Initial Opinion on New Runes

og Problem·11/9/2017, 12:27:06 AM·3 votes·988 views

As excited as I was to dive into the new runes and get into a game, I am finding them more and more off-putting. It seems as it highlights the strong points of a few champions (Orianna, Nasus, MF) while not doing much to help other champions who were already experiencing issues, and this undoes a lot of the balance changing riot has already done.

They say everything takes time to get used to, so these opinions can always change, but I want to hear from everyone else.

How are you feeling about the new runes?

10 Comments

PhearBunny11/9/2017, 12:35:48 AM3 votes

I feel like this update very well may be the update that makes me retire from League. I have never been so bored of the game, these runes even while brand spanking new, are boring compared to the old runes/masteries. Also, ive been playing since season1 and I have never seen the game this imbalanced. Yes, I'm aware they will make multiple balance passes before the season starts, but this isn't even remotely enjoyable.

welknair11/9/2017, 12:28:28 AM2 votes

I really enjoy the variety and how they can influence playstyle. However, they need a fair bit of balancing. I trust Riot to patch things into reasonableness fairly quickly. For now, I'm enjoying the chaos.

Swarlz Barclay11/9/2017, 12:54:40 PM1 votes

The runes feel really weird and kind of totally annihilate some champs, I'm not sure if I'm just picking some really god awful runes (despite going for ones people have tried and recommended) I seem to be just completely unable to burst anything as Rengar, like yeah they're great for reducing my Ultimate CD but damage is completely balls at the minute.

I'll need to spend a bit more time fiddling with the Runes for Rengar and other champions too but going from a 11/4 stomp pre-patch to a 2/8 and 0/3 Post-patch (surprisingly still both victories) is too tilting and I'm just gonna post my tilted post-rage opinion right now instead.

letsgetmagical11/11/2017, 11:36:26 AM1 votes

I honestly don't even know how these runes came out of pbe in this state. cough cough ezreal with kelptomancy (a support rune) does even more damage and can just burst 1/4th of your hp with a single q to a lot of champs who dont have tank runes and get spammed with gold and potions in their inventory and the cooldown like every 3 secs.....wtf

also how do you think its gonna turn out when you make and tweak 130+ champs in the game based off the old runes and keystones and just throw in a completely new rune system where none of those champions were considered how they would do with the new runes; and just how they throw in a corner stone of league (being the new runes) in pbe and only test it for a couple of months as if its only just a new champion.

and why did they feel like they had to change the runes and keystones to something completely different. out of my 2 years of playing league i never seen anyone complain about the runes/keystones. The runes/keystones were perfectly fine, they didn't need a whole revamp into whatever crap you call these new "runes"

NaTTiG11/12/2017, 2:29:02 PM1 votes

i don't know why i feel the game is not enjoyable, i had almost all runes before and i could play how i wanted, now i don't know where are the support EVERY ONE IS MAGE!!! , and every MAGE are supporting !!!!.... front line champions are shit now, is not point try to caught them when they have a vayne with 3.3 attack speed. WTF!!!! SHE MELT ME IN 3 seconds!!!!.....

i feel exactly the same now who i felt for WOW they made some changes trying to be more enjoyable but they just destroy the game.... i hope this shit riot do something smart with the balance of new patch.

i was playing from season 2 to season 7 ... WAS good 5 years... i should start to play Counter strike again until someone release a new game.

Ok sure but why11/9/2017, 1:19:49 AM1 votes

They changed Press the Attack into a keystone that supports used to use (Expose Weakness) for no good reason, and they completely removed everything to do with Critical Strikes from the entirety of the page! Mages don't have any sustained-damage runes, and the bonus healing rune was put on the tank rune tree!

Are they mad??!?

Kiraid Lciem11/9/2017, 12:54:22 AM1 votes

Everyone harrasing their own team members, is my biggest issue of the day. Second is lag, it is like the game is playing in a strobe light room.