were heading towards a new marksman meta at the end of the year.

Critmaster Garen··3 votes·550 views

riot doesnt learn from the past. theyre slowly creeping up crit items and marksmen in early game power again.

first the overhasty hotfix buffs, then direct kit buffs, now another round of item buffs.

and when games last past 25 minutes again, because theyre finally getting around to reduce snowball, its all going to blow up when marksmen become strong at 15 minutes and unstoppable past 25 minutes.

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Illabethe1 votes

All I see on the PBE is lowering item 1051 back to 400g...... dunno how that's much of a buff. Just helps adcs get crit without dealing with the full item 3086 .

Yesterday as Jinx I started out this: item 1038 item 3155 item 3086 item 3085 . Dominated a counter lane :S. Face tanked a WW who hit me with his R.

I also built MissFortune as item 3025 item 3042 item 3071 item 3142 Carried hard.

Meta crit builds aren't the only builds that work on adcs.....

Critmaster Garen2 votes

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All I see on the PBE is lowering item 1051 back to 400g...... dunno how that's much of a buff. Just helps adcs get crit without dealing with the full item 3086 .

Yesterday as Jinx I started out this: item 1038 item 3155 item 3086 item 3085 . Dominated a counter lane :S. Face tanked a WW who hit me with his R.

I also built MissFortune as item 3025 item 3042 item 3071 item 3142 Carried hard.

Meta crit builds aren't the only builds that work on adcs.....

it has been multiple buffs since the initial crit item nerf.

infinity edge was made cheaper, stormrazor was buffed. tristana, jinx and other crit marksmen directly buffed.

and youre correct that marksmen arent even weak. their early game was as weak as it should be. their lategame is actually more ridiculous than before.

it just doesnt show, because game dont typically last long enough for marksmen to scale to that point.

but riot is also already reducing snowball mechanics step by step.

as soon as games last long enough, were back in a similar place to the ardent meta. marksmen will scale too fast into a way too strong of a lategame.

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