A tank item that has a spammable activatable that reduces the next damage by half

Critkeeper·4/27/2014, 10:12:26 PM·1 votes·106 views

We have interesting items like hydra and sword of the divine and death fire grasp for damage, why not a tanky item that gives an interesting active rather than just a "huge ball of stats"?

Whether it be an ability or an auto attack, within 1 second.

By spammable I mean like every 3 seconds.

It wouldn't grant any other REALLY tank stats, but it would give some though it wouldn't be gold efficient without the unique active. Most of the value lies in the active.

3 Comments

the Anarchit3cht4/28/2014, 5:18:41 AM1 votes

i think that would be too strong, but iirc Riot has experimented with things like this. A sister item to item 3141 and item 3041 used to exist for tanks called Leviathan's plate or something like that, but it was weaker than Warmogs and buffing it up would have made it too strong, I guess. That being said, given the fact that most tanky items add both resistances AND health, I think it balances out. item 3083 Warmogs is purely health with an already strong passive effect that I'd say puts it in league with items like DFG.

Angry Monster4/28/2014, 6:03:55 AM1 votes

I would not say that item 3131 is interesting. Its so interesting it is almost never used.

Your request is so vague for interesting effect... Do you want movement, attack, regen, shield? Anything you put on it for real tanks will be more effective for the off tanks.

Hyrum Graff4/28/2014, 9:02:38 AM1 votes

What about this: It's an item that gives HP, AR, MR. Active: gives a speed boost (to allies only?) and reduces incoming damage by X for Y seconds (x=0.5, y=0.5), has a Z second cooldown that is reduced by N whenever you take damage (Z=6, N=1).

This way, if you're getting focused you get to spam the active, but not spam it if you're being ignored. For an off-tank, it won't really be worth it to subtract from your damage to build this item. However, as a tank it would be great.