Blade of the Ruined King should probably be split into two items

Rebonack·Dec 27, 2015·2 votes·469 views

This thing is getting pulled all over the place. It does so many different things that no single thing can be particularly strong without breaking the item. So what I propose is to create one item focused on combating stacked HP and a second item with the powerful kiting active.

would be a pretty potent stat combination for punishing high HP and low armor. It would keep the Blade of the Ruined King name. No active, powerful passive.

would pick up the mantel for Zypher, the AD/CDR/Attack speed item for champions that want to go just a little bit faster. No %HP passive, powerful active.

Both useful. Both much easier to balance than the blob of mismatched functions that Bork is right now. And most importantly, neither are generalist items.

2 Comments

Irelia BotDec 27, 20151 votes

there are other items good for kiting already

Would rather see BotRK become the definitive anti helath stacking item

item 1043 + item 1053 + item 3134 15 flat armor pen 40 AD 40% attack speed. 10% of physical damage done by auto attacks is given to the attacker.to the attacker. does 8% of current health as on hit physical damage.

It is now more clearly the anti health stacking item but not so ideal for armor stacking enemies.

DreadlocksDec 27, 20151 votes

What i dont get is why they dont just revert the changes they made to it. Before it was great for assassins because the active did more dmg.. Then they changed it to be an ADC item... Then they come up with all these fansy and strong crit items and nerf botrk.. leaving it used by almost no-one really... So why not just bring back the old botrk instead of introducing another assassin item.?..