I'm going to keep this short, and only focus on my concerns/blessings.

#1) Drakes

Pros: -Mountain Drake objective damage is going away. Means Turrets will last longer, objective monsters will be longer fights, and fight to death Champs like Tryndamere/Yorick/Nasus will recieve an indirect nerf and give a little more time to react to them. -It appears like Ocean Drake is going to be an outright lottery for tank comp teams. Missing HP and no mention of "out of combat?" 4th Drake Soul going to massively add ANOTHER source of healing? -Mountain scaling more Armor/Resist? More Tank stats.

Cons: -Infernal's Soul bonus is going to be huge..... and really broken on already skill shot comps. It literally means..... champs like will be able to hit 3 bonus damage procs per Skill Shot (Comet/Infernal Soul/their own large aoes. -Cloudbringer Ult Cooldown reduction (Age of the Ults is here!) affects different champions disproportionately. How do you feel about a Tryndamere who has the capacity to have up to 2 ways to reduce his ult cooldown? (Ultimate Hunter/Cloudbringer)? Compare that to a champion like Zoe, or Karma who already resets. And, ofc there's Yi who can both have Ultimate hunter AND Precision #Cloudbringer Soul = perma Spear of Shojin on EVERYONE on the team who gets them. WTF? This is an instant win condition!

#Elder Drake is getting replaced by an EXECUTE function? WTF? Here's Riot's explanation:

Elder Dragon still grants a powerful, short-term combat buff, and we're retooling it to offer teams who failed to claim a Dragon Soul a teamfight-focused hope of getting back into the game. To achieve this, we're removing Elder Dragon's scaling with Elemental Drake buffs (which favors the team that's ahead) and replacing it with a new execution component. If Elder's burn damage affects a low-health enemy champion, they’ll be consumed by a searing Elder Immolation—killing them instantly!

Wtf is this? Riot is horribly wrong on this. Which favors a winning team more? Elemental Drake buffs being increased? or LOW HEALTH EXECUTES? It may be "Fair" in that it doesn't directly act as a snowball function for an already winning team, BUT WHO USUALLY GETS ELDER? Oh Right. The already winning team who has better ward control, better pit control, and can usually focus on 2 objectives at the same time. Furthermore, there are quite a few champions who ALWAYS can apply this buff, simply because they have 1 large hit which can proc it:

#2) Support Items

Pros: -Less gold is going to go into Support item, and more into core items. -No need to recall to buy. -AD Equivalent Spellthief (Probably forshadowing Senna, since the number of spell casting supports with AD scaling are pretty small...... Probably going to be abused by defensive no farm adcs instead of supports)

Cons: -AD Equivalent Spellthief/AD Targons (lookin at Pyke getting both AD AND HP from his support item), are going to be abused by adcs. -They are bringing back ranged use of Targons..... bring back one of the initial mistakes they made with it. Adcs will just limit their farming, execute minions in exchange with their supports, and heal each other! Just like they WERE DOING, until the item is complete!

#3 Lethality Items

Pros: None

Cons: -Oh look! People will buy Edge of Night even LESS, because it's going to behave like an already primed shield. Banshee's weakest point is it can be poked away. EON's Strongest point was it was an OVER TIME Shield which gave a window within which to decide WHEN to block. Current is going to be stronger than the new one. #-Sanguine Blade: More attack speed on Tryndamere with Lethality is TOTALLY WHAT THE GAME NEEDS. -More Lethality; Totally what we all need.

#4) Spear of Shojin

GRATZ GUYS! Good News:

They are getting rid of Spear for Jax etc

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs] #Bad News: They are moving its functions to Cloud Drakes! Whole teams will have it now without buying it! BUT ONLY IF THEY CONTROL DRAKES.

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