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Rune replacement suggestion for Waterwalking in ARAM: Liberation

Illâoi Evê Siôn·5/26/2019, 6:07:57 PM·7 votes·6,634 views

Since Waterwalking doesn't work on ARAM and Riot has been doing some ARAM rebalance work lately, I thought I could suggest a replacement rune for the map:

Liberation

Gain 20% Movement Speed for 1 second and an adaptive bonus of up to 18 Attack Damage or 30 Ability Power (based on level) for 6 seconds after being healed by a health shrine that an enemy took or that is on the enemy side of the map.

This includes both taking the shrine and being healed by the redemption effect, so you can get a refresh on the duration and the movement speed twice by taking both the shrine and staying long enough for the effect, or you can get it from your own shrines if an enemy took them. It gives a third option next to poke (Scorch) and scaling (Gathering Storm) in the form of rewarding aggressive play during windows of power, possibly for melee champions. The movement speed is a nice alternative to consider in comparison to the other two rune's flat damage increases.

Alternative rewards or adjusting the values could be considered.

The lore behind it would either be A) on the Howling Abyss that the Iceborn turned the power they had been given against the Watchers to liberate themselves, or B) on Butcher's Bridge that pirates like to 'liberate' things from their enemies.

4 Comments

Sir Saltarin5/26/2019, 6:28:45 PM4 votes

Since Waterwalking doesn't work on ARAM and Riot has been doing some ARAM rebalance work lately, I thought I could suggest a replacement rune for the map:

Porowalking: it's the same as Waterwalking but it works when you are near a poro.

Naono5/26/2019, 10:23:12 PM3 votes

They can use it with turrets. Like the item that increase movement speed when close to it turret. That way, teams/champs that have to hug turret due to match up can have some fighting power.

FilDaFunk5/27/2019, 10:50:37 AM1 votes

This doesn't look useful, especially sicne you want to run away if stealing the redemption effect.

Saianna5/27/2019, 3:37:33 PM1 votes

or that is on the enemy side of the map.

Yea.. that would be an ultimate steamroll perk. if you manage to push 1 tower you get 1 free item worth of stats for couple of seconds.

I'd rather see something like You gain movement speed after getting effects of the shrine. Speed boost is stronger while using shrine on your side. Just that. So people can heal and join fight faster.