Don't change Celerity rework Absolute Focus
Absolute Focus gives an unreliable paltry damage boost, which is why no one takes it.
Meanwhile making movespeed conditional hurts it a lot. Repositioning is only strong with proper timing.
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IKR.. its like they have an insatiable urge to remove every possibly useful thing from the sorcery tree
Celerity is fine right now. It's a generic rune because people don't want heavily delayed CDR and Absolute Focus is Absolute Garbage.
OMFG really Riot, alls that going to do is make literally everyone take Transcendence instead. Absolute Focus is garbage and if you remove the reliability of Celerity its going to force people to either only use that Tree as a Secondary or take Transcendence.
Absolute Focus should be at least lowered to around 50% HP or have the stats lower as you go down, not outright disappear. Doesn't fix all the problems but at the very least the damage is more consistent.
Alternatively, replace it with a rune that grants steadily increasing adaptive stats based on how low your HP gets. Maybe not much better but I can think of a few champs who'd like it.
Or make transcendence come online before 15 min on JGs and supports. Really don't think Celerity is OP. It's just a great general pick.
These people have shit between their ears. Stop looking to riot to do anything but make the opposite of changes that would improve the game.
I see nothing being talked about Celerity on S@20?
I'd rather Celerity be removed entirely. The whole concept of the rune is busted. In the old system at least taking movement speed quints came at a cost of real stats. Now you get free AP with your movement speed.
Wait a minute...
Half of the boards are complaining that there are too many movement speed bonuses in the Sorcery Tree, but then the other half doesn't want them to be nerfed or removed.
Is this the folly of man at its finest? [sg-lux-2]
What? What are you talking about? What they gonna do with those?
What do you mean? Absolute focus is not even that bad of a keystone right now. In fact it's taken on a lot of adcs like
and sometimes 
not to mention a few toplaners and midlaners, and even junglers like 
It's a really good way to add a little bit extra waveclear for the first level or so, so you can get push and level advantage. Although people in low elo do not know how to abuse this or even understand this, it's incredibly important plat+.
Suggested Change
Absolute Focus: Gain an adaptive bonus of up to 24 AD or 40 AP while above 40% max resource, doubled when above 70%.
Now the condition is just resource management. Purposely used the term "resource" so champions like Renekton and Rumble can access this (if they ever decide to spec into sorcery).
Also synergizes with 
and 
builders.
fuck is absolute fpcus
They aren't nerfing it for mages nor does it have anything to do with mages, they are nerfing it because of ADC abusing it with Fleet Footwork because ADC ruin everything. It's a good change for the game overall the rune is insanely OP and easily abused by a lot of champions it was never intended for. I'd rather see that power put back into Phase Rush anyways.
absolute focus is core on statcheck champs though like diana :l. It is fine how it currently is.
I think they SHOULD change celerity, but it should be a net buff while making the actual rune less generic.
I like having MS, but I don't like everyone having speed and mobility constantly. Even if it means I can't have it either. Immobility is more fun than having seizures from everything blinking around. Even as Xerath charging Q, I feel like I'm going a bit too fast.
Absolute focus and transcendence do need changes though.. The problem with transcendence is that capping CDR is really, really good on a vast majority of mages and not every mage wants to take three CDR items (one of which is 20% lost chapter item), then on top of that, even if you DO build 3 CDR items, you get a free constant 20 AP so it's like, why even go absolute focus which pre-lvl10 gives an okay amount of AP but rarely lets you be on high health as you need to actively put yourself in range of enemy abilities to CS (as opposed to being able to clear with abilities from max range), and post lvl 10 restricts your build path as a safe mage by forcing you into a defensive item you don't need, or is harder to use as a battlemage due to needing to take damage?
TBH Domination, Sorcery and Precision should've been flat pen - CDR - %pen lol, transcendence scrapped since getting 20% CDR from a tree is OP, and absolute focus being changed to % AP/AD like rabadon's or something
Link?
I personally love Absolute Focus on say 
, but I think the bonus AP/AD should scale from 50% HP to 70% HP; at 70% HP you'd get the full value of the rune, at 50% you'd get half the value of the rune. Below 50%, you'd get no bonus. 50%, half the bonus. 60% HP = 3/4th bonus. 70% HP> full bonus.
Still gives it a good niche on safer champions, but makes it a bit more accessible and less punishing to risk using if your HP gets low.
Rip celecrity. Back to using Domination on adcs again. What? Sorcery isn't just for mages only. Hos are adc's supposed to milk extra ad from zeal items without celecrity. :^)
They better not... my Zilean Movement Speed build would be ruined!
I take Absolute Focus on champions like Lux and Xerath. It’s not that bad...
They could switch Absolute Focus and Scorch's places. Second row is either CDR, MS, or stronger poke. Third row are three different ways of getting bonus AP.
Absolute Focus is extremely potent on junglers, sustain laners, and even on regular champions because you'll spend a majority of the game above 70% health. The flat bonus it offers scales extremely well.
Celerity offers a movement speed boost of ~10, and around ~2AD, with little to no scaling.
In my opinion, Absolute Focus is a dark horse, and is much better than the overhyped Celerity.
Celerity is fine. they just need to tune up how other runes synergize with Absolute Focus and Transcendence.
like if Last Stand started at 80% hp instead of 70%
or if Transcendence doubled cdr instead up to 50% with Cosmic Insight
Remember when we had OLD RUNES and we had 3 X Movement Speed Quintswith 1,5% MS each totalling + 4,5% MS??
I do!!
I personally run Absolute Focus on Zed and Ekko as both of them have their own ways of avoiding damage to keep the bonus AD/AP from the rune. I just wished the the HP needed to keep it up be lowered from 70% to something like 55-60% HP.
I like to take Absolute Focus a lot actually on long range mages. Lux, Kog'Maw, Xerath, Zyra. Or on Assassins like Ekko and Fizz.