Boots are the perfect place to start to fixing this mess

Currently the most used boots among all classes are ninja tabi and merc treads. Tanks, mages, adcs etc. all are using DEFENSIVE boots rather than the ones meant for their specific role. So why not start there to begin removing the forced to buy situation they're in?

nobody builds this anymore, there are far too many items currently used that give you more attackspeed than you even need. So why not change it to a damage ramp instead? (read the later boot changes before you kill me) the role that mostly wants to build this are adcs (or dps based champs) this would motivate marksman to build this more like intended

This is a bold move but how about increasing the armor on this to 50-60 and make it grant 12% reduced physical damage. If greaves is gonna ramp up damage higher and higher then it's only fitting for tabi, the defensive item for physical damage gets tankier right?

There are a few types of mages out there but the ones that mostly want to use these are burst mages. Someone like annie or veigar. My suggestion would be to remove the pen it gets but grant it ability power based on ap (like a deathcap but a % instead)

Merc treads are outclassed by Tabi and the fact you get tenacity from a rune. My suggestion would to increase to MR and give it an active that grants a black shield or cc immunity (a long CD would be required to prevent this from being broken) This allows juggernauts or slowmoving tanks who struggle to get into the fight because of how easily they get kited and slowed to have a chance to run into the fight before they end up being pushed back but it should have a short enough affect that it doesn't allow them to run into the backline ignoring CC like olaf for 10 years only enough to allow them to actually get INTO the fight so maybe 1-1.75 seconds?

these two are pretty much the only balanced boots that do exactly what they should. Any buffs or nerfs to change it would just make them overpowered or useless

lastly this is probably the most useless boot item currently in the game. Nobody builds this ever because for some reason it was decided to let everyone get a ton of cdr. My idea for this would be to give it an active as well. One that stores spell uses (similar to ) (and here comes the neat idea) upon purchase allow the player to lock in a spell. The spell chosen when the boots are activated has a 1 second cooldown for the next X amount of seconds. (Does not work on ultimate or passives) this would work on a variety of classes based on specific taste. Take lucian for example, he'd want his E to be up all the time using his passive + the active to dash around the fight whereas someone like say Jhin wouldn't want that very much because he can't really weave abilities constantly throughout a fight properly. It gives that feel of having URF in a normal game but without being abused too much.

Thoughts