Are we getting new masteries (and maybe new runes) this season?

Yeah, I expect we'll look at them again at some point, there's definite room for improvement there in terms of how both runes and masteries are handled (lack of genuine, interesting choices in various places in particular).

I think your team should be more concerned just with how expensive it is to even experiment with Runes. If the majority of Runes were free, you might be able to actually make a more expansive and dynamically interesting system because people would actually have the room and the time to try out all sorts of new combinations. Right now they can't afford to do so because they need to just buy the most efficient ones.

One thing I would suggest is removing all Defensive runes and leaving just Offensive and Utility runes and making Masteries a lot more about Utility rather than Damage, Tankiness or just flat stats in general.

wasn't that one of the three things supposed to be addressed season 4? (Support, Runes, and fighter rework (RIP))

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Yeah, I expect we'll look at them again at some point, there's definite room for improvement there in terms of how both runes and masteries are handled (lack of genuine, interesting choices in various places in particular).

why don't you just remove runes completely? they're terrible.

What about the changes to flat health and mana regen? It seems like a lot of champions can circumvent their mana/regen weaknesses in S4 by loading up on a bunch of flat regen from runes, then amping it with % regen from items.

Last pre-season you guys were teasing a runes cleanup moving utility into glyphs and defensive stats to seals, offensive to marks and then have the quints represent meaningful playstyle choices IIRC - for instance people sometimes run AP glyphs right now which is a confusing design as you're forced to choose between offensive stats (AP), defensive stats (magic resist) or utility stats (CDR) glyphs meanwhile mana regen seals are more efficient than glyphs and so on. I may have missed out on some information, but all I remember was someone stating it would be too much change at once. If this is still something you would like to do, is it at all possible that it would happen before preseason 2016? I for one was very intrigued by the prospect of having clearer decisions to make with the runes and really have them impact my play, because right now it feels like a core set of runes are just best on every champion and building pages to cater to your own playstyle puts you at a slight disadvantage in effectiveness.

Runic Shield please, it's overdue... It was useless when released and still is. Some other stuff in defense tree and especially support tree could really do with some work. I never understood why you didn't fix part of it during season 4 already, you nerfed those that were overpowered aswell :/

Yeah, I expect we'll look at them again at some point, there's definite room for improvement there in terms of how both runes and masteries are handled (lack of genuine, interesting choices in various places in particular).

Well I'd hope for some mastery changes because there seems to be some masteries that are just lack luster and have little use as most the time you don't go past 21 points in a page. Unless you really want to be offensive, utility or tanky then there isn't total need for some of these masteries. Maybe some minor changes to these or different ones (keep some, I do have a liking for the increase by 1% auto attack damage for spell cast and vice/versa.