Change Wit's End to help ADCs come back

RivetAce·1/13/2017, 4:36:55 AM·1 votes·918 views

Let's face it, 98% of the time you're building magic resistance to avoid getting popped. item 3091 has to stack up part of its magic resistance, so it's not that useful for that job. It also doesn't scale well. It also doesn't help burst magic damage since you have to stack up the reduction. It's outshone by item 3156 and item 3139 for attack-focused champions, and item 3001 for magic damage champions.

It's one of the least-purchased full items in the game. What if it was reworked into something that helps ADCs powerspike at 2 items again? Just swap out the cloak for another cloak, and tweak the passive a bit. Take a look:


item 3637 item 3091 item 3637 item 1043 item 1018 item 1042 Cost: 2600g

40% Attack Speed 30% Critical Strike Chance Unique Passive: Basic attacks apply a bleed that deals 20 (+50% bonus AD) magic damage over 1 second (10 (+25% bonus AD) every .5s).


It's 84.6% gold-efficient without the passive, in case you thought it seemed OP. A BF Sword would bring it to the DPS of the current Wit's End with 1.0 AS.

The stats make it unattractive for fighters, and it could be made ranged only if need be. The passive counters armor in general but also counters item 3047 since it's a bleed. And the tradeoff over a item 3086 upgrade is no movement speed.

The reason it would be good would be to give ADCs a 2-item powerspike that scales into late game, but not so much as to make it a "must have" item. It gives ADCs an option to deal with fed tanks/bruisers, but it doesn't provide a big powerspike without some AD to back it up, so it won't break laning phase. It doesn't slow down an ADC's critical strike buildpath, so it wouldn't change the meta much, unlike how armor pen did.

In case you're wondering how similar it would be to item 3087, here are the differences. Shiv is bought for burst and for waveclear. Wit's End would be bought for DPS.


Let me know what you think! Of course the numbers could be tweaked. And let me know if there's any champion this could be broken on.

5 Comments

Big Lincoln1/13/2017, 4:40:58 AM2 votes

fuck no, wit's end is for fighters

stop trying to steal more of our items, you already ruined item 3053

ReZisT Lust1/14/2017, 9:52:16 AM1 votes

item 3026 item 3091