What are the chances that Riot will decide to remove Keystone Masteries, which have been a consistent problem with this season. I think its highly probable that Riot will have to scrap them since they give to much power to specific champions, rather then what they were originally designed for.
Tormentula1 votesI don't see the issue with keystone masteries.
Right now every one of them is balanced, there isn't one broken or weak for their purposes. The only one questionable is strength of the ages as it only gives 2 ruby crystals worth of health and takes way too long to stack for laners.
EndlessSorcerer3 votesThe main issue with Keystone masteries is that they provide a significant boost in damage across the board even without items.
That is a large part of the reason we have had so many assassins building defensive items this season (i.e. Akali, Yasuo,). Keystone masteries provide enough additional damage they they can still kill squishy champions without itemizing for offense and they need the additional survivability to survive against all the damage being thrown around.
Strength of Ages is perfectly fine for junglers. It stacks up at a reasonable rate, 300 HP is massive in the mid-game and it provides useful sustain in the late-game (cannons dying during sieges, restoring health them killing jungle camps).
Ralanr1 votesHonestly I think the next season Riot needs to decide where they want most of the customizable power budget to be and just stick the power there while removing it from the others.
I think most of the power budget should be in the keystones instead of the items. If they keep it in items it only encourages snowballing.
xBushx1 votesI actually doubt it. They have put WAY too many resources into it to scrap them now.
