"hurhur lets remove sota"

Håppy·Oct 26, 2016·2 votes·803 views

Strength of the Ages is a GREAT scaling mastery, and in my opinion, the most useful jungling mastery. Why... Why would you replace it with something that's entirely situational instead of a late-game bonus? I don't understand. Why not remove Bond of Stone? Bond of Stone is an invisible strength (something Riot has spoken out against, clarity is the most important thing after all) and so rarely taken over thunderlords or (you guessed it) Strength of the Ages, but no. Take out SotA. Of course. Of course...........................................................................................

8 Comments

AnonagonOct 26, 20162 votes

The sustain component of SotA is compensated for in other jungle changes (namely smite always healing), and removing it allows junglers to take another mastery that will generally feel better to have in combat

IggletOct 26, 20161 votes

It's because almost every Jungler took Strength of Ages and it was most likely hard to balance.

Big LincolnOct 26, 20161 votes

there's nothing else for junglers to take

why not address that instead

IggletOct 26, 20161 votes

I really don't like the idea of there being one mastery that is supposed to be taken by 90% of the champions. That's the same as having 1 mastery for Top Laners, 1 mastery for Mid Laners, 1 for ADCs and 1 for Supports. Junglers never relied on Strength of Ages, it was just helpful.

Big LincolnOct 26, 20161 votes

I'm saying it's the only mastery that directly affected interactions with the jungle, since it added current health for every large monster killed. It made clears slightly healthier, so who wouldn't take this mastery when there is no keystone that competes with it for jungling

also the new keystone sucks anyway

IggletOct 26, 20161 votes

I'm curious, how would you personally deal with Strength of Ages? In my opinion, it's obviously not in a healthy state as almost all Junglers take it. What'd you do to fix the issue?

Big LincolnOct 26, 20161 votes

without creating any new masteries, warlord's could apply to camps at reduced value like it does to minions

now AD junglers could take lifesteal in its place in place of the added health bonus, where the sustain would only become significant after you've gotten SoA fully stacked

IggletOct 26, 20161 votes

Hm, may be a pretty solid idea, yeah.