Why were the Dodge Seals removed?

Malfini·Mar 29, 2016·1 votes·467 views

Saw Riot's Champion Spotlight video and the champ is using Dodge seals. Do players who bought the Dodge seals able to keep them or was it completely removed?

7 Comments

TilomentryMar 29, 20163 votes

Damn that must've been one old spotlight. Dodge (and dodge seals) were removed as a stat ages ago. The current form of dodge is more of a buff like shields or cc immunity.

1 800 MID LANEMar 29, 20163 votes

The dodge stat was removed because of things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI1aeS5H1Vs

Since the stat was removed, so were the runes.

QuephaMar 29, 20162 votes

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The dodge stat was removed because of things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI1aeS5H1Vs

Since the stat was removed, so were the runes.

music is 5x more nostalgic than anything else in that video tbh

1 800 MID LANEMar 29, 20161 votes

Agreed.

MalfiniMar 29, 20162 votes

Too much power...

Truly PridefulMar 29, 20162 votes

They were completely removed and refunded. They were pretty hilariously broken especially when Jax had dodge on his E instead of the current version. Singed also enjoyed them with the old movespeed after a dodge mastery. I liked them, but I understand why they had to go. Shame crit didn't go with them.

QuephaMar 29, 20161 votes

I'm pretty sure they were refunded, but that happened before I started playing the game.

Dodge was removed because random dodge chance made 1v1 duels way too dependent on the RNG, much more than even crit creates.

Some people argue that dodge and crit are basically the same thing, but it really isn't. A player sitting at 1 hp with 30% dodge chance can survive 3 autos from the enemy with a reasonable amount of luck (1 in 27 situations like this end up with 3 dodges in a row) which is often enough time to kill the enemy. All crit can do is reduce the number of hits it takes to kill an opponent by one half with a perfect string of luck, both players still have a pretty reliable window of possibilities for how long it will take to be killed by auto attacks even in a best-case scenario and when they see a string of crits happen at the start of the fight they can tell that things aren't going their way and attempt to disengage.