League of Legends: Breaking down patch changes to Bramble Vest

Bramble Vest got some interesting changes to those tanky champions that equip it in League of Legends. Here’s a breakdown of all the changes due to patch update 7.19.

For those Summoners out there in League of Legends that enjoy playing tanky champions, you’ve undoubtedly noticed the changes to the popular Bramble Vest item. If you’ve never played a top lane character, Bramble Vest was an inexpensive item that gave tanks a bit of an early offensive advantage since it applied Grievous Wounds to enemies while also reflecting damage.

Basically, any time an enemy champion or even a minion/monster hit you, they would get hit with a debuff that would reduce all healing by 40 percent as well as reflect 20 magic damage right back at them. Needless to say, it helped tremendously against enemy champions whose kit or even items made them lifestealing/auto-healing annoyances.

Developers noticed that Bramble Vest was a bit overpowered due to these core abilities as it helped big time when it came to farming. It’s easier and even faster to clear waves of minions since once they hit you, they were hit back with damage as one would plow through them easily.