Supporting off-meta builds: The "Hextech Augments" Keystone Rune

Critmaster Garen··2 votes·234 views
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do you want to build crit garen, and youre missing ways to increase your crit chance after i.e.?

are you frustrated with the lack of health/attack speed items for shen?

do you feel like you need more defense on your melee ap champion but lack quality item choices?

or do you simply want more raw ap on a completed mage build?

we got you covered.

HEXTECH AUGMENTS:

spend gold at the shop to receive one permanent upgrade in any single stat of your choice. at 10 minutes and 20 minutes unlocks a second and third upgrade available for purchase.

this rune is all about raw stats and mix-matching them as you please into your item builds, making your build options incredibly versatile since it offers bonus stats that arent bound to specific items or other stats, but only to gold.

the path this rune makes the most sense to place in would probably be inspiration (the weird utility path)

upgrades that can be stacked with themselves:

10 ad 15 ap 10% cdr 15 armor 12 magic resistance 5 movement speed 10 out of combat movement speed 10% critical strike chance 150 health 200 mana 15% attack speed 5% tenacity (stacks additive with itself but multiplicative with other sources of tenacity) 100% base health regeneration

one-time purchases or not available at all:

critical strike damage lethality crit damage reduction magic damage reduction (adaptive helmet) lifesteal spellvamp healing and shield power

as stacking of these stats would lead to extreme and (undesirable) edge cases.

the upgrades are 100% cost effective (around 300 to 400 gold in price each).

4 Comments

Critmaster Garen1 votes

holy shit man, these forums. let me just fix the formatting.

GinoSoldier1 votes

Some of these be pretty strong, 10% CDR just like that though? I'd never buy Morello again, or close enough :D

Critmaster Garen1 votes

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Some of these be pretty strong, 10% CDR just like that though? I'd never buy Morello again, or close enough :D

they would unlock every 10 minutes for 3 total. so its paced. youd get the last "slot" at 20 minutes.

i wouldnt mind changing it to the first at 10 minutes, and the last at 30 minutes. but since it is a keystone rune and you still have to pay gold for those stats, i was thinking an immediate payoff would be more appropriate.

remember that all the keystone runes are going to be really strong. like the giving you the ability to swap summoner spells multiple times during the game.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

no reaction?

so many people are always posting that their item builds arent powerspiking hard enough lategame or some stat combinations are too restricted.

if i remember correctly, there was a health/attack speed item that was removed because it was just too nieche for a few champions. something similar happened with other items with "weird" stat combinations that were only viable on a couple champions.

it would be cool if there was some way to access certain stats and match them together into builds that otherwise would never give you access to them.

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