Item concept to help melee top-laners survive vs ranged spellcasters
Lately I'm seeing all sorts of ranged champions in the top lane continually being oppressive imo and making the lane generally un-fun. I feel like i found a potential healthy way to help out our melee top laners survive vs these abusive champions. If we just nerfed all those champions E.G. viktor, cass, kennen, teemo, I dont think it would be a healthy way of dealing with it. Instead I'd like to propose a small item that could make it a bit easier to lane against these types of champions effectively,
Null Magic Mantle = 25MR - 450g Rejuvenation Bead = 50% base health regen - 150g Combine cost - 300g
Mirror Cloak (melee Only) 900g total 30 MR 50% base health regen Unique Passive - blocks 10-30 (based on lvl) ranged spell damage and reflects the damage blocked back to the attacker as adaptive dmg.
This would help you survive the laning phase as a melee vs a ranged caster a bit better. And the small amount of reflected dmg is so they dont easily harass you for free. The dmg is negligible at best but its something. Keeping it melee only means mages cant easily abuse it in the mid lane and keeping it strictly defensive means its not ideal for assasins either. Finally i felt like it shouldn't have a a tier 3 upgrade path. I chose to do this because I feel like it should be an item that helps you through the laning phase, not an item that leads into something that helps you through mid/late game teamfights. Its an investment to survive the laning base a bit easier only. Any thoughts? maybe balance tweaks, or if you think it should have an upgrade or not please comment below.
