[Theorycraft Time] Runes Reforged Release

ProfDrDeath·Sep 25, 2017·6 votes·2,091 views

Forge Your Path: League of Legends Preseason Update

And it comes with a mock-up Rune Page Editor. With nice graphics to boot - check out the symbol on the right side changing with your choices!

Anyways, what is the first combination you want to try with your favorite champion(s), purely based on the descriptions?

- Quinn

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8100-8124?build=11202037

Situation: Playing top lane against someone tanky who allows a lot of roaming

Reasoning:

Domination for more burst and power when roaming
Precision secondary for dealing with the lane opponent
Predator allows superfast ganks with Tag Team
Eyeball Collection for more power
Cheap Shot for synergy with E and Q (Blind should be impaired action)
Relentless Hunter see Keystone
Legend: Alacrity for a bit of laning strength
Cut Down against a target with more health

5 Comments

WinterwingsSep 25, 20173 votes

Soraka - Bane of Bot Lane

http://eune.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8200-8214?build=20200346

Situation: Playing bot lane against other Enchanters or melee supports with telegraphed engage (Not suicidal to try this vs Killfishing lanes)

Reasoning:

Sorcery cos it's going to sync up real sweet with the build
Inspiration secondary for a large chunk of AP + again sync's too well with build and selections from Sorcery
Summon Aerie is a no-brainer here... very versatile and highly useful no matter how it's used
The Ultimate Hat for more frequent ults come late game
Transcendence for more CDR and converting excess CDR into AP, which (surprise, surprise) just works too well with this build
Scorch to charge Athene's faster for EVEN BIGGER healing potential
Future's Market to get to core items ASAP
Cosmic Insight is once again just too good with this set-up and self-explanatory

Build in question : item 3174 item 2301 item 3158 item 3504 item 3107 ( item 3102 / item 3157 / item 3050 ) Hint : All of the above items have 10% CDR, with full build that's 60% + 10% + 5% from Transcendence and Cosmic Insight -> meaning a total of 70 AP extra, for freebies

Anish22Sep 26, 20172 votes

Janna

http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8200-8214?build=20201227

Reasoning:

   * Summon Aerie for stronger shields and poke damage with Q and W (although more for the stronger shields)
   * The Ultimate Hat to just get some early cdr on the ultimate for early game bot lane fights/ganks
   * Transcendence because she buys so many cdr items so some cdr converted into AP and for the early 10% which is always useful. But Celerity might prove to be better with her new passive 
   * Waterwalking as a personal preference because I like to roam (although I could see Gathering Storm being useful here as well)
   * Font of life cos she can proc it relatively easily with Q and W but would maybe consider taking Iron Skin to counter pesky ADCs
   * Revitalize for the added power for her heals and shields (also Redemption, Locket etc.)

My general items on Janna include: item 2302 item 3107 item 3504 item 3222 item 3050 item 3174 item 3190 item 3110

LordRedStone Nr1Sep 26, 20171 votes

Introduction: I like to play my Rakan different than others do, especially in this "First Ardent wins" meta. Build and playstyle focus on the engage, not on E and Q. Now with Runes Reforged, I can finally do something more than just Courage of the Colossus and HP Runes.

Rakan "Look at me"-Rakan

Resolve / Domination

Aftershock synergizes well with your W
Both Aftershock and Conditioning offer defensive stats.
You could swap Conditioning with both other Runes, depending on the enemy damage sources. Q will heal more than 20 to proc it.
Font of Life to heal my allies. Not sure if its by damaging or Auto-Attacking, so it could also heal myself, but thats not the main focus.
You could swap Font of Life for Demolish, but the ADC will probably deal enough tower damage.
Overgrowth offers % HP, which stack unlimited. (Thank god, I used 4.5% max HP Quints in 2 pages I think)
Zombie Ward or Ghost Poro, depending on how it actually works, but I lean more towards Zombie Ward here.
Cheap Shot or Sudden Impact. Both deal extra damage with your W, but Cheap Shot seems to be more reliable and deals more damage.

Core: item 3069 item 3111 item 2045 item 3050 Situational: item 3083 / item 3143 / item 3065 / item 3194 / item 3109

Zekes and Knight's Vow are of course bound to your ADC, I don't build KV very often, unless I play with Xayah. Activating Talisman gives you a nice movespeed burst, which increases your dash speed too. After your W you can activate Randuins for the extra slow (if you build Randuins you have only 30% CDR, with any other item 40%). Also, Zekes will be active because you usually combine your W with Ult. Main goal is to lock them down long enough for your team to ace them.

