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Stormsurge feels so toxic to play against because it just adds an extra 40-50% damage to burst champs. Even if they miss part of their combo, AP is still high enough that even just hitting 1 ability it tends to be enough to trigger Stormsurge. It already has the same bonus gold passive that collector has, just make it so that it executes under 5% HP, just like collector.

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10 months ago - /u/RiotRayYonggi - Direct link

It deals 100-200 base +20% AP. At around 300 AP this is less than 250 damage, which is significantly short of another 40-50% damage for a burst champion, and is very similar to the average output of many, many other items in one fight. Stormsurge may have shipped pretty overtuned but you may want to observe its average output in a fight on the newer, nerfed version.