Riot centralizing champ playstyles

Stick In Mudd·11/8/2017, 10:35:20 PM·32 votes·931 views

Riot, in their video about runes reforged, keep saying "lets you customize your champions to create whole new play styles", but it seems they've decreased the amount of customization since getting rid of the old runes.

I used to run MS quints on my junglers, or attack speed for others. Along with an assortment of armor and MR, and even scaling CD reduction, or maybe scaling health for certain champs/matchups.

I can't seem get the same level of variety in this new system, and all of it is soooo vastly different.

It seems to me that Riot actually decreased the amount of customization by limiting what you can take into the game, rather than increasing it. Maybe it's too early to tell.

One thing I do know, Master Yi is perma banned in my games. No way, no how, that guy is freaking retardedly powerful atm. I know that many nerfs and buffs are in the works, so maybe I'll wait till next patch to start playing again.

12 Comments

deadlychuck11/8/2017, 11:38:02 PM12 votes

Oh absolutely.

I said this when it was announced and I'm sticking to the prediction that it will also become stale exceedingly quickly as a result. It's exactly what happened to WoW, and it's what makes games made after WoW's design shift (which attempted to mimic the design of WoW) so quick to exhaust.

ZED G0D11/8/2017, 11:00:04 PM7 votes

Riot killed customizing with this new system..

LightIsMyPath11/9/2017, 12:48:04 AM4 votes

I predicted it and for now it seems I was right.. Everything seems so "rigid" in this system

ChuShoe11/9/2017, 3:30:37 AM2 votes

unfortunately we'll never see the old masteries coming back ever.

I get that everything is op cause it's pre-season, but these changes absolutely break the game, while also making it incredibly boring, and making the mastery system boring too.

AL00011/9/2017, 6:35:16 PM1 votes

I agreed... new runes disable your op-ness and make your life more difficult. Old rune does help my champion to do something!

most of runes are terrible... IMHO