u/RanaMahal

Bastion Breaker may be the single most broken rush item that Hecarim's had since Duskblade.

AS many of you may know from reading patch notes, Riot has really wanted Bastion Breaker to be picked up a lot more, mainly by Assassins in mid and jungle so they lowered the cost and buffed the item up quite a bit to the point where it may be a sleeper OP pick on multiple champions (most aggregate sites seem to confirm this with hard data, its the highest win% first item spike for almost every AD jungler that can comfortably go it).

For those of you who don't know, the way the item works is it deals true damage on hit based on lethality (pair with voltaic for big damag) and 2nd passive is whenever you get a kill, you deal a massive amount of true damage to the next tower or dragon/baron, which allows you to REALLY speed up taking objectives off of early teamfights or ganks to the point where you can snowball the game out of control. I have been using the item to kill 2 plates from just the proc alone, so you gank, push wave with laner, hit tower and it knocks off half the tower, so 2 ganks = tower gone in the lane.

So basically with just a few ganks you can pretty much remove all the enemy towers up to their inhibs and force them to play in their half of the map, which lets you then safely invade the enemy jungler and take his camps (and because you're Hecarim you can farm all of his while clearing all of your own) and lets you take dragons and barons much easier.

If you pair it with Voltaic secondary it does make you squishier but it also lets you pretty much delete anyone in 2 Q's and REALLY reminds me of Manamune/Duskblade hecarim from way back in the day. Your ability procs the Voltaic, you get a TON of extra lethality, which procs your Bastion baker Passive (true damage on ability hit based on lethality) which then nets you a kill to then push the enemy towers / get dragons.

tl;dr If you play correctly with this item it will allow you to open up the map 10x faster, snowball out of control and get 3 pentas in 2 days like I did (bear in mind I was testing this build on my diamond smurf so YMMV since my skill level was a lot higher than enemy but I feel like the data backs it up with this item having 4-5% higher winrate than any other rush item for Hecarim currently, and the pickrate is increasing as people are building it more).

Dantes tried it as well and was cooking some builds with it the other day.

I have a Sapphire Nitro+ 7900xtx with three 4K monitors and want to know if it’d be capable of driving all 3 or should I offload my side monitors to my 9800X3D and use the iGPU.

It’s just that when I did do that earlier by offloading one of my monitors to the iGPU and keeping the other 2 on the dGPU, it seemed like it was giving me some driver timeout issues, my screen would sometimes go black, Chrome would freeze up sometimes, but when I had all 3 on my dGPU it would also give me some issues that seemed like it couldn’t handle all 3 displays.

I was running the middle at 240hz and sides at 120hz but then I saw some guide saying to run all three at 120hz so that Windows wasn’t struggling to match timings and such between monitors.

I could possibly offload both side monitors to the iGPU if maybe that would help but I’d also need to know what else to do to fix the screen going black and the crashes and such.

Also I used that one MPO disabling script to see if that would help but it hasn’t really helped much either.

Also I had enabled hybrid graphics and the iGPU and I had given it 4GB of RAM in bios to use (i have 64GB of RAM)

I have had to reinstall AMD drivers and Adrenalin like 4 times now, and keep using AMD cleanup utility as well, and I’ve flip flopped between all 3 being on the dGPU or offloading 1 monitor to the iGPU.

I think he could be a very good addition to the top 6, he's a right hand shot which we really need, he is 6'3 200 lbs, 25 yo.

27 goals 40 assists last season and he's RFA after his 3.85 million deal this year, and he's told CBJ he does not want to re-sign there.

I'm not sure what exactly we could put together as a trade package for him that Columbus accepts but what are our thoughts on him and his fit?