an item idea to balance low elo melee

[Aurum]

melee is a high risk high reward mechanic, and is probably a tiny bit overtuned with how easy it is to parry bait with crushing fist but its in an acceptable spot in the ranks where people know what their f key does

but in even like arcanist this is not the case at all where its genuinely game ruining. My noob friend has been solo queueing games and the way he plays abrams is literally just perma holding the Q button and they dont even attempt to parry and he can outright 1v4 while even in souls for zero risk or zero skill expression asked of him. Unhealthy for every party involved. Abrams isnt learning anything and the enemies arent having fun.


I feel like a lot of the reason people dont parry is they're too scared of having their health chunked for 40% in an instant and having them in the back of their mind know the next melee wont hurt that much might make it easier to focus and actually go for the parry. Maybe hearing the noise of it break will make them think they need to parry now; IDK!

This should item obviously would never be bought outside of shitter elo and thats fine. Melee is genuinely probably one of the games biggest problem right now with how much it controls low elo and it needs to be addressed one way or another. This was the best solution i could think of that doesnt gut melee for everyone else

 

[Aurum]

probably wont feel as good as chunking people for 70% of their hp with a single melee, but i'd imagine this would be mostly fixed by the really cool cracking noise it could make once you fully break the stone shell

 

[Rosgath]

Rebuttal solves the issue of the Abrams who falls asleep on their melee key.

It reduces Parry CD AND it both heals you for the damage you would have taken AND does a 100% damage reflect on the person doing the melee. If you can't beat an Abrams spamming melee with Rebuttal and some Anti-heal, you don't deserve to beat him.

 

[gibnewitems]

Parry is already ridiculously broken. Rebuttal makes melee playstyles practically non-viable. Why would you need yet another cheap item to play against an already dogshit playstyle? It's not hard. Learn to press one key.

 

[Aurum]

Parry is already ridiculously broken. Rebuttal makes melee playstyles practically non-viable. Why would you need yet another cheap item to play against an already dogshit playstyle? It's not hard. Learn to press one key.

go watch literally any alchemist game and then come back and tell me if you think rebuttal fixes the issue of them being too melee reliant

 

[Aurum]

you just simply cannot have a hero or mechanic in your game that in the bottom 1/5th of your playerbase its the holy mecca of playstyle. Especially one as low skill as melee. It doesnt matter if in the rest of the playerbase its completely fine if down there its bad.