Forhonor321Sep 26, 20171 votes

Shyvana - Dragon Queen of the Jungle

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8000-8008?build=01102265

Shyvana revolves a lot around attack speed, which precision focuses on
Resolve is there to help keep her somewhat tanky since she's a juggernaut
Lethal Tempo can be good since it'll help Q come off CD faster and help do more damage from E mark
Triumph will help in teamfights and after dueling for keeping her alive afterwards
Alacrity will continue adding more attack speed, since she farms jungle and minions fairly well (also make her less item dependent for attack speed and go more beefy)
Last stand is good since she'll be diving into the enemy team and take a bit of flack so that extra % damage will help
Overgrowth will synergize with Titanic well and help her scale better in as the game goes on
Conditioning will improve total armor and MR so the flat bonus from that plus the bonus from dragons she/her team gets will help stack up

Core: item 1419 item 3748 item 3022 item 3111 or item 3047 Defense: item 3742 item 3143 item 3065 item 3075 item 3194 Situational: item 3078 item 3071 item 3053 item 3512 item 3153 item 3091 item 3083 item 1413 item 3026

LankPantsSep 26, 20171 votes

This is going to be a long post

Sejuani Jungle: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8400-8436?build=31020328

Guardian because Sej has anti-synergy with After Shock since you have so much durability for the first 3 seconds of a fight anyway and you don't have the opportunity to stack up Grasp
Perseverance because you don't need to push towers as a jg and the 14% extra armour/MR when you flash/smite is pretty good
Conditioning because you shouldn't need the 3 extra armour to clear and it's strictly better after 10 min
Overgrowth because the other two do nothing for you
Perfect timing because Stoneplate is OP, a quicker Stoneplate with a shorter CD is even more OP
Celestial Body because 100 HP for a very low cost since you mostly fight jungle creeps and CC in early ganks is amazing

Top Lane: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8400-8437?build=30020216

Grasp is amazing on any lane tank, better trading, free HP, what's not to love?
The lower tier resolve masteries for pretty much the same reason as in jungle
Manaflow Band because your W costs 80 mana and ignoring that cost and getting some extra back for it is pretty good
Scorch because free poke on W

Sona Option 1: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8100-8128?build=12211326

Mostly about item CDR
Dark Harvest gives some bonus harass and scales up pretty well late
Eyeball collection because Sona has great AP ratios
Taste of Blood because Sona's only CC on her base kit is E Powerchord which is janky to use with Cheap Shot and she has no dashes so can't utilise Sudden Impact
Ingenious Hunter for item active CDR, the main reason for this spec
Perfect timing lets you get Zhonya's down to about a 30 second CD when you take Ruby Sightstone and makes it affordable as a support
Cosmic Insight, because CDR

Option 2: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8300-8326?build=41200127

Summoner Specialist should be Looter, but I can't add that mastery
Basically a less offensive version of the last page, generates more gold with Looter and free boots but doesn't have the damage keystone

Option 3: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8200-8214?build=20202336

More standard page
Aerie seems pretty solid on healers in general
General focus on CDR with Ultimate Hat/Transcendence/Cosmic Insight
Gathering Storm because Sona scales very well late and wants AP into the lategame

Akali Option 1: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8100-8112?build=10220208

Electrocute is a lot of burst especially with Gunblade rush
Eyeball collection because extra stats on a stat hungry champ
Sudden Impact should always be active thanks to R
Ravenous Hunter doubles down on Akali's Vamp
Perseverance is the best of poor options, you don't really have the stats to make the second row work, you don't really have use for extra tower pushing and Font just doesn't work
Revitalise is the entire reason for Resolve secondary, multiplying all of your very strong healing is very good

Option 2: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8100-8112?build=10220016

Triumph keeps you alive after executing a target
Coup De Grace helps you execute said target

Option 3: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8100-8112?build=10220323

Better GA or Zhonya's
650 gold off your finished build

Irelia http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8000-8008?build=01100207

Lots of AS in Precision for W
Triumph to keep you alive in fights, since Overheal doesn't really do anything unless you're at full HP, which will be pretty rare
Coup De Grace just to ensure you finish people you get on
Perseverance means you stick to people you flash on
Revitalise for W and R

Zyra Mid: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update/8100-8112?build=10210132

Can't really use Meteor since Q/QW is your main harass and it's to easy to dodge Meteor when you're not CCed in some way, this makes Electrocute the best option
Eyeball collection because Zyra already has a great vision game with Seeds
Taste of Blood for some extra trading power and sustain
Ravenous Hunter so your plants heal you up since they should be tagged single target
Transcendence and Ultimate Hat because Zyra loves CDR and has a powerful ult that's great when it's up more