Clarity and Clairvoyance Thoughts

Omnem Occido·7/29/2014, 6:29:12 AM·3 votes·1,284 views

So {{summoner:2}} and summoner 13 are the least used Summoner Spells in standard games (minus {{summoner:10}} , of course), and for good reason: they are not "reaction" spells and are not summoner 12 . The "reaction" spells, summoner 21, summoner 1, summoner 3, summoner 4, summoner 6, summoner 7, summoner 14, and summoner 11, are spells used in the middle of combat to boost the player while fighting. These give quick, potentially game changing moves where the Champion's own abilities fail, where as {{summoner:2}} and summoner 13 are used outside of combat, and they affect the game in too minor a way as compared to the other spells. More to the point, their abilities are already emulated by cheap items: item 3342 is a free {{summoner:2}} with a smaller cooldown, albeit a smaller area of effect and range; any champ that needs mana regen will build an item 3174 or something along those lines, rendering summoner 13 unnecessary. I think that these two need altercations to be used to good effect. For {{summoner:2}}, the ability could give true sight for a certain amount of time. For summoner 13, the ability could be passive, granting increased resource regeneration (Energy, Mana).

5 Comments

kylerayner87/29/2014, 6:53:19 AM1 votes

CV was always a spell that I thought could be used to great effect (by better players than myself) if used correctly. Especially back in the days of Eleisa's Blessing and the summoner cooldown mastery, I loved to run heal/CV on support and try to get an early EB. With a 40s CD on CV, it could make entering unknown territory much safer. It wasn't necessarily optimal, but it was interesting, and with the premium on vision in high-level play, it would be an intriguing trade-off. Right now, its CD is probably a little high to make it worth it. In addition, blue trinket compounds this uselessness, as you pointed out.

Earl Eulrich7/29/2014, 10:09:00 AM1 votes

Yea, I think a buff to both would be appreciated...Truesight around the user for 5-10sec on Clairvoyance surely would help out a lot to increase it´s power - and i really don´t see that hardcountering CHamps like Akali if you trade the dmg of ignite for the ability to see through the stealth (you can buy that fr 100g to gank anyway).

For Clarity i also would love to see some passive reg-increase while it´s on CD (maybe even as an aura, like old manamanipulator).

Phoenix Kotori 7/29/2014, 6:06:28 PM1 votes

summoner 13 is suppose to be bad sadly, riot said it is solely in the game to help beginners and newbs who have poor mana management and isn't intend to be a viable thing in competitive/serious play.

{{summoner:2}} was problematic in S1 mostly because of how well a skilled support could effectively reduce any and all surprise factors of ganks to zero by constantly keeping an eye their jungler, which led to it's harsh nerfs in vision size, duration, and cooldown, and I think riot has been scared to buff or do much with it because of the problems and low counterplay power it showed during S1. I wouldn't be surprised if they just removed in S5 given that item 3342 is a thing now and doesn't offer the same early-mid game problems {{summoner:2}} has.