless you build them full AD. This is mostly true for champions like Pantheon, Garen, and sometimes Renekton, if you're going full tank. So I've been toying around with the idea of just slapping on a Gunblade for that Spell Vamp; this way, you life steal off of your abilities. Now, I know what you're thinking (probably). "Uhh... None of those chaps are AP?" And you're right! But I have an absolute love for Garen and ult of *rich, creamy JUSTICE! *, and I wanted a way to keep him in the fight longer, rather than having to back out and wait on his passive. Thinking about it, the Hexteck Gunblade gives Garen a small damage slow (which gets buffed a little by the AP it gives you), life steal for your auto attacks and Decisive Strike, and spell vamp for your Judgement, his main source of damage. I think it rounds out his kit fairly well, since his Decisive Strike isn't the best gap closer (especially for match ups like Malphite), and Perseverance isn't that good until level 16 (not to say that it's bad, I love having free regen). Anyway, to get to the point of all this rambling and fanboyism, I just wanted to know if somewhere down the line we could get rid of the whole Gunblade stopping your champ mid stride when you go to slow someone. It is both silly, and emasculating, to watch Garen run at someone, stop and fire a small projectile, and then continue running only to not get the kill. Or maybe I just need to get better at executing the kill combo.

6 Comments

Rustling Bush1 votes

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/01/121-pbe-update.html

AD reduced to 40 from 45 AP increased to 80 from 65 Lifesteal reduced to 10 from 12%

not sure if its a buff or a nerf but its something

Summer Dust1 votes

Well, that's a reasonable buff, I think, for AD casters, like I was saying. I was more interested to know if the active still stops movement.

Zaghyr1 votes

It was a nerf for AD casters -Lower AD -More AP -Less lifesteal What about these changes makes you think it is a buff for ""AD"" casters?

Summer Dust1 votes

I messed up what you said and thought it was going up when you said it was going down.

Brorelia1 votes

Wall of text tends to make people not bother with reading everything.

The changes to gunblade on the PBE are a minor buff to damage on AP champs and small nerf to sustain a bit more so to akali since her passive give spell vamp based of bonus AD.

I do know what you are saying about spell vamp on abilitys and back when gunblade had 60 AD I did build it on Riven a few times.

Summer Dust1 votes

Ey, this guy gets it~

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