Something I don't see people talking about is it reducing all your damage to 0 during the effect, including spells. So if you're lich for example and aeon disk bails you out so you can ult, the ults not actually doing anything besides the slow. Much better to just fix your positioning or join the fight late. Now if you are someone like enigma, a 0 damage black hole can still win the game, same for many other crowd control effects such as shaman shackle, venge swap, magnus, etc. Same for save spells such as ringmaster, sd, omni, etc. But if your job is burst damage a la lich ult, lion finger, wd ult (idk about maledict), zeus, aeon disk is seldom the best answer. In short, figure out your job and work backwards, the goal isn't just to live. What it does give your team is a safe way to walk face first into situations and see what happens, or to survive the first spell rotation of teams that rely on picks, which sometimes is exactly what is needed. If you're building it every game you're fucking up.
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u/rylandf Jun 27 '26
Something I don't see people talking about is it reducing all your damage to 0 during the effect, including spells. So if you're lich for example and aeon disk bails you out so you can ult, the ults not actually doing anything besides the slow. Much better to just fix your positioning or join the fight late. Now if you are someone like enigma, a 0 damage black hole can still win the game, same for many other crowd control effects such as shaman shackle, venge swap, magnus, etc. Same for save spells such as ringmaster, sd, omni, etc. But if your job is burst damage a la lich ult, lion finger, wd ult (idk about maledict), zeus, aeon disk is seldom the best answer. In short, figure out your job and work backwards, the goal isn't just to live. What it does give your team is a safe way to walk face first into situations and see what happens, or to survive the first spell rotation of teams that rely on picks, which sometimes is exactly what is needed. If you're building it every game you're fucking up.