Is it just me or is riot moving away from "adapt" builds and more towards "Core builds"
Examples of characters who change their builds every game
All fairly old, these champions will mix up their builds every game, to get what they need for a specific problem. One thing I really liked about league of legends Itemization, is that items were treated like a "tool chest" where you needed a different tool for each problem, so it was up to you the player to go. "okay we have this problem, so i need this tool to face it"
Example
vs
Does she want
since hes so tanky ? or does she want to stop his healing with
, in the ideal scenario, someone else have a form of griveous wounds and she can go lord doms. But sometimes that's not the case, so now it's up to her to go into her toolkit chest of items, and ecide which one she really needs. I love that about league.
Mages have situations like that to.
vs
, she could just go
to stop his ultimate, but now she's lacking some damage, if she does really good in lane phase she could instead rush
or
so she can have lots of damage to kill him faster and bully him in lane. Once again it's up to her to decide what she needs.
However with newer champs like
and
Simply feel hard core mandatory on him, like you're legit trolling if u dont build them. Ive been noticing a bunch of champions specifically the mages going down this path and in all honesty, i dislike it. Being forced to build not one but two items for a "Core build" sucks for it takes away options from you and really forces you down a build path you don't always want to go.
If this view on itemization is the future of all champions in riot, well, it bothers me.