

Slap it on an impale steel skill champ and you have monster damage and great clear for very little investment. The saviour+paradoxica is still a tremendously powerful way to build. Let’s further unpack this one-package deal: 1. You can have both, or nothing, because he is both, not one thing. Whether people use something is as much about trends and media interest as much as it is the raw power of an item. Truth is, I can’t have one without the other. Then a youtuber made a guide calling the saviour OP for steel skills, and the price shot up to 250c overnight. For example, the saviour was 50c, trending downward rapidly, and practically ignored for the first few weeks of the league.

People follow build guide creators, there really aren't a lot of those, and they tend to stick to a pretty strictly defined meta both to exploit new good stuff in a patch and because they're bored of the old good stuff. Really, though, remember that the meta is not a perfect reflection of what is or is not good. If dual wielding was meta, saviour would still be quite popular again. The dual wielding meganerf and buffs to slams/2hers are what made saviour less popular to a far greater extent than the changes to the item itself, but there are still a ton of great ways to use it. The majority of melee skills are not strikes and all still work exactly the same as they did before the nerf. It mainly just hurt one popular build, flicker strike. That kills Saviour for most builds that aren't Cyclone.
