Seriously, title says it all, but it annoying and a bit broken for items on champions that aren't on the board, but on the bench, for their items to still activate. Had an opponent who had kindred with ionic spark sitting on their bench but their ionic spark was still activating and damaging my champions when they used abilities. If riot doesn't fix this, then might as well use it. It's complete bs, imo.
Stray Kat1 votesI mean, while it should be fixed.. There's basically no reason to ever do it. You're not getting the stats from the item, and your champs aren't all fully equipped - The item would be much better used on a character actually on the board.
Yes, it's a bugged mechanic that deserves a fix. Unfair advantage though? Not particularly - They're losing out on stats by doing it. The only advantage it offers is that the champion with the item can't be killed, meaning it's always in play - But putting it on your "Safest"/Least likely to die champion would serve basically the same purpose, while still offering the stats from the item.
iainB852 votesThe flip side of this to me is when an item you need happens to be the last combination of a champion on your bench.
You don't want to sell that champion to take away from getting to 3 star and/or just flat out lose on gold potential, but you have no real other options because the game gives you no choice.
At least when the item still does something on the bench you don't get totally screwed over by the mechanic, while it's certainly still sub optimal.
Stray Kat1 votesI suppose that's a valid point. If I'm sitting on a 2* Lulu on the board, another on the bench and I grab a Lulu from the carousel with a Rod it MIGHT be worth it to throw a cloak in with it just so the item isn't rotting on Lulu until I get those last two. Fringe case, but it does have it's purposes.
Should get fixed either way, I just don't see it being a problem of people intentionally doing it often, simply because it would gimp them more than help them in the average situation.
