[Item Rework] Changing Last Whisper's and Void Staff's Passive

BattleOoze·3/24/2014, 12:48:40 AM·1 votes·896 views

item 3035 plays an important part for Melee Carries, Ranged Carries and Assassins. It basically bypasses over 35% of the target's armor for the people who stack armor. As much as its a good item I think it is somewhat toxic because it negates its own purpose as an item. If you take a look at item 3153 its good against people who stack health and good for sticking to targets and kiting. It does CURRENT % health bonus physical damage. I think it's completely balanced and lives up to its meaning as an item and effects everyone differently. Where as item 3035 basically penetrates all targets for massive damage bonus rather than Armor stacking targets. Why would you ever buy a item 3035 against a non armor stacking team? People are just buying it now to do overall more damage to all targets rather than getting it for tanks. I mean item 3153 isn't good vs low health targets. I think item 3035 should be like Yasuo's ult passive where it only affects the target's runes, masteries, and items. So it wont do excessive damage towards non stacking targets while it will still hurt armor stacking targets. item 3135 should also work the same way. Any thoughts?

4 Comments

Deathbywafflez13/24/2014, 3:03:01 AM1 votes

Personally, i think the items are fine how they are. While their goal is to assist with tanks stacking armor and MR, and the argument could be made that it is being misused, to put one in your inventory is giving up MANY more damage possibilities that you could have done better with. Even against non stacking opponents, 40 damage or 70 AP + pen is not nearly as devastating as, say, a item 3089 or a item 3074. I suppose its a good thought, but i would rather Riot use the time it would take to make this change doing something else.

Michicha3/24/2014, 11:59:05 PM1 votes

Riot already said this is what they wanted to do with these items, and even mentioned that if Yasuo's ult penetration worked as hoped, they would then implement the BONUS armor pen to the LW as well. Same goes for Void staff, these two items have been heavily discussed on the forums and internally.

Knight Devout3/27/2014, 5:57:46 PM1 votes

I think that a change like this would be dandy. After that, they can also reduce a little the recipe cost for LW and VS.