what will happen to Spell vamp runes?

rtbf214552814·Jun 25, 2015·1 votes·844 views

since they are getting rid of spell vamp from the items what will happen to the runes, i noticed this when i have 3 spell vamp quints and was tempted to try it on akali or vlad

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JustMyBassCannonJun 25, 20151 votes

Probably the same thing that happened with Dodge Chance Runes; they'll refund the IP.

Waaay back, can't remember if it was during Season 1 or early Season 2, there was a stat for Dodge Chance. Three champions had it naturally--Udyr, Sivir and Jax--and there were two items that granted Dodge Chance, Phantom Dancers and Ninja Tabi. And then runes.

Dodge Chance was removed due to the binary nature of the RNG--either it worked often enough to let you win/survive, or it didn't happen at all and it was a bit of a waste of gold--and everyone who bought Dodge Chance runes for their Jax builds had the runes refunded for IP.

DrinkurMilkshakeJun 25, 20151 votes

So... like critical hits?

JustMyBassCannonJun 27, 20152 votes

Let it be known that I have never actually defended Crit Chance as a mechanic, and that I believe it needs to be made more dynamic than a chance that you might deal more damage.

That said, while Crit Chance poses a lot of the same problems that Dodge Chance created, it's less of a problem, primarily because the archetype that uses it is balanced around using it. Physical damage output as a system is balanced around the three-stat scaling. Crit Chance is a necessary evil, because it's basically the reason that physical damage can scale into late-game to the point where marksmen can be a glass cannon.

It's less drastic than Dodge Chance was, so it was less offensive, too. Crit Chance is positive RNG, while Dodge Chance was negative RNG.