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Why so much hate on “Runes Reforged”?

Clint Orris··2 votes·1,282 views

I feel like I’m the only one who genuinely doesn’t mind this system.

Did people magically forget all the hours they had to grind just for get ONE runes page completed? And that first rune page probably had every rune you shouldn’t be buying lol.

How disappointing was it knowing that you had to grind to build some generic rune page and pair that up with a generic mastery page. You had to do the same thing for other roles and then start getting into specific champ pages.

I’m not calling this new system perfect or even great but I really do like how they moved away from just increasing your stats to diversifying the playstyles.

8 Comments

Potchikir1 votes

Because we wanted Runes Re... moved, not Reforged

D2T Undeeds1 votes

diversifying the playstyles

I disagree. The current rune system only gives the illusion of choice because every champion has an "optimal build". Sure it was fun experimenting when the concept was new but now, for example if I take anything other than instead of Kleptomancy on Ezreal, my whole team will think I'm trolling for not picking the "superior build". Can you think of a single champion whose playstyle has changed a lot to benefit from a particular rune ? The only example I can think of is Press the Attack users waiting to land 3 autos before using their cooldowns.

Runes Reforged needs to have more keystones to really promote different playstyles. Riot is currently working on that so I believe the situation will get better. In my opinion, it's still too early to say "Runes Reforged needs to go".

On an another note, I dislike Rune Reforged because it brings way too much damage in the early game.

Madsin251 votes

I can only think of one guy that actually had his playstyle completely changed in favor of the new runes.

Electrocute Vladimir They literally call this the "gigalord build" (buffed thunderlords) on the vladimir subreddit.

Pika Fox1 votes

People need something to complain about.

Madsin251 votes

Lmfao....

I use to be a die hard fan of ARAM, use to be the only thing I would play for a good year.

I went in to play Ashe in aram last night and did 60k damage.

10k from dark harvest, 2.5k from cheap shot, 4k from last stand.

Thats 17k/60k of my damage from runes. People literally exploding left and right. You find that fun so be it but I don't see how.

Pika Fox1 votes

Its aram. The game isnt exactly designed around aram.

Madsin251 votes

Because I can barely play the game. When the 20 min mark hits I know that if ANYTHING hits me I am dead.

"Moved away from increasing your stats"

The keystones are literally buffed versions of all the old ones so not sure how you figure this?

FurriesAreHot1 votes

It was a major change to a core game mechanic, and their balance has been out of whack since launch. It’s created way too many problems.

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