Sterak's Gage and Titanic Hydra - Who Will Be The Successful Users of These Items?
With patch 5.16 on the horizon, i feel a bit of theory crafting is in order. Who are going to be the ones to gain the most from these new items and why?
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Its pretty easy to visualize who will be gaining benefits from Titanic Hydra. Does it do them well to basic attack? Yes. Do they build Tank? Yes. Then they can use it. The exceptional, Top 5 users of it to me are:
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Sion Was it any surprise? An AD Tank who has infinite health. Activate Titanic Hydra active will be dealing upwards of 500+ damage in a cone late game and then giving Sion 70+ damage on normal basic attacks PLUS 155+ damage in a cone. Then he gains health and attack damage from the item and Sion usually is limited for good AD items he can have. Just infinite health gives Sion a new infinite stat... basic attack damage.
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Shen Shen has a lot of health scaling, gaining damage and sustain from building health. Now he is gaining more damage from health and extremely buffing his role as Split Pushing Tank. Not to mention the stupid amounts of burst damage a Ki Strike + Titanic Hydta active can give. Everything Shen does now is directly buffed by Titanic Hydra.
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Darius New Darius is going to build almost full tank, no doubt. The 200 free AD for getting five stacks is not to underestimated. None the less, Titanic Hydra gives him damage for building Tank so he gets probably a lot of benefits from all the free damage he will be getting from his passive and this item.
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Renekton This one is simple. Renekton is balanced around a stupidly good early game. Now he can also have a good late game due to health scaling. Basically, Renekton can now be good at all stages of the game. Thats scary just to think about, especially considering his W now deals a ton of AoE burst damage as well.
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Tahm Kench Im talking Top Kench. Tahm Kench already gets tons of health scaling per attack. Now we give him more and he gets AoE damage on top. He basic attacks a lot in Top Lane so this is also getting a lot of use. Not to mention he now has wave clear without using Devour. It's just a huge buff to his already high damage, particually late game.
Sterak's Gage is also a simple one. Who builds Trinity Force? No explanations for this Top 5 needed. Lots of extra burst!
sion voli
AA-based bruisers will like titanic hydra
i think 
could stand to buy it
Volibear definitely, then probably Mundo with his fuckload of health.