Hey everyone, Lately I started playing a lot with champions that uses energy akali, lee sin, zed. The one thing I realized is that, in market there is no energy regen or +... energy items. For champions with energy, managing your energy gets really difficult. I even bought energy runes but it seems like, its not enough. It's just an idea and problem I was struggling with. Feel free to comment
Energy as a resource gates play differently than mana. Mana-gating rewards accuracy and harass, Energy-gating rewards proper comboing.
For example, mana champs have a large pool with a large number of possible spell casts at their disposal. Miss too much though, and you mana starts restricting after a while.
Energy champs, however, have a much smaller max pool before they start getting restricted, but it comes back very fast, which means a lot of damage in a small amount of time is the way to go with energy champs.
Try getting the combos down, and then be patient between combos. Going in without enough energy at the start will restrict in the middle of a combo and cause issues. Also, energy runes are just not worth it. It's not worth the hyper specialized rune page and other stats are far better for your game.
Every energy champion has a way to get energy back, partially or completely.
I think what you're describing is supposed to be the tradeoff for energy champs. Mana champs have a larger pool, but much less regeneration. Energy champs have enough regen that they'll never have to go back to base to refill their pool, but as a result, can't spam the same way mana champs can.
IMO, this is a good game design and balance decision (in contrast to resourceless champss)
Edit: as usual, Sir ArmaMalum said what I said, but better :P
Their resource regen (every energy champ has some way of getting it back) and whatnot is balanced to the point of not needing items. Someone who learns to manage their energy should never find themselves lacking.
BillBoss i understand your statement but mana is so much more efficient and more champions have mana then energy. Energy regens fast enough just keep walking away and your back to like 150 energy and playing akali, lee sin, zed your already have enough to use all three abilities.
Energy regen runes, I use those every once and a while.
