Ultra Late Game items?

Mysticman89·1/30/2016, 3:15:02 PM·2 votes·2,436 views

In Season 5, if the game ever got to extreme late game (6 items + elixir), it wasn't uncommon for adcs to replace their boots with a zephyr or a (probably second) phantom dancer. With the ADC item reworks, is anything along those lines still viable, or is sticking with the normal items one built up over the course of the game better now?

(Incidentally, did/do any other roles have any similar late game swap outs where the item isn't cost efficient to be built normally, but the raw power make it worthwhile late when cost efficiency is a non-issue?)

3 Comments

AngelFrost001/30/2016, 3:18:52 PM1 votes

Actually some tank item buyers buy gurdian of angel then sell it when they die and buy another item. This happens alot but in s6 Normal game would be 30 minutes and maximum is 60 minutes over 60 is really long game which means people sell and buy other items so they improve build and doo tons of damage in teamfights or be defensive and warden.

Mysticman891/30/2016, 3:24:02 PM1 votes

For players with money to burn, swapping GA/BV for other stuff while they are on CD is indeed wise.

Another trick is one can use the ZZ'rot portal and/or Banner and swap them for other things while they're on CD.

And indeed, while it's unlikely for games to stretch out this long in the current meta, it'd be interesting to know what sort item items would be best independent of cost in the ultra-late game for the sake of theory.

Mysticman891/31/2016, 2:31:51 AM1 votes

I know there's plenty of people out there who've done lots of intense math on build orders (e.g. bf->zeal item being more efficient than ie->zeal item), I feel like there must people some people out there who know the answer already. It's probably somewhere out there in some intense reddit post, but I am not a redditor and google didn't spit out any modern posts.