The State of Rageblade

Hello, DrFreis here to talk about, or at least try to, the state which this season is apparently stuck in, Season 6: Age of Rageblade. has spiked up in popularity after it was reworked and received a small nerf, but still popular. Mostly to the champions that like use attack speed or those who use Sated Devourer. The problem that I find with Rageblade is that the build path seems a little odd for the type of passive it has. Basically, once you reach 8 stacks you start dealing AoE damage, both physical and magical. You also gain an increase of attack speed and ability power for each 1 stack you have, but why? Rageblade's build path is and + gold and boom you get a Rageblade. Which seems a little odd since both items only give AP or AD with no passive but once you combine those two you get a weapon that can suddenly do AoE damage once you have enough stacks. Not to mention that in order to do AoE damage you have to start attacking, which begs the question why do people buy this weapon? Well the increase AP, AS, and AD help, but again you have to attack in order to gain those buffs. AoE damage is nice especially when it also comes with magical damage, but once again in order to gain this buff you need max stacks. Any AD champ is better off building a or as you don't need to stack anything to receive any buffs from it, but you still have Yi or Xin building this item because it synergies so well with Sated Devourer, because you reach full stacks faster so waiting isn't a problem. But maybe that is the problem, the fact that melee champs reach the stack in 4 hits is why this item is a tad overpowered, as the power spike you receive from this weapon just from attacking is too much to handle.

So I'd like to suggest a new build path to Riot and by doing this let's look at the two aforementioned items and . Both items are great at what they do Ravenous for sustain and wave clear, Titanic for better split pushing, so why not a Hydra for team fights? A Raging Hydra if you will, but what items to you buy in order to buy this? The build path I purpose would be a 1,200 Gold + 875 Gold + 1050 Gold + 375 Gold = New Rageblade. However, the stats would change, +40 AD +30 AP +500 Mana +100% Health Regeneration. Change Gusainoo's Rage as it's Unique Passive probably nerfing the damage. Do away with the stacking and make it an active which gives you bonus AS, AD, and AP for 3 or 5 seconds.

I believe this would make Rageblade a little more balanced, give a build path that makes a little sense, and remove some of the damage. I believe this would come in handy for a hybrid type champ looking for a constant state of AoE and it would give ADC a Hydra type weapon as the other two are melee only. I'm not saying I'm an expert, but I have seen the damage this weapon can do.