Banner of command is a toxic item and the fact some of you say it brought strategy baffle me

The worse is that you can't even compare it to Zzrot portal because even when the item was bonker, it was nowhere as strong as Banner of Command.

Let me remind you the benefit of banner of command: It allow you to have tempo (aka one of the biggest thing in this game), it allow you to have the ennmy wave slowly be crush by yours which oblige the ennemy to go clean it.

> "But league has so much damage everywhere, banner is an item that give us strategy!"

No, the only thing it does is basically force the ennemy to be shoved away and allow you to roam freely because you will NEVER loose a big wave, your top tower will never suffer some damage from a big minion wave while you are doing an important teamfight mid or at dragon. You will always have push, and push is POWER.

One banner of command allow your loved "Weak as f*ck" turrets to be destroyed because it take a lot of time to kill the enhanced minion, making ANY good TF or any moment when you DARE try to roam/group with your teammate deadly. One banner of command allow you to punish ANY roam AND allow you to make ANY roam. It is too strong early, and it is too deadly late.

There is no strategy. You take banner, you wait for canon minion, you activate it and enjoy the benefit. Even a tryndamere flash/e is more strategic that this.

> "Wait, how is banner toxic now? Wasn't toxic before?"

Old banner was made because AP mage cleared wave so well riot though of an item that allowed you to counter this (like grievious wound counter healing, etc). But, as ADC became so strong and mage oriented themselves toward roaming, banner become unreasonable.

> "So it is good! So these pesky ADC can stop being stupid OP because ADC are OP and mage deserve all the buff."

Mage still struggle to clear the enhanced minion and even fed ADC really have a hard time stopping the minion. It is too strong.

> "But why not change the numbers?"

Because it won't be taken. Ever. History proved it. These items are either broken and abused or never used. Even if you kept the active but gave shitty stat, it would be abused on some champ.

> "But why is Zzrot portal still allowed then? It is kinda still used"

Because Zzrot doesn't have the push power of banner, it slowly push, it hurt turret less, it need you to reposition the 'nest', it has clear counterplay that everyone can use.

So the loss of banner isn't a problem. If anything, it will make pushing more about having waveclear power than buying an item that nulliyfy waveclear power and allow you to have the push.

Oh, and by the way, this item is spammed in high elo rank matches. Which mean it is only time before the lower solo Q rank take this strategy and spam it. And before you say "HURR DAMAGE", I want to also warm you that:

• ADC crit are shit, as you wanted (so don't cry to have ezreal/draven/lucian everywhere with hybrid ADC also being super strong and cait surviving because her early allow her some utility)
• that shields are getting nerfed, as you wanted
• that jungler pressure is weaker early, as you wanted
• that jungler has to 'think' of while playing (therefore privileging duelist), as you guys wanted
• That some toxic kit were reverted (Leblanc/Rengar), as you wanted
• That botlane is now open to new pick, as you wanted (you see jax/vladimir and other hyper carry bot at high elo atm)
• That toplane is healthier and that skirmisher/bruiser are very strong because conqueror is busted (as you guys wanted)

So you can whine about runes and damage but a lot of changes came because of your demands or from other smaller communities demand. So don't say Riot don't know what they do. They do what you ask, and while there is things you guys didn't ask specifically to get theses changes, it is how they happened. The game wasn't that broken since juggernaut revamp, so enjoy your mess.