3 runes that are without a doubt undertuned, but also have no place in the game

Khristophoros··3 votes·291 views

Iron Skin, Mirror Shell, and Legend: Bloodline

3 armor/mr and +5% (conditionally) isn't the kind of high impact choice we were promised from Runes Reforged. Personally I don't think it would feel good when tuned competitively though. Picking either armor or MR based on the lane matchup is the least exciting choice I can imagine. Either you are forced to take it to deal with a hard matchup, or you take it to double down on your advantage in an easy matchup. Either way you're choosing passive sustained durability, the most boring possible choice. I don't like these two runes regardless of the numbers on them.

Bloodline maxes out at 6% lifesteal with current PBE numbers. It's the only Legend rune without a base value. I don't think I'd take it on any champion with these numbers. Just like IS/MS I don't think it's a well designed rune. Lifesteal is abundant on items, but adding it from runes gives you too much item flexibility. So I can see why it's so undertuned. Nobody's going to use it. It would be better to replace it with something totally different.

So I think these 3 runes have no place in the game. With their current numbers nobody will use them. With higher numbers they will have negative effects on the game.

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Oleandervine1 votes

From what I've played, there are several runes that have no place in the game. There's a particularly frustrating one that I can't quite pinpoint yet that causes physical damage dealers like Zed heal up insanely fast, and on champs like him, it's studpidly OP, in my opinion. Zed is supposed to be squishy so you can kill him when he goes in. He shouldn't outheal your damage and also be hard to lock down.

Khristophoros1 votes

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From what I've played, there are several runes that have no place in the game. There's a particularly frustrating one that I can't quite pinpoint yet that causes physical damage dealers like Zed heal up insanely fast, and on champs like him, it's studpidly OP, in my opinion. Zed is supposed to be squishy so you can kill him when he goes in. He shouldn't outheal your damage and also be hard to lock down.

Probably using both Taste of Blood and Ravenous Hunter.

Maybe sub into Resolve and use Font of Life too.

DemonBoneJangles1 votes

the one I see a lot of marksman abusing is the replacement for grasp of the undying, now it permanently increases their health in addition to healing them, so now everyone will have mini sion powers and games will drag out a lot longer imo

Sasogwa1 votes

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the one I see a lot of marksman abusing is the replacement for grasp of the undying, now it permanently increases their health in addition to healing them, so now everyone will have mini sion powers and games will drag out a lot longer imo

Well the hp gain is divided by 2.5 on a ranged champ and by taking resolve primary, you lose out on a pretty high as steroid, and the précision keystones are really strong too.

And there's botrk and the rune that gives sthg like +10% damage against champs with more max health

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