A Quicksilver Sash Finished Item for Tanks

A little background info: Quicksilver Sash (QSS) is a very useful item for marksmen (adcs) because it removes all crowd control (CC) effects, which prevents this very squishy class of champions from being useless if their teammates don’t/can’t peel for them. QSS can be upgraded into Mercurial Scimitar ( ), which gives attack damage, life steal, and magic resistance.

Champion classes that don’t really need QSS: Even though Mercurial Scimitar’s attributes are viable on some slayers/assassins and fighters, the QSS active is often nonessential due to their kits/stats. In other words, many of them do not need CC removal because they have mobility and/or escape or defensive abilities that make CC avoidable or less of a threat.

QSS is unnecessary for mages because one of their most popular summoner spells, Cleanse, removes most CC. In addition, most of them can prevent or buffer CC against them with their own CC.

Ranged controllers (ranged supports) also don’t need QSS because there is already a viable item for them that removes most CC (Mikael's Crucible ).

Reasoning behind my idea: Nevertheless, there is a class of champions besides adcs that need QSS: tanks. QSS is already sometimes built on tanky supports, such as , , , even at the pro level in eSports. However, it isn't upgraded into Mercurial Scimitar because the attributes are basically useless on them. Tanks also can’t avoid or prevent CC as well as slayers, fighters, and mages. In addition, Mikael's Crucible’s attributes are not very suitable on them and since most tanky champions are either top lane, support, or jungle, cleanse is not the most optimal summoner spell for them.

My idea: I suggest that QSS be used to build a new item for tanks… maybe something like this:

Mercurial Targe +350 health +40 magic resistance +10% cooldown reduction UNIQUE Passive: Gain 7% movement speed towards allies (does not stack). UNIQUE Passive: If 3+ enemy champions are nearby, grants +20% tenacity. UNIQUE Active– QUICKSILVER: Removes all crowd control debuffs from your champion and grants +50% movement speed for 1 second (90 second cooldown). Recipe: + Cost: 2600 gold