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Item Idea for the assassin rework

Radiant Seraph·5/31/2016, 10:47:42 AM·1 votes·728 views

This is an idea I had for an item for the upcoming assassin rework that IMO could make balancing AD assassins much easier.

"Insert name here" +65 AD +250 Mana +10% Coodown Reduction Unique Passive: Spellblade: Using an ability empowers the next basic attack within 3 seconds, that deals 75% Base AD (+50% Bonus AD) bonus physical damage. It has mana because it would build out of sheen. Well, this item would be great for champions such as Talon or Zed, and RIOT would be able to balance them around this. Also it would be useful for Corki, who is weak ATM, and other Spellblade users such as Gangplank or Ezreal, who could see tweaks around the existence of this item.

If you think it is unbalanced tell me in what way and I would try my best to change it. Also, I accept suggestions for a name for the item.

8 Comments

FurriesAreHot5/31/2016, 10:57:14 AM2 votes

Balancing champion around an item is a horrific idea. It only makes nerfinh champions harder due to thier strong itemization. Also why would I build this item over something like Trinity Force? It just seems unnessasary and counter productive.

With love, Fowl (buy me a name change ;-;)

ModThe Djinn5/31/2016, 3:53:55 PM1 votes

There's an issue here in how Assassins tend to play: most of them burst down the target. Talon, Pantheon, Rengar, Zed, etc. tend to spam abilities in a very short window of time, making the Spellblade passive largely useless on them, as they'll likely only trigger it once before killing their target outright. They also often don't need mana or CDR for the same reason: a dead target doesn't need more spells sooner to finish it off.

If anything, this item is better on massive AD-scaling non-assassins with frequent ability use, like Bruiser Zed, Riven, Renekton, Jhin, Gangplank, and Fiora. Not sure that matches your intended goal.

PickpocketTwitch5/31/2016, 8:51:52 PM1 votes

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