Talk:Ardent Censer/@comment-8468980-20140607063934/@comment-6281696-20140609111427

First of, christ what a wall of text o.O

Now more on topic, the issue is that it WILL be rushed. People WILL abuse the hell out of its early game advantage. Late game it's a more than acceptable item, but early on it'l end up giving a massive advantage as the carry is the one with by far the most damage, assuming you're not facing annie or something, and you're now further increasing that.

The mechanic itself is fine, but without a similar item for supports that don't have shields/heals, or like thresh don't want to just throw their shield around on CD because the skill has utility beyond just being a shield, it'l heavily bias the meta towards supports that have shields/heals that can be spammed on a short CD without caring for anything else, favorably in combination with other bonusses. Janna, Sona & Nidalee for example will absolutly love this item and if they ever get any money in lane will definitly buy it as it's basicly perfect for them regardless of who they are supporting.

Basicly, the mechanic itself is fine, and even something I'd encourage (yay something give supports a bigger impact), but without similar items for other types of support it'l screw the balance between them badly. To put it into perspective, Leona with max CDR can keep you stunned for about 30% of the time with max level Q's. Janna with max CDR can keep this effect on indefinitly with max shields. If the carry has no AS this item on its own would allow Janna to nearly completly negate the damage lost from missed AA's caused by the stun. So early on in lane, when leona would be lucky to get of two stuns, this item effectivly reduces leona to a glorified root, and leona gets nothing to respond with.