What rune do you find is most underwhelming?

Geshultz·12/31/2017, 12:36:24 AM·6 votes·1,402 views

For me the most underwhelming rune is overheal. At best it grants around 200ish shield when fully stacked at lvl 18 on most squishes, but lasts only 6 seconds before decaying rapidly meaning the shield really doesn't stay long. It just feels rather useless compared to other runes to it. Triumph alone makes it feel basically a useless rune. When the next rune over does basically the same thing give more sustain/health to survive a fight, but gives more health and gold. Even Presence of Mind is useful as it allows for unlimited mana for 7 seconds on lvl ups or kills, making it extremely useful for champs that have low cooldown high mana cost abilities. There is just no situation where overheal is a good rune to use over Triumph.

What rune do you find most underwhelming?

29 Comments

Leylania12/31/2017, 12:45:44 AM6 votes

Minion Dematerializer

Don't know if it's really bad or why I never picked this one but I just don't know why I would take it in the first place, there are so many better choices for runes

Bonipherus12/31/2017, 1:17:23 AM4 votes

Overheal is supposed to be used for trading. You stack it up on minions and then hit your lane opponent and come out on top due to your shield. Rinse and repeat. It should work quite well alongside fleet footwork and the legend: bloodline rune and maybe even the taste of blood rune from the domination tree should let you keep this pattern up more often but I'm no adc main so I'm just theory crafting here

Edit: absolute focus from the sorcery tree would work really well for this type of trade pattern as well

Miku Hime sama12/31/2017, 1:45:33 PM3 votes

Apparently, Minion Dematerializer is the worst Mastery in the game. Hence why Rito have stated it will probably be changed into Minion Mind-controller and will grant like 5 gold for using it.

Disaster 4112/31/2017, 12:39:48 AM2 votes

"presence of mind" seems to me the most worthless rune, i have literally never intentionally picked this on any champion in any role because the other options in that tree are VASTLY superior

L Psy Kongroo12/31/2017, 2:40:24 AM2 votes

I don't think I've seen a single person take Absolute Focus since the rune revamp.

Xurreal12/31/2017, 2:33:17 AM2 votes

For me, that'd be Celestial Body.

Not only do you lose 10% damage early game, but it only provides 100 HP.

In a META where Blade of the Ruined King stacking multiplicatively with Devourer Enchantment, or Veigar is alive, or Liandry's Torment is now Flavor of the Month...

100 hp hardly makes up for 10 Minutes of 10% reduced damage to champions and monsters accross the board. If you gained additional hp or some type of Adaptive Damage scaling off a stat after the 10 minute mark, that'd be great. But it is only for specific champions to take advantage of, such as Kench.

And even then, there are better options for Kench than Inspiration.

wildfox9912/31/2017, 9:22:58 PM2 votes

minion dematerializer : useless
waterwalking : did anyone ever picked this one?
absolute focus : its bonus is not worth the reliability that you lose,40 AP lvl 18...trascendence gives you 10%CDR (20AP) from lvl 10 and allows you to stack CDR (just give it a % damage boost instead of raw AP/AD)
font of life : healing for 1% of your HP over 2 sec? so 40 hp if you are a talk full build or 100~150 if you are a cho with stoneplate? wow,too OP
dark harvest : it wont reach electrocute's damage till min 45,early/early mid game it's useless (at least not as good as electrocute is),and when you reach 150 stacks the game is already ended/decided

Pinkaj1/1/2018, 6:39:05 AM1 votes

Overheal...it's just so situational since it's rare that you'll find a Soraka/Janna that will heal you for more health than you need.

Northmund12/31/2017, 8:12:58 AM1 votes

I think vamp. rune in precision tree is useless, when there enough vamp. items in the game.
In domination tree i would name predator, falls of hard and thunderlord is way more superioir.
Sorc tree probably absolute focus never had a situation where i thought i need it.
Those armor or mr. runes are equally bad imo. Not all champs can heal to get that extra 5% :P
Inspiratio actually is super good no matter the situation, tho it has that glacial augment. It is like wasting some potential for frozen mallet or rylai. OH WAIT! MINION DEMOTERIALIZER. It is so usess i forgot it existed

Demoteriolizer wins from all trees. That stuff is useles. Needs to be redone more than any other rune.

yoshi279012/31/2017, 1:41:59 PM1 votes

Minion dematerializer and overgrowth. Overgrowth gives so small amounts of HP and minion dematerializer is almost useless. I'm not saying they're bad or UP, they just feel underwhelming

JPLangley12/31/2017, 8:26:16 PM1 votes

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Elkington VI1/1/2018, 1:21:35 AM1 votes

Nearly everything in the defensive tree that isn't Demolish, Grasp, or Aftershock.

In general, any rune that you have wait a certain amount of time in order to benefit from is lackluster. Games are decided in 10 minutes now, so why would I want to wait that long in order to get my CDR and/or resistances? It's a huge step down from the old runes in my eyes, as my old rune pages could grant me MS, HP per level, armor, mr, and/or even up to 20% CDR without all the strings attached.

koshkyra1/1/2018, 6:36:25 AM1 votes

I forget what its called but the one with the +100 health and 10% damage reduction until x minutes