The first carousel is quite bad in itself (very little strategy, tons of caos), but the spatula make it 100 times worse. That item is just too good to be part of the 1st draft, and there is little to no skill involved in taking it: you just run for it asap and u pray; and if you get it you get way too much of an unfair advantage.
Solution:make first minion wave slightly harder. Boom. Now taking spatula carries risk because you might shoot yourself in the foot by failing to kill every minion because you took an item that isn't useful by itself.
Personally id prefer to see spatula removed from drops and caros, and instead you auto get 2 to use. One after krugs, the other after drag or something similar.
But as is, spatula is too weak really. Requires heavy investment to get anything of use out of it and stars need to kinda align. The big brain play of finding sorc cho is fun is great, but requires 2 specific items to make him a sorc then more items to give him AP and a full comp around him.
