What do you like about preseason changes?
Yeah, I know. We're all here to bitch about the changes and how they suck. And I do hate a lot of the preseason stuff, mostly masteries, the state of a bunch of champions, and the fact it's even more unstable than before. But there are actually things that were made that I like.
The arpen changes. Oh I see you coming to say "Last whisper was way better, it sucks now" or "Mundo unkillable", which is partly true. But when you play a tanky guy, it is so much more healthy to have resists that actually matter, and it really creates a choice "Do i want to overcome the resists which will take a slot that will be very unefficient against non-tanks?" instead of old lw "hum let's buy that, it's good against squishies cause of their base armor and even better against tanks". (I'll still hate %health true damage, but Riot's not gonna remove their favourite mechanic soon)
The nerf of botrk. It's balanced now, for an item that gives kite active, lifesteal, powerspike, %health, attackspeed (too versatile should not be strong).
The nerf of black cleaver. BC was stupid because it gave a great powerspike, with good build path... AND is probably the best late game item a juggernaught would dream of. 20% cdr and (potentially AOE depending on kit) huge armor shred? on an item with a lot of health? Transformed lanebullies into actual lategame monsters. Ofc it's still decent but more in the niche it should be in (only offensive item, or good on champions that have great synergy such as wukong/garen)
The diversification of flat arpen items, leading to an itemization that's more about assassinating low base stats target and is unefficient against targets with resists. There again, assassins are better at their place when they're supposed to destroy squishies and somewhat struggle against armored targets.
Ofc I am probably a little bit biased because I love playing bruisers and I like feeling tanky (looking at what I said I effectively liked all that was a buff to tanky champions), also I hate kiting champs, and there are a lot of things I dislike : (nerfs to zhonya, random nerfs to champions that never see the spotlight while buffing popular champions that everyone plays (???), short games, weak towers, the random changes to minions when behind, rift herald, the nerfs to merctreads (WHYYYY), the buff to ranged champions lvl 1 AD, the overbuff of guinsoo's (I was one of the guys that suggested changes to Guinsoo's but not those kind of gross insane base stats, could be less abusable with lower brute stats and a little scaling stats with lower impact as a powerspike, such as mixed arpen), and many others I don't have in mind right now ; plus all the things I disliked from last season, being mostly mobility creep, %health true dmg, some champions.
Overall I don't think this is such a marksman season. They were actually rendered somewhat more healthy, now that the rapidfire+shiv stacking has been removed. And once individual champions rework were balanced out because they had unbalanced numbers (thinking mostly of rework release Quinn/Graves), I think it looks promising.
And you, what do you like about the preseason? And dislike, if you wish to talk about that, though I think many threads are for that already ^^
(though the last 2 aren't so strong right now)