Item effect concept: The opposite of Spellblade

Elite4Runner··1 votes·461 views

I'm sure most, if not all of you know what Spellblade is.

Using an ability empowers your next basic attack with bonus damage on-hit.

What if there was an item that basically did the opposite?

Attacking with this item applies a mark to the target, then activating an ability will consume the mark for extra damage and/or an additional spell effect.

There could be several tweaks made to this for balance.

  • The mark could only apply to the last target struck with a basic attack

  • The mark could only be applied to champions and epic monsters, maybe include large monsters and pets.

  • The mark could only be consumed if that target receives damage from an ability. -- This could even be triggered by allied abilities, making this kind of interaction be useful between ADC and Supports

This is really just an idea for a passive that could be placed with an item. I haven't come up with an item and/or the actual effect yet.

Feel free to share some of your ideas for this, and feel free to use this idea for yourself.

If you do use this passive for your own item, it would be cool if you could link the post here.

3 Comments

CrimsonCobra31 votes

There are abilities like this (varus) but the main thing for me is that I'm not so sure this would really be treated too differently. You still want abilities you can spam, and so, at the end of the day, I believe that such an item would mostly be picked up alongside spellblade, not instead of.

Elite4Runner1 votes

The fact that there are champions who have abilities that essentially do this shouldn't prevent this from being potentially viable. If this is a valid argument, then Spellblade shouldn't exist in it's current form because there are plenty of champions who have abilities that empower their next basic attack(s)

Blitzcrank Camille Chogath Draven Ekko Elise Evelynn Fiora Fizz Gangplank Garen Gragas Illaoi Irelia Jax Jayce Jinx Kassadin Kayle Khazix KogMaw LeeSin Leona Malphite MasterYi MissFortune Mordekaiser Nami Nasus Nidalee Olaf RekSai Renekton Rengar Riven Rumble Shen Shyvana Sivir Skarner Talon Taric Tristana TwistedFate Udyr Viktor Volibear MonkeyKing Xayah XinZhao Yorick

I might have missed a few, and might have even been a little lenient on allowing some of these to qualify, .. but as you can see, it isn't an uncommon principal.

I will agree that this would most likely encourage people to purchase both items together though, and that could actually be more of a problem.

CrimsonCobra31 votes

Ah, I didn't realize that I didn't finish that thought. I started by saying that there were abilities like that, and I was going to make a comparison with Varus in order to describe your concept, but it seems I just gave up in the middle and made my actual point. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I was going with that.

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