Hopefully Riot will notice. ...What am I saying, they won't. *sigh* And so another of my favourite champions was butchered.
I think that maybe it wouldn't be too much if they returned some sort of impact damage to the Equalizer. Idk, I miss the 'I-can-throw-a-giant-rocket-in-your-face-and-make-it-hurt' feel.
But he isn't an exactly good duelist. More often than not, you'll be at less than half your max. health because you were clearing the jungle. If you don't have your ult (and it's levels 1-9, so you have it a third of the time at best), you'll probably get killed, or be forced to burn flash to escape.
It also said in the article, and I quote, 'When you get BotRK, you're getting it for the passive and active, the AS just comes along for the ride.' End quote.
Where is Quinn? :c
This can be even worse. And if they report you for not using a champ you DON'T know how to use, that's just plain stupidness and toxicity.
"I don't know how to play X champion." "Pick it so they can't." You pick it. You feed. Your team reports you, and you're left feeling angry. That's all you get for not thinking it through.
Thanks for the contest! And nice way to get a metric ton of comments on this post. xD
Was the insult necessary?
Great post, Hashinshin. Well thought, with good reasoning, and explains properly. I think you're correct in most of your reasoning.
Okay, now, I wanted to talk a bit about jungle Elise.
Before some people start wailing at me that she's better in lane, and all that jazz, I'll just say that I already know it.
So. Personally, I think that to maximize your usefulness as a jungler, you have three paths: become a tanky burster (maybe AP/AS); get squishy, but become an assassin; or go simply as another support.
I prefer to go as a tanky burster, and, for that, I think that you need tankyness, AP, and maybe some AS.
The AP is obvious, as you're burst, but I prefer to get items where you get tankyness, and some AP as a bonus (Iceborn, Twin Shadows, Abyssal).
For AS, I usually choose either Zephyr or Wit's End, as both give you useful stats (Zephyr: MS and CDR, Wit's End: MR and on-hit damage), or even a Trinity, which ramps up the utility.
Tanky items are a must, and some auras can help too, but I prefer to not buy auras, as I'm supposed to fall in, kill someone, and get out.
My actual build as a tanky-burster: Spirit of the Ancient Golem, Sorc. Shoes + Furor/Homeguard, Twin Shadows, Iceborn Gauntlet, Wit's End, and Abyssal Scepter.
'Support' build: Spirit of the Ancient Golem, Boots of Mobility, Ruby Sightstone, Shard of True Ice, Iceborn, Warmog, and Abyssal.
And squishy as hell build: Sorc. Shoes + Furor, Spirit of the Spectral Wraith, Abyssal, DFG, Rabadon, and Void Staff. This is also very expensive.
I was thinking on maybe replacing the Spirit for a Wriggle's, and Iceborn for a Triforce, and, finally, Wit's End for the Frozen Heart (Glacial Shroud is just too good), which would leave me with a build like this: Wriggle's, Sorc. Shoes + F/HG, TwinS, Triforce, Frozen Heart, and Abyssal.
Any thoughts?
Iceborn is still useful, because you become 'AD' when you go into spider-form. Mostly, it's if you want an AoE that gives more damage (damage is damage, even if your base AD isn't the best), or a secure single target slow. People mostly don't use Human-W to proc Rylai, and also you can proc Iceborn easier.
It's a matter of preferences, mostly.
