Making the adc capstones into mythics seems fine to me but what champs that currently build galeforce are going to still buy galeforce when they have to choose between it and IE/QB? Unless theyre reworking Gale to also function as a capstone item I cant really see it being built very often.
Galeforce has significant changes in place to ensure that it still has a place in the system.
Annoyed they only barely mentioned fighters/brusiers itemization. I can name 4 champs I've seen use trinity force or stridebreaker this season. 3 if you don't count Ezreal lmao. It's always either divine Sunderer or lethality. And of the new lethality turns out to be bad for top laners it's just gonna be divine Sunderer 24/7. Maybe a tank mythic if you're "lucky".
Looking at straight buffs to Sterak's Gage, Goredrinker, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker, and possibly something for Hullbreaker. Those will be direct buffs to existing mechanics - not really what this article is about.
Bit off topic, but I still somewhat hope they return to experimenting with items on ARAM.. just throw some wacky ideas out there and see what could maybe work
No better testing ground than it
ARAM players don't deviate from the Summoner's Rift item set often enough to yield much data, even when the ARAM items are grossly OP, unfortunately. They'll play alt builds using SR items at a very high rate, but ARAM-only items are apparently a really tough sell to that audience.
I'd still like to do some more of it someday, but its hard to prioritize something we know won't impact the experience very much.
will rek sai be look into her kit since the prowler claw has the dash removed?
Yes, with a goal to ship alongside the item changes. There's some risk that the patch date slips still, but we understand that she needs it.
But what about divine sunderer. The item breaks toplane.
We're considering a nerf or change, but I'm not willing to net nerf Fighters in top lane at this time so preferring a buff-the-competition approach.
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Discussing what we can do there. We're taking a look at Maw of Malmortius and Force of Nature degree of hardcountering, and one of the motivations for moving Shieldbow out of the Mythic space was that a rushable AD + Lifesteal + anti-burst item on Irelia, Yasuo, etc has really dramatic repercussions on how Mages feel to play in mid lane. But this isn't the same as feeling like your own items are more fun or more balanced. Mages are harder to do simple numbers tuning on, because there's such a gap in their solo queue vs pro play performance - in pro they're already the top of the meta. So, we're looking into it, but there's no guarantee of a direct item change to Mage items at midseason.
Just curious, are there any other items that are getting substantial changes that weren't mentioned in the article? Not asking for specifics on which ones did, just wanted to know if there's going to be anything else for maybe some other legendary items (Like stormrazor, bt or others)
Lots - should be on PBE soon. Stormrazor and Bloodthirster both have significant changes.
STATIKK SHIV IS BACK LETS GOOOOOOO
Kayle finally having a mythic too
Very excited for that :)
Whats the most arousing sentence you’ve ever heard and why is it ‘Statikk Shiv is coming back’
You're welcome :)
I hope the Rageblade mythic changes will be like old Rageblade. Especially having crits again. As in not having that on hit converted Crit thing that it has.
Long-term it's better if Rageblade doesn't turn off critical strikes but that requires having meaningful crit tie-ins that make on-hit users feel good about it.
Testing without the conversion, Rageblade users felt like half of the marksmen items no longer worked for them since they didn't tend to have much AD to crit with.
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