In recent versions, Chainsaw is being preferred by many League of Legends junglers to buy first when choosing Gladiator champions like Wukong, Vi.
* Terminology Note:
Meta: stands for Most Effective Tactics Available, roughly translated: The most effective tactics that can be used at the moment.
Hot pick: Top pick
Since patch 12.10 – Endless Teamfights, League of Legends players have seen changes to increase the resistance of champions from Riot’s balanced team. Along with them is a series of changes in healing, shield.
When most of League of Legends’ matches are heading towards true “Endless Fights”. Gladiator champions with strong healing abilities such as: Aatrox, Gwen – Along with the tough Tank class like Sejuani have returned to the meta. These champions are widely used from the professional arena to solo queue. “Hero’s Chaos” and Chainsaw Technique, are the equipment chosen to shine in the time when “buffaloes” take the throne like the current meta.
“Benefits” Edits with Chainsaw Technique
The Chainsaw has gone through a few “unstable” versions of being reduced to 30/50%, then 25/40% reduced healing. In return, it gains 10 bonus attack damage and 10 skill cooldown.
This increased attack power and skill cooldown is not small for an item that costs only 2600 gold. The Chainsaw immediately became a hot pick for Junglers ranging from pro to amateur. But for high-class individuals like SofM, Kanavi or Wei to prioritize the Chainsaw Technique first when choosing a Gladiator champion, there must be a special reason behind it.
The real reason for the success of the Chainsaw Technique
In addition to the above reasons, the Chainsaw Transformation skill ascends to the throne in the new version, largely thanks to the fact that the God-Slayer Hammer – the “bedside book” of the Jungler generals class has been reduced in power “quite a bit” ” on the metric in version 12.13, making it far from perfect.
The superiority of Chainsaw Technique compared to other equipment
The cost is high but the use is no longer the same (3100 gold), League of Legends players have prioritized the choice of Chainsaw with a large amount of damage but the price is very cheap to optimize in the early stages of the game (2800 gold ). Immediately, this option became a trend and is widely used in many ranking ranks. In the professional arena, Chainsaw becomes the default choice for Jungler champions when the other team has at least one healer.
Conclude:
It can be said that the Chainsaw is the perfect item from the price to the stats for the Junglers (55 damage + 250 health and 25 skill regeneration. Not counting the passive). Not coincidentally, Riot has a move to increase the price to 2800 gold (up from 2600 gold) for Chainsaw in League of Legends version 12.14, but the “fixing price” will not have much effect on the damage of the equipment. this in meta.
See also: League of Legends: buff support will ‘out of date’ in version 12.14