About the new "Runes Reforged" system.

IPlayToTiltYou·9/25/2017, 9:16:02 PM·2 votes·6,164 views

Hi there Riot, I've been watching the stream, yet I wasn't able to get my question answered through the wall of text from Twitch chat, so I'll just post mine here.

So, do you think that this new system will dramatically shift the "meta", effectively bringing some out some of the less successful champions out of the woodwork, while booting some meta champions out?

I say this because i'm pretty sure that everyone is afraid (especially the mains who play mostly out of meta champions.) that their champions will be worse than it is, and maybe making them unplayable. I don't my fat fish to be a goner.

And if this does happen, would you tweak the runes system more? Or re-balance some of the champions that have been boot of the meta?

Thank you for answering! (If you choose to do so!)

15 Comments

RiotMeddler9/25/2017, 9:23:04 PM4 votes

Sorry we didn't get to your question, navigating the Twitch spam was tricky. We're expecting some degree of meta shift certainly, though trying to keep the game feeling pretty similar overall. There will almost certainly be some individual champions that get too strong off Runes, and some that struggle too much, and we're expecting we'll do a lot of balance work on the system both while it's on PBE and after it goes live. That will include both regular patches and likely some micro patches to respond to stuff quicker as well. Odds are we'll probably need to adjust mechanics on some individual runes too at some point if they're revealed to be too effective in some circumstances or just not very useful. Possible that even means replacing some, or, if the issue is that some champs just aren't catered to enough, adding additional ones in (3 per slot's not a maximum necessarily).

hewhokillsya11/10/2017, 7:22:55 AM2 votes

New rune system is so bad any one at riot on board should be fired no diversity builds are even more cookie xutfer than before tank and support tree worthless get new development team fide the rest like sheep in the heard 0 good things about lols bigest change ever think out side the box #you all nex new jobs

Jus de Castagne9/26/2017, 2:47:58 PM1 votes

Do you plan any work for champions like Zyra who need a specific rune page ( full magic pen in the case of Zyra ) which will not be replaced by this new system, or who will be nerfed by the changes of Thunderlord ?