If I worked at for the League of Legends balance team this is how season 8 would start.

First off all of us at Riot would like to apologize for the atrocity that was season 7. Its pretty ironic that the season started with "LOL ADC season 7" to "LOLOLOLOLOLWTFAREWEDOING ADC season 7". We have a TON of item balance changes so that this never happens again.

CRITICAL HIT ITEMS Crit items are all being reworked as we are changing the base crit modifier to 150% instead of 200%. To compensate attack speed items will be increased greatly to get closer to cap and EVERY crit item will have Attack damage on them. One other thing... the maximum amount of crit you can get from any one item will now be 20%. Our goal is to have Marksman damage more consistent. Check it out below (the cost of items will be raised to lowered accordingly)

10% critical hit chance 10 Attack damage

(Now builds out of ) 20% critical hit chance 20 Attack damage

builds out of and X2 40% attack speed 15% critical hit chance 20 Attack damage

60% attack speed 20% critical hit chance 35 Attack damage Passive remains the same

55% attack speed 20% critical hit chance 30 Attack damage Passive remains the same

50% attack speed 20% critical hit chance 30 Attack damage Passive: Your next enegized attack fires 3 bolts at once. Bolts deal 60% attack damage and can crit. (does not apply on hit effects)

55% attack speed 20% critical hit chance 25 Attack damage Passive: same however secondary Bolts deal additional damage based attack speed

70 Attack damage 20% critical hit chance Passive: Crits deal 50% more damage

70 Attack damage 20% critical hit chance Passive: same

NEW!!!

builds out of 20 Attack damage 15% critical hit chance

Passive: Critical strikes deal 15% of its damage as true damage

50 Attack damage 20% critical hit chance

Passive: Critical strikes deal 25% of its damage as true damage. Auto attacks deal an additional 5% of targets _current health _ as true damage

50 Attack damage 20% critical hit chance

Passive: Critical strikes deal 25% of its damage as true damage. Auto attacks apply_ grievous wounds_ to enemies.

70 attack damage 20% critical hit chance 20% lifesteal Passive: same

20 Attack damage 10% critical hit chance passive: same

40 Attack damage 20% critical hit chance Passive: Critical hits cause enemies to bleed for 140% of your base attack damage over 3 seconds

HEXTECH ITEMS We have spoke before about hextech builds and we feel as though we never did anything with it yet. Introducing hextech items. We have remade every hextech item to have our new stat "Adaptive"(ability power or attack damage). This allows these items to be built by any champion and it allows new hextech builds (for people who like actives)(Hextech items no longer share a cooldown)

Hextech core (image is a placeholder) 20 (Adaptive) 100 Health 100 Mana

Passive: The core charges over 40 seconds. Upon being charged it can be activated Active: Next basic attack deals 50 - 125 bonus magic damage (based on level) (All Hextech items build out of a core)

300 Health 50 (Adaptive) 10% cooldown reduction Passive: same 40 sec CD

300 Health 400 Mana 70 (Adaptive) Passive: same 40 sec CD

Reworked 150 Health 150 Mana 80 (Adaptive) Passive: Fire a fast bolt in a line passing through all enemies dealing 175 - 250 Physical damage. Within 2 seconds this can be reactivated to cause the bolt to return to the caster (smart weapons). The returning bolt deals 80 - 130 magic damage. 40 sec CD

NEW

Hextech Battery (image is a placeholder) 200 Health 200 Mana 30 (Adaptive) +10 (Adaptive) for each additional _ Hextech _ item

Unique Passive: Hextech items have their cooldowns reduced by 20 seconds

Hextech Grenade (image is a placeholder) 100 Health 200 Mana 80 (Adaptive) Passive: Throws a grenade dealing 100 physical damage upon impact (skillshot). Can be reactivated withing 2 seconds to explode dealing 180 - 280 magic damage in a radius.

Hextech barrier (image is a placeholder) 400 Health 300 Mana 30 (Adaptive) Passive: gain a shield equal to (100-200 + 20 for each additional Hextech item). This shield generates slowly at a rate of (2 + 1 for each additional Hextech item) per second

MAGE ITEMS We mentioned that we were making a pass on mage items so buckle up here they are.

Does not transform anymore same New Additional passive: Gain a shield equal to 10% of mana expended

Will now split into two items

Passive changed from 1.5% of current health to 1.5% of maximum health as true damage

other half 80 Ability power 300 Health 20 Magic penetration Passive: hitting an enemy with a spell reduces their magic resistance by 1-18 (based on level). Stacks 5 times Passive: If an enemy is reduced below 0 Magic resistance they will be cursed for 20 seconds negating heals and shields by 70%

WILL BE CONTINUED