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A talk about hybrid champions and items

Moesnd·3/15/2016, 1:25:00 AM·3 votes·530 views

So i personally feel like hybrid champions and items are lacking. I REALLY REALLY love hybrid, but it seems to me that it is overshadowed and needs some love. In my eyes there is only one true hybrid champion and that is Jax . Right now Jax builds item 3124 and sometimes item 3146. But even Jax isn't always a real hybrid champion like how he used to build item 3078 and item 3153 for his damage (although those are still both viable items on him). Other champions are "hybrid" but not the same as Jax . Champions like Shyvana and Corki do very much mixed damage, but they do not usually build hybrid items. They only DEAL hybrid damage. Other champions like Kayle and Teemo can build hybrid, but generally they only get ap and attack speed. Champions like Akali and Mordekaiser (Mordekaiser especially i wish could be changed to be more of a hybrid sap tank that builds item 3146 along with some more ad and ap and just is unkillable through healing and shields)w also can build item 3146 , but again they build mostly ap. These champions are generally not TRUE hybrids. I think it would be nice to give hybrids some love because this is my favorite type of build along with ad bruisers. A new hybrid item and/or champion would be nice. A concept for an item active or champion ability would be that on activation, your next (x) basic attacks or even spells deal bonus damage equivalent on the lower number between (these are just example numbers [75% ap and 100% ad]). I would also like to talk about item 3124 balancing. As much as i love item 3124 , i will admit its a bit overpowered. Some of my ideas for balancing are reducing the base ad and bonus ad and adding ap to the item in return to make it more niche towards hybrids and less of an abused item by high attack speed ad champions like MasterYi . Another fix would be to instead of making melee champions receive 2 stacks per auto, give it separate stacking. Making it give more stats per attack, but capping out at 6 attacks is what i feel a good balance between current and commonly proposed idea to make it take 8 stacks to get to full just like ranged champions.

How do you guys feel about hybrid champions and items and what do you think of my proposed changes?

4 Comments

Captain Astora3/15/2016, 8:27:00 AM1 votes

I used to Build item 3158item 3042 item 3027 item 3027 item 3040item 3027 on Sivir and watch the Q's Fly

MrXonte3/15/2016, 11:07:12 AM1 votes

the problem with hybrid is that often times its just much more efficient to focus on one stat. for example if all your stats have 50% ap and ad scaling you have a nice setup for playing hybrid, but full ad and full ap will both be more efficient usually since full ap is more ability damage and full ad gives you lower ability damage but better basic attack damage. A way to resolve this would be to make hybrid items give special effects that are only good on hybrid builds and reduce overall ability scaling on those champs. rageblade is already pretty nice, but imagine an item that deals a flat amount of damage scaling with your ad but gets increased by a % for you ap. that way neither full ap nor full ad would be all that effective and it would be great on hybrid champs. at least thats how i see it^^