I don’t even care that the slow only works when they’re half HP, the potential permaslow was kinda broken and that’s a good change (on top of AH being generally lower across all items). However, I just don’t see why they’re turning the item into a Lethality item? It just makes AD casters who don’t really on crits or Lethality much worse against tanks since their armor pen options are just very underwhelming.
Then again, I’m probably very biased because I play Ezreal, but dealing with tanks is going to be quite harder because of that change.
Serylda’s wasn’t meant to be an assassin item. Assassin’s have lethality, and they’re not suppose to assassinate tanks. They weren’t suppose to have a %armor pen.
I checked the patch notes for 10.23 (when Serylda’s was released) and they do mention that this was an item assassins would love to threaten bulkier foes so they aren’t wrong.