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Boots of Mobility feel super weak now.

Creator: Cooper112 March 1, 2014 9:21pm
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After playing a few games, the change is hard to notice, but I can already feel the effects.

For supports, the decrease in gold makes it a much more appealing item, and considering that if you already some base mobility such as Wanderer or Janna's [W] passive, you become really fast in between fights. Outside of that, being attacked as a support usually means that you're supposed to tank some damage anyway ( Thresh/ Leona), or that your team is already gone and you had no chance in the first place. ( Janna/ Soraka)

For junglers, it really hurts because sticking to targets has become near impossible, indirectly nerfing ganks and your effectiveness in teamfights. Getting the Furor enchantment is the only way to counteract this, but we well know that getting it is risky at best.
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Mobi boots should be sold late-game now and have no place outside the jungle imo. I think that they still are really solid for junglers who have gap-closers and decent sticking power such as J4 and Lee.
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Getting the Furor enchantment is the only way to counteract this, but we well know that getting it is risky at best.

if you're trying to get an enchantment to given Mobility Boots better MS in combat, getting Enchantment: Alacrity makes it nearly equivalent to normal boots 2 (40 as opposed to 45)...but I see no point, either way.

better to just not buy them unless you have the gap-closing capability to utilize them.
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DillButt64 wrote:

cooper56=Cooper112?

also obviously they feel weak it was a nerf to them, they give no combat stats because they give out of combat stats, plus it always felt terrible having a leo/thresh initiate from miles away with coin active and mobi boots, and still have MS to do other things

deserved nerf for supports, i feel like junglers got it worse than supports

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Any way i still think item is trash but maybe im wrong i just dont like play style it offers its cdr and armor for me.
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if you're trying to get an enchantment to given Mobility Boots better MS in combat, getting Enchantment: Alacrity makes it nearly equivalent to normal boots 2 (40 as opposed to 45)...but I see no point, either way.

better to just not buy them unless you have the gap-closing capability to utilize them.


Sadly, both enchantments are inferior to Distortion and Homeguard.
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having a plain mobi2 boots while in combat was already somewhat of a tradeoff, since it would give you nothing extra (Mpen, CDR, armor, tenacity), so i felt this was a silly modification ever since it came onto PBE.


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Impact of this change:

Ganks are not as effective. The 5 secs mean you lose 100 movement total when chasing. If the enemy has a ranged ability, they can extend the 5 secs, making you lose more than 100 movement.
You can't catch the enemy, you just keep on running after them at the same speed.
So either it's a pounce and instant kill, or it's not a kill at all.
If the enemy uses Flash or any kind of slow, just turn around and go do something else, cause now there's no way you're going to make the gank work.


Escaping from fights have become harder. Infinitely harder.
Champions with untargetted gap closers, such as Nidalee and Riven can chase and kill without too much trouble.
Champions with ranged abilities can just keep on poking, keeping the boots on CD and kill you ever so slowly while you try to run.


I'm still pairing them with Triforce, to get the massive out of combat movement, but where I used to jump in, do dmg and escape, I'm now forced to jump in, do massive dmg and kill as many people before I die. Because escaping isn't possible anymore.
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Mobi boots are still OK really. They're dirt cheap now and give a huge amount of movement speed outside combat which is great for ganking junglers and supports. The ability to create picks with the extra movement speed is still existent which is all that matters really.
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If you cant gapclose onto someone in order to gank, you're probably Shyvana or Mundo in this meta.
Which come to think of it is probably the point of the nerf, but they build so tanky anyway that "do damage until you die" is what they did in the first place. Not that ganking without solid CC or a gapcloser is reliable anyway.

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Rengar bonetooth necklace 6 stacks (9 is good for a larger gap closer) and Mobility Boots hue
Also one of the most cost efficient items in the game, lv 18 41 AD+ bonus stats from stacks if you gank properly or kill people alone

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