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Essence Reaver still a noob trap, and will remain so until either...

5G8Nri0B54·7/2/2014, 6:45:30 PM·4 votes·893 views

a) Mana begins to be an issue for AD champions past the laning phase. Unless you fail really hard, not even Jayce or Urgot will have [B][I][U]enough[/U][/I][/B] issues with mana to warrant wasting a slot on this item over BT or BotRK. Not even Ezreal gives a **** about this item, because even if you're going to blue Ez build, Muramana and the Iceborn Gauntlet provides MORE than enough mana already. If it didn't provide enough mana, Blue Ezreal would never have been a thing in the first place.

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b)The item's build path makes some god damn sense! Champions who would consider building this item in the first place are ridiculously mana-hungry, and often times [B]that mana starvation is by far the most pronounced during early game.[/B] Therefore, any champion desperate enough to even consider this item would have gotten a Tear to build into Manamune instead as that build path atleast provides you with mana sustain [B]when you need it[/B].

Maybe if the item restored mana based off ability damage as well that'd work out. People would ***** and moan about Jayce being "oh so OP", but those people wouldn't even realize that he doesn't need the item to consistently poke in the first place, and that he isn't constrained by mana late game, but rather his insanely high CD's. So this kind of change, as drastic as it sounds, will only really help Urgot.

6 Comments

Kladdis7/2/2014, 9:54:57 PM2 votes

I really like the idea of the item...but it just does absolute shit in ALL phases of the game. If you ask me, Riot should just make the item build out of the tear. Just make it a more powerful manamune, with its maxing out effect being extra life steal on physical abilities or something like that (it's a scythe after all). But yea, the item sucks and they should just take it out if they don't plan on reworking it.

PS. Love your summoner icon ;D

Jay Kenton7/4/2014, 7:09:08 AM2 votes

Honestly, I would like ER a lot as a very cheap and stat-efficient item, with a niche passive but without LS.

Actually I see ER as nothing but an expensive mini-BT for Jayce midgame with an incorporated Blue Elixir.

Assume you give that passive to a 1600 g item, it would be very appreciated by bruisers and would bring diversity in their build, as an alternative like Hexdrinker or Brutalizer.

If you want to bring him as a strong "marksmen" pick you should raise the tier, instead.

Probably the best move would be something like 1500-2000 g Essence Reaver without LS, but with 10% cdr, into a bigger and expensive item with a little stronger passive, efficient AD stats, with LS; suitable for Caster Marksmen.

Hexdrinker into Malmortius is a good example of what I'm trying to say.

Spirilol7/18/2014, 2:05:10 PM1 votes

What about the new Lucian? In order to have his mobility, he has to spam a lot of skills. I know the amount is more significant in laning phase, but it isn't remove after that point. and since it gives 80AD it can replace BT if you plan on taking a BotRK. I'm not saying I always build both of them, I'm just saying it could be an interesting item for him. Even though it's not an optimal build, you get everything he wants : Mana regen, LS, CDR (for his new combo) On the other hand, I agree it's not a cheap item and maybe they could put something instead of the BF that would be upgraded in Essence reaver and still gives same or little different stats.