Please rename Runes.

I'm not going to lie. I hate them. I can't wait until Season 9, when we get let down by the next thing that comes along to make gameplay binary. However, until then, please rename the Runes.

You didn't make them in the spirit of old Runes. You even made them in the spirit of an existing system (Masteries).

And now every conversation on the boards is conflating the two versions of Runes as though they are one in the same, sprung from one another. While we're at it, let's address a few things:

• Runepages need to go. Us veterans can afford them, for the most part. New players can't. You're recreating a major problem this update was supposed to address. They shouldn't be required to spend 6300 BE to dress up their new 450 BE champion. And unlike old Runes, these bonuses are actually champion-based, and more ideal on specific champions, which is probably why Mastery pages basically never existed.

• Early game bonuses are limited. Basically every new Rune is based on stacking some bonus throughout the game, or at least scaling. The adjustments based on Runes weren't enough, most champions had 600ish gold worth of early Runes in their builds to be compensated like 200 gold's worth, and not where they wanted it. I get that the early game was a frenzy, but the frenzy was workable, even for those who stacked for late, because eventually their time to shine would come. That is a playstyle. Please bring that back.

• BE needs to be better. This has been made crystal clear, though, so I'll leave it at that.

• Late game needs toned down. Even old Masteries had some options that didn't scale particularly well. Now basically everything scales. Maybe champions need even more scaling defenses? I'm not sure, but getting ahead early has never meant more than it does now, despite it being easier to do for only a select few champions, because early game bolstering is no longer there.

Again, I hate new Runes, but if you're going to do them, do them right. And for godssakes, stop dressing them up as Runes. Make them Talent Stones (Keystones?), or Masteries, or Ancestral Enlightenment, or friggin' Poro Scriptures, I don't care. Let my old Runes die a well-deserved peaceful death, like Mr. Urf (okay, I guess he got to die again with new Urfwick, but you get the point.)

(I'm still holding out for resurrection.)

(For Runes, and for Urf)

(The manatee, not the game mode)