The rune change bums me out, seems like its being neutered and given training wheels....
Now before you guys start to say " ohhh everyone just copied this template etc etc" just stop... that is not the case for us aram only folks... my crew and I exclusively play aram, which I realize doesn't mean much to the guys down at Riot HQ... With that being said, my team and I have always prided ourselves on the ability min/max via rune pages/masteries, sometimes using health regen runes with a bit of magic pen for tankier champs or stacking lethality/spell pen runes... While i'm only here to vent and voice my concern, I honestly don't intend to keep playing league if these choices aren't diverse in nature... I don't know why games keep following this trend of simplifying things and cutting out potential statistical outliers. That's alwaysss been the fun for me, it's why I quit pvping in world of warcraft, the moment you start taking away peoples choices and simplfying it for them using that justification that "everyone just ran the same rune page" it gets stale and the theory crafting goes out the window. Its about playstyle and the rune pages have always enabled me to mitigate weakness or maximize strengths in aram. Heres an example. We have 5 squishy champs on my team with me as rumble, I could easily switch to my health regen +8 spell pen rune page and boom, I can help prevent early game bullying with decent sustain... Get my damage out there and if they try to dive i can screen them with my flame thrower.... theres several of these examples and its looking like the flavor of these type of pregame choices is going out the window.
While I understand this game isn't tuned around ARAM and indeed they structure it based upon what pro teams, I think taking away peoples options just so you can create these gimmick like keystones seems a bit one note... From everything I've seen so far it seems atleast 80-90% less diverse, wheres the fun in that?? Best of luck to you Riot, i'll enjoy league for the next month or 2 and have fun using my juicy rune pages but after that its very likely i'll have to uninstall ;(...
The sad part is I used to brag to my old pvper friends on other games that league was so much more diverse and intricate when it came to builds. if I want to play a support-like champion (in aram) more carry centric, i could alter my runes/masteries and boom i'm now playing lulu as a crit machine and able to mitage our weakness ( not having enough ranged ad ) by my own means/methods. & before you criticize me, I've played over 3 dozen games as supports playing attack damage carries and had quite a bit of success, gotten atleast 4 S's off the top of my head with my adc lulu build... all in aram...
TLDR; I love the current mastery/rune system, it provides lots of customization, all coming from someone who exclusively plays ARAM. Some people like change and think its refreshing but not when you neuter complexity in the process... Just my 2 cents, carry on.
