PSA that Rageblade is still broken and its only nerf was 'increasing cost by 300'

Seenan·Jan 24, 2016·9 votes·805 views

Especially on a select few champs.

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The Bíg TicketJan 24, 20165 votes

Thats why you see it exactly 0 times in the NA/EU LCS, LCK or LPL or in any high elo stream. Even Cowsep who is Dia 1 on Korea atm goes Devourer - Bork - tank without getting Rageblade.

The item is super overrated by low elo kids.

yay nibbersJan 24, 20161 votes

This. The "select few champs" that OP mentions are the only ones who can even build it effectively and even then there's better items to build. Rageblade was only so good because it was extremely cheap. The nerf did its job.

SeenanJan 25, 20161 votes

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Thats why you see it exactly 0 times in the NA/EU LCS, LCK or LPL or in any high elo stream. Even Cowsep who is Dia 1 on Korea atm goes Devourer - Bork - tank without getting Rageblade.

The item is super overrated by low elo kids.

Who are you referencing? Jax and Xin use Rageblade exceptionally well simply because of their AP ratios on key parts of their kit, and sometimes Irelia. Even Yi can be ridiculous with it if there's no viable cc to stop him. I don't really watch LCS, but I don't really see Xin often when I do.

The Bíg TicketJan 25, 20161 votes

Cowsep is a Diamond Master Yi main on the Korean server. Go check out his stream on Twitch, he almost exclusively plays Master Yi and got like 5 accounts to Diamond this season; his build is Devourer - Bork - tank. Rageblade ain't that great.

Rageblade is a low elo problem because people try to 1v1 a Jax or Xin with full Rageblade stacks and then are like "omg this item is so op".

MargaretThatcherJan 24, 20161 votes

the problem is that melee gets 2 stacks.

ShadowParkerJan 24, 20161 votes

It also had a bug that was increasing the aor significantly.

It's been fixed. So that's a nerf right there.

Sire HippingtonJan 25, 20161 votes

well, it is broken, but since the nerf not really OP. it has the worst possible builtpath of any item. The two main stats you want from it are AS and the on-hit, but you do not get any as or on-hit at all till it's complete. If you rush it and aren't ahead, you will have a long ohase in which your opponent can bully you as your sitting on rather shitty components. Aditionally, it offers no defensive stats or utillity and is mostly used by all-in melees. It is just a horrible snowball item and a massive 1v1 powerspike with little teamfighting power. If a guinsoo's user gets ahead and thus can afford it early without sitting on the vomponents for to long, he becomes a splipush-god. Of he falls behind or the opposing team can actually force teamfights, it's rather usless.

THe nerf didn't fix the inherent issues of the item, it just put it from actually op to still unhealthy and occasionally broken.