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Why is no one talking about unsealed spellbook?

Skorch··3 votes·4,020 views

Its... bad, and heres why:

Summoners are picked at the start of game, because they are used reactionary. Being able to change them on the fly makes them actionary. What does that mean? Well... When you set up summoners you typically say: "Ok i need to be careful so ill take summoner 7 summoner 21 . I want to bully my opponent summoner 3 summoner 14 . I am a top laner who doesnt use ignite or wants to tp gank summoner 12 . Im vs ahri summoner 1 . I am playing league of legends summoner 4 . I am playing ARAM summoner 13 :( .

This means that there are very VERY few times in game when you would want to switch. Summoners are always used as a reaction. Danger? summoner 4 incoming heavy poke/burst? summoner 21 etc. You cant PLAN for these. Flash being MANDATORY on all but like 3 champions doesnt help either.

The uses are so few: and typically involve trading a cheese tactic to a viable one... once. Being only useful once isnt useful at all, especially compared to... actually every other keystone in the game.

So whats the solution? Well theres a few.

  1. Trade it with another inspiration rune and make it a sub-rune.
  2. Flat remove it
  3. Rework it: Maybe lowered CDs, or a THIRD summoner. Something that you would actually consider.

The way the rune works means that it is actually impossible to flat nerf or buff so these are the only solutions i see.

I would like to talk more about other inspiration runes as well since it is my most used runes i am STARTING to get the hang of it.

8 Comments

nelogis3 votes

I saw some creative uses with this rune tbh...

A Blitzcrank taking Smite at the start to steal the enemy Buff lvl 1 and change it to whatever later on in the game.

A Darius taking Ghost / Ignite to cheese an early kill then switching to Ghost / Flash for a better Mid game and then to TP / FLash for the standard late setup

It would be busted if it was a lesser rune IMO

How about it also enhances summoner spells?

Heal: Heals more Barrier: Bigger shield Ghost: Gotta go faster Flash: Even lower cd TP: Channel Duration reduced Cleanse: CC-Immunity for 1 second after cast and then high tenacity for 3 seconds or something like that Clarity: More mana Exhaust: Attack speed and resistances now also get reduced Ignite: Healing is reduced by 100% or more dmg Mark: You can dash twice Smite: Heals more and stores up to 3 stacks

Maybe also give access to retired summoners?

Fortify: Buff towers globally by +100% attack speed and invulnerability for 7 seconds Clairvoyance: Reveal a part of the map Observer: Remove the fog of war for that player for 4 seconds Rally: Spawns a beacon with xy HP, allies in the radius gain 10-35 AD / 15-50 AP (adaptive), 5 seconds duration Revive: Well... Revive Stifle: Silence an enemy champion for 1 second, remove all buffs/shields they have and they cant be buffed or shielded during 3 seconds. Surge: Empowers your champion by 10-80 AP and 20-35% attack speed for 10 seconds

(The good old days ey?)

But that would be cool

Chumpzi11a3 votes

I like it for top lane tank into bully matchups. Resolve keystones are trash, but resolve secondary with celestial body, corrupting potion, biscuits help give the hp to cs and scale. Start heal/tp. Go to barrier if they have ignite.

JustMonika132 votes

The greatly reduced summoner spell cool down already on it is pretty awesome tbh.

Weedbro2 votes

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The greatly reduced summoner spell cool down already on it is pretty awesome tbh.

greatly reduced you mean by 25%? that's not greatly reduced. That's somewhat reduced. I'd recommend you learn the meaning of words.

As for Nelogis, Blitzcrank taking Smite at level 1 means he's useful once, like the OP already went over, being useful once isn't useful at all. Reading comprehension is vital. Darius with unsealed spellbook is such a terrible choice. See the reason why ghost/ignite isn't "cheesing an early kill" hahahhahha, you should be a comedian, that is because when you take Unsealed Spellbook, it doesn't make you A. Stronger, B. Tougher, or C. Faster! So anyone else, with literally any other keystone, will do far, far, better than that Darius, at all stages of the game. This too was covered in Skorch's original post, I must stress how important reading comprehension is.

nelogis1 votes

wow great ideas you brought up to the table really, it helps me understand the problem with this rune so much. What a perfect example of a propable use of this rune wow just amazing!

I must stress how important it is to respect others opinions and not just "lul egss dii reading comprehension what a comedian lawl" whenever something isnt what you want it to be

And Blitzcrank useful once? if you land every single Q on a priority target you dont even need a keystone to win the game. (btw basic maths 1+1 is 2 so you are useful when you steal the buff from the jungler and then useful when you have ignite to have better kill pressure overall, i know crazy right? I must stress how important basic math is)

Darius with ghost can cheese an early kill, especially with ignite (Against immobile squishy melee tops, I must stress how important general understanding of this game is)

You know what here is another example! Ezreal takes this rune instead of Klepto because he wants to have heal in laning phase and swap it to cleanse later because they have a TF mid and Rammus jungle

Did I say that those setups are 107% winrate full blown out meta picks? No, I made some examples on how this rune can be used

Have you read my whole comment? You know the part where i say that the spells could also get enhanced?

And now tell me bud what did you contribute to this discussion other than to bash others?

Edit: Also 25% is greatly reduced (75 seconds on flash). Pls just stay in base for 75 second somewhere around the 10 minute mark and tell me that this isnt a long ass time in league

FireDrizzle1 votes

A problem with this keystone being weak is other keystones are niche, you know? You need synergy with them. People are saying comet is weak! Play Velkoz and tell me it's weak! This keystone needs to be good on anyone like tld was but it is too weak atm.

Trias0001 votes

It would make sense if the new spell didn't start on cooldown. But it's pointless to take teleport just to have to wait 3 minutes to be able to use it. You might want to take it if you see an opportunity for a tp flank, but before it's off cooldown that opportunity is long gone.

theryu2k1 votes

I love how without big changes to it it became meta in a matter of weeks :D

Now its good on basically every champion, midlanes that want their flash up for engages, rivens top, playmaking supports and even adcs that want to cheese

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