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Brace Yourselves: Runes Are Coming

RiotSparkle··1 votes·29,568 views

Hi friends!

Since yesterday's rune prep pictures had such good discussion, I'm back with a few more images to make your Day 1 Runes Reforged experience extra awesome. Here are a few insider tips to get you ready for runes before you boot up your very first game. :D

https://i.imgur.com/HhyvvvS.png https://i.imgur.com/C5ZGxzs.png https://i.imgur.com/EjfWmyo.png https://i.imgur.com/tekMC5Y.png

As always we're hanging around to read through all your thoughts if you have any questions or comments for us. Happy Preseason everyone!

64 Comments

redniwediS4 votes

Since we're leaving the old system behind, what is your favorite rune that is about to be retired? What about your all time favorite mastery?

OwlOnFire12 votes

RIP 1% Crit rune, the absolute classic for top laners wanting to banter their lane opponent with a 1/100 chance every auto. Good times.

RiotSparkle7 votes

I really liked Secret Stash in the old system (and I really like Biscuit Delivery in the new one, go figure lol). Biscuits are my jam ;)

RiotPhreak5 votes

HA!

Mysticman893 votes

As far as I can tell, you only post a couple times a year, and generally in response to puns. You could say it's a... Phreak occurrence.

Ephriell4 votes

Pretty sure phreaks least favorite item was mana pots

Star Pratinum3 votes

"YOU HAVE NO MANAAAAAAA"

Zullar1 votes

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Since we're leaving the old system behind, what is your favorite rune that is about to be retired? What about your all time favorite mastery?

I used to run 30% scaling CDR runes so I'd cap with 10% from Zonyas. No way to do this with the new system though :[

redniwediS1 votes

Most of my rune pages use scaling runes. My typical mage page is full scaling AP for 85 extra AP at max level.

Ephriell2 votes

Above all else. I am certainly going to miss my scailing cdr blues

Naalith4 votes

FYI, if you don't want to keep your rune box open in game you can just press C to quickly take a glance, exactly like how you check your range, lifesteal, and hidden character stats currently :)

RiotSparkle5 votes

^ YES! I should have put this on here. I'm totally going to add another image, that's a great tip.

Penns3 votes

But when is Zoe coming to pbe

:<

Penns3 votes

Wait nvm lets goo lul

RiotSparkle6 votes

Your posts here are a rollercoaster of emotion haha

Penns4 votes

I was hyped for too long, now its time to become best Zoe euw [sg-ezreal]

RiotSparkle2 votes

I believe in you!

Kai Guy1 votes

I believe in the you that believes in them!

KennysDreamGirl1 votes

lets become partners..you are the best zoe euw and I'm the best zoe na..together no region can stop us*[sg-syndra]*

Illâoi Evê Siôn2 votes

Do all damage Runes have a damage tracker? Because that'd be awesome for comparing what works best.

RiotSparkle2 votes

Runes have both in game tracking (which will track damage for relevant runes) and post game tracking. As mentioned above, post game is currently only accessible through Match History, but it's there!

When you play with runes, please let us know how useful the stats are and if you're missing any info that you want to have for specific runes, we'll be continuing to improve the stats. :)

Mysticman892 votes

"MS" is highlighted in the example for keywords. Is that really something that needs further explanation (in contrast with AD/AP which are also abbreviations)?

Shegi1 votes

Think of new players, they might be new to mobas and not know the notion of movement speed

Mysticman892 votes

But they know the notion of AD and AP?

Ephriell1 votes

I remember i played for about a year and a half till i learned what cc meant

RiotSparkle3 votes

This is one of the first times we're actually using that abbreviation in our "official" tooltips, hence the keyword for the shortened version (obviously you guys were already using it in a lot of places)!

