I mean everyone is using it, most of the time 7 out of 10 people start with it in a game. Plus it is such a powerful active, even though it can only be used once, it doesn't make sense that it is available so early on. Kind of makes it hard to get ahead as an assassin or jungler when you look and the entire enemy team has a stopwatch.
I just don't think it is a healthy item when it is available to everyone so early on.
Zertryx1 votesStop watch ITSELF is fine imo, HOWEVER the RUNE for it is broken as fuck, first of all its NOT a KEYSTONE which it should be, and the fact that its active at 6 minutes is absurd for it being Free 600 gold item, and even if you dont plan on building it into anything you can just sell it after for free gold (if you took the rune)
Don't worry though, everyone in pro play is basically starting the game with it, it'll be retuned / nerfed / removed prob within a few patches, lets hope it doesnt stay around in its state like ardent censor did
Edit: also looking at it, stop watch competes with nothing else in its row, it honestly should be switched with minion dematerializer if they wanna keep it a lower tier rune, Because at least then it competes with other Free gold items (boots or debt) and the boots are a decent item so it be an actual choice to decide on
Stephenizgod1 votesYea I should have specified I was talking about the rune. Its really unfair how early on it is available for free with pretty much no trade-off. It honestly should be an item being built later on, 600 gold imo is too low for how strong it is, not to mention it builds into other items. Maybe it should straight up disappear after using it so you have to rebuy it? Idk... just tired of the item being on champs you wouldn't normally expect to have it.