A few questions about Essence Reaver (it and ardent censor need icons):
How does it interact with items and skills that affect basic attacks? For example does bork's passive work? What about the Spellblade passive? Critical hits? Hydra's AoE? Hurricane's bolts?
Then you've got things like Orianna's passive, MF's W, a few of Jax's skills, Yi's E, Irelia's W, Janna's Shield, and Nasus' Q which also do things to your auto attacks.
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RiotPhreak3 votesIt works exactly like Lifesteal would work:
I'm actually unsure about Ravenous Hydra. I could see it either way, but I am guessing it would not vamp anything from the splash damage, either passive or active.
Linna Excel1 votesOkay, it working like lifesteal seems fair as an effect.
Thank you for answering Phreak.
Jamener1 votesOh! Could this be a great item for Ezreal maybe? What other champions did you have in mind when designing this item?
Linna Excel1 votesEzreal is okay with the item. Some people are trying blue build again with him with ER replacing elder lizard.
It's good on Ashe, Sivir, and maybe Varus for ADCs. I need to try it on MF who I think would like it. Vayne might like it only if it helps her Q more. Caits like to get it if they get hurricane so they can Q more as well.
Poppy likes it, and I think Jax, top Vi, and Irelia would too. It'd probably be good on a top champ who needs to lane against a manaless champ.
It's also a good item for AD casters: CDR on AD champs is hard to build for. This, 5% mastery, black cleaver, and Ionian boots means you've got 40%.
Linna Excel2 votesOkay, I just did a test and it appears to work with hurricane. This is interesting.
Cosmic Warper1 votesAlthough it's severely cost inefficient mid-late game and basically a noob trap, it may be good on ezreal since his Q applies it. It applies similarly to lifesteal and works with on-hit effects i believe.
NinjaFifer1 votesThe only person I see it being in any way decent on is Yi, since his Q is 100 mana each. With this, he could split push even harder without going OOM. That's about it though. Otherwise, a very lackluster item. Give it a minor item with that passive, building into Essence Reaver, sure. As was pointed out by a previous poster, though, is that you need mana regen early game, but by mid-late, most every champion just stops having mana issues.
Linna Excel2 votesThe cost is fine, the issue with the item is not everyone needs it and some people who could use it have other priorities.
It's not a noob-trab, it's situational.