Why the Warrior changes on PBE were reverted?

YumaS2Astral··2 votes·440 views

I would like to know the reasons why Riot has reverted the changes to Warrior. They were pretty nice and allowed Warrior to scale well into late game, just like the other enchantments. Currently, Warrior is the only enchantment that falls off late game.

Warrior is the only enchantment that does not have any interesting passive. Cinderhulk is essentially an HP Rabadon. Devourer doubles on-hit effects when stacked. Runeglaive has a Spellblade passive. Warrior, well.... has flat armor penetration, and that's it. Nothing interesting about that, and it's not like there are other, common items that offer superior amounts of armor penetration.

Also, flat armor penetration is only good for early game and even then, it isn't that good. Armor is pretty cheap and champions have a lot more natural armor, when compared to magic resistance.

Granted that Warrior could be a little OP the way it was presented on PBE, but it's nothing that balance changes couldn't solve.

The only reason why I could imagine that the changes were reverted is because the new Warrior could make some champions such as LeeSin, JarvanIV, and Vi super broken and make them once again dominate the metagame. We don't want them to be the kings of jungle again, and be overpicked just like they were early on this season.

2 Comments

AyRe CoNteMpT1 votes

i really think it was changed because they noticed it was just so bad and weak and useless that it just didnt make sense, and if you increased its numbers, it could potentially become overpowered and they decided that its just not very balanceable, on which they would've been right, for once.

i think the entire point of warrior is to BE an early game item and to fall off later. tho if you make "early game items" too strong early, they dominate and snowball too hard so right now, its not even much stronger than the other items. tho it IS stronger.

Kãtãrinã1 votes

If they kept that warrior it woulda became the old item "Elder lizard" from season 3 which was abused by laners quiet often.

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