Xpecial - "Playoff/Worlds" Patches
Riot please, Xp is making a good point and I was thinking about that last years worlds after the juggernaut buff. Your patches has really ruined a bunch of teams. Like I understand having huge patched half way into the season to see which team can adapt better, for example TSM after MSI and CLG after MSI has both fell hard because of super patches after the tournament. But you cant do that for playoff and worlds.
I think during playoff/worlds, you shouldnt make crazy changes to the game. Imo you shouldnt nerf anything in the game unless its blasphemously overpowered say pre nerf vlad malz. I believe next year or even before worlds just give SMALL changes to other champions. So lets say atm the fotm champions are Malz, Syndra, Velkoz, Zilean, dont touch them too much! maybe have some mana nerfs. And then gives small buffs to a BUNCH of other champions that are barely being used but are close to competitive or big buffs to useless champions that still might not be good enough be competitive. This way the champions that players have been using for months can still use them during playoff/worlds, while also having some niche champions they can pull out because they decided that the small buffs were enough for them to compete against the other top champions.
That being said, I do like the fact you punished the 1v2 more. But Xpecial made a point, even though I hate watching 1v2, it needs to be in the game, and this is coming from me who even made a thread saying how much I want 1v2 to be less rewarding and should be punished for opting out of the duo lane 2v2. I agree with the change to punish them, but I think you pushed it alittle too far.
ALITTLE
Imo first turret gold should be lowered, not much too much, but lower. So the punish wouldnt be so crazy so that players can still opt out of 2v2 if they rather move away from a difficult matchup over giving their opponent an adv early.