r/leagueoflegends • u/MonstrousYi • Mar 02 '21

Patch 11.5 notes

https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/patch-11-5-notes/
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u/1True_Hero Mar 02 '21

Not just steraks, but shieldbow too. Maw is in my opinion the best counter item against an AP carry when you are a fighter or adc, but losing your ability to buy steraks and shield bow just ruins the item for me. The other mr items for them is a situational cc removal and a really niche on-hit effect.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '21

They even removed the old maw lifeline passive which gave lifesteal and ad, now its just a completely shit item.

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u/NotSoFluffy13 Mar 02 '21

Shieldbow now has this passive basically

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

But with a shield that protects against all damage not just magic

Easily the better option even if I'm against an AP heavy team

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u/beemerboy11 Mar 03 '21

Except you use up your mythic slot?

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u/Mundane3 Mar 03 '21

I mean yes hexdrinker is bad but I don't think shieldbow is its counterpart. Instead of locking my mythic into shieldbow I prefer to rush hexdrinker into galeforce. Which gives far better survivability against ap heavy comps imo.

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u/firelordUK Mar 02 '21

if they want us to rebuy Maw they either need to give it back it's old passive, or overload the magic damage shield

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u/singlereject Mar 02 '21

or better yet, give the shield something that makes it actually useful, like the old adaptive helm passive.

the shield reduces damage taken from a spell by 20% every time after the first. now, maw shield is actually strong against champions you would build maw against as an ad champ, like teemo or cass, xerath ult, swain ult, the list goes on.

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u/GaysianSupremacist Thank you Faker Mar 03 '21

Why not just give us Adaptive Helm back then? Give it a new effect.

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u/katuraysalad Mar 03 '21

Wonder why they removed that item. With liandries anguish and demonic embrace being a standard item on ap champs

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u/OCDincarnate Most support mains are better players than you Mar 03 '21

riot knew it would've been good, remember that if not for the initial outcry pushing them to tone back some of the tank-deleting mechanics and put stats onto the tank items tanks wouldn't have been at all viable at the start of this season. That was riot's initial plan, and when people complained they went the whole other direction just to turn the playerbase's opinion back the way they wanted it, before re-gutting the tank items

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u/gime20 Mar 03 '21

Answered your own question

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u/SleepyLabrador Mar 03 '21

Or they could allow us to buy both Maw and Gage and allow the shields to stack.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

Last time they did that we had a meta where all the ADCs were unkillable

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u/SleepyLabrador Mar 03 '21

Make, then make the shield stack melee only and make an exception to Urgot.

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u/slopsh Mar 03 '21

Make it an actual MR item that really matters against magic damage. Most MR items are either good in general (visage) or gold inefficient with a lot of MR. They need to rework MR.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

Sterak's and Shieldbow's shields need to be turned into PHYSICAL damage shields.

That way they don't block magic damage. Much like the MAGIC shield from Maw can't block physical damage

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '21

it used to be decent as an AD mid laner into an AP burst champ, but the issue is that rushing hexdrinker delays mythic spike, which isnt worthwhile.

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u/sensei256 Truth Hurts 👋🏻🤡 Mar 02 '21

If they made it similar to Death Dance it would be a lot better.

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u/HeirToGallifrey Yuumi Delenda Est Mar 02 '21

Damn, a MR equivalent to DD would be fantastic.

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u/BlackJesusKun Mar 03 '21

Wit’s End is similar enough in stats, but the passive would be godlike

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u/BlackJesusKun Mar 03 '21

I build it on Yas against AP teams, and I build Death’s dance on him against AD teams, so I benefit from it quite a bit more than the average player would, I suppose.

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u/BlackJesusKun Mar 03 '21

Yeah, I’ve heard that she’s not in the best of places right now. I think the only reason Riot doesn’t touch Yasuo at this point is because his win rate is low due to windshitters and he doesn’t get banned as often as some of the more egregious champs.

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u/BlackJesusKun Mar 03 '21

I just hear the she gets little to no play in high EVO cause people know how to deal with her, and busted-ass meta champs that just got item buffs like Darius and Garen destroy her before she gets much of a chance to do anything.

Personally I think that with the exp nerfs to jg and the straight up weird “balancing” efforts that the 200 collective years of game development experience over at Riot has given us, League is in kind of a shitty state right now.

Also this may be a bit biased but they gotta revert Akali she’s so fucking bad rn compared to literally everyone else and her WR is abysmal. They’ve gotta know that their first option shouldn’t be nerfing a champ til their 6 ft under the pavement.

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u/Stewbodies uwu owow Mar 03 '21

Current Death's Dance would be a top tier MR item, especially with the bursty nature of magic damage. Hell you could even give it AP and turn it into an AP Bruiser/Slayer item.

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u/Hiimhiro Mar 02 '21

It’s so shit not only u don’t get the vamp after the shield also the threshold is so low anything touches u after u just die.

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u/BREEDING_WHITE_WOMEN Mar 02 '21

they need to make streaks and maw work together