Personally I think the coin line is still very very expensive and with the new knights vow coming along as a comparatively strong armor and effect item i think coin wont ever feel good to use.
What about you all
Having to relearn the jungle yet again, only this time it will have less strategic choices since they are removing smite buffs and not really replacing them with anything useful.
I'm also worried about Katarina's rework. I'm worried that her new Shunpo reset mechanic will make her too safe / low risk (since it sounds like she can too easily hold onto her last Shunpo and always have it up to escape ganks.) Also, as someone who always maxed W on her first, in worried that her playstyle will change a lot, placing too much emphasis on blinking around (which potentially has less interaction and counterplay between the two players.)
But I'll need to actually play as/against her to really know if these concerns are founded or not.
Obvious one would be the Assassin Update. If it's like the last ones, we're gonna have a divide between the broken assassins and the completely unplayable ones.
Stealth is gonna be completly fucked up.
Supports have all these new items but they still have to hold pink control wards in their inventory so they still only get 5 items.
Assassins are going to be played in all 5 roles turning the game into an unplayable mess for anyone with high ping.
The biggest concern for me though is the fact that the jungle was effectively solved so RIOT decided to replace the problem with another new one which is already solved. They keep doing this where they are only replacing one problem with another which will never be a sustainable solution to a stale jungle. RIOT doesn't learn from what they've done in the past and that is my biggest concern about everything they've done. When it comes to plants its the same rhetoric they used with dynamic queue where everyone seems to hate it but their response is "well we haven't seen that in our internal tests so trust us" and then 6 months or a year later they'll finally do something about it. Its the same story over and over again and they don't learn.
no aura on locket :'(
The coin already sucks on most supports since a lot of supports want to roam sometimes and the Coin gives you no gold when you roam.
The assassin rework is the biggest concern for me. I don't doubt a few of the assassins are going to end up being overpowered as hell and the rest will be garbage and we will have months of waiting for Riot to rebalance them all.
I actually think the plants could be cool. I don't think the Smite Buffs are as interesting or compelling as everybody seems to think they are.
Rip my free 300 Hp on Morde T_T
this is literally my only concern
My problem is with Rengar, Fizz, and Vayne. Im banning Vayne for sure at the start while i wait on seeing if Rengar and Fizz are broken. Not too conerned about Talon, Kat, or LeBlanc. Kat players will probably just feed their asses off like normal (atleast its normal in my games) and I want to play LeBlanc and Talon. Vayne is already annoying, she's probably going to be flat out busted now. Shes getting bonus damage from Duskblade pink wards wont spot her anymore and she already almost 1 shots you with her crit build. Plus not having her in your games is never a bad thing really, only improves the quality of them. Rengar can 1 shot the adc with 5 stacks and IE, like a real 1 shot not like how Riven does it with like 5 hit, but idk how easy it is to get to that point.
Courage of the Collossus is gonna be weird. Not sure what a few of my junglers are going to use now when SOTA gone. Ivern will probably be fine with Windspeakers. Rammus might like COTC but i dont know. Not too sure about Skarner either, maybe it works?
Plants I really dont care about. Only thing i'm going to have to do is learn a new jungle route, which i can do in customs or co-op vs ai. No big deal, just wont queue up for it or i can just play Ivern so i dont get executed like 5 times while trying to figure it out.
Im excited for this update. Along with 2 assassins (Talon and LeBlanc) that i can actually see myself playing, Armor Pen ADC is dead and Tank Ekko is dead (but i dont think its gone for good, so its like faking its death maybe idk XD). I cant say i have very many new problems to complain about going into this update. I really do wish that games weren't so damn 1 sided all the time though and this update probably wont do anything to help that
Relearning Shaco and Twitch...
