You'd think there'd be other viable choices. Flat AD? Doesn't help your burst, and you shouldn't have last-hitting issues that would necessitate flat AD. AP? Terrible value. CDR? Same problem.
Probably just a flaw of the rune system in general, but I still find it annoying that there's no realistic alternatives for mages.
Big Lincoln1 votesrunes are kind of shitty in general 2bh
needs to be more equalized i think, with quints holding special value
Oglaf1 votesHybrid Marks used to be a popular alternative for a mix of auto-attacks and spells/abilities.
Not sure how that works out with Lethality now though.
oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votesbut if you look at the other type of runes such as glyphs ad runes are trash there... but other utility type of runes are better there in that set of runes...
typically the way it seems it was set up (similar to masteries) marks are offensive, seals are defense , qlyphs are utility and QUINTS would be keystones
darkdill1 votesI know that's how it is, but the fact that you only have the choice of flat MPen is very limiting. Why can't there be MPen/lvl or maybe %Mpen?
Then again, as Big Lincoln said, runes are in a shitty spot right now. Riot plans to rework/replace them eventually.
oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votesthere isnt or wasnt armor pen per lvl prior to arm pen rework
but there is ad scaling , armor scaling, hp scaling, ap scaling and cdr scaling and mana regen scaling per lvl all through the runes