Hey guys

Changing servers kinda made me become somewhat distant but I have been doing really well at the Brazilian servers (happy with low ping, climbing through plat, dreaming of diamond).

Either way, I decided to share something really interesting that came to my attention recently

Frozen heart is not one of the most popular itens nowadays. This happens due to a different number of reasons:
First is the fact that it does not give any health, so you will buy it as a secondary armor item (randuin's or sunfire will be your primary and most of the times, the one you did not build first will be your secondary). You only want to purchase Frozen Heart after you have some HP
Second is the fact that it gives mana (and top lane is somewhat dominated by manaless champs at the moment, so you can end up wasting it's stats if you are a manaless top laner).

However, recently, the recipe for glacial shroud was changed and it became cheaper to obtain, giving access to early mana, armor and cdr to some champions (like ryze).

The 15% attack speed slow has some interactions that I decided to list:

Liandry’s Torment:
The item's passive effect is doubled in movement impaired champions. Well, guess what: the attack speed slow from FH counts as a slow and thus procs liandry's full effect! It is important to notice that champions that normally build liandry's (like brand or rumble) do not normally build FH, but if their jungler/top build it it will benefit them heavily (they might even be able to skip rilay's in some cases)

Garen's passive:
Garen regenerates 0.4% of his max HP whenever he is not been hit by an ability or taken damage from champions or turrets on the last 9 seconds. However, FH's passive disable his! Keep in mind that you should never rush FH against garen just because of this, but it might help in a really extended laning phase


Talon's passive (mercy): Talon's autos deal 10% more damage on any target that is slowed, stunned, immobilized, or suppressed. The AS slow from FH procs this!

Master Yi's and Olaf's ult: Both are not effect by the AS slow during their ults.

Opression mastery: This mastery makes you take 3% less damage from movement impaired champions and FH's aura counts as that too, making it a very nice mastery to anyone that is going to build frozen heart for sure.


Who benefits from this?

AP bruisers or tanks who use mana and benefit from CDR, such as Ryze, Elise, Singed, Amumu, Skarner, Maokai, Cho’Gath, and Malphite
Durability-focused Galio, Viktor, Swain, or Gragas builds.
You could also buy Frozen Heart on an AD-focused mana-using bruiser who is consistently diving into a teamfight as a second armor item. The armor and aura will help against AD carries and most bruisers benefit from CDR. Examples would include Jarvan IV, Irelia, Nasus, Olaf, Poppy, Xin Zhao, or Jax.


Hope you like this piece of knowledge!

Cheers to all of you from BBF, miss ya guys!

Thanks for such an in-depth look on Frozen Heart. It's nice to know that you're alive and breathing! If you ever want to play a game with the crew, don't hesitate to message me or anyone else still in BBF.