Sustain Oriented Runes Are Unhealthy

Frosted Tips··3 votes·1,818 views

Even back when we had runes and masteries before runes reforged sustain oriented at that point masteries were super unhealthy. I remember constant changes to Warlords Bloodlust and now we have Fleet Footwork which is being used on champions that are supposed to have a clear weakness to poke and early pressure in lane, but that weakness is drastically covered up by Fleet Footwork. These champions that currently abuse it are Kassadin and Akali. I really think they should give up on the sustain oriented Keystones or even all mainly sustain oriented runes.

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Elite4Runner1 votes

Is this title intentionally ironic?

Saezio1 votes

OR they could make sustain runes more appealing to tanks and less appealing to damage dealers, instead of making them the perfect secondary tree when you are fucked in lane matchup.

heroikc1 votes

I've never seen either champ (among many others) take fleet footwork. Besides, runes are mostly there to amplify a champion's strengths or compensate for some flaw. It's also not like you can't build some form of grievous wounds.

Frosted Tips1 votes

Well they are the most common runes for plat+ players. Also the hole point is that their early game weakness is getting poked out and most champs can't get grevious wounds until 1 full item so they don't help against these runes.

heroikc1 votes

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Well they are the most common runes for plat+ players. Also the hole point is that their early game weakness is getting poked out and most champs can't get grevious wounds until 1 full item so they don't help against these runes.

Common, maybe, but that's probably due to the burst meta screwing everyone over.

Frosted Tips1 votes

Healing is bad against burst. Tankiness is the counter to burst so that logic doesn't make sense. But yes the burst meta is bad.

hrooza dota 1 votes

will Akali was always a sustain champ until the latest gut so you cant blame her players for picking any sort of sustain now

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