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Riot, I think you worry too much about runes that work, and not enough about runes that don't work.

Khristophoros·10/30/2018, 4:15:41 AM·69 votes·16,274 views

Just the fact that people still use Celerity after all of its nerfs indicates more of a problem with the other runes in the tier imo. We're in a meta where a rune (Transcendence) that comes online after the laning phase is not appealing to many people. As for Absolute Focus, I'm not sure how many people use it but I think the only real issue is it doesn't appear to be reliable and while it might actually be really good a lot of people don't feel comfortable with it.

Now let's look at Resolve really quick. Currently Bone Plating is slated for replacement because it's the only one anyone takes in its tier. But really is it that strong of a rune? No way. It's very easy to proc it uselessly and wait 3 seconds without engaging in lane. Later in the game, at least personally, I haven't observed any scenarios where I was like "wow that guy only lived because he had that stupid rune!" I've simply never seen that. So look at the other options in this tier. We have Demolish which is non-combat which makes it niche. If you're not focusing on pushing it's probably just not the right choice and that's fine. Then we also have Font of Life, which is uselessly undertuned. Personally I would be way happier to see this rune replaced, even if there is a good argument for Bone Plating being removed. I think it would help the game more to replace runes that are actually useless before replacing runes that are maybe too strong.

tldr; fix bad runes first rito plz

68 Comments

Phiddy Cent10/30/2018, 5:43:58 AM50 votes

Theres too many useless runes. It makes the few good ones feel op.

Celerity and bone plating don't even feel too strong, the others in their row are just useless.

Half the runes in the inspiration tree are uncreative and never get used

Most of the soecery tree is useless and doesnt even feel good on dmg dealibg champs.

The resolve tree has 3 good runes: bone plating, second wind and chrysalis. I can't feel the impact of any other rune in game.

The domination and precision trees actually have some good runes that have meaningfull choices.

YuGiHo10/30/2018, 5:49:17 AM11 votes

i wonder why they dont buff font of life? even if they did i guess no one would use it anyway since its the only rune where the user gets 0 benefit to themselves for taking it, so even if the healing was good people would still want to use their own rune.

Oakleaf Ranger10/30/2018, 5:06:18 PM4 votes

Idk if I would say font of life is bad. It's a niche rune that is only really going to see play in bot lane that is in the same row as bone plating.

It's not going to see play anywhere outside of bot and a few specific chanpions and both are pretty good runes for support players. Of course its going look bad by comparison.

People keep giving rito shit for nerfing irelia ms yet the majority of players take celerity when using the sorcery tree. Thats because if you look past the stupid arguments saying its pointless, they would know that ms is that valuable. So yah free ms at level 1 that adds damage is going to be hard to compete with.

Daddy Ants11/1/2018, 12:17:15 PM3 votes

Overall I feel Precision is probably the best designed and most diverse rune page in terms of viable runes.

 

Only changes I'd make to the rune system as a whole are -

Legend: Tenacity would be better as a Resolve rune. It's mainly used by Tanks and Fighters anyway.

Presence of Mind would be better as a Sorcery rune.

Nimbus Cloak should be a Domination rune.

Ultimate Hunter should be a Sorcery rune.

SugarAndCyanideX10/30/2018, 12:56:28 PM3 votes

I would love Transcendence, but as a support main I seriously can't justify taking it because you hit 10 so much later than your solo laners. I only take it when top/mid. Not to mention that it's only good if you're ahead/going even. If you fall behind, it's a detriment because it's literally doing nothing for you. I think more people could use it if it had a flat time at which it became active, instead of a level.

DaSarcasticGuy10/31/2018, 5:33:40 AM3 votes

While i agree in principle, you HAVE to be willing to knock down things that are too high. Ideally, they would know exactly where the power level should be and could nerf things above it and buff things below it. That's extremely hard to do though. I personally think bone plate needs a nerf, but I'm not a fan of removing it. I'd rather font of life got removed for the new shield rune and have actual options in that tree.

SanKakU10/31/2018, 11:01:13 AM2 votes

I agree with you for sure. Font of Life is a great example of a rune that doesn't do enough even when your allies recognize that you have it.

ZT Xperimentor10/31/2018, 3:10:11 PM2 votes

While I'd like to point out this would lead to more powercreep; you're right about how drastic the difference is in the 'right' choices. They could've made them all interchangeable instead of pick one of three, or reverted to a previous system which they knew was more balanced and functional.

Stróc Dúnmharú10/30/2018, 10:03:30 PM2 votes

Either replace them, OR buff the ones that are just bad. Font of Life could be decent if, say, it could apply to yourself and the base healing value was higher earlier so that it could potentially compete with Second Wind.

CauseSCIENCE10/30/2018, 6:51:35 AM2 votes

I don't understand why nobody takes demolish, it makes it so much easier to get first turret toplane without help from jg

DeracadaVenom10/30/2018, 4:59:47 AM1 votes

i actually use ansolute focus on zoe, not that its all to good, but its the best in the tree

FilDaFunk10/30/2018, 10:49:53 PM1 votes

I'd love it if they removed the AP on absolute focus and just gave a flat 10% CDR. I meanm we could get that with the old runes, why not with the new ones?

mack911210/30/2018, 1:12:34 PM1 votes

Yes bone plating is very good ask any top laner...