Armor rune removal is killing non meta pick

[{quoted}](name=Tenth Leper,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=LwVERhMa,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-11-15T23:26:46.159+0000)

You can still take an armor rune for jungle. It is just a rune everyone hates.

Wasting a secondary path for 5 armor when old rune gave 9.... not worth. Your champion may not have good other rune in resolve.

you can still take an armor rune, but not for jungle however; it does not give enough tankiness for jungling on off-meta picks.

{quoted}

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeah, basically.

Squishies can still mid but unless they can either kite or literally blow up the jungle they'll get pelted by autos from everything and just die. 9 less base armor is only ~5% less physical damage resistance at level 1 but it's a real factor both in lane and in jungle. Most mages can manage top well too, where they can kite or straight-up counter a lot of the meta there. Also supporting as a mage isn't the worst thing ever usually as you can really abuse your AoE spells against 2+ champions.

Mage start with 18-22 base armor. At 18, 9 armor reduce 8%, at 22 -7%. (I did the calcul). This is non negligable when you trade a lot (monster in jungler or vs ad in lane).

{quoted}

It's not just 5 Armor, it's 5 Armor + 5%, and if you go Jungle, you have at the very least Revitalize, that increases the heal from your Jungler Items. Overgrowth is also pretty generically useful. The other row, I agree, is more specialized and not interesting for everyone, but you can still find 2 useful Runes in Resolve to splash it.

+5% is nothing if you plan to play a carry jungler, you need flat armor, especially in the early game for non meta jungler.

They gave champions most of their most used runes as compensation buffs

{quoted}

Most champions got base station buffs that pretty well compensate for the removal of the old rune system. Most of which were buffed by almost exactly 9 armor If an armor buff didn't happen on a particular champion, they were buffed in other ways.

Also jungle items are better now too.

You don't alway carry the same rune and people don't all use the same rune. New rune systeme is killing diversity. I've seen thing like Diamond 2 ADC Ahri only, now they can't do it anymore. Instead she got compasated in HP, a rune you use in ap vs ap mid only.

New rune systeme is only replacing masteries. Base stat compasation from champion and rune are standard base stat you can no longer customize as much as we used to.