Boots are underpowered?

ff4sk·Mar 12, 2016·1 votes·728 views

Dunno if i'm the only one who feels like this but ever since all the nerfs and the removal of homeguard enchantment boots feel underwhelming. I feel like all the nerfs to boots took away from the game for me. Like before boots had some effect on the game and whoever was smart enough to get them had a much higher chance of outrunning champions, splitpushing successfully, and getting back out there as quickly as possible. Now even with boots champions with movement speed masteries, movement buff abilities(quinn, sivir, etc), or any long range form of cc still have the upper hand on you and boots feel pretty underpowered.

I'm just saying, the game was a lot more fun and had a lot more variety when boots still had effect on the game and people could use them effectively(either by splitpushing or flanking)

Tl;dr Make boots great again(and a bit of balancing on some items would be great too)

12 Comments

JRobin31Mar 12, 20162 votes

I think that the "nerf" you think boots took is more about the availability of movement from other items. I have to say it's a lot of fun outrunning blue Ezreal and spamming laugh. [slayer-jinx-catface]

ff4skMar 12, 20161 votes

no, dude, boots literally had nerfs, and homeguard became a free enchantment everybody gets at 20 taking away even more variety from the game. But yeah ignore all that cause you can outrun ezreal

baby reksaiMar 12, 20161 votes

Its not that boots are underpowered its just that the new meta is a lot about map movements. So champs who have always had movement speed buffs are just that much stronger because people are starting to understand the importance of movement speed. I remember when you could get away with no boots for sometime cuz it felt almost unnecessary. With the meta shifting now you need it. Early.

ff4skMar 12, 20161 votes

feels like riot just nerfed boots for that reason, to make space for champions with high mobility as their main source of power. Still feels like it made the game dull for me I enjoyed the idea of getting a choice instead of everybody getting a downgraded version of homeguard. I just miss my homeguard mobi boots I guess. item 3070

baby reksaiMar 12, 20161 votes

Yeah feels like everyone runs swifties now. But the homeguard nerf is understandable. Hec shouldnt be able to back at 3 mins to buy, tp to bot then back and go top to only miss one wave. That used to be broken.

ff4skMar 12, 20161 votes

my problem isn't really homeguard. just how boots no longer make THAT big of a difference and you could go without them if you were up against a passive lane

baby reksaiMar 12, 20161 votes

Idk i disagree. Early boots is the difference between life and death. Especially if a laner doesnt have boots and jungler sees that. You have a target on your back.

ResentMar 12, 20161 votes

just think that boots used to be overpowered, and if your entire team didn't start boots and full health pots - you knew someone was bad

ff4skMar 12, 20161 votes

overpowered? well now they're underpowered. it makes barely any difference if you have them or not because the difference isn't noticeable what so ever. Hell even if you built only movement speed someone with a movement speed buff ability can catch up to you. What's the point of having boots in the game if they don't have noticeable effects?

theArtifactsMar 12, 20161 votes

I disagree. Homeguards were essentially the only third tier upgrade most people bought anyway. This gives more room than it takes away. That being said, boots still make an impact. IE: As Miss Fortune if I take attack speed boots with my regular build I have greatly increased DPS. However, if I take boots of swiftness and max my W, I can out run and kite Volibear with ease.

ff4skMar 12, 20161 votes

not as much of an impact as they did before. also nerf homeguard if you want, don't make it a free enchant for everyone, that just takes away variety in my opinion. Movement speed build should be a choice for all splitpush focused champions/junglers.

my point isn't homeguard though it's boots in general and how unnoticeable their effect has become

AdaloreMar 12, 20161 votes

Homeguard was made free because it was crowding out all other enchantments in the game. Were you playing during that time?

Otherwise right now Swifties have been crowding out other boots because of the strength of movement speed on characters that have binary strength that depends on their ability to reach the target or the binary power of just GTFO'ing as you mentioned in the OP about out running people.

I end up playing "Power walk" builds with always get the Alacrity enchantment with Ludens when I am mid just due to the power of that MS. Being able to run down Ahri as Viktor is sorta silly with sheer MS.

So...I don't understand where you are coming from, boots do their job of enabling fights with a side of stats on all but Swifties and Mobies.