Boots of swiftness are useless.

Ophiuchus·3/12/2017, 6:24:27 PM·2 votes·2,898 views

Boots of swiftness are useless and here's why... I remember asking my friends about the shoes that they buy when playing Olaf. And they replied, "swifties". I usually get berserkers for the AS so I asked them why and they said "because of the slow resist". I found that stupid and further researched the different types of shoes to justify myself and it hit me. Boots of swiftness give you only 10 more MS than other boots (55) and a 25% slow resist. Mercury's treads gives you 45 MS and reduces stuns, SLOWS, taunts, fears, silences, blinds, polymorphs and immobilized by 30%. This is 5% more than the swifties. Considering all the stats of both boots, do you really think 10 more MS is worth? If not maybe swifties should be buffed or removed altogether.

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420 grams3/12/2017, 6:32:54 PM5 votes

I think merc treads reduce the duration of those things, not the amount. Boots of swiftness are also cheaper, but they should get the 5 movement speed back that was cut off at the beginning of the season

Sona Ping3/12/2017, 6:30:59 PM3 votes

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Boots of swiftness are useless and here's why... I remember asking my friends about the shoes that they buy when playing Olaf. And they replied, "swifties". I usually get berserkers for the AS so I asked them why and they said "because of the slow resist". I found that stupid and further researched the different types of shoes to justify myself and it hit me. **Boots of swiftness give you only 10 more MS than other boots (55) and a 25% slow resist. Mercury's treads gives you 45 MS and reduces stuns, SLOWS, taunts, fears, silences, blinds, polymorphs and immobilized by 30%. This is 5% more than the swifties. ** Considering all the stats of both boots, do you really think 10 more MS is worth? If not maybe swifties should be buffed or removed altogether.

You are drawing conclusions and making balance calls when you don't understand how the game works and have not even read about the mechanics in question in the first place.

While this is expected for League forum, it shouldn't be.

ValyrianBlade3/12/2017, 6:29:45 PM3 votes

So boots of swiftness were super popular last season and actually had the MS nerfed because they were being used so often. Basically, with the amount of CC in the game Mercury Treads were pointless - reducing the time you were CC'd means nothing when as soon as you are CC'd you're liable to get a load of follow up damage and additional CC.

Swifties meanwhile allow you to have a little extra speed to dodge the initial CC. Slows are also often much easier to hit than hard CC (so often you get tagged with a slow that makes it easier to land the hard CC) and swifties make it easier to dodge the follow up still.

I do, however, agree that Swifties are pretty underwhelming right now. Please DO remember that they cost 200g less than mercury treads though - that is an important difference as it lets you get the additional MS that much earlier (and MS has a huge impact on this game). Also don't underestimate the value of that 10MS. That all being said, I'd actually prefer to see Swifties get buffed to have better slow reduction (like increase your minimum MS cap and have 30-40% slow resist) and cost the same as mercury treads to compensate for the extra power.

TakuHatake1/21/2019, 8:44:13 PM1 votes

Everyone doubts it's power, but if you have hard cc like Veigar, you can place your stuns, run from most champs, and get kills of kiting harder.

Ben Sharpio3/12/2017, 7:33:32 PM1 votes

yeah i agree

Tahminatrix 3/30/2017, 1:19:51 AM1 votes

Swifties are pretty situational, they are really good on champs that dont need combat stats and just want to catch up to the enemy, problem is they can`t do the job alone even when bought on a champ that would like them and against a team it would be good against.

Main issue is any champion with a gap closer like Riven is pretty much immune to slows and benefits much more from item 3111

Maybe if slows were buffed to reduce gap close distance it would be more rewarding Like zed throwing out his shadows not as far while slowed, or riven not jumping as far, or point and click gap closers losing a bit of range while slowed

This would put item 3009 into play alot more along with storm raiders surge , but not force anyone to get them.

chipndip13/30/2017, 1:40:13 AM1 votes

Eh, they should probs remove the boots. They're too close to Mercs and Mobis in competition. Make new boots that do something else, I guess. Heal/Shield power boots? AD boots? Mana sustain boots?