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The Keystones will always be a cause of grief.

ScurvyNave·1/15/2016, 4:51:00 AM·1 votes·431 views

Yes its nice that they have more impact on the game than the old masteries but we're on the scale of too much here.

I'm sure a quick comparison will show you all that some of the keystones are more powerful than champion passive abilities.

This is wrong. I play league for the diverse champions. Not some arbitrary broken mastery of the week mind game.

There will always be the strongest mastery which will be abused and Thunderlords will likely remain it because its easy to proc and gives burst damage. That alone makes if favourable for landing phase which is what League is apparently all about nowadays.

Not to mention these keystones benefit certain champions too much while leaving others abandoned in the dust. Not to mention the keystone implementation only managed to get Swain, Karhtus and Anivia nerfed. Cause that was so badly needed.....not!

Way to go Riot you've introduced another broken impossible to balance system into the game. Have fun focusing on masteries more than champions for Season 6.

Seriously Someone name me one good thing that came from these Keystones. All they've done is giving us broken champions, nerfs to mages which didn't deserve them, and imbalance issues forever.

4 Comments

ModKnightsKemplar1/15/2016, 4:54:21 AM1 votes

I disagree. With the new DFT buffed again, I actually think Swain is in a great spot. Still really enjoy playing him.

I never thought Thunderlord's was oppressive. I know that's the party line, but I thought that way before Riot announced it wouldn't be nerfing it. I thought they would, for sure, and I'm glad they didn't. I think it's totally possible for the new keystones to work out fine. Some champs will have to be altered slightly, no doubt, due to their extreme synergy with certain masteries, but that's okay with me. They were already balanced around old masteries; it's really no different, but now masteries actually matter.

That's better for the game overall, in my opinion.

Igotlazy1/15/2016, 4:58:44 AM1 votes

With the recent buffs to other Keystones I think we'll begin to see more diversity. Thunderlords was popular at the beginning of last patch but others began to pop up as the weeks went by. Grasp of the Undying was discovered to be good and picked on beefy top laners, Strength of Ages was taken on Champs like Olaf, Rammus, Singed and Sion Windspeaker is still solid for many supports Deathfire Grasp was being picked on a couple of Sustain Damage Mages

We'll see what happens honestly.

I personally like them though. The mastery tree from previous seasons were INCREDIBLY boring and most of the time were just straight number Buffs. Keystones add another, more obvious layer to champion builds which I enjoy.