To be completely honest, Void Staff. I need my magic resist to survive poke and to initiate, but the magic pen from Void Staff is just too much.

I think Aegis of the Legion is too strong at the moment. In this game mode, you are more often 5 champions gathered than in the other game modes, and it's so cost effective when there are 5 champions around. 2150 gold paid for 5760 gold value. The upgrade, Bulwark, is 3200 gold for 7855.55 gold value.

What would happen if Doran's Ring and Doran's Blade were replaced with Prospector's Ring and Prospector's Blade?

Hurricane seems a bit nuts in PG games. The constant poking back and forth makes it very good, and on champions with super high range (Caitlyn, even Tristana) it can become quite a powerful tool.

The new Warmog's is quite powerful; however, no more powerful than allowing the old one with a FoN. Honestly, it just seems to propel the games into a faster pace if anything because instead of your tanks having to save up for multiple items before they can start tower dives and all in team fights, they can do it after a single item now. It's powerful but fits in well in a game where you're most likely joining in for a casual match to finish quickly.

I'd like to see Blade of the Ruined King added, however. It's relatively well balanced and ADC's are stuck with Kitae's Bloodrazor, which probably should have been removed with MBR because of the impractical magic damage.

Liandry's seems a bit powerful for the map though, especially with the amount of ranged poke that goes out from AP champions on this map. Dr. Mundo with a Liandry's hits you with a cleaver? Hope you have 2 healing relics available.

Runan's is strong, but you're sacrificing crit and damage to get it, so I'm ok with that trade off.

I don't mind warmogs.

Some of my friends say Bulwark is silly because it's so good it's a 'must buy' which effectively limits one players itemization. I don't see it that way. I think anyone who mains support likes getting items like that, even if they didn't random a support champ. It's also a nice balanced (gives 3 stats) defensive item for pretty much any melee. I think it should stay as is.

BoTRK should be implemented for sure. I see bruisers like Jarvan, mundo, and amumu that are indestructible late game while still doing insane damage b/c they have a % damage ability.

As a caveat for the Rioters that are dropping in and reading: it's very hard to get a good feel for item balance without matchmade queues (not saying "WTF riot were iz our queues???", just being real). I fought against a team that bought 3 early warmogs the other day, but we still won pretty easily. Because I'm usually in a premade with other friends that are like me (~gold elo, can play a huge pool of champs well), we are a bit shielded from some of the disadvantages many people have in arams.

Player skill is nerfed as a measure of success in ARAM, but in the long run, if you simulate 10,000 games of team 1700 elo versus team 1300 elo, the results will be pretty lopsided.

Also, I feel like new emblem of valor is really really good. Aegis/Bulwark are also really good, and interestingly they stack with emblem of valor.

HP5/level quintessences are probably very good too, but are so expensive and otherwise useless almost no summoner will have them.


Why is HP5 so good? Because unlike other maps, there's no secondary objectives, so a team with more sustain can much more easily just hang back conservatively and regenerate without losing anything.