A start to balancing League overall.

Radiant Wukong·May 31, 2018·6 votes·3,046 views

Remove runes/masteries completely.

After the champions are balanced around their kit and current items, then you can implement runes/masteries again.

Balance Priority

Champion and champion (ally or enemy) interaction
Champion & item interaction
Champion & rune/mastery interaction

There are currently balance issues with all 3, horrific balance issues. My solution to balance would be S9, no runes/masteries. No release of new items.

Would be a very chaotic S9 as everything goes through drastic changes, might lose some player base. Will be a lot of complaints, but a full year dedicated to focusing on balance will see a lot of praise S10.

It'll be a long, awful, stressful year of League with the end result being a lifetime League fan's heaven.

6 Comments

DubshokaMay 31, 20181 votes

Wide sweeping changes like this are the only way to realistically balance the game at this point, but unfortunately it will never happen.

LordGeovanniMay 31, 20181 votes

The thing is doing this will only Cause damage to lower and thus cause adcs assassins and mages to claim tank meta which wil get tanks gutted for the 5th time in a row. and that is only if riot doesnt compensate every damage dealer for the damage they lose in removing runes which they will likely do ignoring that not only them lost runes but everyone. Then when runes are added again they will be op but so many people will be gone because of the change they wont care to come back and check (which is overall best for anyone who does get out of this game instead of longing for previous seasons while tortureing yourself with current ones.)

Radiant WukongJun 1, 20181 votes

I can't say for sure it'd be a tank meta, because tanks will be losing a minimal 15% of their tankiness from the resolve tree in flat and bonus resistances/health.

Power creep was addressed positively in this patch as far as dealing with crit, make some adjustments to all squishy base/growth stats then adjust lethality to bring all damage in line.

Adjustments will need to be made across the board gradually over the year (not all at once like what's be done for the past seasons) to bring everything in balance.

I truly believe it can be done if a year was dedicated to it.

Don't forget old rune system was way easier to abuse, when you could start level 1 with 20 bonus AD on Tryndamere or 19 bonus armor on Malphite. Old Galio starting with 19 magic resistance.

LordGeovanniJun 1, 20182 votes

i didnt say it will be a tank meta i said mages adcs and assassins will claim tank meta because thats what they do any time tanks take more than 3 seconds to kill.

bigtendieJun 1, 20181 votes

Scrap masteries but just bring back old runes and make them free. I miss taking armor runes/magic resist/attack speed etc. I felt like there was more variety back then.