Boots (and pink wards)

Glowormz··3 votes·392 views

Okay Riot, finally time for me to try and voice this.

For years now you have been upgrading everything in your game; items, champions, specifying roles, the look of the maps as well as buffs, etc. But what I've noticed is you've neglected something, one item that is very, very important, mainly because every champion in the game (sans Cass) builds them; boots.

The options for boots are very limited. You have attack speed boots, magic pen boots, armor/MR boots, CDR boots, speedy boots and... speedier boots. Sometimes it even feels like it's almost worth to sell the boots for combat stats, but after you sell them you remember why you kept them, every time. Every champion has a "best boot" for their build, but a lot of champions would do better with a little more option.

My first idea of fixing this was that you would have the base tier 1 boots, then tier 2's would only be the movement buff to 45, with no additional stats. Once upgraded to the second tier, you would be able to purchase boot upgrades, up to 4, and every stat would be available for purchase. You want boots that give you life steal, attack speed, attack damage and crit? Sure, go for it! How about attack damage, health regen, magic pen and MR? Whatever makes you happy. Make the second tier of boot 900g, and then every upgrade 550g from there. That way when you got to the late game your boots would feel like an actual item you want to keep as apposed to something you keep because you have to. Maybe you can come up with something better.

Side note: Can I have a damn pink ward slot? I hate getting to 6 items and not being able to buy one as any role, or having to sacrifice my 6th item as a support for a 75g ward.

3 Comments

Im a Brush1 votes

I like the idea![slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Brutalitops011 votes

Fully agree with a new Pink Ward slot. As for boots, I feel like a boot that grants crit could be a bit strong. Are you suggesting that you could buy 550 gold in any number of stats on your boots? For example, if I'm an ADC and I want attack speed, crit chance, and AD, I could buy all 3 on a single pair of boots for 550 gold per stat? I think that might be a bit much, but it could be interesting if it were limited to 1 stat per pair of boots. I know Riot has a planned rework for the boot enchantments that we had before, since they knew that, with Homeguards removed, every single boot enchantment would become a problem in its own way at some point and need to be slowly removed/reworked. They had a few things in the works for these reworked boot enchantments, but none of them went through, and one of them even actually became Taliyah's passive.

DrugsForRobots1 votes

It bothers me that with Riot giving us awesome designs, cool items and abilities, that of all the things you think they've neglected, you pick boots.

What about wards? Why are their 75+ major items covering all the major classes / roles, but there's only a handful of items that play with vision / counter invis? I mean, I would be amazed if Riot gave Wards the Boot treatment and gave us 5 or so different wards that all played with vision / information in a cool unique way, each with it's own identity and purpose, where one isn't strictly better than the other but situationally more appropriate? Notice that that's exactly what they've done with their items, including boots. Not wards though.

You ask for a slot for wards, but you neglect to push Riot to develop wards or explore the vision game! x.x

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