@Joe/New001 Re: "Groups Of Champions Underserved By The New System"

Draehl·4/26/2018, 6:12:02 PM·5 votes·4,658 views

That particular snippet of your video caught my attention and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the 'ranged offtank' playstyle that IMO is still rather underserved by the new rune system. No longer being able to stack Armor/MR from the old runes really hurts squishy champions who would like to achieve a modest level of defensive stats and none of the new runes come close to providing that level of sustained defense. Also, with so many of the "big boy" tank items being so gold inefficient it makes picking them up, especially as a support, pretty dubious.

I'm curious if you've considered anything like a much more amped up version of the (now defunct) Celestial Body rune? If players could, for example, take a 30% penalty to all of their damage/healing/shielding effects in order to gain X Armor/MR/Health per level it would do so much for us and let us return to our old ways of being able to do a little more bodyblocking and wading into fights to focus more on essential crowd control timing rather than having to play so meekly as we do in the current meta.

I realize the segment of players who enjoyed this playstyle might be relatively small, but would very much appreciate a response if you're able!

7 Comments

Sorin Alucard4/26/2018, 6:18:19 PM4 votes

I agree with your suggestion. If we're really trying to create "true tank less dmg" It should be like 30% til lvl 10 then drops to 10% then you get 0% stat decrease at lvl 13

just a suggestion on top of yours

The Sword Saint4/26/2018, 6:24:08 PM4 votes

The last thing we need is more ranged champions running around ruining top lane - except this time while being too tanky to all in. Might as well retire all melee champions who can't mid or jungle at that point.

Meep Man4/27/2018, 2:48:47 PM1 votes

Ranged Offtank seems like it will never be able to exist considering that ADCs abuse items and runes made for MELEE Offtanks currently whenever possible. We would have to be extremely specific with the balance to the point of it almost being TOO niche.

Urgot is a big one that suffers by being an extremely short ranged yet still ranged champion. Not sure how to handle them tbh.