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Runes Corner: Three More Resolve Runes

Riotgregab·9/13/2017, 10:18:47 PM·1 votes·77,341 views

Hello and welcome back for another Rune’s Corner! I’m Riot Gregab, a Tech Game Designer working on Runes Reforged. Today I want to show you a slot from the Resolve path that offers you three different strategic options around tankiness: Perseverance, Demolish, and Font of Life.

WIP DISCLAIMER: All of these runes are still in active development. Names, numbers, icons, mechanics -- anything about them might change before release.

The first option in this slot gives you personal defenses during key moments of conflict:

 Perseverance
https://i.imgur.com/WobHKN1.pngAfter casting a Summoner Spell, gain 25% Tenacity and 25% Slow Resistance for 10 seconds. Increase your bonus Armor and Magic resist by 10% for each Summoner Spell on cooldown.

Taking Perseverance could give you the critical edge in a 1v1 duel or make sure you stay alive and functional in a team fight where you’re eating a lot of damage and crowd control effects.

The next option, Demolish, on the other hand, gives you a way to turn your existing tankiness into power for taking objectives:

 Demolish
https://i.imgur.com/Of4c0ca.pngCharge up a powerful attack against a tower over 4 seconds, while within 600 range of it. The charged attack deals 375 (+20% of your max health) bonus physical damage.
Cooldown: 60 seconds

Demolish gives tanks a way to siege turrets that is based on their unique strengths: the ability to walk right up to a turret and occupy that critical (and very dangerous) area with their massive bodies. Here’s what it looks like in action:

https://i.imgur.com/1cVAMsD.gif

The final option in the slot lets tanky champions use their signature crowd control abilities and massive health bars to help their teams in fights.

 Font of Life
https://i.imgur.com/0nKAfRb.pngImpairing the movement of an enemy champion marks them for 4 seconds. Ally champions who attack marked enemies heal for 5 + 1.0% of your max health.
(Healing values are reduced to a third for your own attacks.)

https://i.imgur.com/s2xG4pY.gif

Now, this may sound familiar. It’s an iteration on the live keystone mastery, Stoneborn Pact. The key differences here are that Font of Life offers an instant heal instead of spreading out its heal over time and that, unlike its predecessor, Font of Life users can also heal themselves with it.

Ok! Hope you enjoyed reading about these new Resolve runes. We’ll be around in the comments to answer your questions and discuss them with you.

You can check out the previous posts in this series here:

Runes Corner: Runes Content Development Peek Runes Corner: Meteor Sneak Peek Runes Corner: Hunt of the Bloodmoon Sneak Peek Runes Corner: Domination Major Slot Sneak Peek Runes Corner: Stormlord's Mandate and Spellslinger's Surge Runes Corner: Guardian Soul Runes Corner: Summoner Specialist and Hextech Freezeray Runes Corner: Late-Game Focused Runes Runes Corner: More Precision Runes

236 Comments

Deep Terror Nami9/13/2017, 10:23:24 PM26 votes

Reduce the CD on Ohmwrecker so I can just come out of the jungle or leave my lane every 90 seconds to knock on the nearest undefended turret with Demolish :3

KoKoboto9/13/2017, 10:48:05 PM16 votes

Only problem with Font of Life is that it only really synergizes with marksmen / on-hit based champions. I understand all runes and stuff have niches but I don't think marksmen need more powers like that. I do like the mastery though in theory, CC = heals for team, I just wish the heals weren't so tied to one class.

I like perseverance, very interesting.

I like the thought behind Demolish, much like how I like new Rift Herald. My only problem with it is that towers are already useless and this mastery will make them more useless. If there's a plan to deal with towers being paper towels than I'm all up for this mastery, otherwise considering the current state of towers this mastery makes me kinda sad.

Tormentula9/13/2017, 10:33:14 PM11 votes

Does Perseverance work with smite?

So I can red summoner 11 and get even more edge over my opponent?

Rainfall9/13/2017, 10:35:10 PM9 votes

Are there any runes to give mages mana refunds?

Hydro3Bernal9/13/2017, 10:40:09 PM9 votes

From the bottom of my heart, as a support main who likes to use non-supports when I get bored, thank you for turning Stoneborn Pact into Font of Life. I can continue healing my adc with MF's bullet rain. :') [sg-lux]

ThePikol9/14/2017, 5:48:38 AM8 votes

walk right up to a turret and occupy that critical (and very dangerous) area

Ahahaha, turrets dangerous? Nice one Riot

scribbles7829/14/2017, 11:13:27 PM7 votes

Fuck you, stop making turrets useless.

"Hey guys, y'all complaining about turrets being weak? BOOM RIFT HERALD." "Hey guys, y'all complaining about turrets being even weaker now? BOOM CAITLYN CAN HEADSHOT TURRETS. "Hey guys, y'all complaining about turrets being literally useless now? BOOM DEMOLISH FUCK ALL OF YOU."

Then Riot finally buffs turrets and that'll be the 4th meme they ruin in 2017. (ADC's in 2k17, Yorick getting 0 skins, and Urgot existing)

SkyblazeHydraX39/13/2017, 10:24:48 PM7 votes

Back in Season 3/4, you guys removed the Mastery that gave boons for Summoner Spells being on cooldown. Why did you guys bring it back, albeit in a more generalized form?

Ralanr9/13/2017, 11:44:24 PM7 votes

Sees Demolish

Sion: I SHALL SHATTER THE GATES OF DEMACIA!

Nebuul9/13/2017, 11:42:15 PM5 votes

Is demolish's cooldown on the ability or on the tower? If multiple champions have demolish, is there reduced effectiveness?

Kowe The Ewok9/13/2017, 10:51:49 PM2 votes

Tbh. the whole new rune system does not seem to be thought through. There's so many broken options. Chogath + Demolish is just the latest.

This game is becoming DOTA "Nothing is broken 'cause everything is".

LostFr0st9/13/2017, 10:25:59 PM2 votes

First off: these look very cool :)

For demolish: is there a way to stop it or is it unstoppable? Is it a dash or just an explosion like Trist E? I'm guessing it's like Rift Herald's dash attack but also wondering if it can be used for towerdives? Lot of questions, sorry^^"

The Cane Master9/13/2017, 11:27:13 PM2 votes

Impairing the movement of an enemy champion marks them for 4 seconds. Ally champions who attack marked enemies heal for 5 + 1.0% of your max health.

If this doesn't work on slows I'll delete the game.

5 Stacks GG9/13/2017, 11:04:19 PM1 votes

wait, so Darius isn't gonna have base stats updates like other champion with removal of runes because of perseverance? Because As a Darius adept I don't find this attractive compared to the boots free at 10 min, the CDR cap being added as bonus AD, the tenacity based on legend stack or the gathering the storm one.

Kryonik9/13/2017, 10:37:01 PM1 votes

What are your reasons for keeping Precision and Sorcery as Primary only paths. It feels really constricting to have a keystone from the other three and then be stuck with runes from only Inspiration, Resolve, and Domination.