Everyone in OGN is rushing Boots of Swiftness

its not the only factor.

its also that knockbacks and knockups have become pretty common on a lot of champs, and tenacity doesnt affect that.

plus the nerf to tenacity on merc treads. it doesnt protect against slows and any form of cc as they used to.

so in most games, you have a ton of slows, a bunch of knockups and like 1 guy with a stun (unless someone like leona or naut is in the game). makes swifties look pretty good compared to merc treads.

duration? boots of swiftness are good against persistant slows like singed's W, or refreshed slows like ashe's Q. If they're complaining about long duration slow they should take mercury

TBH boots of swiftness provide the most easily sustainable fastest movespeed. (Mobility sucks because they get slowed down if you get hit once) A lot of people tend to undervalue movespeed as a useful stat. If you can outmanouver your enemies consistantly by just walking faster than them, then you can dictate when and where you're going to fight. (Based purely on movespeed, Discounting gap closers and fog of war ambushes and flash of course)

+1 my Canadian brother

40% Rylais and 4 second global targeted slow on an item is good for the game

I always felt like there were way too many slows. They all feel they are too strong too. Anything over 30% feels like a snare, aside from the strong ones like Thresh's ult (90%+ slows should feel insanely strong, of course).

Your legacy shall drift away,like the sands of the desert.

well, even without the slow reduce, boots of swiftness are really good right now. 20ms more than your opponent is quite a thing, and that for 300g less than mercs and co. For only a bit more gold than ninjas, one could get swiftness with an enchant, resultin in potentially 40ms more than the other boots for nearly the same gold.

There always was an overabundance of slows in league(slow creep was basically the cause of mobillity creep), and no one bothered boots of swiftness befor, so i'd argue that slows aren't the reason why they are rushed now. Costing 200g less than befor and giving 5ms more is more of a reason for it.

They're the cheapest t2 boots now. They're also the fastest. Pretty simple.

Still has that powerful slow resist passive stuck on it when they tried to make them appealing at a higher pricepoint.

Also. CJ thought they could play Ashe. Ha. Ha. Ha. I basically could not see the effect of her nerfed slow passive on the swifties Rek'Sai.