Ability bind tag

[BearFanks]

an item that is imbued on an ability. next successful melee disables the your imbued ability and your opponents equivalent ability temporarily. a parry will cause only the disable to occur on the user.

i envision the item as a situational high risk reward item. used as an alternate to slowing hex or silence wave to counter heroes by disabling a targeted ability. very much an all in item.

theme item around midas touch, destiny bond, or the paper tags (japanese ofuda).

ideas to balance item:
- limit to heavy or light melee
- allow parrying to remove tag after application
- place item on cool down on missed melee
- allow enemy to transfer tag back onto applier via melee to remove and further increase their disable

 

[Linktober]

I think the effect and application process are neat, especially when so many actives are point and click. I feel like the need to already melee to proc the effect is a high enough risk though. Getting parried really shouldn't activate the item just for yourself. I'm also worried that it's basically a 4th silencing item w/ a good bit of overlap with spirit snatch in a lot of ways.