Full blown stupidity... Or unknown step back?
Ok, so I'm just going to assume at this point either everyone at Riot Games is new, or very stupid. This patch 5.22 isn't a patch at all. Its you removing all the changed of the last 3 seasons and calling it a patch... First lets get this stupidity out of the air as its clear you don't see it.
BloodThirster at 75 AD and highest in game. Hmmm. Odd, its almost like your BT before where you got stacks to get it to 80 and now it has a shield. Now this would not be a normal first buy but you revoked all the damage on Infinity Edge... so um... welcome to season 2 repeat?
Your numbers are exactly the same. Here is how meta adc will be for the rest of the season and how stale its gonna be and when I'm correct, feel free to come to your veteran players and ask us how your being stupid today.
First Buy, Dorans Blade 1 pot. Second Buy B.F ->BT Second Buy, B.F -> IE Third Buy, Static Shiv because its hands down better then the rest again. 4th buy Last Whisper -> Lord Dominik's because mortal reminder is trash and the items should be combined into one with wounds just being moved on to dominik's as this looks like your piss poor ability to attempt to actually put executioner calling as a viable option again rather then doing it right the first time... 5th Ruin King/Black Cleaver 6th Defensive Item Its like you guys have fallen into this repetitive rut and you can't get out. I have been an ADC main for 5 years consistently high plat/Mid diamond and I can say with ease this role is the role you guys are most clueless about.
Things I would change,
Hunter's talisman. Make this allows without smite.
- It lets us choose to stay caught up in xp with other lanes so we don't lose because of xp share in the bot lane. THIS is your trouble when balancing the game. NOT ITEMS...
- Cull reduced to 350 from 450. Why? Makes the lack of of crap life steal it has some what worth when compared to Doran's Blade. DO NOT CHANGE HOW MUCH GOLD IT GIVES... This makes it rewarding for good farm. 3.Delete Mortal and add grievous to Lord Dominik's as it should have been to begin with... 4.Revert Graves or make it so his initial attack target can still be hit through crap... 5.Give Essense Reaver a fucking chance... Make it 80 AD so its a viable option over IE and even with BT, not all ad benifit come mana or cooldown. 6.Rapid Fire Cannon... not very rapid... more like fire cannon... make it so its ability procs every 3 hits not a random stack counter... 7.Buff Phantom back to 50% so its mathematically on par with Shyv... how the hell you forgot your math from S2 is painfully dumb to me. But its been 3 years... so ill let it slide.
- Youmuu's buff doesn't help adc or make them want to buy it more so like... wtf?
- If I am wrong, which I won't but if I am here is the one change I would make, first starting item would be long sword and that potion you have added, rush it into jorums fist and let me become a beefy adc for cheep. Frozen Mallet could potentially become the 6th item
- Deaths Dance, I am to assume this is for Zed?
11.Not adc worthy but should be noted, the blue trink upgrade is to op and needs the cooldown lowered a bit. 12.Put Trist back to before the patch... you gave her those cooldowns because she was this way before, and she sucked.
What you have done correctly! "Shocker... not really..."
- Support Items are good.
- Potions are good.
- Trinket Upgrades good "However bad because you don't warn players at lv 9 to buy it..." #dumb
Things I would LOVE to see.
- Cull when capped out gives gold and transforms INTO the gold item you removed that built into shiv... RIP
- Runic Bulwark
- Some 450 champs becoming free to play... "its been 5 years... its time to let go..."
- 5 bans 1 per player...
- Light bringer moved over to 5's and allows it to grant vision to stealth wards <- PLEASE DO THIS!!!
Other things that need fixes: Mastery's Now granted for the most part this is done well. But some things just suck. For example Recovery , its trash... Unyielding will be picked 100% of the time no contest... Ferocity... you don't have a choice, your either AP or AD and you can't choose to do both. #HybridNerf... It also leaves no diversity. Explorer will be picked over Tough Skin every single time. Veterine Scars every time over Runic Armor as its crap and we all know it... Intelligence easily every time...
All in all I think you are trying new routes and I applaud you on this, but you guys easily forget what you have already done. I don't want this lost and forgotten. Keep up the good work and please make more drastic changes. This stale stuff is getting old.