This actually brings up another point - we may change or rotate keywords as players learn things or we find new words that folks want defined. :)

DerZermetzelte2 votes

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This actually brings up another point - we may change or rotate keywords as players learn things or we find new words that folks want defined. :)

Maybe you could alter the shortened version to highlight keywords that describe the rune. As far as I can judge, the short mode is there to allow quick picks in champselect, so supporting skimming should be a priority. Example: "River - MS - adaptive"

Other request: Can you please add livetracking scalings into rune tooltips? When I'm quickly trying to check for numbers ingame, my eyes are automatically drawn to the bold base damage and colored scalings. Would also be nice to have the full damage composition layed out instead of just the end result. This stuff is nice to have, to quickly judge what my level/items are doing for me.

There might be players who like the summary style better, but why not both? In fact, could you make it a toggle option like for timers (seconds vs minutes+seconds), to allow summary numbers; eventually colored in white/green/red/etc to still reflect what it scales with? Seems like this would be a nice secondary use of the C key; to shortly view a different version of the hovered spell tooltips.

I personally don't see lost skill expression from being able to add up 2-3 numbers, when the damage calculation is already beyond normal human thinking ingame (aside from rough estimates)

waiting for WoW2 votes

Why is Phase Shift being left in such an undertuned state... I don't understand why it was intentionally left at it's lowest possible functional values during release.

Draw Blank2 votes

Sparkle, why don't you guys make the locked rune pages locked to one tree each rather than to each specific rune within the tree?

TomiMan71 votes

Hey

So did You guys consider the bonus ap/ad/as/hp that you get for each tree, be made like so you could allocate them as you like? For example for sorcery you get 10ad/15ap (i dont know i guess that much) adaptive. What if as a mage i want the 10 ad early game and the ap later on? Or what if you guys would give points instead of raw stats? That way i could allocate them like so:+5ad for CSing and +10ap for poking? or +10ad until 10minutes after that +15ap? Thoughts?

Atanchan1 votes

{quoted}

What if as a mage i want the 10 ad early game and the ap later on?

Don't start with an item that gives AP. Iirc adaptive defaults to AD on a tie.

TomiMan71 votes

I know that but as soon as i back and i buy something that gives ap, all the ad that i had goes ap and i am back at square one, since one ap item usually not enough to farm with, with good success

VapoR LIV1 votes

What time exactly does this patch come out?

RiotSparkle3 votes

The patch should be out tomorrow - exact time varies by region (I think NA is like really late/early in the morning)

Ephriell1 votes

PST should stop ranked queues at 1am and the update should go live at 3am

Shuyin1781 votes

Will we be able to view the setup for the 5 pre-made pages? I mean I assume we can but wanting to be sure.

RiotSparkle3 votes

Yes, clicking on any one of the pages will show you the setup. You can also hover over the card in the inventory or in champ select to see what runes are in them. Here's a pic of the Precision preset page and the inventory hover for it!

Naqel2 votes

What is the default placement of those premade ones relative to the ones we make ourselves, and can we hide them so that they do not clutter the drop box?

PopcornBunni1 votes

When we ping things like Magical Footwear, does the game say the time until the boots arrive?

RiotSparkle2 votes

It's just the names in the pings right now, but as we see what players want and how they are using the pings we could expand on them.

Glory ln Death1 votes

You can see what time they arrive when you press C.

Rió1 votes

Ayyyy but that line in those tooltips though ;)

RiotSparkle1 votes

It's a good line :D

Ashen Rider1 votes

?

Enjutsu1 votes

So i was checking runes from support perspective and what i could potentially do with them and my question is what are takedowns? Are assists included?

according to wiki: "A takedown is a champion kill, assist or a turret kill that a champion attains in League of Legends."

the reason im asking is because precision and domination trees have alot of runes related to takedown, but if those takedowns mean only killls as support i find them way too unreliable.

SB Arneeman1 votes

A takedown is a champion kill or assist

What is the problem? you literally already answered your own question.

Enjutsu1 votes

Well that's only a lol wiki description, i don't really trust that.

Eleshakai1 votes

The second screenshot in the post here has a mouseover of the takedown keyword that says 'Kills or Assists'.

So no, assists are not included in takedowns. Just kills. ;)

Naqel1 votes

The system definitely needs some sort of indicator during champion select for what Keystone people are planning to bring into the match.

As it stands, all too often I see the Marksman and the Support both take Press the Attack, even though it doesn't stack.

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