Anti-shield item: Diamond Tipped Arrow

Baron Barian·1/18/2018, 4:56:18 AM·3 votes·382 views

I thought about this after considering the current complaints with all of the shielding ADCs have been using lately. Still, this might be something neat. Heroes of the Storm has similar effects.

**Diamond Dipped Arrow ** Recipe: Last Whisper + Pickaxe +425 gold. 2600 gold total.

+50 attack damage. Passive-Last Whisper: +35% bonus armor penetration. Active- Shield Breaker: Fires an arrow to the first enemy champion hit, dealing 100 physical damage, or damage equal the active normal shield, whichever is higher, and cannot gain new shields for 3 seconds. (90 second cooldown).

Don't know if it's too strong, too weak, or if it just needs a tweak. It's just meant to be a general idea.

6 Comments

The Goodest Boy1/18/2018, 7:21:22 AM1 votes

A good concept, but I'd recommend tweaking the active so it's more like "deals damage equal to the highest value shield on the target it hits, then prevents shielding for 3 second's after"

Your intention seems to be to have the active destroy the shield fully, for that purpose I think the above active works better. You could also have it apply "shield weakness" instead, reducing shields by 40% or so for 3 seconds.

Just my ideas, but an item like this is desperately needed right now :(

Also, out of curiosity, where is something like this found in HOTS?

LiL Bunnie FuFuu1/18/2018, 7:42:48 PM1 votes

Creative idea but I'm not a fan of it. This would make shields you get from Face of the Mountain or Locket pretty worthless in a teamfight. As a [[Thresh]] main I'd have a much harder time saving my teammates in teamfights when having to deal with an active that obliterates any shield I give and then keeps me from shielding for the rest of the fight (3 seconds is a long time in a teamfight).

I'd suggest making the active significantly less powerful by removing the shield delay so adcs don't get popped like a balloon because of one active.

ChompyWulf1/19/2018, 7:22:42 PM1 votes

I'm not going to comment on the active, but instead on the base item and build.

Lethality has been a mess and those two items really should be Melee only. Meanwhile, Marksmen would need another item. There should be another Armor Pen item other than Last Whisper and a new Arrow item with a couple build options would be cool.