Stopwatch is a pretty overpowered item to be 600 gold and to be in a rune slot......................

it's more likely for them to nerf the rune than for them to nerf stopwatch directly, it's still a one time use item that then just wastes inventory space till you upgrade it to a zhonya's

Im still not sure how this rune's power came as a surprise to anyone seeing as how multiple times now Riot has stated that Zhonya's is probably one of the most powerful active items in the game, with the main constraint of it being exclusive to Mages after a set period of time of farming... and then they make it available not only at the very beginning of the game, but also for nearly every single class in the game. Not only that, but the rune itself reduces the cool downs of the three most defensive items for each class in the game which have all had their fair share of OP status in the history of LoL.

IMO idk why Stop watch rune was never a KEYSTONE, honestly i rather stop watch be a keystone than Glacial, but yeah everyone getting free stop watches at start of game is pretty rediculous

when you dive somebody and get shat on

Wrong! You only get to use it once.

i have been stating for soooooo long that the zhonyas active is to broken and just needs to removed from the game entirely. Not only does riot not do that they make a fucking rune that gives you the active early in the game and it builds into zhonyas hourglass. Honestly they should just rework zhonyas and change its active to a qss you know that active that almost all AP champions wish they could have. and just remove stopwatch and replace the rune with a qss. obviously you would have to nerf the raw stats that qss gives to bring its gold value down to be similar to stopwatch but lets be honest who buys qss for anything other than the active?