You took away old runes (and my way to 27 armor, 27 magic resist at level 18)

... where is my suitable replacement?

People, including myself, don't like the snowball meta. Watching your developers increase damage across the board while removing our access to some of the defense stats that used to be a standard is part of the reason why the games get out of control so swiftly.

I used to run 9 scaling armor yellows and 9 scaling MR blues. That was worth up to 27 armor and MR at level 18.

Now, with the Conditioning rune, it doesn't even activate until 10 minutes, and even then, it offers roughly 14 MR and 14 armor on a Xin Zhao with ninja tabi and spirit visage at level 18. (For every 50 armor and MR you build with items, 5% of that value is equal to an extra 2.5 armor or MR. It's very insubstantial compared to what we used to have access to)

That's worth roughly HALF of the passive rune defenses that I have been accustomed to for years. Not only that, but I get zero bonus prior to 10 minutes (and games are decided well before the 10 minute mark).

I'm really upset with the speed of the games now. This is no longer a tactical, strategical moba. It's a combat moba for the first part of the game, and then the rest of the game is clean up.

Close, exciting games should not be rare. They'd become common again if we regain access to some of the lost armor and magic resists of the old runes.