To counter the damage meta, Riot is creating a healing meta, but only for few champions

AjXtar·3/26/2019, 6:36:07 AM·5 votes·4,435 views

Just as the title says. WIth the new conqueror, the strongest champions top lane are those who can use this rune. Jax, RIven, Irelia, Sylas, Akali, Urgot, Hecarim, Olaf and there is also Kayle and Vlad. Both scales incredible well.

Aatrox will get some buffs too and one of these buffs are for his W heal and he can also use conqueror..

And for those who haven't read the PBE updates for today, Riot is changing wit's end and is giving to that item a heal. No joke. Here is the link.

Wit's End Total Cost: 2900g Recipe: [Recurve Bow + Negatron Cloak + Dagger + 880g] +50% Attack Speed +50 Magic Resist +5% Movement Speed UNIQUE Passive - At Wit's End: Deal [20 - 80] magic damage on hit. While below half health, heal for 25% of this effect's damage dealt - increased to 100% for Melee Champions.

Basically Riot is creating items and runes for few champions that can stand at the top. They are controlling the meta more than ever did with this. Is stupid. This is worse than the resolve tree in 2018 and then everyone was able to take that tree, but not everyone can use conqueror and wit's end. There is also deaths stance. They even buffed the life steal mastery.

The worst part of all this, is that the high damage is there, but the champions that can use conqueror and/or one of the items(wit's end, DD or gunblade for akali), they can have more survivability than ever with combined with high damage . They are creating unkillable monsters. Literally.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the "counter" to this is to buy griveous wound items. The champions I mentioned gets a hardcore heal from items/runes and the rest have to buy an item that is not very helpful because the mentioned champions still have huge damage/burst while execution is not good for damage. They are not like Mundo in any way.

30 Comments

xDogMeatx3/26/2019, 1:51:30 PM4 votes

awesome a warwick buff.

True Garen3/30/2019, 3:14:15 AM2 votes

Ugh, all hint of "Hitchhiker's" reference is now completely removed from the item. Great sadness.

The thigh guy3/26/2019, 2:44:01 PM2 votes

Yay. More yi buffs. Kill me plz.

Nea1043/26/2019, 3:03:09 PM2 votes

I don't think they want to counter the damage meta at all. They keep worshipping it, for some distorted reasons, and their game therefore keeps sinking.

The heal thing is just an accident. Every "sustain" and "tank" feature in this game is a fake, and it's intended only to guarantee more engages / oneshots.

Remember when people naively thought that Alistar was good, early Season 8? Of course he was, but not as a tank/hard engager per se: he just allowed OTHER champions to deal the most damage. There's nothing else here, and since the people "working" on this game are still the same, nothing is gonna change (as stated in pre-Season, and after 6 months it's ended actually this way)

Moonfall Saber3/26/2019, 12:39:37 PM1 votes

Why is witts end going to deal . more damage than nashor tooth.....

Mordepool3/26/2019, 11:07:46 AM1 votes

Wow i hate how its healing is directly attached to attack speed and champs with good target access.

Mavëríck3/26/2019, 9:36:35 PM1 votes

My gurl Shyvana gonna love that new item 3091 . So excited.

Critmaster Garen3/26/2019, 7:00:50 AM1 votes

thats actually a good point.

theyre giving some pretty hefty sustain options, but only to on hit carries and champions that rely primary on auto attacks.

LuaDotExe3/26/2019, 3:36:51 PM1 votes

Wit's End changes are still experimental, I think. They've been intending to change the item for a very long time. I think it's just to make the item more appealing.

FSRER3/26/2019, 3:37:13 PM1 votes

So, wits end remains a trash item at mundo. Also that Ivern skin.............why would they create dunkmaster ivern WHILE DUNKMASTER GAREN IS STILL WAITING!

Saianna3/26/2019, 4:36:16 PM1 votes

Why does it feel like YI gonna abuse the living shit out of new wits end?

Vlada Cut3/26/2019, 11:24:01 AM1 votes

HOW DARE YOU FORGET CONQUEROR CAMILLE

SanKakU3/26/2019, 11:52:54 AM1 votes

That's such a weird change, that's like fixed Lifesteal, why would they do that? Who am I supposed to buy this on? It was solid on Orianna...and with the new Rageblade she is a fun force to be reckoned with.

I guess they want to make the item better for Warwick, is this supposed to make him less reliant on using his ultimate to heal back up to full? Why not make a second version of Wit's End? I want to keep the mage version for when I play shielding champs to get more bang for my gold. Incidentally, I definitely feel like the item will be very good on Taric, perhaps even incite a nerf to him if people pick him too much or he simply performs too well on Taric mains' accounts. Sure, his overall damage will be less because he deals a lot of magic damage, but he deals a lot of physical damage too and I feel like the increased sustain will more than make up for the loss of damage.

I guess, yeah, I can see Janna and Orianna becoming a new champion style by purchasing these items. They'd maybe even be able to become bottom lane APCs because of the sustain from an item like this.